Topic: industry partnerships
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Verizon Launches 6G Forum with Industry Leaders
Verizon has launched the 6G Innovation Forum, partnering with companies like Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Meta, and Qualcomm to collaboratively define the roadmap for an AI-driven 6G future. The forum will focus on testing new spectrum bands, promoting global standards through organizations like 3GP...
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Egypt's Tech Talent Boom: Fueling the Digital Economy
Egypt is experiencing a significant rise in technology talent due to national initiatives, including a summer program that trained thousands of students in high-demand fields like AI and cybersecurity. The program emphasizes inclusivity, with participants from all governorates and women making up...
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du Concludes Envision 2025: UAE's AI Digital Transformation
The UAE's Envision 2025 conference, hosted by du, united government and tech leaders to explore how AI and innovation are driving nationwide digital transformation across key sectors. Discussions emphasized AI's role in revolutionizing industries like healthcare and urban development, alongside f...
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AWS Soars Past Forecasts on Surging Cloud Demand
AWS is experiencing its strongest growth in three years, driven by unprecedented AI demand for cloud infrastructure, with sales reaching $33.1 billion in the first nine months and operating income climbing to $11.4 billion in Q3. The company is expanding rapidly, with 20.2% year-over-year growth,...
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Powering the Gulf's Next Connectivity Revolution
The Gulf region is rapidly becoming a digital innovation hub, with advanced private networks and AI transforming key industries like oil and gas, logistics, and manufacturing, moving beyond traditional telecommunications services. Ericsson is driving this shift by focusing on technologies such as...
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Nvidia Aims to Be the Android of Robotics
Nvidia unveiled a comprehensive suite of tools at CES 2026 to become the foundational platform for next-generation robotics, mirroring Android's role in smartphones and enabling AI's shift from the cloud to physical devices. The ecosystem includes new open foundation models for robot reasoning an...
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Free Mobile and Nokia Open Their Network to Developers for Innovation
Free Mobile has partnered with Nokia to grant developers streamlined access to its network capabilities, aiming to accelerate the creation of innovative telecom-enabled services and applications. The collaboration integrates Free into Nokia's "Network as Code" ecosystem, providing developers with...
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Google AI Now Books Your Flights, Hotels & Dinner
Google has introduced AI-powered tools for travel planning, including agentic booking that actively reserves restaurants, flights, and hotels on the user's behalf. The AI features expand to include Canvas for organizing travel ideas and a flight deals tool now available globally, allowing users t...
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Daniel Djahjah on Building LATAM's Streaming Community at Streaming Media 2025
ABOTTS is a community-driven organization uniting diverse industry players across Latin America to foster collaboration and connect local businesses with global opportunities in the streaming sector. The association is expanding geographically into Argentina and Mexico while deepening engagement ...
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OpenAI's Sam Altman Teases More Major Deals After Big Tech Partnerships
OpenAI is forming major technology partnerships, including unique equity and infrastructure deals with AMD and Nvidia, to support the development of next-generation AI models and enable an aggressive expansion of its data center capacity. The company has committed to over $1 trillion in infrastru...
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Omnix Leads Digital Twin Innovation at Kingdom Digital Twin 2025
Omnix International will present its advanced digital twin solutions at the Kingdom Digital Twin 2025 Conference in Riyadh, emphasizing its role in transforming industries through improved asset design and management. The company is collaborating with Unity to offer immersive technologies like AR...
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Snowflake Cortex AI: Enterprise-Ready AI for Financial Services
Snowflake has launched Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite of AI tools designed to help financial institutions unify data systems and deploy secure, compliant AI models and applications, addressing regulatory demands and enhancing operational efficiency. The offering includes a managed Mode...
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Ex-Apple Star Aims to Build the Perfect GPU Software
Chris Lattner co-founded Modular in 2022 to create a universal software layer that enables AI applications to run efficiently across diverse processors without extensive rewrites. The company's strategy involves a unifying software stack and a new Python-based programming language to maximize har...
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Envision 2025: du Puts AI at the Heart of UAE's Digital Future
The Envision 2025 forum in Dubai highlighted how AI, robotics, and cloud computing are accelerating the UAE's digital evolution and economic growth. du's CEO projected AI will contribute $320 billion to the UAE's GDP by 2030, emphasizing five key tech pillars including generative AI and sovereign...
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Visa & Mastercard Launch AI Shopping Tools
Visa and Mastercard are launching AI-powered shopping tools like "Intelligent Commerce" and "Agent Pay", enabling automated transactions while letting users control spending preferences. Both companies are partnering with major tech firms (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, OpenAI) to enhance AI-drive...
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TCS Partners With TPG to Fund $2 Billion AI Data Center
TCS and TPG are partnering to invest $2 billion in HyperVault, a network of AI data centers, addressing India's gap between AI computing demand and infrastructure. India generates 20% of global data but has only 3% of data center capacity, prompting major investments from tech firms to support AI...
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Nvidia's $2B Synopsys Deal Tightens Grip on Chip Design
Nvidia is investing $2 billion in Synopsys to integrate its AI hardware into Synopsys's chip design software, aiming to accelerate semiconductor development. The investment strengthens Nvidia's strategic influence in foundational chip design tools and provides Synopsys with stability and growth c...
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Saudi Startup Fitting Secures $500K to Digitize Construction Supply Chain
Saudi construction tech firm Fitting raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding to expand operations, enhance technology, and build industry alliances. The company, established in 2024, operates a digital marketplace to improve supply chain efficiency, transparency, and reduce waste in Saudi Arabia's co...
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AJA Unveils BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4 for Professional Video Workflows
AJA Video Systems has launched the BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4, a compact IP video workflow solution that supports multi-channel UltraHD video with four bi-directional 12G-SDI ports and flexible encoding/decoding across various protocols. The device addresses modern broadcast challenges by enabling secure,...
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Space CEO: Why Private Space Stations Are a Viable Business
NASA is accelerating the development of private space stations through its Commercial LEO Destinations program to replace the International Space Station before its retirement around 2030. Voyager Technologies gained significant validation and funding from institutional investor Janus Henderson, ...
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Extropic's Plan to Revolutionize Data Centers
Extropic has launched its first functional hardware, featuring thermodynamic sampling units (TSUs) that use probabilistic bits, promising thousands of times greater energy efficiency for AI and scientific workloads compared to traditional CPUs and GPUs. The processors utilize thermodynamic electr...
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Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI Chips Now in Full Production
Nvidia's new Vera Rubin AI platform is now in full production, promising to cut AI operational costs to roughly one-tenth of the current leading system and making it harder for clients to leave its ecosystem. The platform offers major performance gains, requiring far fewer chips for training mode...
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Spoor's Bird Monitoring AI Software Takes Flight
Spoor's AI-powered software uses cameras to detect and identify birds with 96% accuracy, helping industries like wind farms minimize avian collisions through operational adjustments. The technology addresses a regulatory gap by replacing outdated manual monitoring, and its applications are expand...
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CISA 2015 Deadline Extended: What You Need to Know
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) has been temporarily extended until January 30, 2026, after expiring in September 2025, though its long-term future remains uncertain. CISA 2015 protects companies from legal liability when they voluntarily share cyber threat data thro...
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Unlock Sovereign AI with Cloudian's NVIDIA-Powered Platform
Organizations can deploy sovereign AI infrastructure within national borders using Cloudian's integrated platforms, combining S3-compatible storage with NVIDIA's technology to maintain data control and comply with regulations. Cloudian offers two key platforms: HyperStore for on-premises AI data ...
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Fastly Named Gartner Customers' Choice for 7th Year in Web Security
Fastly has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP for the seventh consecutive year, based on high customer satisfaction and feedback from IT professionals. The company's Web Application Firewall received an outstanding 4.8 out of 5 stars from 130 verified reviews, emp...
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OpenAI's AI Commerce Race: Who Will Win?
OpenAI is integrating applications and services like Spotify and Figma directly into ChatGPT, positioning it as a central hub for digital interactions and complex tasks. The company introduced a commerce ecosystem with Instant Checkout and in-chat storefronts, enabling transactions and partnershi...
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Nvidia Unveils Omniverse AI Factory Digital Twin Blueprint
Nvidia has upgraded its Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, integrating power, cooling, and networking solutions from industry leaders to enable virtual design and testing before physical construction. The platform leverages Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 architectures and OpenUSD libraries, ...
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Switch 2: Why 2026 Will Be Nintendo's Biggest Year
Nintendo is building on the successful 2025 launch of the Switch 2 with a 2026 strategy focused on exclusive games, strong third-party partnerships, and special hardware bundles. The 2026 software lineup includes major exclusive titles like an enhanced *Animal Crossing* and new fan-favorite games...
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Dell: AI PCs Fail to Excite Consumers
Dell reports that AI features are not a primary purchase driver for consumers, despite being integrated into new PCs, and the terminology often creates confusion rather than clear benefits. The main appeal of new "AI PCs" lies in practical improvements like better battery life and system performa...
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US Lags Behind in Compact Phone Battery Innovation
Silicon-carbon batteries are revolutionizing smartphone power by enabling slimmer designs or longer battery life, but U.S. consumers are missing out as major brands like Apple, Samsung, and Google have not yet adopted this technology. These batteries use silicon in the anode to achieve higher ene...
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Scale AI Rival Micro1 Hits $100M Annual Revenue Milestone
Micro1, a three-year-old startup, has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by specializing in recruiting human experts to create high-quality AI training data for clients like Microsoft. The company's CEO forecasts the market for top-tier human data will grow from $10-15 billion to ...
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Warner Music Partners with AI Startup Suno in Landmark Deal
Warner Music Group has partnered with AI startup Suno to resolve copyright disputes and establish new standards for artist compensation and control in AI-generated music, including launching licensed AI music models next year. The agreement ensures Warner Music artists retain full control over th...
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Google's AI Now Plans and Books Your Travel
Google has introduced three AI-driven features in Search to streamline travel planning, keeping users within its ecosystem from inspiration to booking. Canvas Travel Planning generates custom itineraries in the US, Flight Deals expands globally for budget travel, and agentic booking enables reser...
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Sarah Bond Reveals Microsoft's Prototype for Next-Gen Xbox
Microsoft is considering diversifying its Xbox hardware beyond traditional consoles, potentially introducing streaming devices or handheld units to offer tiered access for a broader audience. Historical examples like the 3DO Multiplayer show risks in multi-manufacturer models, and a PC-like hardw...
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Kayak's New AI Mode Transforms Travel Planning and Booking
Kayak has launched AI Mode, an integrated chatbot on its platform that helps users plan and book travel by answering questions and comparing flights, hotels, and rental cars. The AI supports both specific and open-ended queries, offering personalized destination ideas and advice on optimal travel...
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Adobe's AI Agents and Orcherator Now Generally Available
Adobe has launched AI agents for its Experience Platform, including a reasoning engine that uses decision science and language models to interpret user intent and coordinate automated actions with human oversight. The platform features specialized AI agents for tasks like audience segmentation, c...
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AI Slashes Knowledge Costs – Universities Must Adapt
The traditional university model, based on knowledge scarcity, is being disrupted by AI, which reduces the value of rote learning and challenges the economics of tuition-driven education. AI is accelerating the depreciation of codifiable skills while increasing the demand for tacit human abilitie...
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Waymo Recalls Software for Robotaxi School Bus Safety
Waymo is filing a voluntary software recall with NHTSA to address how its autonomous vehicles interact with stopped school buses, following a software update it claims has already improved performance. The recall follows NHTSA scrutiny and reports from cities like Atlanta and Austin, where Waymo ...
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Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor
Coco Robotics has launched a new AI research facility to utilize five years of data from its delivery robots, aiming to advance full autonomy and reduce costs. The lab is led by Professor Bolei Zhou, whose expertise in computer vision and robotics aligns with Coco's goals, and he is expected to a...
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Nuclearn Secures $10.5M to Bring AI to Nuclear Industry
The nuclear energy sector is adopting AI to enhance operational efficiency, particularly in optimizing administrative workflows and documentation, though it is not yet trusted to directly control reactors. Nuclearn, a startup, secured $10.5 million in Series A funding and deploys AI tools across ...
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Josh Fairhurst Steps Down After a Decade at Limited Run Games
Josh Fairhurst, co-founder and CEO of Limited Run Games, is departing the company after a decade, having stepped down as CEO in September and planning to significantly reduce his involvement by March 2026 to pursue new ventures. Limited Run Games, founded in 2015 and acquired by Embracer Group in...
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Oscars to Stream Live on YouTube in 2029
Beginning in 2029, the Oscars will broadcast exclusively on YouTube globally and on YouTube TV in the U.S., marking a historic shift from traditional network television to a major streaming platform. The multi-year partnership includes expanded coverage like red carpet events and behind-the-scene...
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AWS Nova AI models debut with enhanced customer control service
AWS has launched the Nova 2 family of proprietary AI models, including four new specialized models for tasks like reasoning, coding, and speech, to provide enterprise clients with more powerful tools. A key new service, Nova Forge, allows AWS customers to create custom versions of Nova models usi...
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Google TV Streamer Now Powered by Gemini
Google TV Streamer devices are being upgraded with Gemini, replacing Google Assistant to offer a more intuitive, conversational way for users to interact with their televisions using natural language queries. Gemini enhances entertainment by providing tailored show recommendations and recaps, and...
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Cloudwerx Names Brendan Connolly COO and AI Lead, Reuniting Cloud Sherpas Alumni
Cloudwerx has appointed Brendan Connolly as COO and head of its data and agentic AI division, focusing on scaling AI offerings and enhancing delivery methods across platforms like Salesforce. The company has introduced innovative frameworks, including Success Plans with fixed-price Delivery Units...
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Unlock Live Sports Streaming: The Power of Multicast ABR & Video CDNs
The intense competition for live sports rights is pushing streaming infrastructure to its limits, highlighting the need for a shift from outdated unicast models to more efficient technologies. Multicast ABR (m-ABR) offers a revolutionary approach by distributing one master stream to groups of vie...
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Alloy Unlocks Data Management for Robotics
Robotics companies face a major challenge in managing the immense volume of data—up to a terabyte per day per robot—generated by automated systems from cameras and sensors. Alloy, a Sydney-based startup, provides specialized data infrastructure that uses natural language queries and custom rules ...
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Amazon's Vega TV OS Leaked for 2025 Launch
Amazon is preparing to launch its new Vega operating system on Fire TV devices in 2025, with a potential reveal at an upcoming fall event. Vega OS is a proprietary, Linux-based system designed for versatility across devices and uses React Native to simplify app development for multiple TV platfor...
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LMArena Hits $1.7B Valuation Just Four Months After Launch
LMArena achieved a $1.7 billion valuation after a $150 million Series A round, reflecting intense market demand for independent AI benchmarking and bringing its total funding to $250 million in under seven months. The company operates crowdsourced AI model leaderboards, using human preferences fr...
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