Topic: technology partnerships
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Microsoft Office Adds Anthropic, Ending OpenAI Exclusivity
Microsoft is integrating Anthropic's AI models into Office 365 to expand generative AI features beyond its exclusive partnership with OpenAI. The decision is based on performance evaluations, with Anthropic's model excelling in specialized tasks like visual design and spreadsheet automation. Micr...
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Pure Storage & Cisco Launch AI Factories with NVIDIA
Pure Storage, Cisco, and NVIDIA have launched a specialized AI infrastructure solution, integrating computing, storage, and networking to provide a production-ready environment for enterprise AI deployment. The collaboration addresses data challenges by ensuring reliable, high-performance data pi...
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Uber Revives Drone Delivery Service for Faster Food Drop-offs
Uber is relaunching drone delivery via Uber Eats in partnership with Flytrex, piloting food drop-offs in select U.S. markets by year's end to enhance delivery speed and service capabilities. This initiative follows a previous 2019 attempt that was shelved due to regulatory and operational issues,...
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Samsung Unveils New Era of Multimodal AI at Galaxy Event
Samsung is launching AI-native devices that prioritize artificial intelligence as the core of functionality, moving beyond traditional mobile capabilities to enhance user interactions. The company, in partnership with Google and Qualcomm, has developed Android XR, a platform designed to integrate...
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Media Giants Make Major Tech Breakthroughs
Streaming's rapid growth forces media companies to adopt technology for multi-platform content distribution, audience engagement, and transparent cross-channel optimization to stay competitive. Media firms are prioritizing practical AI and automation to handle repetitive tasks, manage increased w...
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AI FDI Hits 22% in 2025, Set to Top $1.2 Trillion by 2029
Artificial intelligence and sustainability are now central drivers of global investment, reshaping capital allocation and economic growth, with AI-related foreign direct investment projected to reach 22% of global FDI in 2025 and investments in AI infrastructure expected to exceed $1.2 trillion b...
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Harmonic Powers NESN's Next-Gen Sports Streaming
NESN has partnered with Harmonic to deploy a new primary distribution solution, enhancing video quality and enabling advanced advertising features for live sports broadcasts. The system uses Harmonic's XOS media processor and AI-driven encoding to reduce bitrates by up to 50% while supporting 4K ...
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Sovereign AI Takes Center Stage at GITEX Global 2025
Sovereign AI will be a key focus at GITEX Global 2025, with Open Innovation AI showcasing secure, scalable platforms to help organizations accelerate AI initiatives while ensuring data privacy and national oversight. Open Innovation AI collaborates with industry leaders to offer comprehensive sol...
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Google Home Opens Nest, Gemini to Third-Party Brands
Google has expanded its Gemini technology to third-party cameras, starting with Walmart's Onn brand, to offer features similar to Nest products across various brands and budgets. The Onn Indoor Camera Wired, priced at $22.96, provides Nest-like functionality including Google Home app setup, notif...
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U.S.-UAE AI Chiefs Forge Tech Partnership
AI integration is a top national priority for the UAE, central to its strategy for pioneering digital governance and achieving strategic ambitions. A high-level UAE delegation visited the U.S. to foster international collaboration, share best practices, and build partnerships with leading tech fi...
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HOT Systems to Debut PNY-Powered Hardware at GITEX 2025
Omnix International will debut its HOT Systems lineup with PNY-powered hardware at GITEX Global 2025, focusing on tailored solutions for CAD, BIM, simulations, and AI/ML to accelerate digital transformation. The showcase will feature AI liquid-cooled laptops, the HOT Guard security solution, and ...
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Agentic Commerce: Essential SEO Strategies for ACP & UCP
The digital landscape is splitting into an "agentic web," where AI agents autonomously conduct purchases, creating a new field called **agentic commerce** that requires businesses to optimize for both human users and AI agents. Major tech firms are accelerating this shift with competing open stan...
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ByteDance's Quiet AI Chatbot Is Winning Global Fans
Cici, ByteDance's international AI chatbot, is expanding globally by targeting markets like the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia while avoiding China and the US, using a female cartoon avatar similar to its domestic counterpart Doubao. ByteDance has aggressively marketed Cici with extensive ad camp...
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Nutanix One Platform: Run Apps, Data & AI Anywhere at GITEX 2025
Nutanix will showcase its "One Platform" concept at GITEX Global 2025, offering a unified, secure environment for applications, data, and AI across diverse settings like on-premises, cloud, and edge locations. The company will highlight key solutions including the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform for ...
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Prove AI's ROI: 5 Expert Tips for Your Business
Demonstrating the business value of AI is challenging but crucial for securing support, requiring a shift from technical metrics to tangible outcomes that resonate with decision-makers. Successful AI initiatives depend on starting with small experiments, modernizing data infrastructure, and makin...
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Nokia, NestAI Secure €100M to Build AI for Defense
NestAI secured €100 million in funding led by Tesi and Nokia to develop AI products for defense applications, including unmanned vehicles and autonomous systems. The startup is partnering with Nokia to advance "physical AI," focusing on applying large language models to control robotics and manag...
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Orchestrating AI for Customer Experience in 2025
AI integration into customer experience platforms transforms business-customer interactions from transactional to meaningful engagements, fostering lasting loyalty through unified, intelligent systems. Effective customer experience requires seamless orchestration across all business functions, en...
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GM's 'Eyes-Off' Driving: What Happens When Cars Go AI?
General Motors will launch an "eyes-off" driving system in 2028 for the Cadillac Escalade IQ, enabling drivers on mapped highways to engage in non-driving activities while the vehicle handles safety and prompts for control resumption. The system results from a collaboration between GM's Super Cru...
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Russia Debuts AI-Powered 'Little Lion' Tram, Aims for 90% Fleet Automation by 2035
Moscow has launched Russia's first autonomous passenger tram, the Lvyonok 71-911EM, marking a significant advancement in public transportation and smart city development. The AI-driven tram operates independently, navigating traffic and responding to signals and pedestrians, having covered over 8...
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Rivian CEO Reveals Plans for CarPlay, Lidar, and Budget EVs
Rivian is expanding its market reach with the upcoming R2 model, priced at $45,000, aiming to compete with mainstream EVs like the Tesla Model Y while maintaining its adventure-focused brand identity. The company is advancing its autonomous driving capabilities through an AI-driven approach and h...
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Alibaba's $53B AI Push: New Dubai Data Center at GITEX 2025
Alibaba Cloud has expanded its Middle East presence by opening a second data center in Dubai, supported by a $53 billion investment to enhance AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years. The new facility offers advanced cloud-native and AI solutions, along with big data and storage ser...
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Pax8 Launches Game-Changing Agent Store
Pax8 has launched the Pax8 Agent Store, an agentic AI platform that helps managed service providers (MSPs) accelerate growth, create new revenue streams, and deliver AI solutions to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The platform offers plug-and-play, recurring revenue products tailored to MS...
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Kingston Fury Renegade 8TB SSD Review: Speed & Capacity Tested
The Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB SSD offers top-tier sequential speeds and massive capacity in a single-sided, thermally efficient design, making it ideal for enthusiasts and compatible with tight builds. It achieves its performance by scaling up proven hardware—the Silicon Motion SM2508 control...
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GM's Escalade IQ to Offer Hands-Free Driving by 2028
Despite a $1.6 billion loss in its EV rollout, General Motors is emphasizing advanced technology like autonomous driving and AI to define its future and compete globally. GM plans to introduce a Level 3 hands-free highway driving system for the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028, expanding on its exist...
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Wikimedia Opens Its Data for Easier AI and User Search
The Wikimedia Foundation is converting Wikidata into mathematical vectors to make its structured data more accessible for AI systems, enabling better understanding of context and relationships. This initiative aims to support smaller developers by providing high-quality, ready-made data, leveling...
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Dubai Buses Boost Punctuality by 50% with AI and Big Data
Dubai's bus system achieved a 50% improvement in punctuality and a 4% reduction in trip cancellations through AI and big data integration, enhancing reliability and reducing emissions. The RTA is advancing smart mobility with autonomous vehicle trials and a goal for 25% of trips to be driverless ...
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How Gemini-Powered Siri Works Behind the Scenes
A potential Google-Apple partnership could integrate a 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model to power Siri, enhancing its AI capabilities while ensuring user privacy through Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. The model likely uses a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, which activates ...
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Tech Giants Ignore AI-Powered Student Cheating
Tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity are offering free or discounted AI subscriptions to students, promoting them as academic aids but not addressing their potential for enabling cheating. The rapid adoption of AI tools among students has led to increased academic dishonesty, with e...
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NVIDIA DGX Sparks AI Revolution for Global Developers
NVIDIA DGX Spark is the world's most compact AI supercomputer, delivering petaflop-level performance in a desktop form factor and enabling local development of advanced AI models. The system features 128GB of unified memory and supports running inference on models with up to 200 billion parameter...
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Nscale Partners with Microsoft on Major AI Infrastructure Deal
Nscale has partnered with Microsoft to deploy nearly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across data centers in Europe and the U.S., significantly expanding AI infrastructure and establishing Nscale as a key global player. The deployment includes 104,000 GPUs in Texas, 12,600 in Portugal, and additional un...
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JAVLN Fuels AI Expansion with Key ANZ Hires and Market Entry
JAVLN is expanding in Australia and New Zealand by appointing three senior executives to enhance customer success, revenue growth, and AI innovation, focusing on digital tools for insurance professionals. Raymond Marshall, Geoff Keast, and Tim Mole have been hired as Chief Customer Officer, Chief...
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OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank to Build 5 'Stargate' AI Data Centers
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are collaborating on the "Stargate" initiative to build five new AI data centers, aiming for a total capacity of nearly 7 gigawatts, comparable to seven large nuclear reactors. The project, with facilities planned in Texas, New Mexico, the Midwest, and Ohio, is expect...
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Cohere Valued at $7B in New Funding, Partners With AMD
Cohere has raised an additional $100 million, increasing its valuation to $7 billion, and announced a strategic partnership with investor AMD. Cohere's Command AI models are now fully compatible with AMD GPUs, offering an alternative to Nvidia, and AMD will use these models internally. The compan...
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Top Infosec Products Launched This Week: December 2025
BlackFog launched ADX Vision to prevent data loss from unauthorized AI use by detecting shadow AI activity and blocking unauthorized data transfers in real time on endpoints. Datadog introduced Bits AI SRE, an AI agent that streamlines incident management by quickly identifying root causes to ena...
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Meta Teams with Bill Gates' Startup on Nuclear Power
Meta has signed power purchase agreements with three nuclear energy providers—TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra—to secure a reliable, large-scale electricity supply for its AI infrastructure, aiming for approximately 6.6 gigawatts by 2035. The company is directly funding the construction of new nuclea...
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Datadog Hits 1,000 Integrations Milestone for Unified Observability
Datadog has launched its 1,000th integration, strengthening its leadership in unified observability across infrastructure, cloud services, security, SaaS, and AI technologies. The company is dedicated to supporting customers through their cloud adoption by continuously investing in R&D and partne...
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