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Italian startup iGenius and Nvidia to build major AI system
Date: December 5, 2024
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Italian startup iGenius and Nvidia on Thursday said they are planning to bring online one of the world’s biggest deployments of Nvidia’s newest servers by the middle of next year in a data center in southern Italy. iGenius is building a data center that will house about 80 of Nvidia’s...
Amazon successfully tests using delivery drones in Italy
Date: December 5, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – Amazon said on Thursday it had successfully completed an initial test of using delivery drones in Italy, the first European country where the e-commerce giant plans to introduce the service. The test was carried out on Wednesday in San Salvo, a town in the central Abruzzo region. “The company continues to work...
Schneider Electric working with Nvidia to design data center cooling systems
Date: December 4, 2024
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – French electrical equipment maker Schneider Electric is working with Nvidia to develop designs for data center cooling systems for use in new artificial intelligence data centers, it said on Wednesday. Schneider’s designs will be used in data centres that use Nvidia’s flagship server containing 72 of its most powerful AI...
Meet Nikola Farad: The Robot Educating Consumers on Electric Cars
Date: December 4, 2024
By: Mae Cornes Nikola Farad S.F.R. (Scientific Fact Robot) isn’t your average mascot. Created by Daniel Lee Williams, a seasoned automotive technician and environmental advocate, Nikola Farad is an animated robot designed to inform the public about the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and the benefits of electric vehicles (EVs). The robot delivers scientifically accurate...
UK to publish provisional report on cloud computing in January
Date: December 4, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator will issue its provisional findings of its cloud computing investigation in January, rather than this month, according to a revised timetable published on Wednesday. The final deadline for the final report of July 2025 is unchanged. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating cloud computing, a market dominated...
EU watchdog probes Nvidia hardware bundling as it scrutinises Run:ai deal
Date: December 4, 2024
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are asking Nvidia customers if they have been offered discounts to buy the company’s graphics processing unit (GPU) software products together with its hardware as they scrutinise its $700 million bid for Run:ai. In a questionnaire seen by Reuters, the EU watchdog focused on potential...