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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

Network World

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. Nuclear power provides a consistent energy source, unlike renewables, which depend on the availability of sun or wind,” Ranjan said.

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Google claims breakthrough with Willow quantum computing chip but no real-world use yet

Network World

Googles announcement on Monday of its new quantum chip, called Willow, was full of eye-catching statements. That number exceeds known timescales and physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe, says Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, in the announcement. And then theres error correction.

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Google, Microsoft could turn gatekeepers for advanced AI chips

Network World

The US government could designate cloud providers including Google and Microsoft as global gatekeepers for advanced AI chips, a step widely viewed as the latest effort to block Chinas access to this critical technology, according to a Reuters report. This would ensure their growth wont be hampered globally.

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Google claims quantum leap with new Willow chip

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Hartmut Neven , founder and head of Googles Quantum AI Lab, Google has achieved two decisive improvements with its new quantum chip Willow: First, Willow can reduce errors exponentially when scaling with more qubits, thus overcoming a central challenge in quantum error correction that has been worked on for almost 30 years.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings. In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success.

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Salesforce and Google expand partnership to bring Agentforce, Gemini together

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce and Google expanded their strategic partnership on Monday to enable Salesforce customers to use Google Gemini to build Salesforce Agentforce AI agents and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud.

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Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

CIO Business Intelligence

Just a day after announcing his departure from Google to his LinkedIn followers, Amit Zavery said that he is joining ServiceNow as COO. During his tenure, he helped build Google Cloud into the fourth-largest enterprise software company by increasing annualized revenue from $7 billion to over $41 billion.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability.

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The Practical Guide to Using a Semantic Layer for Data & Analytics

Download this guide for practical advice on how to use a semantic layer to unlock data for AI & BI at scale.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.