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Cisco’s 51.2T Silicon One P200 chip brings scale-across to distributed AI
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced its 8223 routing system, powered by its new Silicon One P200 chip — a new network system designed to unlock artificial intelligence’s potential through massive scale. Earlier this year, Nvidia Corp. introduced the concept of “scale-across” architectures as AI is now hitting the limits of a single data center. A “unit of ...
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With new open models and simulation libraries, Nvidia aims to accelerate robotics R&D
As Nvidia Corp. announced new robotics innovations at last week’s Conference on Robot Learning in South Korea, the company continues to extend its product line with new capabilities and enhancements. Nvidia announcements at CoRL included: The Isaac GR00T N1.6 open foundation reasoning vision language action model that provides robots with humanlike reasoning to break down complex ...
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Cisco positions itself for the next era of AI at WebexOne
As Cisco Systems Inc. held its WebexOne conference this week in San Diego, to no one’s shock the theme of the 2025 event was artificial intelligence — and, of all the markets Cisco plays in, the ones Webex addresses have the most direct end user impact. “We are squarely in the next era of AI, where we are ...
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NBA and AWS partner to enhance fan experiences with AI
The National Basketball Association and Amazon Web Services Inc. today entered a multiyear partnership in which AWS will serve as the official cloud artificial intelligence provider for the NBA and all its affiliates, which includes the NBA G League, WNBA and Basketball Africa. The partnership centers on using the NBA’s data and AWS AI to transform ...
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HPE tees up the technology for the first AI-enabled Ryder Cup
This past week the Ryder Cup was held at the famed Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York. While the raucous crowd cheered the U.S. team, and European fans sang, “Ole, Ole,” Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. worked with the Ryder Cup to provide a rock-solid technology foundation for all aspects of the event including ...
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QumulusAI taps Michael Maniscalco as CEO to drive growth in neocloud era
QumulusAI, a Georgia-based provider of graphics processing unit-powered cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence, is making moves to claim a leadership position in the emerging neocloud market today by naming Michael Maniscalco new chief executive officer. Maniscalco (pictured), former chief technology officer of Applied Digital Corp., will bring his technical skills to an already deep team to bring ...
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AWS adds fully managed AI models: Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the addition of fully managed open-weight models Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V3.1 to its AI model portfolio. The new models offer greater flexibility to customers that rely on the Amazon Bedrock generative AI service to meet their evolving business needs. Open-weight models provide increased transparency for developers regarding model weights, which makes it ...
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It’s an AI bonanza at Zoomtopia 2025
Zoom Communications Inc. has a variety of products, including meetings, contact center, front-line worker applications and others, but this week there’s a single theme that cut across the fully virtual Zoomtopia event: artificial intelligence. In fact, with that emphasis on how AI is expanding and enhancing Zoom’s conferencing and related services, they could have called the ...
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Splunk .conf25 shows good progress with Cisco integration
It has been almost a year and a half since Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Splunk Inc. At the time, investors were happy because it was a good financial move. Cisco spent $28 billion and would get back about $4 billion a year in revenue that was accretive to profit margins. Splunk revenue is primarily subscription-based, ...
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F5 boosts AI security capabilities with acquisition of CalypsoAI
F5 Inc., the Seattle-based application delivery and security company, is expanding its portfolio with today’s acquisition of CalypsoAI Inc., a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence security. The acquired company was founded in 2018, showing it has been pioneers in the AI security market long before the latest hype cycle. The purchase price was announced at ...








