HyperConnectivity (comms)

ABB has announced an investment of $280 million (€264.10 million) to expand its manufacturing footprint in Europe and build a new ABB Robotics European Campus in Vasteras, Sweden. The Campus will serve as the hub for ABB Robotics’ offering in Europe, providing customers with AI-enabled collaborative and industrial robots, as well as digital solutions to support flexible automation as part of the company’s “local for local” production strategy. Replacing the existing robotics facilities at the site, the new Campus is planned to open in late 2026.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd. has selected Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to build an intelligent battery manufacturing platform as part of achieving its digital transformation goals. Gotion High-tech intends to use artificial intelligence enabled industrial control system technology to build a closed-loop digital research and development, manufacturing and management platform.

Lumafield has unveiled Atlas, an AI co-pilot that helps engineers work faster by answering questions and solving complex engineering and manufacturing challenges using plain language.

WekaIO (WEKA) announced a new solution in collaboration with its customer Stability AI, an open-source generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company. The WEKA Data Platform’s Converged Mode for Cloud solution will enhance Stability AI’s ability to train multiple AI models in the cloud, including its Stable Diffusion model, and extend efficiency, cost and sustainability benefits to its customers.

Vector Institute has announced a new partnership with World Economic Forum. Through the collaboration, Vector’s president and CEO Tony Gaffney will join the World Economic Forum’s artificial intelligence (AI) governance alliance while Vector faculty member; Canada CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) AI chair; associate professor, department of computer science, faculty of science, University of British Columbia; and DeepMind senior research advisor Jeff Clune joins the World Economic Forum’s safe systems and Technologies counsel.

Navina has announced a partnership with Privia Health Group, Inc., a technology-driven physician enablement company. This collaboration will equip Privia Health’s network of physicians and providers with Navina’s advanced AI technology, to enhance workflows, patient care, and value-based initiatives.

Infosys and NVIDIA announced that they have expanded their collaboration. This collaboration aims to help enterprises worldwide, drive productivity gains with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications and solutions.

With retailers struggling to navigate an era of uncertainty, Salman Ahmad, CTO of Rezolve, sets out how the latest wave of technology can help businesses build resilience.

Merck has announced two new drug discovery collaborations aimed at harnessing artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design and discovery capabilities. further advancing its research efforts. The partnerships, with BenevolentAI, London, UK and Exscientia, Oxford, UK, to generate several novel clinical development drug candidates with potential in key therapeutic areas of oncology, neurology and immunology.

Ericsson has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud. This will develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN (radio access network) solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) that offers integrated automation and orchestration and leverages AI/ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning) for additional CSP (communications service providers) benefits.

Fujitsu Limited and The Linux Foundation have marked the official launch of Fujitsu’s automated machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence) fairness technologies as open source software (OSS) ahead of “Open Source Summit Europe 2023,” running in Bilbao, Spain, from September 19-21, 2023. The two projects will offer users access to software that automatically generates code for new machine learning models, as well as a technology that addresses latent biases in training data.

Nokia has introduced its AVA Data Suite. This is designed to run on Google Cloud, to help communication service providers (CSPs) standardise data and facilitate the development of AI/ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning) software applications.

In less than a year, large language model (LLM) AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard have had a powerful impact on the business world. Recent research indicates that most businesses have experimented with the tools, and many are now regularly integrating them into their workflows, says Max Vetter, VP of cyber at Immersive Labs.

Venafi, an inventor of machine identity management, has unveiled Venafi Athena at its fifth annual Machine Identity Management Summit. The new underpinning AI (artificial intelligence) technology for Venafi Control Plane has been made possible by Venafi’s modern software-as-a-service architecture built on skills. Venafi Athena combines powers of machine learning, large language models and Venafi’s data capabilities to make machine identity management faster for security and platform teams.

Smartsheet, an enterprise work management platform, has revealed its Smartsheet platform. It features new product capabilities that unlock sophisticated solution building, AI (artificial intelligence)-driven data insights, and scale during its annual ENGAGE customer conference.

In early August 2023, the UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing personal information collected over the course of eight years, with anyone who registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022 affected, says Yuval Pe’er, chief cyber threat intel analyst (Israel), BlueVoyant.

In many ways, as a result of intensified digitisation over the past few years, enterprises today have put the digital foundations in place that are powerful enough to deliver the digital services their users now prefer. The ‘completion’ of these efforts is an indication that we’re approaching the other side of digital transformation, where these digital modernisation efforts no longer are a competitive differentiator, but table stakes, says Neil Miller, leader, technical solutions, EMEA. ThousandEyes, part of Cisco.

Netcracker Technology announced that it has expanded its partnership with Microsoft. This partnership will support Netcracker’s recently launched GenAI Telco Solution, which unlocks the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology to deliver business value to telecom industry.

SAS has revealed expanded capabilities to its SAS Viya data, AI (artificial intelligence) and analytics platform. The new products previewed this week at SAS Explore technology conference create lightweight environments for building AI models and applications, support multiple programming languages and provide immediate access to scalable cloud compute.

The AI (artificial intelligence) hype train has well and truly embarked from its starting station. In fact, it left some time ago, and continues to gather momentum. It feels that there aren’t many people left who haven’t asked ChatGPT a burning question. It’s one of many instances of generative AI, which is now capable of acing school papers, creating photographs that can fool prize juries and even write passable code, says Mat Clothier, CEO of Cloudhouse.

DE-CIX announces its partnership with DCX.us data centre, a provider of managed hyper-density colocation solutions purpose-built for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and mission-critical applications. Currently taking pre-orders, this collaboration brings together the renowned interconnection capabilities of DE-CIX and DCX’s hyper-density data centre in the Phoenix area.

With predictions that AI (artificial intelligence) could boost the world economy by up to $15.7 trillion (€14.63 trillion) by 2030, and increase global growth by 4 yo 6% per annum, every business leader should be galvanised by and concerned with how AI will shape future commerce. When it comes to customer experience, the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT is sparking lively debate amongst the industry and beyond, says Agam Kohli, director, CX solutions engineering at Odigo.

AR Tech has unveiled their new research and development technology SRT, a high-tech product that combines artificial intelligence to enhance everyday trading. SRT is a product designed for cryptocurrency and blockchain field. Over the past 5 years, AR Tech has been dedicated to multiple research and development efforts in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, continuously upgrading and improving their technology. The recent release of SRT is seen in the industry and a contribution to exchanges and cryptocurrency field.

SmartSky and FLASH Weather AI have announced a collaboration. This collaboration brings FLASH predictive lightning data suite to aviation. SmartSky makes this possible through its network, advanced hardware, and enhanced services, which includes the Skytelligence aviation data exchange.

G42 and Microsoft have expanded its collaboration and also announced a multifaceted plan to make available sovereign cloud offerings, co-innovate and deliver advanced AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities. Additionally they plan to expand existing data centre infrastructure in UAE.

So much software, so little oversight! , says Karen Lambrechts of Lansweeper.

Transatlantic data flows underpin more than $7 trillion (€6.53 trillion) in cross-border trade and investment per year, according to the US Department of Commerce. The recently announced EU-US Data Privacy Framework (TADPF), in place as of 10^th July 2023, is expected to further promote opportunity and economic fruitfulness on both sides of the Atlantic, says Paul Mountford, chief executive officer of Protegrity.