Hewlett Packard Enterprise Secures $1 Billion AI Server Deal For Elon Musk's X
HPE’s liquid-cooling technology may have played a role in the win, wrote Woo Jin Ho, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has struck a deal worth over $1 billion to provide Elon Musk's social media platform X with servers optimized for artificial intelligence work, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The agreement was reached late last year, the report said, adding that competitors Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer had also bid to sell the equipment.
Demand for computing to run AI workloads has led to a boom for makers of high-powered servers like HPE. Musk’s companies including Tesla Inc. and xAI have emerged as major customers for the hardware. A supercomputer project being built by xAI in Memphis has used a mix of Dell and Super Micro servers.
Firms that Musk runs are known to share employees, technology and computing power. AI startup xAI’s main product, a chatbot called Grok, has primarily been available to paying users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. The shares of HPE jumped as much as 4.3% before paring some gains to close less than 1% higher at $22.08 in New York.
More on HP Enterprise’s X Server deal on Yahoo Finance
How Emory Healthcare Is Leveraging AI To Address An Aging Population And Workforce Shortages
When Alistair Erskine, Chief Information and Digital Officer for Emory Healthcare and the Vice President for Digital Health at Emory University, sought to address issues plaguing the healthcare industry, he knew he had to consider two major factors: the workforce shortage brought on by the Covid pandemic and America's aging population.
By implementing AI solutions such as ambient listening and AI cameras, hospital staff gained ways of optimizing operations and ensuring patients were receiving the care and attention they required to get better on a shorter timeline than ever before.
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DXC Technology’s New CIO Aims To ‘Embed AI In Every Role And Process’
DXC Technologies, the $14 billion global tech services provider, this month named Brad Novak its next Chief Information Officer. His goal: embed AI across the company’s infrastructure and operations.
“Technology is our business, and we have to be great at it,” he said. “It’s not asking how we spend less, it’s about how we deliver the best.” Novak, previously CTO for Barclays’ corporate and investment bank, will help DXC assess where AI can deliver the most value and make sure the foundation is in place to do so.
That includes maturing the company’s data strategy and knowledge management capabilities, updating software development processes to incorporate AI, and ensuring teams across the organization have the skills they need to take advantage of the latest technology.
“For me, it’s about execution and taking the organization on this journey,” he said. “We need to pick our battles, decide where we’re going to get something done and get it done quickly.” Early contenders for deeper AI deployment include sales and service management.
Partnerships will play a key role as well, as DXC regularly goes to market alongside technology vendors and serves as “customer zero” for new products and services. For example, DXC announced in November that it formed a Center of Excellence with ServiceNow to combine the two companies’ generative AI capabilities and implementation know-how to streamline AI adoption for customers.
“We’re thinking about what we build for ourselves, but also about how to take advantage of the AI revolution that the hyperscalers and major SaaS vendors are bringing to our door,” Novak said.
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Suno CEO Mikey Shulman | The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | 20VC
Mikey Shulman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Suno, the leading music AI company. Suno lets everyone make and share music. Mikey has raised over $125M for the company from the likes of Lightspeed, Founder Collective, Matrix and Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Prior to founding Suno, Mikey was the first machine learning engineer and head of machine learning at Kensho technologies, which was acquired by S&P Global for over $500 million.
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Microsoft Sues Service For Creating Illicit Content With Its AI Platform
Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails.
Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a "hacking-as-a-service" scheme that was designed to allow the creation of harmful and illicit content using the company’s platform for AI-generated content.
The foreign-based defendants developed tools specifically designed to bypass safety guardrails Microsoft has erected to prevent the creation of harmful content through its generative AI services, said Steven Masada, the assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. They then compromised the legitimate accounts of paying customers. They combined those two things to create a fee-based platform people could use.
A sophisticated scheme
Microsoft is also suing seven individuals it says were customers of the service. All 10 defendants were named John Doe because Microsoft doesn’t know their identity.
“By this action, Microsoft seeks to disrupt a sophisticated scheme carried out by cybercriminals who have developed tools specifically designed to bypass the safety guardrails of generative AI services provided by Microsoft and others,” lawyers wrote in a complaint filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia and unsealed Friday.
The three people who ran the service allegedly compromised the accounts of legitimate Microsoft customers and sold access to the accounts through a now-shuttered site at “rentry[.]org/de3u. The service, which ran from last July to September when Microsoft took action to shut it down, included “detailed instructions on how to use these custom tools to generate harmful and illicit content.”
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The Future of AI: A Conversation with Terry Sejnowski | Remarkable People
In this episode of Remarkable People, Guy Kawasaki engages in a fascinating dialogue with Terry Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego.
Together, they unpack the mysteries of artificial intelligence, exploring how AI mirrors human learning in unexpected ways. Sejnowski shatters common misconceptions about large language models while sharing compelling insights about their potential to augment human capabilities.
Discover why being polite to AI might yield better results, and why the future of AI is less about academic debates and more about practical applications that can transform our world.
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US Antitrust Enforcers Support Elon Musk’s Argument In OpenAI Lawsuit
U.S. antitrust enforcers weighed in on Friday on Elon Musk's lawsuit seeking to block OpenAI's conversion to a public company, pointing out legal doctrines that support his claim that OpenAI and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive practices.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice were not expressing an opinion on the case, but offered legal analysis on aspects of the case ahead of a Tuesday hearing in Oakland, California. Musk co-founded OpenAI and owns AI startup xAI.
A spokesperson for Microsoft declined to comment. A spokesperson for OpenAI referred to a court document where the company said the lawsuit lacks evidence and amounts to harassment. Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff said, "the participation of the DOJ and FTC is a sign of how seriously regulators take OpenAI and Microsoft’s misconduct.”
The FTC is separately looking into partnerships in AI, including between Microsoft and OpenAI, investigating potentially anticompetitive conduct at Microsoft and probing whether OpenAI violated consumer protection laws.
More on FTC’s involvement in the OpenAI lawsuit on Reuters
Stefan Harrer | AI Agents: The Scientist's New Superpower | TEDxSydney Salon
Might Artificial Intelligence be the ideal lab assistant? Stefan Harrer delves into the revolutionary role of generative AI in science. He reveals how AI agents are not just tools but transformative partners for scientists enabling them to achieve breakthroughs in biology and beyond, heralding a new era of scientific discovery and innovation.
This inspiring talk highlights the potential for AI to redefine the boundaries of the scientific method and our understanding of life. Dr Stefan Harrer is the Director of AI for Science at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. He is on a mission to revolutionise scientific discovery by harnessing the power of AI agents.
In senior leadership roles at IBM Research, he led groundbreaking work on AI-driven epilepsy management and developed the world’s first AI-powered wearable for seizure prediction. An inventor with 73 granted patents, a passionate advocate for ethical AI, and a mentor and advisor to startups and governments, Stefan inspires the next frontier of AI innovation and use.
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