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Healix360 Expands Physician-Led Wound Care in Southern California

Today at 06:20 AM, via Tech Financials

Advanced mobile wound care specialists supporting hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and patients across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, and San Diego Counties Southern California. As healthcare providers across the region continue to see increasing demand for specialized wound treatment, Healix360 Advanced Mobile Wound Care Specialists is...

After Outages, Amazon To Make Senior Engineers Sign Off On AI-Assisted Changes

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted...

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

Today at 03:00 AM, via Slashdot

Tony Hoare, the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logic, and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming, has died at age 92. News of his passing was shared today in a blog post. The site I Programmer also commemorated Hoare in a post highlighting his contributions to computer science and the lasting impact of his work. Personal...

Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is a way to do computing on encrypted data without ever having it decrypted. It’s called fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE. But there’s a rather...

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Last November, Amazon sued Perplexity demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases for users online. Today, a judge ruled in favor of the tech giant, granting it a temporary court injunction blocking the scraping of Amazon’s website. According to court filings, the judge found strong evidence the tool accessed the retailer’s systems “without...

Silicon Valley Is Buzzing About This New Idea: AI Compute As Compensation

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

sziring shares a report from Business Insider: Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever-richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. Now, a fourth line item is creeping into the mix: AI inference. As generative AI tools become embedded in software development, the cost of running the underlying models — known as inference — is emerging as a productivity driver and a...

AT&T Outlines $250 Billion US Investment Plan To Boost Infrastructure In AI Age

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also hire thousands of technicians while partnering with AST SpaceMobile to extend coverage to remote areas. Reuters reports: Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and connected devices has prompted telecom operators to invest...

Ig Nobels Ceremony Moves To Europe Indefinitely, Citing US Safety Concerns

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies — which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. “After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future,” reports Ars Technica. “The reason: concerns about the safety of...

Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...

OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...

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