Nvidia announced on Monday the launch of Earth-2, a new family of open AI models, libraries, and tools designed to make advanced weather and climate forecasting accessible to a broader research, business, and government community.
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The French government has decided to roll out its own secure video-conferencing platform, Visio, on a large scale, making it the default communication tool across the public sector. The move is part of a broader strategy to strengthen digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on U.S. technology providers.
Samsung announced that starting in February 2026 it will begin mass production of its next-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, with part of the output destined for Nvidia — one of the world’s leading suppliers of AI and data-center processors. This move marks a stronger push by Samsung into the memory segment that is critical for modern AI accelerators.
Microsoft has confirmed that the latest January security updates for Windows 11 can cause some computers to fail to boot properly after installation, adding another issue to the growing list of problems following Patch Tuesday.
Amazon is planning another major round of layoffs among its corporate staff, expected to begin as early as next week and affect thousands of positions. The move is part of a broader plan to cut nearly 30,000 roles across its global corporate workforce, representing close to 10% of all white-collar employees at the company. If fully implemented, it would mark the largest round of job cuts in Amazon’s history.
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution on the European Union’s technological sovereignty, urging the European Commission to take concrete steps to reduce reliance on American technologies—particularly in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and critical digital infrastructure.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and OpenAI have announced a joint $50 million initiative aimed at using artificial intelligence to support and improve healthcare systems across African countries. The project, called Horizon1000, was unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos and is set to deploy AI tools in primary healthcare, starting in Rwanda.
A group of job seekers in the United States has filed a lawsuit seeking to subject artificial-intelligence systems used for résumé screening to the same transparency rules that apply to credit reporting agencies. The case could become one of the first legal tests of whether algorithmic candidate scoring falls under federal consumer-reporting law.
New data from PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey show that more than half of chief executives have not yet seen meaningful financial benefits from their investments in artificial intelligence, despite rising spending on the technology and widespread enthusiasm about its potential.
Bristol Myers Squibb and Microsoft announced on Tuesday a partnership aimed at accelerating the early detection of lung cancer using artificial intelligence across the U.S. healthcare system. The collaboration will be implemented through Microsoft’s Precision Imaging Network, a platform that analyzes X-ray and CT scans using FDA-cleared AI algorithms.