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Interview: Microsoft President Brad Smith supports plan for AI ‘safety brakes’ in U.S. Senate hearing

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Microsoft President Brad Smith testifies Tuesday before the U.S. Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, drew that comparison Tuesday in his testimony before the U.S. Smith: As a company, Microsoft is very supportive of the framework that Senators Blumenthal and Hawley have put together.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

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Helion Photo) Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Microsoft needs clean electricity to fuel the operations of its more than 200 energy-hungry data centers internationally. The company hasn’t announced its precise location.

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3 benefits of engaging hyperscalers when evaluating SAP RISE

CIO Business Intelligence

To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. While that cloud growth is good news for Oracle, it is still trailing market leaders Microsoft, AWS and Google. billion.

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8 strategic imperatives for SAP transformation success

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. The article explains a few orchestration concepts (like liveness probes and readiness probes in Kubernetes), but mostly focuses on the need for fine-grained health checks in applications.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

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The city this week shared its first batch of reports from the groundbreaking program, which has drawn comparisons to “Minority Report,” the 2002 film in which Tom Cruise anticipates and preemptively stops crime. Despite making progress, Microsoft axed the project in 2018. In the U.S.,

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