The proposed mandate intends to discourage criminals from targeting critical national infrastructure and public services, as there will be no financial motivation.

If Google is deemed to have “Strategic Market Status” in the U.K., the government might force it to make the user data it collects available to competitors, or give publishers more control over how their data is used.

Recommendations in the 50-point plan include increasing public compute capacity twentyfold, creating a training data library, and building AI hubs in deindustrialised areas.

Google has stated that its goal to reach net-zero emissions across all its operations and value chain by 2030 is now “extremely ambitious” thanks to its data centre usage.

Synopsys first announced the Ansys acquisition in January 2024, claiming it wanted to expand its reach across silicon-to-systems designs.

Almost 60% of organisations that rely on semiconductors regard supply issues as an ongoing concern.

HashiCorp provides hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products that could assist IBM’s customers with their AI ambitions.

The legislation, which came into force on Jan. 1, enables the U.K. government to investigate Google, Apple, and other tech companies’ potentially anticompetitive practices “more holistically.”

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO, unveiled the company’s first flagship desktop GPU series in over two years during his keynote speech.

Superintelligence refers to AI with greater-than-human capabilities.