#ai-acceleration

#ai-acceleration

In late July, the President launched his AI action plan. Packaged with three accompanying executive orders, the plan's first order of business is to "remove red tape and onerous regulation," including the overturning of the Biden administration's executive order on AI, which emphasized harm-prevention, guardrails, and government capacity-building. One very specific "guardrail" that the Trump administration has demolished is "woke AI"-AI that is trained to avoid the truth in favor of politically correct shibboleths.

Also: I found a mini PC that performs like a speed demon (and comes in bold colors) The Mini certainly gave it a run for its money. And while being hampered by an inferior OS. Note to all companies sending me PCs to review: Please send me machines with Linux preinstalled. Not only do I find it far easier to review computers with Linux, but it also shows consumers that you do offer open-source options.

Pure Storage has announced a series of updates designed to enable organizations to roll out AI workloads and traditional enterprise applications better and faster. The company's aim is to make data more mobile and give organizations more control over their data, regardless of where it is located. Earlier this year, we wrote about the Enterprise Data Cloud. The company announced this new architecture a few months ago during the annual Pure Accelerate event.

The third-generation Oryon CPU delivers 20 percent better performance, while the new Adreno GPU delivers 23 percent more graphics power. A special addition is support for the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec. This allows users to record professional video content with a smartphone for the first time. In addition, Christopher Patrick, SVP and General Manager of Handsets at Qualcomm, states that this chip also "enables personalized AI agents to see what you see, hear what you hear and think with you in real time."