Tag: GIS
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The Register: Insight Partners confirms ransomware hit, more than 12,000 caught in data dragnet
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/vc_giant_insight_partners_confirms/ Source: The Register Title: Insight Partners confirms ransomware hit, more than 12,000 caught in data dragnet Feedly Summary: VC giant rebuilt boxes, patched holes, and says it’s beefed up security – but won’t say who did it Venture capital giant Insight Partners has confirmed that a January ransomware attack compromised the personal…
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The Register: China’s DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI ‘reasoning’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/chinas_deepseek_ai_reasoning_research/ Source: The Register Title: China’s DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI ‘reasoning’ Feedly Summary: Model can also explain its answers, researchers find Chinese AI company DeepSeek has shown it can improve the reasoning of its LLM DeepSeek-R1 through trial-and-error based reinforcement learning, and even be made to explain its reasoning on…
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The Register: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/huawei_ascend_roadmap/ Source: The Register Title: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters Feedly Summary: On the same day that fellow Chinese giant Tencent says its overseas cloud clientele doubled Chinese tech giant Huawei has kicked off its annual “Connect” conference by laying out a plan to…
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The Register: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/dod_scale_ai_deal/ Source: The Register Title: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal Feedly Summary: First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret…
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The Register: OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/openai_hallucinations_incentives/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance Feedly Summary: Even a wrong answer is right some of the time AI models often produce false outputs, or “hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its…
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Cloud Blog: How California is transforming public services with Google Cloud
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/how-california-is-transforming-public-services-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How California is transforming public services with Google Cloud Feedly Summary: State and local governments across the nation face a myriad of challenges, including strained budgets, aging infrastructure, and a complex regulatory landscape. In California, these challenges are compounded by a rapidly growing population and increasing demand for…
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The Register: Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/microsoft_uk_ai_cash/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached Feedly Summary: Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town Microsoft appears to have trumped Google’s UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure…
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Cloud Blog: Setting new expectations: Benchmarking high-performance trading with C3 machines
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/benchmarking-c3-machine-types-for-trading-firms-with-28stone/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Setting new expectations: Benchmarking high-performance trading with C3 machines Feedly Summary: Trading in capital markets demands peak compute performance, with every microsecond impacting critical decisions and market outcomes. At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing global markets with the cutting-edge infrastructure they need to create and participate in…