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Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than US$5 B in Thailand. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AWS estimates the construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS region will add approximately US$10 B to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually. These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand. “I would like to extend my appreciation to Amazon Web Services for investing in the development of data centres in Thailand,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, PM of Thailand. “I am pleased that Thailand’s potential and readiness ha...

Japanese AI company Turing has established its computation platform for full driving automation at Digital Realty’s NRT10 data centre in Japan. NRT10, a certified NVIDIA DGX-ready data centre featuring a high-density power supply, provides the ideal environment for maximising GPU performance and efficiency. Turing, a pioneer in the development of full driving automation technology, is working on an end-to-end self-driving system that uses AI to control all driving functions, such as steering, acceleration, and braking, solely based on data from the vehicle’s cameras. The company has advanced autonomous driving by creating Heron , a multimodal generative AI that makes sophisticated decisions using text and visual data, and Terra , a generative world model that understands complex real-world situations and generates realistic driving scenes as videos. Turing is now focused on its flagship project, Tokyo30 , aiming to achieve Level 5 full driving automation for 30 minutes or more in ...

NVIDIA is putting generative AI within reach of more people with a new compact supercomputer that offers increased performance at a lower price. The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, which fits in the palm of a hand, provides gains in generative AI capabilities and performance for everyone from commercial AI developers to hobbyists and students, the company said, for US$249 (down from US$499). The kit can be used to run the most popular generative AI models, like vision transformers, large language models, vision-language models, and more, and delivers as much as a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance, a 70% increase in performance to 67 INT8 TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102 GBps compared with its predecessor. The developer kit consists of a Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB system-on-module (SoM) and a reference carrier board, providing an ideal platform for prototyping edge AI applications. The SoM features an NVIDIA Ampere architecture G...

Verizon has developed a solution with NVIDIA that enables a wide range of AI applications to run over Verizon’s 5G private network with private mobile edge compute (MEC). Verizon’s 5G Private Network with Enterprise AI solution brings together Verizon’s secure, reliable, low-latency 5G private network and private MEC with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform and NVIDIA NIM microservices to deliver real-time AI services on premises for enterprise customers.  “Generative AI, with its predictive capabilities, is poised to be a critical component of digital transformation and future business growth in almost all industries,” said Srini Kalapala, Senior VP of Technology and Product Development at Verizon.  “We're leveraging our network's unique strengths including private networks and Verizon’s global industry leadership in private MEC, combined with NVIDIA’s AI compute capabilities to enable real-time AI applications that require security, ultra-low latency, and high bandw...

GenWizard , Accenture’s generative AI platform, now incorporates a Qlik data integration solution. GenWizard helps enterprises scale AI across application management, infrastructure optimisation, and software development. Qlik Talend Cloud will underpin GenWizard's event fabric, ensuring seamless data movement across diverse systems. David Zember, Senior VP, WW Channels and Alliances at Qlik said: “By combining Qlik’s real-time data integration capabilities with Accenture’s GenWizard platform, we’re enabling enterprises to scale AI initiatives and realise the full potential of their data. Together, we are reducing complexity, enhancing agility, and paving the way for AI success.” Qlik Talend Cloud is supporting GenWizard through: Real-time data integration Continuous data synchronisation ensures that GenWizard maintains a real-time environment, essential for accurate AI predictions and insights. By reducing latency, the platform allows faster, more reliable decision-mak...

by Nick Harders, APJ SASE Director, HPE Aruba Networking Source: HPE. Harders. Zero Trust has emerged as a prominent term in cybersecurity discussions, yet it risks becoming an overloaded industry buzzword. With countless vendors touting "Zero Trust" solutions, the essence of what Zero Trust truly entails can easily be lost. Comprehensive frameworks like NIST’s Zero Trust Architecture and Singapore’s GovTech Government Zero Trust Architecture (GovZTA) aim to clarify its principles, but confusion persists regarding implementation and practical application. To prevent Zero Trust from becoming just another marketing term, organisations must adopt a pragmatic approach that prioritises its core principles — comprehensive visibility, least-privilege access, and continuous monitoring.  Visibility Achieving comprehensive visibility is the first step toward effective Zero Trust implementation. This starts with capturing telemetry from your deployed network and security solutions. ...

Salesforce has announced Agentforce 2.0 , the newest version of the first digital labour platform for enterprises. Salesforce describes Agentforce as a complete AI system for augmenting teams with trusted, autonomous AI agents in the flow of work.  This release introduces a new library of prebuilt skills and workflow integrations for rapid customisation, the ability to deploy Agentforce in Slack , and advancements in agentic reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) . The advances will enable companies to scale their workforce with customised agents capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks with even more precision and accuracy, the company said. When teams typically have more work to do than resources available, poorer customer interactions and lengthy backlogs can happen. Organisations are turning to AI to help, but have a low tolerance for inadequate solutions that provide generic responses. According to Salesforce research: Two out of three consumers (67%) are...