AI-Focused Restructuring to Add €200 Million to Bottom Line

AI-Focused Restructuring to Add €200 Million to Bottom Line

Seven months after launching an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused restructuring program, SAP said Monday (July 22) that it has raised its 2025 operating profit ambition to reflect the efficiency gains it expects to see from that program. “We continued to execute on our transformation program with great discipline with rehiring only for the skill sets we …

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Qubit Number to Simulate Molecules Reportedly Reduced by the Sorbonne and Qubit Pharmaceuticals

Qubit Number to Simulate Molecules Reportedly Reduced by the Sorbonne and Qubit Pharmaceuticals

Officials at Qubit Pharmaceuticals report that the company has drastically reduced the number of qubits needed to compute the properties of small molecules with its Hyperion-1 emulator, a device that uses a classical computer and software to execute a quantum algorithm designed for a quantum computer, developed in partnership with Sorbonne University. This achievement and …

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Could China’s ‘intelligent’ 6G experiment signal the way to next-generation technology?

Could China’s ‘intelligent’ 6G experiment signal the way to next-generation technology?

The International Telecommunication Union, an agency under the United Nations, says 6G could promote the growth of a range of advances, allowing communication to be immersive and connectivity universal. But with existing communication technology reaching its theoretical bandwidth limit, there are a series of big problems that have to be overcome. These include the difficulty …

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Microsoft AI CEO: Anything on Open Web Fair Use for Training

Microsoft AI CEO: Anything on Open Web Fair Use for Training

In order to write, lead advertising campaigns, and power side hustles AI needs training material. ChatGPT needed about 300 billion words to get off the ground and continues to train itself based on how users interact with it. However, human beings aren’t being credited or compensated for creating the content that AI is eating up. …

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Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit says AI will transform pharmaceuticals

Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit says AI will transform pharmaceuticals

Before co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit had an idea that would eventually make generative artificial intelligence possible. As a researcher at Google in 2017, Uszkoreit was trying to speed up the training of neural networks. He suggested using a new way to interpret data called self-attention. That idea gave way to the transformer, the …

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Huawei exec rejects idea that advanced chip shortage will hamper China’s AI ambitions

Huawei exec rejects idea that advanced chip shortage will hamper China’s AI ambitions

FA senior executive at Chinese technology giant Huawei on Thursday dismissed the idea that a shortage of the most advanced artificial intelligence chips will hinder the country’s aim to be a leader in AI, but said innovation is needed to address the issue. The comments by Zhang Ping’an, CEO of Huawei Cloud, comes amid tighter …

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