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The newly launched AI-powered issue diagnostics solution marks the first step in a multi-phased roll out of Cloudways’ innovative Copilot AI product suite, making managed hosting intelligent. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for growing tech companies, today announces the launch of Cloudways Copilot, a suite of AI solutions designed to bring intelligent managed hosting to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), starting with AI-powered issue diagnostics (Public Preview). “Cloudways AI-powered issue diagnostics is a game-changer. It has drastically reduced the amount of time I spend taking care of web servers. It’s the first…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major indexes extended their gains Wednesday, as Wall Street cheered President Donald Trump’s $500 billion Stargate artificial intelligence project. Meanwhile, Oracle (ORCL), Nvidia (NVDA) and Netflix (NFLX) were early winners on the stock market today. After the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.5%. Tech-heavy Nasdaq composite moved up 1% in morning trades.↑X is Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. 0 seconds of 16 secondsVolume 0%NOW PLAYINGTrump Rally Rolls On; Rubrik, DoorDash, Skywest In Focus The 10-year Treasury yield ticked lower to 4.57% early Wednesday. And oil prices edged up, with West Texas…

RIT’s Cory Merkel joins peers in definitive document on advances in high tech processing Scott Hamilton/RIT Cory Merkel was among the researchers that contributed to a new article in ‘Nature’ magazine related to the advances in neuromorphic computer, one of his areas of expertise. A human’s way of processing information can be used as a model to train next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to research published Jan. 22 in Nature. Cory Merkel, an associate professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, was one of more than a dozen researchers from around the world who contributed to the findings. Merkel is an…

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SandboxAQ announced today it has signed an agreement with Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, to collaborate on developing a multi-GPU enabled differentiable computational fluid dynamics solver for application in oil and gas processing facilities. Designing, optimizing, and manufacturing new materials and chemicals has traditionally been challenging, slow, and expensive. SandboxAQ attempts to address these challenges by applying its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) platform, which combines AI and physics to sample outside the known data space and connect computational methods to real-world results. This approach is intended to improve speed and accuracy, allowing products…

DryRun Security, a Texas-based AI-native startup delivering application security (AppSec) for development and security teams, has snapped $8.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by LiveOak Ventures, which backed Fastn and Work-Bench with participation from Cannage Capital. With this new funding and product launch, the company is poised to change the way teams approach application security. DryRun Security will use the investment to increase its engineering hires and grow its Go To Market (GTM) function. Challenges in AppSec market Every company today is managing more code than ever before, and AppSec professionals are challenged to identify the needle in the…

SoftBank shares surged on five times the previous day’s volume U.S. President Donald Trump and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (R) share a laugh after an aide puts out a step stool for Son as he takes the podium to speak during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. SoftBank stock surged in Tokyo trade after the deal announcement.Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Referenced Symbols SoftBank shares surged — on five times the previous day’s volume — on Wednesday after the Japanese investment group landed a starring role in an U.S. artificial…

BAKU – The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, has decided to dedicate International Education Day 2025 on January 24 to the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. According to UNESCO, Azoulav is calling on UNESCO’s Member States to invest in training both teachers and students on the responsible use of this technology within the field of education. “AI offers major opportunities for education, provided that its deployment in schools is guided by clear ethical principles. To reach its full potential, this technology must complement the human and social dimensions of learning, rather than…

BERLIN/SAN FRANCISCO – January 22, 2025 – Camunda, the leader in process orchestration and automation, today released its 2025 State of Process Orchestration and Automation Report, revealing 82 percent of organizations fear “digital chaos” due to increasingly complex, interconnected, and automated processes. The report highlights that organizations now manage an average of 50 endpoints to execute tasks that are part of a process in their business. This an increase of 19 percent over the past five years and is contributing to growing business risk. According to the report, a lack of control has increased compliance risks for 82 percent of organizations, while…

Several Indian CEOs are looking to actively integrate AI and GenAI into their business products and processes over the next three years. It has become an obligation rather than a choice. In 2025, the adoption of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), has become an indispensable strategy for all industries and businesses. With a worldwide market size of USD 214.6 billion in 2024, AI continues to demonstrate why it is the need of the hour. Businesses worldwide have been reported to have witnessed efficiency gains and increased revenue with Generative AI (GenAI) in the last 12 months. While the impact…

DAVOS, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the leading Enterprise AI software application company, announced in Davos today a strategic alliance with McKinsey & Company, a preeminent global management consulting firm, to help clients and prospects across industries and geographies accelerate Enterprise AI transformations at scale. “In close collaboration with McKinsey & Company and its AI arm, QuantumBlack, and C3 AI, customers are assured of success in their Enterprise AI deployments”Post this The alliance combines the deep technical expertise of McKinsey’s AI practice, QuantumBlack, and its track record of deploying and scaling AI solutions across industries with C3 AI’s cutting-edge Enterprise…

President Trump announced Tuesday billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, Mr. Trump said in a White House briefing. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son joined Mr. Trump for the announcement, along with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. “What we want to do is we want to keep it in this country,” Mr. Trump said. “China is a competitor, others are competitors. We want to be in this country, and we’re making it available. I’m gonna help a…

January 21, 2025 — Global management consulting partnership Kearney, and Futurum, a research, intelligence and advisory firm, today jointly announced the release of the 2025 CEO AI Management study.The study examined leadership’s stance and status of organizational AI adoption, implementation and roadmaps – revealing alarming backlash effects that CEOs may already experience. The study is based on surveys and sit-down interview sessions with CEOs of companies with annual revenue over $1 billion around the world. The findings address CEO readiness in perception vs reality, CEOs’ perspectives on the potential of AI, the management dynamics over domain-level expertise and insightful conclusions…

French AI startup Mistral AI is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch announced during an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum (WEF). “We’re not for sale,” Mensch told Bloomberg, adding that the company plans to open a new office in Singapore to strengthen its presence in the booming Asia-Pacific market. It is also expanding operations across Europe and the United States, building on its mission to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI. Last week, Mistral AI announced a partnership with AFP, a global news agency recognised for its fast and reliable coverage of world events and…

AI coding tools are sophisticated software applications that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to assist developers throughout the development lifecycle. These tools can understand context, learn from patterns, and generate code suggestions based on vast amounts of training data from open-source repositories and best programming practices. These intelligent assistants can help with various tasks: Why use AI coding tools? Increased productivity AI coding tools significantly reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, allowing developers to focus on more complex problem-solving and creative aspects of development. They can generate boilerplate code, suggest completions, and automate routine coding tasks, accelerating the…

Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot — built in collaboration with OpenAI — to interact with the main GOV.UK portal. Today, it dubbed the chatbot ‘chat-uk’ and said it will be a part of a wider portal and app. The first two cards it plans to add to its wallet will be a virtual driver’s license, and a virtual veteran card for people who have served in…

Sentiment over the past few days has been mixed, from the launch of the year’s biggest meme coin on Solana—the $TRUMP meme coin—to the altcoin market dumping. However, Solana made headlines by skyrocketing to a new all-time high. Meanwhile, Cardano (ADA) struggles to maintain $1 as it nosedived. Also stirring up much buzz, the viral AI crypto IntelMarkets (INTL) basks in the spotlight. Its bullish narrative and growth prospects have caught the attention of both retailers and whales. Moreover, its AI-powered trading platform has been hailed as a trailblazer- a new DeFi project. IntelMarkets: New AI Coin IntelMarkets (INTL) is in…

Telstra International has unveiled plans to enhance its infrastructure to create a “highly autonomous network” by the end of the decade, leveraging AI technologies and digital twins. The project will see Telstra International augment its subsea cable network to support more than 800 Terabits per second (Tbps) of total lit capacity and use built-in AI technologies to monitor network performance. Telstra’s global arm brought in optical technology from Infinera and Ciena to upgrade its network, while legacy platforms are being replaced with network inventory and management systems from Blue Planet. The company said the network overhaul will meet increasing customers’ bandwidth consumption…

Don’t be afraid of AI in the workplace — think of it as your digital colleague. That’s what the global chairman of PwC, Mohamed Kande, said about AI augmentation during a panel at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. “People fear what they don’t understand, so exposing them to the technology, putting in their hands makes a big difference,” Kande said about AI. Doing so allows employees to view AI as a “digital colleague” they can work with, said Kande. “You don’t fear your colleagues, you partner with them,” Kande said. “So we are actually asking…

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. Biden’s order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public. The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Biden’s order…

BRUSSELS — Poland’s government is up in arms over a U.S. move to limit the export of artificial intelligence chips to the country — something that could impact Warsaw’s AI ambitions just as it seeks to position itself as a dependable transatlantic military ally. As a frontline, long-time adversary of Russia, Warsaw is proportionally the biggest military spender in NATO and has prioritized ties to the United States. It therefore came as a shock when Warsaw was the most notable European Union victim of the decision by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden last week to cap coveted AI chip…