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Dell wants to be your one-stop shop for AI infrastructure

ZDNet

Michael Dell is pitching a "decentralized" future for artificial intelligence that his company's devices will make possible. "The future of AI will be decentralized, low-latency, and hyper-efficient," predicted the Dell Technologies founder, chairman, and CEO in his Dell World keynote, which you can watch on YouTube. "AI will follow the data, not the other way around," Dell said at Monday's kickoff of the company's four-day customer conference in Las Vegas. Dell is betting that the complexity of deploying generative AI on-premise is driving companies to embrace a vendor with all of the parts, plus 24-hour-a-day service and support, including monitoring. On day two of the show, Dell chief operating officer Jeffrey Clarke noted that Dell's survey of enterprise customers shows 37% want an infrastructure vendor to "build their entire AI stack for them," adding, "We think Dell is becoming an enterprise's'one-stop shop' for all AI infrastructure."


'It was just the perfect game': Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

The Guardian

When game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew it was special. "It was just the perfect game," he recalls. "It looked so simple, so rudimentary, but I wanted to play it again and again and again โ€ฆ There was no other game demo that ever did that to me." Rogers is now co-owner of the Tetris Company, which manages and licenses the Tetris brand. Over the past 30 years, he has become almost as famous as the game itself. The escapades surrounding his deal to buy its distribution rights from Russian agency Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) were dramatised in an Apple TV film starring Taron Egerton.


Zoox issues software recall for all robotaxis following Las Vegas collision

Engadget

Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for its vehicles. The company had paused its driverless vehicle operations for a review following an incident last month where a Zoox car and a passenger car collided in Las Vegas. According to the report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the crash did not cause any injuries. CNBC reports that Zoox has resumed usual operations following the software update. "After analysis and rigorous testing, Zoox identified the root cause," the company said in a blog post today.


'Wizard of Oz' AI makeover is 'total transformation,' sparking mixed reactions: experts

FOX News

Fox News correspondent William La Jeunesse joins'Fox News Sunday' to discuss the evolution of AI and the push lawmakers are making to regulate it. The use of artifical intelligence to reimagine the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" will likely see mixed reactions from fans, experts told Fox News Digital. While "film purists" may resist the idea of using generative AI to give classic films an entire makeover, the technology could "breathe new life" into hit movies -- including "The Wizard of Oz." Warner Bros. Discovery, Google Cloud and Magnopus have set out to do just that by creating an immersive experience for fans of the 1939 classic. The new "Wizard of Oz" experience is set to premiere at the Las Vegas Sphere on Aug. 28. "The fan reaction will likely split into two distinct camps," Michael Walker, CEO of AI-First at Trilogy, told Fox News Digital.


Google invented new ways to alter movies with AI for The Sphere. Its sure to be controversial.

Mashable

This summer, The Sphere in Las Vegas is going to debut a new experience: The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. "The power of generative AI, combined with Google's infrastructure and expertise, is helping us to achieve something extraordinary," said Sphere Entertainment Executive Chairman and CEO Jim Dolan in a statement provided to Mashable. "We needed a partner who could push boundaries alongside our teams at Sphere Studios and Magnopus, and Google was the only company equipped to meet the challenge on the world's highest resolution LED screen." Regardless of whether you've been to Vegas, you're likely familiar with The Sphere. It's constantly going viral with its 580,000 square feet of LED displays wrapped around the venue.


Google used AI to 'reconceptualize' The Wizard of Oz for the Las Vegas Sphere

Engadget

Google has used AI to revamp one of the most beloved films of all time for a 360-degree Sin City screen with the highest resolution in the world. The rerolled version of The Wizard of Oz will debut this August at The Sphere, the Las Vegas entertainment venue with a famously globular LED screen. Whether a technical marvel, dystopian nightmare fuel or some combination, the project will surely continue The Sphere's penchant for extravagant spectacles that persuade tourists to plunk down hundreds of dollars to sit for a few hours in one of its 17,600 seats. Sphere Entertainment, the company behind the venue, worked on the project with Google, Magnopus and Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns The Wizard of Oz rights. Google describes it as an "epic undertaking of creativity and technology," humbly likening it to the cinematic boundaries broken by the acclaimed Technicolor original.


Google reveals new Kubernetes and GKE enhancements for AI innovation

ZDNet

Everyone and their dog is investing in AI, but Google has more reason than most to put serious effort into its offerings. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal meeting before last year's holidays: "In 2025, we need to be relentlessly focused on unlocking the benefits of [AI] technology and solve real user problems." To help realize that vision, at the Google Cloud Next 2025 event in Las Vegas, Google announced substantial advancements in its Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offerings. These advances aim to empower platform teams and developers to succeed with AI while leveraging their existing Kubernetes skills. Indeed, Gabe Monroy, Google's VP of Cloud Runtimes, said: "Your Kubernetes skills and investments aren't just relevant; they're your AI superpower."


Intel's new CEO vows to run chipmaker 'as a startup, on day one'

ZDNet

On Monday, chip giant Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan -- who took over from outgoing CEO Pat Gelsinger only 15 days earlier -- laid out in broad terms his strategy to return the company to greatness. Speaking at Intel Vision, the company's annual event for customers and partners in Las Vegas, Tan emphasized changing Intel's culture, promising to run the company "as a startup, on day one." Tan said the culture needs changing because Intel has lost much of its engineering focus over the years. "Intel has lost some of this talent over the years," he said. "I want to re-group the talent and attract some of the new talent. Also: Intel touts new Xeon chip's AI power in bid to fend off AMD, ARM advances Recalling his affection for basketball and California's Golden State Warriors, Tan remarked, "I love the game, how they pass the ball to the teammate to receive it -- this is the kind of team I would like to build." All of the culture remake, he said, is necessary to "Pull together strong teams to correct the past mistakes and start to earn your trust." Tan put Intel's problems front and center. Without enumerating the mistakes in detail, it's well-known to investors and to the industry at large that Intel has lost an enormous amount of market share to AMD over the years and has ceded the artificial intelligence battle to Nvidia. "It has been a tough period for quite a long time for Intel," observed Tan. "It was very hard for me to watch its struggle; I simply cannot stay on the sideline knowing that I could help turn things around." Addressing the customers in the room, Tan remarked, "You deserve better, and we need to improve -- and we will." He asked the audience to "please be brutally honest with us.


Intel: 'Panther Lake' will be our hybrid hero for the PC

PCWorld

Intel executives pledged Tuesday that its upcoming Panther Lake chip will combine the best aspects of its earlier processors, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake. Intel executives spoke in Las Vegas on the second day of its Intel Vision conference, which engages Intel's partners and customers. Intel's new chief executive Lip-Bu Tan outlined his plans for Intel's new direction on Monday, asking for brutal honesty while pledging to return Intel to greatness. We already knew that Panther Lake would be a critical product for Intel this year. Not only is the chip the next iteration of Intel's PC client roadmap, but it's the first chip on Intel's next-generation 18A manufacturing process.


Intel's new CEO vows to run chipmaker like a 'day one startup'

ZDNet

On Monday, chip giant Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan -- who took over from outgoing CEO Pat Gelsinger only 15 days earlier -- laid out in broad terms his strategy to return the company to greatness. Speaking at Intel Vision, the company's annual event for customers and partners in Las Vegas, Tan emphasized changing Intel's culture, promising to run the company "as a startup, on day one." Tan said the culture needs changing because Intel has lost much of its engineering focus over the years. "Intel has lost some of this talent over the years," he said. "I want to re-group the talent and attract some of the new talent. Also: Intel touts new Xeon chip's AI power in bid to fend off AMD, ARM advances Recalling his affection for basketball and California's Golden State Warriors, Tan remarked, "I love the game, how they pass the ball to the teammate to receive it -- this is the kind of team I would like to build." All of the culture remake, he said, is necessary to "Pull together strong teams to correct the past mistakes and start to earn your trust." Tan put Intel's problems front and center. Without enumerating the mistakes in detail, it's well-known to investors and to the industry at large that Intel has lost an enormous amount of market share to AMD over the years and has ceded the artificial intelligence battle to Nvidia. "It has been a tough period for quite a long time for Intel," observed Tan. "It was very hard for me to watch its struggle; I simply cannot stay on the sideline knowing that I could help turn things around." Addressing the customers in the room, Tan remarked, "You deserve better, and we need to improve -- and we will." He asked the audience to "please be brutally honest with us.