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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

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But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

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When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. You’re not alone. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

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Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. The TechCrunch Top 3. In its response, Apple didn’t seem too worried.

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How cloud adoption solves some of IT’s biggest headaches

CIO

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. In this new paradigm, the underlying hardware becomes transparent to users.

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Lean Budgeting – Foster Growth & Innovation in Your Organisation

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Your annual budget could be harming your business. Does your organisation’s budget system hinder growth and innovation? This may not be the soundest proposition, but budgeting, as it is currently practised by many companies, should be abolished. Budgeting as it Used to Be. Yet, very harmful. It is never, ever accurate.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

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Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. “Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. growth in device spending.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. Businesses will need to invest in hardware and infrastructure that are optimized for AI and this may incur significant costs. IT leaders are placing faith in AI.