Snowflake bypasses Microsoft to strike multiyear deal with OpenAI
Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today said it has struck a $200 million, multiyear partnership with OpenAI Group PBC to bring enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence models directly into its data platform, deepening a relationship that until now had largely fl…
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VR used to help understand how people respond when self-driving taxis go wrong
techxplore - What would you do if you were in a self-driving taxi and another passenger fell seriously ill? What if a fire broke out, or the vehicle stopped in the wrong place? What would you need to manage the situation with no driver to help?
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TikTok outage is resolved now
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - TikTok said on Sunday it has restored service following a week of technical outages caused by a winter storm at an Oracle-operated data center. The disruptions impacted core features for TikTok’s 220 million U.S. users and occurred as the platform finaliz…
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India Proposes 20-Year Tax Holiday for Cloud Companies
PYMNTS / pymnts - India is reportedly offering foreign cloud companies a 20-year tax amnesty for building data centers there. The proposal, announced Sunday (Feb 1) by India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and flagged in a report by TechCrunch, would give companies a…
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