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AMD CEO Visits China

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chief executive officer Lisa Su began her visit to China, where she touted the company’s role in supporting the development of artificial intelligence in the Asian country through the lens of interaction with leading players in the local corresponding industry, including DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding.

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Samsung Seeks to Reclaim Ground in AI Memory Market

Samsung Electronics Co. pledged to strengthen its position in the high-bandwidth memory chip market in the current year.

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Tencent Accelerates AI Spending

Tencent Holdings Ltd. outlined plans to dramatically increase spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure after the Chinese company recorded the highest revenue growth rates since 2023, indicating that the most valuable firm in the Asian country intends to keep pace with competitors in the so-called post-DeepSeek era.

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Google Launches Redesigned Pixel 9a

Google has launched a redesigned version of its budget Pixel phone, updating the chip and battery life.

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Nvidia Announces New AI Chips

Nvidia last Tuesday, March 18, at its annual GTC conference, announced new chips that are designed for the development and subsequent deployment of artificial intelligence models.

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Alphabet to Buy Wiz for $32 Billion

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced on Tuesday, March 18, that it would acquire Wiz in its largest deal valued at approximately $32 billion.

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Alphabet Reportedly Approaches to $30 Billion Acquisition of Wiz

The media published information according to which Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is nearing the conclusion of the deal to acquire the startup Wiz, which operates in the cybersecurity area.

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Baidu Launches Two New AI Models

Last Sunday, March 16, the Chinese company Baidu announced that it had launched two new models of artificial intelligence.

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Google DeepMind CEO Says About Prospects of Artificial General Intelligence

Google DeepMind co-founder and chief executive officer Demis Hassabis stated that there is still some way to go before the emergence of such a configuration of artificial intelligence that is able to cope with any task on a par with humans, but it is a matter of time when the corresponding digital cognitive systems will […]

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Blackwall Raises $49 Million

The Estonian-based cybersecurity company Blackwall raised 45 million euros (about $49 million) in a funding round.

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Omni Raises $69 Million

Omni closed a Series B funding round worth $69 million this month.

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Corsair Capital Acquires Stake in Platform IDnow

Investment company Corsair Capital has acquired a majority stake in the German IDnow identity verification platform.

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Lowe’s Launches Virtual Assistant Mylow

Lowe’s introduced a virtual home improvement assistant powered by artificial intelligence.

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Banking Giants Warn New AI Risks

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and other Wall Street companies have warned investors about new risks associated with scaling artificial intelligence using practices, including software hallucinations, employee-morale issues, AI leverage by cybercriminals, and the impact of changing laws around the world.

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ServiceNow to Acquire Moveworks

ServiceNow powerful agentic AI and automation capabilities, combined with Moveworks front-end AI assistant and enterprise search technology, will help speed up the adoption and innovation of AI in businesses.

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AWS to Offer DeepSeek-R1 LLM

AWS becomes the first cloud service provider to deliver the fully managed DeepSeek-R1 LLM model as generally available within its Amazon Bedrock offering.

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