The “Horizon Philippines” initiative seeks to catalyze the creation of new intellectual property assets through a collaboration platform for startups in three vital Philippine industries -- BPO, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and electronics assembly.
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has generated a lot of buzz at the recently concluded SuiteWorld 2023 conference in Las Vegas, the top Asia Pacific executive of Oracle NetSuite said its AI offering is merely an enhancement of an already impressive cloud solution that it provides to its customers.
At its flagship conference SuiteWorld held annually in Las Vegas, Oracle NetSuite marked its 25th year in the business by announcing the launch of generative AI across the suite along with new finance and customer experience capabilities.
If the decision of local TV station GMA-7 to use AI sportscasters for its NCAA coverage has elicited a largely negative sentiment among the public, the reaction is quite different at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou, China where an AI-powered virtual sign language interpreter is providing support to ensure individuals with hearing impairments could participate in the regional sports competition.
In what is being billed as the “first Asian Games on the cloud”, homegrown tech firm Alibaba Cloud is using the ongoing 19th Asian Games to showcase its technological capabilities that could rival, if not surpass, its US counterparts.
After spinning off from tech titan IBM to become an “agnostic” IT infrastructure services company, Kyndryl – which bills itself as the world’s largest start-up -- is getting ready for the explosion of hybrid or distributed cloud in the Philippines and the whole Asean region.
Chipmaker AMD unveiled on Thursday, Nov. 3, its latest graphics cards – the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT – drawing raves from tech analysts and journalists all over the globe who gathered at the ResortsWorld Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to witness its launch.
Saying exponential problems require exponential computation, industry titan IBM is betting big that “quantum computing” will bring profound changes to the technology landscape more than what artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain – two tech trends which it also pioneered and helped developed – have done in recent years.