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Microsoft to Invest $2.7 Billion in Brazil

Microsoft on Thursday, September 26, announced its intention to invest 14.7 billion reais ($2.7 billion) in Brazil over three years.

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Meta Demonstrates New AR Smart Glasses

Orion smart glasses by Meta are described as a time machine bringing users a glimpse of a fascinating future where reality and virtual environment seamlessly blend.

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AWS Makes Meta’s Llama 3.2 Available to Customers

Meta’s large language models Llama 3.2 have become generally available on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia.

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Micron Shares Demonstrate Significant Increase

On Thursday, September 26, the value of shares of Micron Technology, a manufacturer of memory semiconductors, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, showed an increase of more than 13%.

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Bain Predicts AI Market to Surge to Near $1 Trillion by 2027

Bain & Co. predicts that the global market for artificial intelligence-related products, which is currently on an active growth trajectory, will reach as much as $990 billion in financial volume by 2027, as the rapid adoption of this technology, according to the company’s experts, disrupts firms and economies.

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Meta Unveils Quest 3S VR Headset

Meta has announced Quest 3S, a virtual reality headset that was developed by the unit specialists of this technology giant called Reality Labs and differs from its predecessor product in a similar functional orientation at a more affordable price.

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Mira Murati to Leave OpenAI

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is leaving this startup, which is the latest high-profile departure from the company that developed the world’s most popular chatbot called ChatGPT.

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Startup Wiz Reportedly Explores Shares Sale

The media, citing knowledgeable insiders, report that the startup Wiz Inc., which operates in the cybersecurity area, is currently in discussions regarding the sale of existing shares at a valuation of up to $20 billion.

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Microsoft to Invest $1.3 Billion in Mexico

Technology giant Microsoft on Tuesday, September 24, announced its intention to invest $1.3 billion to build up its infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence in Mexico over the next three years.

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Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners to Acquire Smartsheet

Collaboration software maker Smartsheet announced on Tuesday, September 24 that Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners would acquire it.

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Google Reports 2 Million Developers Use Its GenAI Solutions

Google reported that its generative artificial intelligence model called Gemini is currently used by more than 2 million developers.

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AI Startup Phacet Reportedly Raises $4 Million

The media reports that the startup Phacet, which operates in the space of the artificial intelligence industry, managed to raise investment funds for $4.4 million.

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Middle Eastern Funds Invest Billions of Dollars Into AI Startups

Currently, in the Middle East, sovereign wealth funds, through their specific financial actions, demonstrate a clear and unambiguous desire to become the main sponsors of Silicon Valley in the area of developments related to artificial intelligence.

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Perplexity AI Reportedly Plans New Advertising Model

The media reports that Perplexity AI is currently planning a new advertising model for its search engine, which operates based on artificial intelligence.

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China’s Semiconductor Industry Demonstrates Moderate Movement Forward

In China, the local semiconductor industry is gradually promoting homegrown lithography tools following the specifications published by the central government of the Asian country, but analysts through the prism of skeptical perception assess the quality level of this movement forward, noting in an appropriate context that Beijing has yet to make a kind of breakthrough […]

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Samsung Plans to Invest $1.8 Billion More in Vietnam

South Korea’s Samsung Display Co. intends to invest $1.8 billion in a project to build a factory in the northern part of Vietnam.

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