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IT Trends :: Thursday, June 1, 2006

  • 06/01/06

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Dell Donates $50 million to UT

Wow. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation just gave $50 million to the University of Texas, where he created the Dell company out of his dorm room, shortly before dropping out. Projects include a $67 million Dell Computer Science Hall on the main UT campus ($10 million of which comes from this particular recent gift), a new pediatric health research center, and a new computer science facility… (The Daily Texan)

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U of Illinois CIO to Lead Information Technology at Davis

Peter Siegel "reorganized [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's] central computing, educational technologies, classroom technologies, computer labs, data, and voice communications units into an integrated information technologies and educational services unit," this article says. Now he will take his expertise to the University of California Davis, which boasts an annual $32 million budget and employs 275 people in the Informational and Educational Technology department… (HPCwire)

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    Apple Introduces Redesigned Siri AI

    At its recent Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced Siri AI, a redesigned version of its voice assistant that Apple describes in its own announcement as "a profoundly more capable and personal assistant." The update is intended to make Siri more conversational, more context-aware, and more useful across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro.

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    AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down

    For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.

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    Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem

    Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.

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    Anthropic Adding Invisible Watermarks to Claude-Generated Text

    Anthropic recently announced it is introducing machine-readable watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models as it moves to comply with European Union AI transparency rules.