Geoffrey Hinton, ‘the Godfather of AI’ received his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence 45 years ago and has remained one of the most reverential voices in this field. For the past decade, Hinton worked at Google, between the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters and Toronto. But he has quit Google, and he told the New York Times that he will…
The cloud-computing market keeps growing as firms move an increasing number of workloads out of their own data centers, but executives from the leading cloud providers said this week that clients are looking for ways and means to trim costs. The result is slowing income growth at the cloud divisions run by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. It’s…
Amazon said Thursday that its cloud unit Amazon Web Services grew revenue by around 16% in the first quarter of this year, a slightly more rapid growth than analysts had estimated. Revenue from AWS totaled $21.35 billion, representing about 17% of Amazon’s overall earnings, according to Amazon’s earnings statement. Analysts surveyed by StreetAccount had anticipated $21.22…
Google has been investing a lot of money into its cloud-computing business to compete with Microsoft and Amazon. Those high investments are ultimately turned into a profit. Alphabet said that Google’s cloud-computing business is profitable for the first time after years of heavy investment. According to Alphabet’s earnings statement, “The segment generated $191 million in operating income…
