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Microsoft's Women in Manufacturing community is launching a new free online series called Manufacturing Latest Trends, and we’re excited to kick things off tomorrow, December 4, with a fireside chat featuring Ulrich Homann, CVP and Distinguished Architect at Microsoft, about emerging trends in Manufacturing. Uli will share where the industry is headed next, covering four key shifts shaping the future of Manufacturing: intermittently connected factories, AI-native automation, standardized industrial data, and open & interoperable platforms. The session will wrap with an open Q&A so you can bring your questions and join the conversation. Hope you can join! 📅 Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM PST / 5:00 PM CET 👉 Sign up here to join the session: https://lnkd.in/gmmnd6YV

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AI is transforming life sciences—from protein structure prediction to genomic analysis and personalized therapeutics. But scaling these innovations requires serious infrastructure, governance, and compliance. Join experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS), NetApp and Domino Data Lab at #RevX25 in Philadelphia as we explore how leading teams are taming AI sprawl to accelerate impact. 📅 May 20 📍 RevX | Philadelphia 🔗 https://gag.gl/R97QP0 #LifeSciences #AIinHealthcare #AIInfrastructure #Genomics #PersonalizedMedicine #DominoDataLab #NetApp #AWS

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🔆 Why Decentralized AI Matters — And Why You Should Be Paying Attention This week marked a major milestone for Vana. Our work was featured in WIRED, spotlighting our partnership with Flower Labs on COLLECTIVE-1, the world’s first decentralized, user-owned large language model (LLM). A huge thanks to Will Knight for covering this story and helping bring awareness to an entirely new approach to building AI—one that prioritizes people, privacy, and permission. ❓Why does this coverage matter ❓ It's a proof point for something many think is impossible: We can build powerful, truly open AI systems without handing control to a few centralized tech giants. Decentralized AI is more than a philosophy. It’s a fundamentally different architecture for intelligence—and it’s already working with Vana leading the way. 🛠️ How Decentralized AI Works It comes down to two breakthrough shifts: 1. User-Owned Data In the current AI ecosystem, most models are trained on scraped data—your emails, public posts, and digital footprint—without consent or compensation. In decentralized AI, that changes. People can contribute data voluntarily, retain ownership, and participate in the upside of the models they help train. This means better data, fairer incentives, and AI that reflects the real world—not just what’s available online. 2. Permissionless, Distributed Compute Training massive AI models used to require centralized supercomputers. Now, with projects like Flower Labs, it’s possible to train models across distributed networks of devices—more resilient, more inclusive, and impossible to monopolize. This isn’t science fiction. It’s already live. ❓ Why You Should Care ❓ If you work in AI, data, or digital policy—and you’re frustrated by the closed nature of today’s models—you should be paying attention. Decentralized AI offers: • Transparency in how models are built • Sovereignty over your personal data • Participation in the next wave of innovation This space is where data ethics, technical innovation, and economic inclusion intersect. And it’s moving fast. I’m grateful to work alongside Vana's founders Anna Kazlauskas Art A. who not only see a better future for the global digital economy but are delivering on it every day.

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NVIDIA, Oracle Cloud, and Hammerspace demonstrate massively optimized AI storage at Oracle AI World this week. - Up to 7x improvement in latency vs. traditional cloud file storage - Up to 6x improvement in storage performance vs. traditional cloud file storage - Checkpointing at extreme speeds, crushing idle time. - Throughput so fast it keeps GPUs fed 24/7, not waiting on data. - Policy-driven flexibility to move cold data to lower-cost tiers without touching the hot path. Join Raj Sharma's talk in the NVIDIA booth to learn more!

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...Krishna said: "Innovation value can also be seen in our IBM Z performance, up 48 percent this year, achieving the highest annual revenue for Z in about 20 years... Krishna (further) said this was more than just a question of legacy replacements. He said sovereignty was a key issue, and "more and more clients have woken up to that for certain workloads, the mainframe is actually the lowest unit cost economics platform, and that is really important."

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NEW JOB TITLES IF YOU ARE DEPLOYING AGENTIC AI🤓😜 If you’re deploying agentic AI in a regulated industry… Congratulations. You just created a whole new org chart. Because the moment an AI agent touches healthcare, law, insurance, or finance, you don’t just have “AI.” And the rules about accountability and professional responsibility have not changed. Here are the new job titles every regulated industry will have to consider: 1. Chief “Who Approved This?” Officer 2. Licensed AI Babysitter 3. Director of Nope 4. AI Hallucination Containment Lead 5. Stop-the-Line Button Owner 6. Head of Proof (a.k.a. Exhibit A) 7. AI Decision Trail Detective 8. Regulator Whisperer 9. VP of “That’s Not What We Meant” 10. AI Permission Police 11. Professional Responsibility Enforcer 12. The Person Who Gets Deposed But when the board, regulators, or judge asks: “Who approved this?” “The system did” is not an answer. It’s a confession. Protect the people you serve, including yourself. #iGovernAI™ 🤓❣️ #GovernBeforeYouAutomate™ #GovernBeforeYouInnovate™

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At Goldman Sachs Communacopia, our CEO Thomas Kurian highlighted how AI is reshaping cloud adoption. 📌 Google Cloud has $106B in backlog, with over 50% set to convert within two years. 📌 Customers increasingly value AI infrastructure — optimized chips, power efficiency, high throughput — not just basic compute. 📌 65% of our customers already use AI tools, driving broader product adoption. From creative work with Warner Bros. Entertainment to HR support at Home Depot, AI is transforming how businesses run — and we are helping them move faster. https://ow.ly/PRxJ50X7i4c

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