More on AI Diffusion Regulations | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 23, 2025

More on AI Diffusion Regulations | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 23, 2025

Author: Tech Field Day January 22, 2025 Duration: 40:57

We spoke last week about the executive order issued by former President Biden around AI export controls. There has been some more information released about the reasoning behind the controls. One of those was that, as mentioned, third party actors are shipping restricted hardware to countries that were already banned from receiving it. Still others were able to access those systems through cloud computing in countries such as Malaysia and Brazil. The AI Diffusion Framework names 18 "friendly" countries with no restrictions and designates 23 countries under embargo with restrictions and caps on certain AI chips. The remaining nations of the world are categorized into a kind of limbo. The restrictions are based on a Total Processing Performance (TPP) metric that restricts exports based on the power of the chip. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:05 - Futurum Asks CEOs About AI 6:40 - HPE Investigating IntelBroker Claims 9:51 - Former Meta Exec leads Microsoft's New AI Team 13:41 - Gartner Says VM Migrations Won't Be Easy 17:53 - Lenovo Acquires Infinidat 22:05 - More on AI Diffusion Regulations 37:24 - The Weeks Ahead 39:55 - Thanks for Watching Hosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AIDiffusion, #AI, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup, @NetworkingNerd, @SFoskett, @HPE, @Meta, @Microsoft, @Lenovo, @Infinidat,


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