IBM is working to advance its geospatial artificial intelligence tools, including the new AI foundation model developed in partnership with NASA, to support climate efforts in the U.A.E., Kenya and the U.K. The company said Thursday it has partnered with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence to fine-tune its geospatial foundation model for mapping urban heat islands in Abu Dhabi and parts of the U.A.E.

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Artificial intelligence is for augmenting human decisions and intelligence, said Mark Johnson, vice president of U.S. federal technology at IBM. In an interview on Federal News Network, Johnson shared his insights on how to ensure trustworthiness and transparency in the use of AI in federal as well as commercial cases.

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IBM has created a toolkit designed to help businesses deploy and monitor trustworthy generative artificial intelligence technologies. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that it will launch the watsonx.governance software early next month to aid organizations in complying with future safety and transparency AI regulations within and outside the U.S.

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A team of researchers at IBM Research's laboratory in Almaden, California, has developed a brain-inspired chip, called NorthPole, that could pave the way for the development of more energy-efficient and faster artificial intelligence hardware systems. Dharmendra Modha and his colleagues from IBM Research used a 12-nanometer node processing technology to develop the chip prototype, which has 22 billion transistors and 256 cores with the capability to carry out 2,048 operations for each core per cycle at 8-bit precision, according to an IBM Research blog post published Friday.

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IBM has received authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based human capital management platform to government customers. IBM Federal HR Cloud is a shared service tool designed to support core human resources management functions such as payroll, time entry and performance management and benefits administration, the company said Wednesday. […] More

IBM has received authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based human capital management platform to government customers. IBM Federal HR Cloud is a shared service tool designed to support core human resources management functions such as payroll, time entry and performance management and benefits administration. More

IBM has participated in a Series D round launched by open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face to raise $235 million in funding as the latter works to advance technology innovation and further expand its presence in the open science AI market. The move builds on IBM’s collaboration with Hugging Face on watsonx. IBM said Thursday […] More

Accenture‘s federal business, IBM and Telesto Group have been selected to help the U.S. Army transition its enterprise business systems to a modernized platform to streamline the delivery of services for multi-domain operations. The companies received Phase 1 contracts to develop prototypes of the Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence system designed to streamline and unify […] More

Margie Graves, senior fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government, said the technology base of the National Finance Center within the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires an immediate “stabilization” and long-term modernization, Federal News Network reported Monday. The National Academy of Public Administration issued a report in July recommending that NFC implement […] More

IBM’s research arm has developed an analog artificial intelligence-based chip designed to perform deep neural network inference tasks. The analog AI chip comes with 64 analog in-memory compute cores each containing 256-by-256 crossbar array of synaptic unit cells and digital processing units that could carry out scaling functions and nonlinear neuronal activation operations, IBM Research […] More

Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

IBM has obtained accreditation from a Department of Defense organization to deliver embedded security services tailored to a U.S.-based advanced microelectronics producer. The company said Wednesday the Defense Microelectronics Activity issued the Trusted Supplier accreditation to IBM Consulting’s security services, which work to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in the microelectronics supply chain. The security services […] More