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Transformational Opportunity of AI on ICT Jobs Report:92% of Technology Roles Evolve, Indicating Urgency for Reskilling

  • AI literacy, data analytics, and prompt engineering essential for AI preparedness in redefined roles.
  • ICT industry leaders establish skills development and training goals to positively impact over 95 million individuals around the world over the next 10 years.
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Dubai, UAE –August13, 2024— AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium–led by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) with industry leaders Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP, along with key advisors–released its inaugural report, “The Transformational Opportunity of AI on ICT Jobs.” 

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UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Revolutionizes AI Language Models With New Architecture

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  • The Falcon Mamba 7B is the no. 1 globallyperforming open sourceState Space Language Model (SSLM), as independently verified by Hugging Face
  • SSLMs have a low memory cost and don’t require additional memory to generate arbitrary long blocks of text
  • Falcon Mamba 7B also outperforms traditional transformer architecture models such Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral’s 7B
  • New model reflectsthe innovation and pioneering approach of Abu Dhabi in AI research and development

Abu Dhabi-UAE: 12thAugust, 2024 – The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has released a new large language model in its Falcon series, the Falcon Mamba 7B. The new model is the no. 1 globally performing open source State Space Language Model (SSLM)in the world, as independently verified by Hugging Face.

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du Youth Council launches sustainable robotics and entrepreneurial talent initiatives to empower youth

Dubai, UAE, 12 August 2024: du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), today announced the launch of educational initiatives designed to foster technological proficiency and innovation among the youth.

These include a Robotics Workshop for the children of du employees, and the launch of “Skillpreneurship” program. Organised by du Youth Council in line with its commitment to digital transformation and youth empowerment, the ongoing initiatives are set to provide sustained opportunities for skills development aligned with the company’s core mission of driving digital transformation.

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Curate your perfect soundtrack with Yango Play’s latest AI-powered music features

Dubai, UAE – 12 August 2024: Yango Play, the first AI-powered entertainment super app that combines video streaming, live TV channels, music, and mini-games, has introduced smart features that will take your music experience to the next level along with new tracks, albums, and special playlists. Curated by My Vibe, the app’s AI music recommendation feature that dynamically adapts to each listener’s preferences and mood shifts, creates the soundtrack to your life. Whether you’re getting pumped for a workout, cruising to work, or just chilling at home, Yango Play has millions of tracks and new AI-generated playlists so you’ll never run out of new music to explore.

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Hybrid apps and AI drive sevenfold increase in organizations’ digital maturity levels

F5’s 2024 Digital Enterprise Maturity Index finds that more than a quarter of organizations are now classed as digitally mature

Digital “doers” characterized by a commitment to hybrid applications, automated systems and data observability

By contrast, the least digitally mature “dawdlers” have low levels of automation, limited plans for observability and less confidence in their ability to withstand threats

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Dubai, UAE, AUGUST 12, 2024 –Digital transformation has accelerated markedly over the last year, with a sevenfold increase in organizations ranked at the highest level of digital maturity, new research from F5 shows.

For F5’s second Digital Enterprise Maturity Index (DEMI)report1, 713 responses from the 2024 State of Application Strategy Reportwere assessed against a set of six core technical capabilities2: infrastructure, app delivery, data, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) operations, observability and automation, and security.

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