Launch of the I2U2 Private Enterprise Partnership

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Office of the SpokespersonToday, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth,
Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the U.S.-UAE Business Council, the UAE-India Business
Council, and the UAE-Israel Business Council to create the I2U2 Private
Enterprise Partnership. This new public-private partnership will work to
increase awareness of the I2U2 initiative in business communities and support
projects and other efforts that further the goals of the initiative.The signing
ceremony includedIndia's Ministry of External Affairs Secretary Dammu Ravi,
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director-General Ronen Levi, and UAE
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, as part of their I2U2
meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in
New York City.class="external-link-title">View the Memorandum of Understandingclass="filesize icon-pdf">.This announcement also included the launch
of a new webpage for I2U2 and the opening ofnew project submissions through the
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Cisco makes largest ever acquisition, buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28 billion in cash

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Cisco said it was acquiring cybersecurity software company Splunk for $157 a share in a cash deal worth about $28 billion.

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Wall Street's 'meh' response to tech IPOs shows Silicon Valley's valuation problem

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Investors are unenthusiastic about the IPOs from Arm, Instacart and Klaviyo, even after a 21-month drought in tech offerings

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States announce major push to get to 20 million installed heat pumps, a cleaner alternative to gas furnaces that also provide AC

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Heat pumps are energy efficient replacements for fossil fuel powered furnaces and air conditioners. They use electricity to transfer rather than generate heat.

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Cisco to buy Splunk in $28B bid to secure enterprises in AI era

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Estimated to be worth $28 billion, Cisco's planned acquisition of Splunk will form one of the world's largest software vendors that will look to help enterprises better safeguard themselves as AI becomes pervasive.

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I went hands-on with Microsoft's new AI features, and these 5 are the most useful

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Here are the new Microsoft AI features that will likely make it into my own daily workflows.

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Why open source is the cradle of artificial intelligence

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In the wildly competitive business of AI, is open source doomed to be always a bridesmaid, never a bride? Think again.

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