Janette Ciborowski

More chip news today: Meta and Broadcom expanded their partnership to co-design at least 1GW of Meta's in-house MTIA custom AI accelerators, as Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board https://lnkd.in/epdSG-vQ

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Discover how ViewSonic and Cal State Fullerton are transforming campus life. Join Willie Peng, Interim Vice President at CSUF, as he discusses how ViewSonic’s digital signage kiosks, interactive displays, and Direct View LED display are helping improve students’ lives. Learn more: https://vsfinch.es/4pWNkKH

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At California Science and Technology University Christmas party, I have leaned some of my remarkable students update: • One student joined my webinar — and soon after designed a financial services platform and proposed AI solutions to an aviation company for a 100k-pilot program. • Another, an engineer over 55, who believed he might never be employable again, is now a founding member of an AI-driven HR startup. • Another student, with an accounting background and no legal training, identified a problem in her own life — and launched a pre-marriage legal service. Different industries. Different backgrounds. Same pattern. None of them started with tools. They started by seeing the opportunity clearly. That’s the part most AI education skips. If AI feels confusing, overwhelming, or “not for you” — it’s rarely about skill. It’s about learning how to notice. If you’re curious how to spot AI opportunities in your work — comment “SEE” and I’ll share the framework I teach.

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Lumentum has ramped up capacity 12-fold at its key factory in the Tokyo metropolitan area over the past two years. Mari Kiyohara and Takashi Mochizuki talk with CEO Michael Hurlston about AI and runaway demand for optical components

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Find out about a fellowship program at UC San Diego Health that teaches #clinicians and #nurses how to communicate compassionately with patients. Compassionate communication is essential to establish trust between clinicians and their patients. Trust is foundational in creating meaningful connections and working relationships with patients. Evonne Kaplan-Liss, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Compassionate Communication at the UC San Diego Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, says there are several essential elements in compassionate communication. "In compassionate communication, the receiver feels heard, taken care of, and understood," Kaplan-Liss says. "The skills required for compassionate communication are deep listening, clarity, understanding the receiver's perspective, and authenticity." Read the full HealthLeaders story at https://lnkd.in/ez9Jct-v

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Generative, agentic and reasoning-driven AI workloads continue to grow at an exponential rate, bringing with them the ever-increasing demand for compute power and challenges associated with efficiency and performance. Enfabrica, a company developing high-performance networking silicon for AI and accelerated computing (and a Wireside Communications® client), today announced the availability of EMFASYS, the industry's first ethernet-based AI memory fabric system that addresses this exact challenge. EMFASYS is a transformative hardware and software solution designed to improve the compute efficiencies in large-scale, distributed, memory-bound AI inference workloads. It's a game changer for efficient superscaling of LLM inference. Learn more about this exciting innovation here: https://lnkd.in/ek_pNyNf

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USC just secured a $25 million gift from Len Blavatnik to build a next-gen Virtual Production Center with dual LED stages, performance capture, and AI tools—positioning the school at the forefront of immersive filmmaking education. https://lnkd.in/g4daM8SS

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🎓 From orientation to graduation, #AI is reshaping how campuses connect with and support students. We’re thrilled to see Tricia Rascon from UC Santa Barbara and Paul Dorney, CTO at Gravyty, share their perspectives in SmartBrief on what it takes to use AI responsibly and effectively across the student journey. 📖 Read the full piece here: https://hubs.li/Q03WSdhP0 #HigherEd #StudentSupport #EdTech #AIinHigherEd #DigitalTransformation #Chatbot #VirtualAssistant

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My latest story for Santa Clara University. Therapy can help people get through their most trying times, but for many, professional care has never been within reach. Stigma keeps some away, while the high cost of a single session shuts out others. For decades, those without access have leaned on friends and family instead of licensed mental health providers for support. Now, they have new options: generative AI tools, like ChatGPT. https://lnkd.in/gxbwxHXB

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Portal26, a Los Gatos, CA-based provider of a #GenAI adoption management platform, has raised $9M in Series A funding. 🚀 The round was led by Shasta Ventures and Fusion Fund. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate growth and product innovation, empowering more enterprises to safely and strategically harness the potential of Generative AI. Led by CEO Arti Arora Raman, Portal26 provides a GenAI adoption management platform that delivers full visibility and control across enterprise #AI initiatives — helping organizations manage users, ensure governance and security, drive ROI, and enable targeted education. Its comprehensive capabilities include real-time ShadowAI detection, GenAI security and policy enforcement, Forensic Audit, Risk Management, Intent and Use Case Analysis, Cost and License Analytics, Strategy & Policy Management, and Employee Education — all designed to make GenAI safe, scalable, and value-driven. Team- Arti Arora Raman CEO Dallas Thompson VP, Global Sales Pakshi Rajan Chief Product & AI Officer Karthikeyan M. VP, Engineering​ Fadil Mesic CTO Joe Boggio VP, Strategy Neil Cohen VP, Marketing #FundingNews #AI #GenerativeAI #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #Cybersecurity #AIAdoption #AIEthics #Innovation #SeriesA #Portal26 #AICompliance #ShastaVentures #FusionFund

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Today marks an incredible milestone as AMD, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure come together to power the next chapter of America’s scientific story with two new systems: Discovery and Lux. These aren’t just new supercomputers. They represent something far more powerful: hope accelerated. For decades, high-performance computing has helped us simulate the world. But when you pair that compute power with the intelligence of AI, something extraordinary happens. We move from simulating what we already know… to discovering what we didn’t know we could know. Imagine being able to test thousands of new materials in hours and finding the one that could make batteries charge in minutes or store solar energy ten times more efficiently. Or designing new alloys that withstand extreme temperatures, reshaping what’s possible in clean energy, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. Or mapping the protein structures that could unlock cures for diseases faster than we can name them. Or modeling entire food ecosystems to predict and prevent crop failures helping us grow more with less and strengthen food security around the world. That’s what happens when HPC and AI converge; when precision meets intuition, and silicon becomes a spark for human progress. Discovery and Lux are built to do exactly that: to give scientists, engineers, and dreamers the ability to ask bigger questions and get answers faster than ever before. They’re not just machines. They’re instruments of understanding. I’ve always believed the most meaningful advances don’t come from technology alone. They come from what people can do because of it. This partnership — across government, academia, and industry — proves that when we build together, we move humanity forward together. Because in the end, the true measure of innovation isn’t in teraflops or benchmarks. It’s in how quickly we can turn ideas into impact and hope into action. Hope, accelerated. https://lnkd.in/ge6cD4nD

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Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies November 24, 2025 - Key takeaways Expands access to AWS's trusted infrastructure and comprehensive AI services to help government agencies advance America’s AI leadership. Amazon Web Services (AWS) will build and deploy the first-ever AI and high-performance computing (HPC) purpose-built infrastructure for the U.S. government. New investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions across all classification levels....

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From LAist "About 15% of California households lack access to high-speed internet, according to the latest report from UC Riverside. Researchers pointed to affordability as one of the biggest barriers to closing the persistent digital divide." https://lnkd.in/gnjhuQsN

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Synopsys Inc CEO Sassine Ghazi says AI is driving strong R&D investment in chip design and physical simulation. That's fueling a solid FY26 start, margin expansion, and momentum from the Ansys combination. Meanwhile the company has de-risked China from its guidance and is leaning into sovereign semiconductor and data center demand globally. Full Fortt Knox conversation link in the comments:

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From pacemakers to patient portals, modern health care systems are increasingly reliant on connected technologies. However, innovation can make health care systems vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks, threatening not only data, but patient lives. Read more about the work at UC San Diego being conducted by two physician-researchers: Drs. Jeff Tully and Christian Dameff, who co-direct the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity. #ucsd #ucsandiego #cybersecurity

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Thoughtful Julie J. Park contribution to the UC San Diego readiness/test-or-no-test discourse, including evidence countering the mismatch theory: It’s counterintuitive, but students with gaps in academic preparation can still succeed at an institution like UCSD. As explained by Princeton University economist Zachary Bleemer: “There’s no advantage to the student to being pushed into a less selective university. Instead, you’re just taking away the advantages that a school like UC San Diego offers them.” Studying the UCs, Bleemer found that students from historically under-resourced backgrounds, including those with lower test scores, experienced better outcomes when they attended more selective institutions. His work and that of others debunk the mismatch hypothesis. https://lnkd.in/e4VUYNYv

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