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Magda Petwarden (0:00)
AI's growth is taking it from centralized systems into everyday workflows, and the enterprise endpoint is taking on a new role and new risks. At the break, AMD's Magda Petwarden will discuss how enterprises are rethinking security to protect Today's AI enabled PCs.
Danny Lewis (0:16)
Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, March 13th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. We exclusively report that TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance is assembling computer power with high end Nvidia chips outside China to fuel its ambition of becoming becoming a global AI leader. People familiar with the matter say ByteDance is working with a company called Aolani Cloud to assemble about 500 of Nvidia's Blackwell Computing Systems in Malaysia. Some of the people said ByteDance plans to use the computing power for AI research and development outside China as well as to meet rising demand for AI from its customers around the globe. An Aolani spokesman said the company fully adheres to all applicable export control regulations. An Nvidia spokesman said export rules allow clouds to be built and operated outside controlled countries like China. FedEx is developing AI agents to work alongside its human workforce, integrating AI further into its business operations. The shipping giant already uses AI in software development, but plans to drive AI agents into areas such as network planning and business processes. FedEx plans to integrate AI into more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028. And Adobe says its longtime CEO will step down after it finds a new leader for the AI era. Shantanu Narayan led the software company for 18 years and oversaw the integration of AI tools into products like Photoshop and Premiere. But the company has struggled to convince investors it can outpace AI's industry wide disruptions. Adobe posted higher quarterly sales yesterday, but failed to impress Wall street with its AI driven revenue. In a letter to employees, Narayan said he will remain involved with the company through the transition as chair of the and will help Adobe search for his successor. And that's your TNB Tech Minute. We'll be back this afternoon with more
Magda Petwarden (2:09)
how can enterprise security leaders protect AI PCs? Here again is AMD's Magna Petwarden.
Magda Petwarden (2:14)
You have to think about security as foundational and not something that comes after the fact and that has to be anchored in hardware. Hardware protecting software is more superior from a security strategy perspective and creates sort of an immutable trust even before the operating system drivers and AI models ever. These protections really create the root of trust for AI enabled workloads so that they can confidently run, and as AI moves onto the device, then the more sensitive data and decision making shifts closer to the hardware, and that means that software only is no longer sufficient.