Fujitsu

• Issues like climate change, geopolitical tensions, and financial market turmoil pose ongoing challenges to businesses as well as people's livelihoods and well-being.
• While many seek to resolve these issues through a growing commitment to sustainability, these solutions also offer many opportunities for new business.
• The "Fujitsu Technology and Service Vision 2023" provides concrete recommendations on how to integrate sustainability and business, the impact of the evolution of technology on business and society, and what actions companies should take to ensure a more sustainable future for humanity.
• Under these circumstances, leader companies which implement sustainability strategies and produce results are promoting initiatives to integrate sustainability with business.

• Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN are undertaking an initiative to this end that will focus on research and development toward distributed training of LLMs.
• The technology used in this initiative will allow the organizations to efficiently perform large-scale language model training on the large-scale parallel computing environment of the supercomputer Fugaku.
• Leveraging the insights gained from deep learning from Japanese natural language processing developed at Tohoku University, we will construct large-scale models.
• Distributed Training of Large Language Models on Fugaku (Project Number: hp230254)
  Neural networks with hundreds of millions to billions of parameters that have been pre-learned using large amounts of data.

• The Post Office scandal involves miscarriages of justice involving hundreds of innocent people who were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting.
• It has been going on for over 20 years, with the Post Office accused of a cover up after it repeatedly failed to disclose key evidence.

Horizon

• The Post Office used Horizon evidence to take punitive action against subpostmasters and employees, including suspensions, termination of contracts and criminal prosecutions.
• As problems with Horizon began to emerge, rather than admit them, the Post Office defended its IT system, doubling down and holding the line that Horizon was “robust”.
• Requests for information about the reliability of Horizon by subpostmasters facing criminal prosecution were denied by Post Office lawyers.

Disclosure failings

• The Court of Appeal’s judgment in 2021 built on findings in a High Court case in 2019, where the failings of Horizon were exposed.
• Disclosure failings persisted throughout the criminal prosecutions, during the High Court case and during the criminal appeals.
• Recent developments at the long fought-for Post Office Horizon IT inquiry reveal the Post Office’s ongoing difficulties with disclosure.
• Inquiry Chair, Sir Wynn Williams, has recently referred to the Post Office’s “grossly unsatisfactory disclosure failings”, and further requests for documents from the Post Office will now be made under threat of criminal sanction for non-compliance.
• Disclosure failings continue and the provision of compensation to subpostmasters has been unduly slow.

• Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the appointment of Andrew Brown as senior vice president and chief revenue officer.
• Stack will work alongside Brown through Q3 to facilitate a smooth leadership transition, before joining IBM in a senior advisor role.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230803856764/en/
  Red Hat Appoints Andrew Brown as Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
  “Red Hat has an enormous opportunity to fuel hybrid cloud transformation globally, but this requires seamlessly integrating our product vision with our sales approach,” Shared Matt Hicks, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat.
• I am hugely excited about joining this unique organization and working with our customer-facing teams to innovate, collaborate and scale the hybrid cloud solutions Red Hat possesses in its open source platform approach.”
  Stack most recently served as executive vice president and chief revenue officer for Red Hat.