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26 Jul 2024
Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight
By Eric AvidonThough the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
OpenAI takes on Google with new SearchGPT prototype
By Esther AjaoThe AI engine will provide users with information from the web. The AI vendor is working with publishers such as Newsmax. It will incorporate some features in ChatGPT.
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18 Mar 2024
Liverpool to get AI hub for health and social care
By Lis EvenstadArtificial intelligence platform set to use NHS Integrated Care System Data to make better and decisions for patients in Liverpool, with a focus on mental health services
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18 Mar 2024
G7 nations sign deal to harness AI potential
By Lis EvenstadG7 nations will produce a joint report on how to increase artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, boost growth of the quantum sector and create an AI toolkit to inform policy-making
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18 Mar 2024
Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonBenefits of artificial intelligence in public sector will only be realised if government ensures overall programme for adoption is supported by realistic plan to tackle range of longstanding barriers
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17 Mar 2024
UK’s AI ambitions pointless while cyber security is still neglected
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s AI ambitions may be at considerable risk without stronger cyber defences across the private and public sectors
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15 Mar 2024
NHS to extend use of AI to cut waiting times and missed appointments
By Lis EvenstadFollowing a pilot of AI software predicting likely missed appointments at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, 10 further trusts will deploy the system
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15 Mar 2024
Government pumps £1.1bn into tech skills training
By Lis EvenstadGovernment funding will be used to allow more than 4,000 students to pursue PhDs in technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 6G
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14 Mar 2024
Home Office plans to give UK police forces auto-redaction technology
By Lis EvenstadThe department has funded a market review of redaction tools and aims to deliver AI-powered automated redaction tools to the police as quickly as possible
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14 Mar 2024
Oracle adds generative AI tools to Fusion CX applications
By Don FluckingerThe new tools are among 50 generative AI features Oracle released for several Fusion applications, from CX to HR and supply chain.
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13 Mar 2024
Cerebras introduces next-gen AI chip for GenAI training
By Esther AjaoThe new accelerator is for training large AI models. It powers the startup's CS-3 supercomputer, which is designed to train models that are 10 times larger than GPT-4 and Gemini.
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13 Mar 2024
Zendesk to acquire AI customer service bot startup Ultimate
By Don FluckingerZendesk continues its acquisition spree with plans to buy partner Ultimate, making way for more straightforward integration of virtual agents.
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13 Mar 2024
EU AI Act sets global standard for managing AI
By Makenzie HollandThe EU AI Act will come into force in 2024, meaning that global enterprise businesses will need to take steps toward compliance.
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13 Mar 2024
Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April
By Alex ScroxtonAfter a year being previewed by beta customers, Microsoft’s much vaunted Copilot for Security service is about to go on general release, promising time savings and improved accuracy for hard-pressed security pros
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13 Mar 2024
Dataiku intros GenAI cost monitoring tool: LLM Cost Guard
By Esther AjaoThe tool lets customers be provider-agnostic and can integrate with models from providers like OpenAI, AWS and Anthropic. It watches for overruns and differentiates between costs.
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13 Mar 2024
AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne
By Stephen WithersThe Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment
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12 Mar 2024
Meta intros two GPU training clusters for Llama 3
By Esther AjaoThe Facebook parent company said the training clusters are part of its plans to grow its infrastructure and obtain 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year.
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12 Mar 2024
Cohere tackles some generative AI challenges with Command-R
By Esther AjaoThe startup's new large language model aims to address problems with factual accuracies in generative AI models. It also focuses on language problems, and cloud and API challenges.
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12 Mar 2024
Labour will use AI to grow the economy by 0.5%, says shadow tech secretary Peter Kyle
By Bill GoodwinThe Labour Party plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in small businesses and across government to grow the economy, but transparency and building trust with the public will be key
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12 Mar 2024
Industry partnerships and data key to better public services
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUsing public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan
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12 Mar 2024
UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration
By Cliff SaranDeclaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech
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12 Mar 2024
Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads
By Antony AdsheadSoftware-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS
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12 Mar 2024
Digitally transforming government: MoJ and GDS on using mobile devices and GenAI to help people
By Caroline DonnellyDuring a fireside chat at the Tech Show London, GDS CEO Tom Read and the Ministry of Justice CDIO Gina Gill swapped stories on how their teams are using technology to improve the quality of life for citizens
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11 Mar 2024
Elon Musk plans to take xAI chatbot Grok open source
By Esther AjaoThe move comes nearly two weeks after the Tesla owner filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. It also comes as more vendors are providing open source options for enterprise users.
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11 Mar 2024
Salesforce AI a work in progress for customers
By Antone GonsalvesWhile eager to embed AI in Salesforce software, customers acknowledge that planning, time and work are needed to make AI useful in the company's applications.
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11 Mar 2024
Podcast: A look at SambaNova's open source AI strategy
By Esther AjaoDespite sometimes being seen as a direct competitor to Nvidia Systems, the AI hardware and software vendor tries to distinguish itself by focusing on training open source models.
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11 Mar 2024
AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs
By Aaron TanAI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia
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11 Mar 2024
Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise
By Stephen PritchardWhile optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests
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11 Mar 2024
How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services
By Aaron TanMicrosoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector
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07 Mar 2024
Microsoft whistleblower, OpenAI, the NYT, and ethical AI
By Esther AjaoThe vendor has filed a memorandum to dismiss some of the arguments The New York Times made in its copyright lawsuit. However, it now faces criticism from its own software engineer.
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07 Mar 2024
Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach
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07 Mar 2024
BA sets out plan to revamp IT, add AI and update website
By Cliff SaranAirline plans to migrate 700 systems to cloud and run custom version of Teams to support in-flight customer comms with ground staff
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07 Mar 2024
Indian government issues advisory to mitigate AI risks
By Kavitha SrinivasaTech firms will require permission from the government to use and provide under-tested or unreliable AI models and software to Indian users
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07 Mar 2024
HP emphasises AI in partner programme enhancements
By Simon QuickeVendor uses partner event to share details of changes coming in May, and its plans to increase support for partners keen to get involved with artificial intelligence
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06 Mar 2024
Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan
By Bryan GlickIn his 2024 spring budget, Jeremy Hunt announced funding to use tech to improve productivity across the public sector, with most of the cash focused on digital initiatives in the NHS
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06 Mar 2024
Nation states buying hacking tools from underground Russian cyber forums
By Bill GoodwinState-sponsored hacking groups, posing as hacktivists, are using Russian cyber crime forums to stock up on cyber weapons, says Check Point Software’s threat analyst, Sergey Shykevich
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06 Mar 2024
Salesforce users empowered to build no-code Einstein Copilots
By Don FluckingerSalesforce admins and developers can build custom generative AI assistants for workflows across the platform for sales, service, marketing and e-commerce.
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05 Mar 2024
Box AI adds Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service integration
By Don FluckingerBox adds Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to its lineup of AI tools for document summaries, joining Google's Vertex and OpenAI LLMs for users to choose from.
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05 Mar 2024
Open letter promising better AI for the future lacks action
By Esther AjaoThe letter initiated by venture capitalist Ron Conway and his investment firm SV Angel was signed by OpenAI and Google. It pledges a better future and benefits from the technology.
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05 Mar 2024
Derby City Council extends AI project with multi-million deal after saving £200,000 with chatbots
By Steve RangerFollowing on from the success of its initial pilot project using artificial intelligence, Derby City Council claims to have found 54 other ways the technology can save it money
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05 Mar 2024
AI-acceleration deployments curbed by datacentre design considerations
By Cliff SaranIn addition to a shortage of GPUs for AI-optimised servers, IT leaders need to consider how well their datacentre power and cooling will cope with artificial intelligence workloads
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05 Mar 2024
How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms
By Aaron TanThe Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency
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04 Mar 2024
What's next for Salesforce Einstein AI and Data Cloud
By Don FluckingerWhat's next for Salesforce as it builds Data Cloud and integrates it with Einstein AI? EVP and GM of both, Rahul Auradkar, explains what to expect.
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04 Mar 2024
AI race surges as Anthropic intros Claude 3
By Esther AjaoThe new models have a larger context window and multimodal capabilities. They reflect the new level of normal in generative AI and the myriad model choices for enterprises.
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04 Mar 2024
How ANZ organisations can address challenges in AI adoption
By Stephen WithersPure Storage's global CTO Alex McMullan discusses the data and sustainability challenges in artificial intelligence adoption, which can be addressed by centralising datasets and focusing on data quality and management
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01 Mar 2024
Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, OpenAI for breach of contract
By Esther AjaoThe owner of X argues that OpenAI's CEO and Greg Brockman breached the original agreement the AI company was founded on through its partnership with Microsoft and release of GPT-4.
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01 Mar 2024
Google Cloud puts AI at centre of data analytics plans
By Stephen PritchardArtificial intelligence will bridge the gap between structured and unstructured data, predicts Google Cloud’s Gerrit Kazmaier
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01 Mar 2024
IT leaders focus on enterprise software to drive cost savings
By Cliff SaranERP and supply chain software are among the big-ticket investment areas in 2024, and managing these projects is a top priority
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01 Mar 2024
APAC firms bullish on IT spending
By Aaron TanMore than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region
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29 Feb 2024
H2O.ai releases small language model: H2O-Danube-1.8B
By Esther AjaoThe new model comes as the generative market continues to see the emergence of small language models. The models provide enterprises with better privacy and data controls.
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29 Feb 2024
Collibra adds AI governance to data management platform
By Eric AvidonThe data management vendor's new suite adds capabilities aimed at enabling enterprises to safely and securely use AI the same way data governance frameworks apply to data.
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29 Feb 2024
Government sets out research plans for 2024
By Lis EvenstadDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology highlights cyber security, artificial intelligence and telecoms as areas where it would like to build evidence and bridge knowledge gaps in current research
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28 Feb 2024
Intel, Nvidia aim latest systems-on-a-chip at AI workstations
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's RTX 500 and RTX 1000 GPUs are for the lightest mobile workstations. Intel's Core Ultra with a built-in GPU can handle many AI-powered tasks on the workhorse computers.
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28 Feb 2024
Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration
By Marc Ambasna-JonesMicrosoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI
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28 Feb 2024
SambaNova Systems intros Samba-1 generative AI model
By Esther AjaoThe new model is aimed at enterprises wanting to use generative models without compromising privacy. It also uses the best open source model for a given application.
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27 Feb 2024
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
By Aaron TanTeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories
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27 Feb 2024
Executive interview: David Wong, Thomson Reuters
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the chief product officer of Thomson Reuters about working with artificial intelligence and embedding Microsoft Copilot for Word
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27 Feb 2024
Managers want generative AI, but workers need more help getting to grips with it
By Steve RangerStaff given artificial intelligence guidelines are more likely to experiment with the technology than those who are given none, according to a survey
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft president commits to Azure open platform for AI
By Cliff SaranBrad Smith sets out Microsoft’s ambitions to make Azure the best platform to host foundational AI models, and train and run AI applications
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27 Feb 2024
Global telcos team up on large language models
By Aaron TanGlobal Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain
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26 Feb 2024
Microsoft allies with OpenAI rival Mistral AI
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant is investing in the open source startup. The partnership means Mistral's premium models, including its new model, Mistral Large, will be available on Azure.
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26 Feb 2024
Podcast: 2024 the year of ROI for generative AI
By Shaun SutnerGenerative AI technologies are proliferating rapidly, but vendors and investors are looking to monetize AI models, a pivot from last year's innovative frenzy.
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23 Feb 2024
Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel
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22 Feb 2024
Stability AI adopts new architecture in Stable Diffusion 3
By Esther AjaoThe new version of the image model uses a different architecture than previous versions. It comes in different sizes and has better spelling capabilities.
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22 Feb 2024
Intel Foundry launches as enterprise AI surges
By Antone GonsalvesIf the trend continues, enterprises will need more AI chip suppliers to help stabilize prices and meet the demand for AI processing at the edge and the data center, experts said.
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22 Feb 2024
Tableau launches Pulse, a GenAI-fueled insight generator
By Eric AvidonThe tool, which monitors data for metric changes and uses natural language to alert users, is the longtime analytics vendor's first generally available GenAI capability.
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22 Feb 2024
AI vendor finds opportunity amid AI computing problem
By Esther AjaoThe GPU cloud provider recently raised $320 million. It has found an opportunity as more enterprises seek to run generative models and the demand for infrastructure is high.
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22 Feb 2024
Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’
By Cliff SaranJensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia
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21 Feb 2024
Google releases new family of open models: Gemma
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider's new models compete with Meta's Llama 2 open source model. Google incorporates responsible AI standards that should appeal to enterprises.
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21 Feb 2024
Taste intelligence and AI vendor raises $25 million
By Esther AjaoQloo raised $25 million in series C funding. Using machine learning, the vendor helps customers predict consumer tastes and makes it actionable through an API.
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20 Feb 2024
Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’
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20 Feb 2024
Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio
By Aaron TanAlibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models
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19 Feb 2024
Cradlepoint embedded IoT connects AI-driven sustainable intelligent waste system
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration shows how cellular-connected artificial intelligence can support environmental sustainability through secure, scalable IoT connectivity that merges cellular technology with AI for optimal waste diversion and profitability
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18 Feb 2024
Singapore to invest S$1bn in AI over five years
By Aaron TanThe funding will go towards compute, talent, and industry development to support Singapore’s national AI strategy
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16 Feb 2024
Government awards £10m to medtech developers
By Lis EvenstadThe government has awarded £10m to eight technology companies to create innovative medical devices and bring them to market
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16 Feb 2024
Green IT: How Google’s cloud and AI tools are supporting a methane-tracking satellite project
By Steve RangerCloud and AI will help to analyse data from MethaneSAT, due to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March 2024
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16 Feb 2024
Google claims AI advances with Gemini LLM
By Cliff SaranCode analysis, understanding large volumes of text and translating a language by learning from one read of a book are among the breakthroughs of Gemini 1.5
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15 Feb 2024
OpenAI intros text-to-video model Sora, challenges rivals
By Esther AjaoSora can generate video from text. OpenAI is red teaming the technology and admits it has some weaknesses. The release is a natural progression of the vendor's GenAI technology.
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15 Feb 2024
Declining revenues lead to 4,000 job cuts at Cisco
By Antone GonsalvesA 12% drop in networking revenue contributed to the company's overall revenue decline and its decision to cut 5% of its workforce.
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15 Feb 2024
Google updates AI model Gemini, adds 1M context window
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider's 1.5 Pro model has the largest context window seen in the market. Despite its innovation, it still needs to show the applicability of its model for enterprises.
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15 Feb 2024
Startup intros new platform for AI inferencing at the edge
By Esther AjaoThe platform delivers 5G and GPU-based micro clouds to specific locations. It's for enterprises that want an on-premises deployment without having to own the physical data center.
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15 Feb 2024
Alan Turing Institute hits ‘key milestone’ in AI strategy
By Steve RangerThe Alan Turing Institute reaffirms its commitment to addressing “grand challenges” in health, environment and security with the appointment of four new directors
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14 Feb 2024
Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT
By Alex ScroxtonThreat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack
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13 Feb 2024
How DBS is industrialising AI across its business
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank
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13 Feb 2024
Otter.ai rolls out cross-platform Meeting GenAI
By Esther AjaoThe vendor's new tools will appeal to users who access the application across different meeting platforms. However, it could face resistance from companies that use one platform.
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13 Feb 2024
Pega GenAI Blueprint aims at application design processes
By Esther AjaoWhile the vendor's use of the technology is similar to others in the low-code market, its focus on design differentiates it. The platform enables collaboration.
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13 Feb 2024
Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI
By Marc Ambasna-JonesIs Oracle’s Fusion GenAI leap a bandwagon move or will it add real power to boost customer happiness?
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09 Feb 2024
Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police
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08 Feb 2024
Google turns Bard AI into Gemini, launches Gemini Advanced
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant gave Bard a new name and introduced users to Ultra 1.0 through a new mobile app. It revealed changes to Duet AI and Cloud.
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08 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Sandy Venugopal, SentinelOne
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the former CIO of Uber and LinkedIn, current CIO of SentinelOne, about how artificial intelligence should be deployed in business
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08 Feb 2024
Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence
By Pat BransIT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use
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07 Feb 2024
Latest Cisco products show measured approach to AI
By Antone GonsalvesCisco has launched a SaaS product for applying policy controls to AI model-bound data and an Nvidia partnership to bolster Cisco UCS servers for AI at the edge and data centers.
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07 Feb 2024
Government reaffirms commitment to hold off on AI laws
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government reaffirming its commitment hold off on artificial intelligence legislation has been received positively by industry for balancing innovation and safety
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06 Feb 2024
Meta will label AI-generated images on social platforms
By Esther AjaoThe social media giant's decision to label AI-generated content is a good first step, some observers say, but does not eradicate the problem of disinformation in an election year.
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06 Feb 2024
UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence
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06 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet
By Bryan GlickThe short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud
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05 Feb 2024
What’s standing in the way of the UK being an AI superpower?
By Steve RangerArtificial intelligence (AI) could bring a big economic boost to the UK, says report, but there are still barriers to overcome
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02 Feb 2024
Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence
By Cliff SaranMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year
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01 Feb 2024
AI: House of Lords focuses on copyright and transparency
By Cliff SaranLarge language models promise to boost UK productivity, but the tech needs greater scrutiny and questions remain over intellectual property
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01 Feb 2024
Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWorkers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics
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01 Feb 2024
UK government signs AI, science and innovation deals with Canada
By Lis EvenstadThe agreements will see the two countries collaborate on AI compute – a development component of artificial intelligence – and work together on technology innovations such as quantum and semiconductors
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31 Jan 2024
Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push
By Aaron TanSingtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia