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11 Apr 2025
DARPA quantum computing benchmark test seeks 'utility scale'
DARPA aims to evaluate up to 20 vendors -- from startups to large tech companies -- using a benchmarking framework that spans multiple types of quantum computing.
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11 Apr 2025
GenAI vendor Writer releases agentic platform for business
The platform is geared for business users, the vendor's primary targets. However, it must compete with bigger tech companies' agentic tools.
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11 Apr 2025
OCR settlement: Cracking down on HIPAA risk analysis gaps
Northeast Radiology paid $350,000 and agreed to implement a corrective action plan to resolve OCR's sixth enforcement action under its HIPAA risk analysis initiative.
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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22 Nov 2024
Indoor 6G trial shows major throughput gain
Trial of indoor communications shows AI propels 6G throughput by 6-16% and stationary tests conducted at 25 points along a test route confirm 18% improvement
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22 Nov 2024
Deloitte: GenAI paving the way for transformative future for comms
Annual report into prospects for global technology, media and telecommunications industry paints a challenging picture as GenAI reshapes limits of comms tech and aggregation comes to streaming
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22 Nov 2024
Qlik expands cloud footprint to India
The data analytics and business intelligence software supplier is bolstering its presence in Asia-Pacific with a cloud region in India
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22 Nov 2024
IT and business leaders face big gap in understanding of data priorities
There appears to be a gap between what business leaders want to do with artificial intelligence and the IT capabilities of their organisation
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21 Nov 2024
Networks lagging in compute tech evolution, says HPE
As AI brings about unprecedented transformation, leading network firm plots course to offer viable infrastructure for businesses to gain competitive edge
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21 Nov 2024
Nvidia Blackwell GPU production ramps up amid revenue surge
Nvidia's Blackwell GPU production is 'full steam' ahead as revenue surges with AI demand.
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21 Nov 2024
Nvidia CEO talks up AI post-training, test learning and gigawatts
The company’s datacentre business continues to skyrocket as demand for artificial intelligence accelerates
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21 Nov 2024
Grab taps GPT-4o to improve mapping service
Regional ride-hailing giant and super app Grab is leveraging OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to build hyperlocal, dynamic maps, cutting costs and boosting accuracy
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20 Nov 2024
Meta aims at enterprises with hire of ex-Salesforce AI exec
The social media giant has found success with its Llama family of GenAI models. The new hire shows it is targeting enterprise products.
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20 Nov 2024
Snowflake partners with Anthropic to improve AI development
The alliance aims to make it easier and faster for the data cloud vendor's customers to use the Claude line of large language models when developing advanced applications.
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20 Nov 2024
Government issues strategic priorities for online safety regulator Ofcom
Technology secretary Peter Kyle sets out the government’s strategic priorities for how Ofcom should approach regulating online safety, including embedding safety by design and supporting innovation in technologies to help protect people online
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20 Nov 2024
Digital Catapult hails shared infrastructure as route to decarbonisation for logistics sector
Digital Catapult has opened up about the success it has seen with using shared digital infrastructure to help the transport-logistics sector work more collaboratively to cut carbon emissions
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20 Nov 2024
Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months
If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella
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19 Nov 2024
AI readiness stalls in APAC
Despite significant investment in AI, only 15% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are ready to deploy the technology today, according to Cisco’s latest regional AI readiness survey
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19 Nov 2024
Microsoft intros Azure AI Foundry for building AI apps
The new rebranded platform lets enterprises build generative AI applications and agents.
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19 Nov 2024
With new Fabric features, Microsoft aims at AI development
New data management and analytics suite features include databases and a data catalog to enable enterprises to develop and operationalize advanced applications.
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19 Nov 2024
CMA clears Google over Anthropic partnership
The UK competition watchdog has finished its initial investigation into Google’s partnership with Anthropic, with no follow-up on the cards
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19 Nov 2024
Interview: Raymond Boyle, vice-president of data and analytics, Hyatt Hotels
Data culture is a key focus for the strategy at the global hotel chain, especially as AI opens up new opportunities to drive personalisation and trust with customers
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19 Nov 2024
New Microsoft 365 Copilot AI agents focus on productivity
New AI agents include a meeting facilitator to take notes, a project manager and an interpreter.
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19 Nov 2024
UK government seeks AI innovators to support clean energy transition and pursuit of net zero by 2050
The UK government has launched the second round of the Manchester Prize, which is geared towards using artificial intelligence technologies to assist with the clean energy transition
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18 Nov 2024
How banks are navigating the AI landscape
Industry experts discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in banking, while addressing the challenges and governance implications of integrating AI into financial services
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18 Nov 2024
Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer
Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this
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18 Nov 2024
Denmark’s AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance
Research reveals the automated tools used to flag individuals for benefit fraud violate individuals’ privacy and risk discriminating against marginalised groups
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15 Nov 2024
AMD layoffs follow AI job trend
AMD joins other tech companies in using layoffs to make room for AI talent.
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15 Nov 2024
CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024
Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates
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15 Nov 2024
Nvidia, SoftBank claim AI, 5G telecom pilot first
AI processor leader joins Japanese telco on AI Aerial platform for outdoor pilot of what is said to be world’s first combined AI and 5G network
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15 Nov 2024
Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia
Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models
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14 Nov 2024
Alteryx adds tools for cloud, hybrid analytics deployments
The vendor's update includes new data preparation and blending tools, improved interoperability with data warehouses and the preview of AI-powered insight generation capabilities.
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14 Nov 2024
CallMiner CEO talks generative AI, conversational intelligence
When everyone's contact center now has a CX platform, specialists like CallMiner have to make implementation more straightforward for users, said CEO and founder Jeff Gallino.
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14 Nov 2024
A fifth of new PCs shipped in Q3 were AI-optimised
PC manufacturers are working hard to showcase the benefits of premium devices that use neural processing units to deliver on-device AI acceleration
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14 Nov 2024
MPs hold first ever debate on live facial recognition
MPs have held an open debate on police use of live facial recognition technology for the first time since it was initially deployed by the Met Police in August 2016
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14 Nov 2024
Monte Carlo adds more GenAI to data observability platform
The vendor's latest update features an LLM-powered tool that delivers recommendations for developing data quality monitors along with a DataOps dashboard and new integrations.
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14 Nov 2024
Microsoft ramps up small language model effort
Microsoft is working with several industry sector specialist software providers to bring industry-specific AI models to its Azure AI platform
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13 Nov 2024
Zendesk adds a twist to AI outcomes-based CX pricing
Zendesk's dynamic pricing adds flexibility to subscriptions and outcomes-based pricing.
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13 Nov 2024
DataRobot aims to tackle GenAI problem with enterprise suite
The AI and machine learning vendor's new platform provides customizable applications and agents to help enterprises profit from their GenAI investment.
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13 Nov 2024
Google Learn About AI tool could fail to hit the target
While the new tool is geared toward professors, students and researchers, it may still fail to stand up to popular chatbots like ChatGPT. The tool also remains prone to hallucinations.
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13 Nov 2024
Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning
The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs
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13 Nov 2024
ThoughtSpot AI agent Spotter enables conversational BI
The analytics vendor's new tool not only enables users to converse with data using natural language, but also has contextual awareness and autonomously makes suggestions.
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13 Nov 2024
Even AI laggards can see triple return on investment
A study from IDC shows that those businesses that have an aligned AI strategy can achieve accelerated benefits
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13 Nov 2024
Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts
There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge
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12 Nov 2024
OpenShift AI boosts LLMOps chops with Neural Magic deal
The acquisition of a top contributor to an open source library already linked to OpenShift AI comes as LLMOps fundamentally alters the platform engineering scene.
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12 Nov 2024
SAS acquires synthetic data generator to aid AI development
The longtime analytics vendor plans to fold the intellectual property of Hazy into its existing synthetic data generation capabilities to help customers safely build AI tools.
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12 Nov 2024
Snowflake unveils AI development, security capabilities
The vendor's latest includes additions to Cortex AI that simplify developing conversational AI tools and new security measures after its environment was infiltrated in May.
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08 Nov 2024
Google's Looker taking an agentic approach to generative AI
The analytics vendor aims to help customers develop agents, built on a foundation of trusted data, that enable deep analysis and relieve users of time-consuming tasks.
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08 Nov 2024
What the election of former President Trump means for AI
Once in power, Donald Trump will likely cut or dilute the Biden administration's executive order on AI. Trump's relationship with Elon Musk could also affect technology policy.
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08 Nov 2024
CHIPS Act expected to survive, change under Trump
Changes to the Biden administration's application guidelines for the CHIPS Act, some of which Republicans fought against, are likely.
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07 Nov 2024
Trump plans to repeal Biden order, limit AI regulation
Donald Trump might want less regulation, but he has close ties to tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has supported AI regulation, including California's AI safety bill.
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07 Nov 2024
AI a force multiplier for the bad guys, say cyber pros
CIISec’s annual report on the security profession finds evidence of growing concern that artificial intelligence will ultimately prove more useful to threat actors than defenders
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07 Nov 2024
Interview: Petra Molnar, author of ‘The walls have eyes’
Refugee lawyer and author Petra Molnar speaks to Computer Weekly about the extreme violence people on the move face at borders across the world, and how increasingly hostile anti-immigrant politics is being enabled and reinforced by a ‘lucrative panopticon’ of surveillance technologies
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06 Nov 2024
Snowflake brings AI to data for Australian businesses
At the Sydney leg of the Snowflake World Tour, the company showcased how its platform simplifies data management, reduces costs and drives AI adoption for Australian businesses
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06 Nov 2024
UK government launches AI assurance platform for enterprises
The platform is designed to drive demand for the UK’s artificial intelligence assurance sector and help build greater trust in the technology by helping businesses identify and mitigate a range of AI-related risks
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06 Nov 2024
Lords shoplifting inquiry calls for facial recognition laws
A Lords committee has expressed concern about the use of facial recognition technology by retailers to combat shoplifting, and is calling on the government to introduce new laws to ensure there are minimum standards for their deployments
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06 Nov 2024
How enterprises can ride the AI coding wave
GovTech leader urges developers to prioritise value, security and compliance when implementing AI coding tools in enterprise environments
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05 Nov 2024
Gartner Symposium: IT leaders urged to do reps like Arnie
Terminator film star shares lessons from his life experiences to help IT leaders succeed
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05 Nov 2024
Gartner Symposium: Why ServiceNow wants to be seen as the AI platform for business transformation
We report on how a deal between ServiceNow and Rimini Street may offer IT leaders an alternative route to enterprise AI
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05 Nov 2024
HCLTech to open AI lab in Singapore
The new facility in Singapore will be the latest in HCLTech’s network of global AI labs set up to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence applications and build local talent
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04 Nov 2024
Gartner: Avoid AI project money pit
Artificial intelligence project costs can quickly escalate, so IT leaders need to focus on the business objectives and invest appropriately
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04 Nov 2024
How AI is impacting global connectivity
Jürgen Hatheier, international CTO of Ciena, discusses the role of connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence and how the company is helping service providers navigate this transformative period
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01 Nov 2024
Intel beats expectations, but AI chip Gaudi disappoints
The overall uptake of Gaudi has been slower than the company anticipated.
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01 Nov 2024
OpenAI aims at a new market with ChatGPT search
OpenAI introduces new capability in its AI Chatbot. While the vendor has gained favor and popularity with its chatbot, it has had problems maintaining the trust of users.
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31 Oct 2024
Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers
During the earnings call for the company’s latest quarterly results, CFO Susan Li said Meta would be investing in GPU servers
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31 Oct 2024
AI becomes Microsoft’s fastest-growing business
Artificial intelligence has delivered $10bn to Microsoft’s bottom line, but the business is not in cloud GPUs for third-party inference engines
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31 Oct 2024
Interview: Niall Robinson, head of product innovation, Met Office
Weather and climate data is hugely valuable to government and businesses – and the Met Office is finding ways to innovate with data to deliver improved products and services
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30 Oct 2024
Autumn Budget 2024: Chancellor emphasises importance of tech for UK growth
In her first budget, Rachel Reeves reiterated the vital role of technology in delivering economic growth and improving productivity and efficiency in public services
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30 Oct 2024
Interview: James Fleming, CIO, Francis Crick Institute
Helping to cure cancer with computers puts digital leadership on another level – and the world-leading research institute is turning to data science and artificial intelligence to achieve its groundbreaking goals
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30 Oct 2024
Interview: Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI, Tripadvisor
The travel website generates huge amounts of data – as a result, artificial intelligence offers equally huge opportunities for the business and its customers
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30 Oct 2024
GM's automated recruiting goal: From 60 days to 60 minutes
General Motors is using an AI-enabled chatbot to handle tedious work in vetting candidates for recruiters. A big assist comes from automated scheduling.
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30 Oct 2024
Thai Airways gains altitude with AI-native networking platform
Leading Asian airline engages artificial intelligence-native networking company to modernise its network infrastructure at Thai headquarters by deploying platform to deliver measurable and secure wired and wireless services
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30 Oct 2024
Alphabet results reveal extent of AI-powered programming
The parent company of Google is using its Gemini generative artificial intelligence tool to code a quarter of new software development initiatives
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30 Oct 2024
Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access
Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets
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30 Oct 2024
How Formula One works with AWS to drive data insights
We speak to Formula One's lead cloud architect, Ryan Kirk, and AWS about a partnership that strives to deliver data for greater fan engagement
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30 Oct 2024
How FPT Software is expanding its footprint in APAC
Vietnamese IT giant is experiencing rapid growth in the region, driven by its diverse workforce, focus on key technologies and ability to navigate a highly competitive IT services market
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29 Oct 2024
Meta joins others reinventing search with AI
The social media giant has joined other vendors that are trying to reinvent search after the popularization of ChatGPT. The vendors want to challenge Google's position.
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29 Oct 2024
Cisco launches integrated AI infrastructure 'Pods'
In addition to Pods, Cisco launched its first UCS server dedicated to running AI workloads on GPUs.
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29 Oct 2024
The causes of disillusionment with GenAI
The market has seen virtually unprecedented growth. However, enterprises lack confidence in what the technology can do. Nevertheless, enterprises still want to use it.
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29 Oct 2024
Will.i.am talks AI in music, business and life
As AI becomes more pervasive in music, business and life, the former Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur wonders where it's all going.
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29 Oct 2024
Pegasystems expands generative AI in CX, BPA cloud platform
The company's new 'coaches' aim to make AI-powered customer service responses sound less automated.
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28 Oct 2024
Tokyo University of Science sets pace in neural networks on edge IoT
Researchers in educational establishment propose a novel magnetic random access memory-based architecture that uses spintronics to realise smaller, more efficient AI-capable circuits for internet of things
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28 Oct 2024
Inside Google Cloud’s secure AI framework
Google Cloud’s secure AI framework that’s integrated into its Vertex AI platform offers practical tools and guidance to manage the lifecycle, data governance and operational risks of AI
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28 Oct 2024
How Manulife is empowering sales and call centre agents with AI
Canadian insurance giant is leveraging generative AI to personalise customer experiences, transform contact centre workflows and automate underwriting processes
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25 Oct 2024
Informatica launches blueprints for developing generative AI
The vendor's new frameworks aim to simplify and speed developing GenAI tools and include data integration and governance capabilities along with connectors and best practices.
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25 Oct 2024
Lords committee warns about risks of the UK losing its EU data adequacy
The UK government must work with the European Commission (EC) to secure a renewal of UK’s two data adequacy statuses, says cross-party Lords committee, in stark warning about impacts of losing the ability to seamlessly exchange citizens’ personal data
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25 Oct 2024
Cisco looks to transform customer experiences with Webex AI Agent
Collaboration and customer technology arm of Cisco automates contact centre inquiries with conversational intelligence to change how businesses interact with and support customers
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24 Oct 2024
Prudential taps AI to improve health insurance experience
Insurance giant Prudential teams up with Google Cloud to streamline claims processing, personalise healthcare journeys and improve health outcomes
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24 Oct 2024
AI drives more Ethernet, everywhere
Study from test and assurance services provider reveals ‘unprecedented’ demand and innovation for what is said to be Ethernet’s biggest transformation in decades
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24 Oct 2024
Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem
Nvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals
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23 Oct 2024
Agentic AI sparks need for more orchestration, oversight
Orchestration all the way down: Experts say multiple levels of autonomous coordination and oversight will guide the near- and mid-term evolution of AI and computing.
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23 Oct 2024
How AI helps junior programmers and senior managers
Many believe artificial intelligence will not replace human software developers but will instead offer a way to help coders deliver software more easily
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23 Oct 2024
ServiceNow touts Now platform as AI engine for transformation
At the ServiceNow World Forum in Melbourne, company executives touted the transformative power of AI in streamlining workflows, improving user experiences and driving business value
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23 Oct 2024
Snapdragon Summit 2024: Qualcomm gains mileage with automotive offer
Qualcomm accelerates automotive offering designed to drive success with leading OEMs such as GM, BMW, Li Auto and Mercedes as cars become new computing space
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22 Oct 2024
Anthropic adds computer use AI tool to Claude
The startup said computer use can let developers automate repetitive tasks, scroll, move a cursor, click buttons and type texts. The function can also help with AI agents.
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22 Oct 2024
Reltio update delivers new AI-powered matching capabilities
The data unification vendor's latest AI tool is a prebuilt customer data matching tool that uses LLMs and machine learning to help users develop more complete customer profiles.
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22 Oct 2024
Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025
After a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese
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21 Oct 2024
IBM launches new generation Granite language model
The vendor takes an open source approach with Granite 3.0. It trained the new model family with Nvidia H100 GPUs. Not all enterprises will be convinced to use the new AI models.
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21 Oct 2024
Labour signs up to five years of Microsoft AI
The UK government has signed a deal with Microsoft to reduce the cost of running public sector services using the supplier’s cloud and artificial intelligence technologies
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21 Oct 2024
Techcombank’s tech investments set to fuel record profit
The Vietnam bank is targeting $1bn in profit in 2024 while maintaining a flat headcount and reducing physical branches, thanks to its investments in artificial intelligence and a data engine
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21 Oct 2024
Can AI be secure? Experts discuss emerging threats and AI safety
International cyber security experts call for global cooperation and proactive strategies to address the security challenges posed by artificial intelligence
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18 Oct 2024
Amplitude adds A/B testing tool to analytics suite
Both the vendor's new feature as well as its recent acquisition of Command AI aim to make it easier for business users to work with its tools without requiring expert help.
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18 Oct 2024
Mistral's new small AI models target phones, laptops
The models are reflective of the trend toward small language models built to run on edge devices. However, it might be hard for the startup to compete.