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17 Jan 2025
CMS releases final ACA marketplace payment notice for 2026
By Kelsey WaddillThe 2026 updates to the ACA marketplace include calculation updates for risk adjustment, slight changes to cost-sharing reduction loading practices and more.
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17 Jan 2025
Treasury Department sanctions company tied to Salt Typhoon
By Arielle WaldmanThe sanctions were in response to significant cyberattacks by Chinese nation-state threat groups against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure in recent months.
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17 Jan 2025
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
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13 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Labour promises to boost digital infrastructure
By Bryan GlickThe Labour Party manifesto for the UK general election promises a new industrial strategy and an overhaul of planning rules to help support the digital and tech sector
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13 Jun 2024
AI’s environmental cost could outweigh sustainability benefits
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonArtificial intelligence can help organisations manage and mitigate their environmental impacts in a number of ways, but the highly polluting nature of the technology could outweigh its other sustainability benefits if not dealt with
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12 Jun 2024
New Databricks tools target AI quality, cost and security
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest features aim to help customers improve model accuracy by securely developing compound systems that include multiple language models and RAG pipelines.
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12 Jun 2024
Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders
By Steve RangerAmazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code
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11 Jun 2024
Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption
By Aaron TanTableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI
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11 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies
By Bryan GlickThe Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government
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11 Jun 2024
Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI
By Cliff SaranAt its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware
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11 Jun 2024
CDO interview: Sophie Gallay, global data and client IT director, Etam
By Mark SamuelsThe French retailer has some catching up to do on its data strategy and digital transformation – and its new data chief has an ambitious roadmap to deliver on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence
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11 Jun 2024
Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech
By Bryan GlickBritain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology
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10 Jun 2024
Apple Intelligence GenAI, ChatGPT to boost Siri on iPhone, Mac
By Shaun SutnerThe consumer electronics giant finally made its long-anticipated move into generative AI, emphasizing privacy. But most features will only be available on the newest iPhones.
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10 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Liberal Democrats thread digital commitments throughout manifesto
By Bryan GlickThe Lib Dems have promised a new industrial strategy and emphasised the importance of the digital sector, skills and regulating AI, as they lay out plans for the UK general election
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10 Jun 2024
AI firms can’t be trusted to voluntarily share risk information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWorkers at frontier AI firms have warned that their employers – including OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic – can’t be trusted to voluntarily share information about their systems capabilities and risks with governments or civil society
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10 Jun 2024
SAP Sapphire 2024: AI in all its forms – but not only AI
By Philippe DucellierSAP talked a lot about artificial intelligence at its big annual event in Orlando. But the supplier has more discreetly addressed other issues closer to the concerns of clients
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10 Jun 2024
Driving customer experience through cloud and AI
By Aaron TanAutodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience
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07 Jun 2024
Businesses face growing patchwork of state AI laws
By Makenzie HollandAs U.S. states like Colorado pass their own AI laws, businesses will need to prepare compliance measures if they do business in those states.
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07 Jun 2024
Juniper Networks claims first with AIOps to WAN routing
By Joe O’HalloranJuniper Networks announces industry leadership with enhancements to cloud-native Mist AI engine for all network domains, claiming to deliver insight for exceptional experiences
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07 Jun 2024
Salesforce boosts London AI scene
By Cliff SaranSaaS pioneer Salesforce has chosen London as the location of its new AI centre, enabling users to test-drive and work on AI-driven business innovation
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07 Jun 2024
Rapid AI development poses supervisory challenges in the Netherlands
By Kim LoohuisIn the Netherlands, the financial regulator and the monetary authority are grappling with the pace of artificial intelligence development and its implications for the financial industry
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06 Jun 2024
Catastrophic AI risks highlight need for whistleblower laws
By Patrick ThibodeauDevelopers want AI-specific laws to protect them if they need to expose potential risks from AI systems. Legal experts say existing whistleblower laws may offer little protection.
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06 Jun 2024
Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next
By Cliff SaranAfter posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects
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05 Jun 2024
HPE takes $4.5bn in enterprise IT AI server orders
By Cliff SaranThe server company is prepping everything for greater enterprise artificial intelligence demand
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05 Jun 2024
Cisco commits to GenAI with HyperFabric, $1B fund
By Antone GonsalvesCisco partners with Nvidia on HyperFabric as customers try to understand how generative AI will help them manage their network infrastructure.
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05 Jun 2024
How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’
By Aaron TanDataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business
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05 Jun 2024
Headless CMS vendor Contentstack integrates generative AI
By Don FluckingerIncorporating consulting services and flexible accommodations for different LLMs, developer-focused Contentstack offers its own take on GenAI for CMS.
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05 Jun 2024
Cisco Live: AI to fuel Cisco mission to connect and protect everything
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant plots future where harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data will allow companies to connect and protect everything across a global network where data is the ultimate differentiator
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04 Jun 2024
AMD, Intel and Nvidia's latest moves in the AI PC chip race
By Bridget BotelhoMajor chip makers used Computex 2024 to launch their aggressive AI chip strategies and stake a claim in the burgeoning AI PC market.
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04 Jun 2024
Vendors struggle to prevent GenAI use in child sexual abuse
By Shaun SutnerMajor large language model and image generation system vendors agree to work on limiting the ability of GenAI technology to create and spread child sexual abuse material.
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04 Jun 2024
Snowflake demonstrates shift to AI with newest features
By Eric AvidonAfter a slow start to building an environment for developing AI applications, the vendor unveils new features that show it is catching up to its peers.
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04 Jun 2024
Cisco gears up to cash in on AI innovation and investments
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant plots out artificial intelligence-powered future within networks to build digital resilience and offer secure visibility, observability and insight across digital footprints, with $1bn global AI investment fund
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04 Jun 2024
Intel launches Xeon 6 for AI data centers
By Antone GonsalvesThis month, Intel will launch the first of its Xeon 6 data center silicon that offers two microarchitectures, one for performance and the other for power efficiency.
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04 Jun 2024
Having female AI decision-makers is a priority for 37% of UK business leaders
By Clare McDonaldResearch from IBM reveals almost 40% of UK business leaders think getting women into decision-making positions is increasingly important in the era of artificial intelligence
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04 Jun 2024
Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI
By Yann SerraOne supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI
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03 Jun 2024
Researchers demonstrate value of AI in predicting heart disease
By Cliff SaranA decade-long study using an AI-based risk score of 40,000 people has shown it’s possible to detect the level of inflammation of heart arteries
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03 Jun 2024
AI Seoul Summit review
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of governments and tech companies attending the second global AI Safety Summit have committed themselves to the safe and inclusive development of the technology, but questions remain around whether the commitments made go far enough
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03 Jun 2024
Uktech50 2024: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadUKtech50 received a record-breaking 434 nominations for the 2024 list. Unfortunately, there wasn’t space for everyone in the top 50, and as you can see for yourself in this year’s longlist, it was a difficult decision for the judges
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31 May 2024
IBM, AI Singapore to bolster Sea-Lion LLM
By Aaron TanIBM will work with AI Singapore on technical exchanges to enhance Sea-Lion and make the region’s first LLM available to data scientists and engineers through its AI use case library
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30 May 2024
Dell exec looks back at history when considering AI's future
By Adam ArmstrongIn this Q&A, Dell's Matt Baker lays out how its AI Factory is designed for faster AI adoption, why there are so many chatbots and how AI might affect the workforce of the future.
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30 May 2024
FWD teams up with AWS on cloud
By Aaron TanThe pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services
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29 May 2024
Storebrand divests from IBM over supply of biometrics to Israel
By Andrew KersleyNorwegian asset manager Storebrand’s decision to divest from IBM comes amid growing scrutiny of the role technology companies play in Israel’s human rights abuses
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29 May 2024
Survey reveals generative AI employee fear
By Cliff SaranIBM/Oxford Economics global CEO survey shows generative AI success relies on employee training and business leader vision
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29 May 2024
Next UK government must be prepared to legislate on AI, say MPs
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe House Science, Innovation and Technology Committee says the next government should be ready to legislate on artificial intelligence to plug any regulatory gaps
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28 May 2024
Executive Interview: Why Dell wants to be your one-stop AI shop
By Alex ScroxtonAt Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was the talk of the town as Dell staked out an all-encompassing strategy ahead of an anticipated goldrush. Dell’s Nick Brackney explains why the tech giant believes it's onto a winner
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28 May 2024
Why reliable data is essential for trustworthy AI
By Stephen PritchardIn little over two years, generative AI has changed the shape of the technology industry. Now is the time for proper due diligence
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26 May 2024
Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI
By Stephen WithersNutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments
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24 May 2024
AI, automation, private networks top UK enterprise tech agenda
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey examining technology agenda for UK enterprises highlights that business priorities over the next 12 months include increasing sales, reducing operating costs, and growth via new business areas or geographies
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24 May 2024
AI set to improve network operational efficiency by 40% or more
By Joe O’HalloranStudy of telecom and IT engineers exploring artificial intelligence’s impact on the network sees almost universal belief in need to upgrade fibre-optic networks to support more AI traffic
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24 May 2024
HMRC boosts data scientist numbers
By Steve RangerData scientists play a key role in boosting tax compliance rates, government tax collection agency states
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24 May 2024
UKtech50 2024: Vote for the most influential person in UK IT
By Lis EvenstadOur judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of more than 400 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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23 May 2024
APAC to gain $4.5tn in economic value from GenAI
By Aaron TanThe region’s largest economies could see a 0.7 percentage point increase in their annual GDP by leveraging generative AI responsibly at scale with a focus on people
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23 May 2024
AI companies losing public trust in safety
By Antone GonsalvesResearchers find that more than half of Americans polled believe AI companies aren't considering ethics when developing the technology, and nearly 90% favor government regulations.
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23 May 2024
Dell AI Factory curates AI tech for customers
By Adam ArmstrongDell showcased its AI Factory at Dell Technologies World 2024, and some early customers are already talking about the lift AI has given their businesses.
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23 May 2024
Munich Re sees strong growth in AI insurance
By Pratima HarigunaniGlobal reinsurance giant Munich Re expects more demand for AI insurance from organisations that are looking to manage the risks of AI as they experiment more with the technology
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22 May 2024
At IBM Think, IT leaders pitch GenAI upskilling for all
By Tim McCarthyIT leaders at IBM Think 2024 say training employees and establishing policies for generative AI adoption are core parts of a strategy to avoid financial and legal hurdles.
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22 May 2024
New IBM Watsonx GenAI focuses on enterprises, governance
By Shaun SutnerThe veteran tech giant, with deep roots in AI, bases its new AI strategy on open source, multimodel support and helping businesses modernize their code and IT operations.
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22 May 2024
Dutch employers should discuss using algorithms in managing staff
By Kim LoohuisDutch organisations must engage in open discussions with employees about the use of algorithms and data in managing staff
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22 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 27 nations and EU to set red lines on AI risk
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe countries will now work together to identify thresholds at which the risks presented by an AI model or system would be unacceptable without safeguards in place, as well as develop interoperable safety testing regimes for the technology
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22 May 2024
Salesforce to roll out marketing, e-commerce Einstein Copilots
By Don FluckingerSalesforce drops a number of new features for commerce and marketing users. Chief among them are generative AI copilots for marketing and e-commerce.
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22 May 2024
UK government announces £8.5m in grants for AI safety research
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe funding programme will be directed by the UK’s AI Safety Institute, with grants being used to understand and mitigate the impacts of artificial intelligence, including any systemic risks it presents at the societal level
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21 May 2024
Microsoft Copilot+ PC faces enterprise challenges
By Antone GonsalvesTo succeed with enterprises, pricing for Copilot+ PC will have to come down for high-volume sales and business software will need to run well on Arm-based systems.
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 10 nations and EU recommit to safe inclusive AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDuring the latest AI Summit in South Korea, the participating governments reaffirmed their prior commitments to deepening international cooperation on AI safety, and have agreed to launch an international network of ‘safety institutes’
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonProminent artificial intelligence companies from around the world have committed to a set of voluntary AI safety measures, which includes developing continuous risk assessment processes, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and ensuring greater transparency
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21 May 2024
IBM moves ahead with open source, multi-model AI strategy
By Shaun SutnerThe 113-year-old tech giant expanded its open source, open ecosystem, multi-model approach with support for more models and updates to its Watsonx generative AI assistants.
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20 May 2024
Dell refines AI factory, expands Nvidia partnership
By Adam ArmstrongThe Dell AI Factory took center stage at Dell Technologies World with new infrastructure additions, a broader AI ecosystem and an expanded partnership with Nvidia.
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20 May 2024
Dell Technologies World: AI at core of Dell’s next chapter
By Alex ScroxtonWith a significant anniversary just passed, Dell CEO Michael Dell was in reflective mood as he looked ahead to the impact of artificial intelligence on the tech giant’s product stack
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20 May 2024
DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format
By Antony AdsheadNoSQL database specialist adds generative AI for datacentre deployments where cloud is a no-no for cost, security or compliance reasons, with a focus on vector storage
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20 May 2024
UK AI Safety Institute to open San Francisco branch
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonNews of the AI Safety Institute’s expansion to the US follows the first public release of its AI safety testing results
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20 May 2024
Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves
By Aaron TanRed Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware
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17 May 2024
Report highlights disagreement among experts on AI safety
By Cliff SaranAn interim AI safety report coming out of the Bletchley Declaration shows AI experts are not in agreement over some of the biggest risks
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15 May 2024
Schumer's proposed AI policy roadmap blasted by critics
By Makenzie HollandSen. Chuck Schumer's AI policy roadmap wants $32 billion to boost AI innovation. It also prioritizes a federal data privacy framework and existing laws to govern AI.
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15 May 2024
Government focuses on improving AI security
By Cliff SaranTwo codes of practice are now available to help developers boost the security of their AI applications
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15 May 2024
Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements
By Aaron TanGoogle has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks
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14 May 2024
Google readies Gemini for Workspace, adds AI 'Teammate'
By Antone GonsalvesGoogle will roll out new GenAI in Gmail and Docs first and then other apps throughout the year. In 2025, Google plans to introduce an AI-powered assistant named Teammate.
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14 May 2024
Google Gemini generative AI hits all products, including Search
By Shaun SutnerThe tech giant made its Gemini GenAI model more powerful and rolled out new Gemini-powered products for enterprises and consumers.
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14 May 2024
Generative AI adoption outpacing all other forms of AI
By Eric AvidonA recent survey by the research and advisory firm found that deployment of generative artificial intelligence has exploded after barely being a consideration in the past.
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14 May 2024
Salesforce adds generative AI tools to Education Cloud
By Don FluckingerCustomers discuss Salesforce's GenAI push into education with features that target business process automation for K-12 and college students and administrators.
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14 May 2024
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
By Antony AdsheadNew AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads
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13 May 2024
OpenAI advances LLM with GPT-4o; Google Gemini update looms
By Shaun SutnerThe GenAI giant is out with a faster, more interactive version of its GPT-4 LLM for enterprises, and new, higher speed features for the consumer-focused ChatGPT Free.
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13 May 2024
Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer
By Cliff SaranThe Isambard-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK
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13 May 2024
How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation
By Aaron TanSingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint
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13 May 2024
Norway bolsters digital transformation drive
By Gerard O'DwyerNorway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year
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13 May 2024
Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges
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10 May 2024
Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing
By Steve RangerUse of advanced artificial intelligence is outpacing organisations’ ability to govern the technology, warns ISACA research
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10 May 2024
MHRA launches AI regulatory sandbox
By Lis EvenstadThe Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hopes the AI Airlock sandbox will help in improving safe development and use of medical devices
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10 May 2024
Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference
By Clare McDonaldServiceNow put the future use of GenAI at the centre of its annual user conference, Knowledge24
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09 May 2024
OpenAI deepfake detector 'belated but welcome'
By Shaun SutnerThe GenAI vendor's image-identifying tool has been warmly received, though some say it's belated, with elections around the world this year. The vendor also joined C2PA.
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09 May 2024
Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs
By Aaron TanRed Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region
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09 May 2024
Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check
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09 May 2024
Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online
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09 May 2024
Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
By Cliff SaranIT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience
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08 May 2024
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
By Antony AdsheadChinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year
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08 May 2024
New Apple iPad Pro with M4 chip ready for AI
By Antone GonsalvesApple's latest iPad Pro is the first product to get the company's new M4 chip with a neural processing unit designed to power AI applications and services.
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07 May 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighs in on content authentication
By Makenzie HollandOpenAI says it's working on new tools to identify content created by its generative AI tools, as Congress weighs legislation to protect individuals against AI-generated replicas.
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07 May 2024
IBM throws its Red Hat into open source AI ring with RHEL AI
By Beth PariseauIBM and Red Hat open source their first LLMs, but IT experts say RHEL AI is more likely to stand out in the ways it links AI to hybrid cloud infrastructure.
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07 May 2024
Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves
By Aaron TanOpen source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads
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07 May 2024
Sprinklr's AI digital twin for CX emulates whole companies
By Don FluckingerSprinklr CEO Ragy Thomas 'bets the company' on its moonshot digital twin technology that emulates a whole customer's organization, with AI assistance, to complete CX tasks.
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07 May 2024
Government jumps on Wayve self-drive funding boost
By Cliff SaranDSIT says the $1bn of funding announced by UK startup Wayve shows that a pro-innovation approach to regulation works
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07 May 2024
AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure
By Aaron TanThe latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028
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07 May 2024
Gartner: Few organisations have mature AI processes
By Cliff SaranSurvey results show that estimating and delivering value from AI projects are among the biggest challenges organisations face
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03 May 2024
Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI
By Alex ScroxtonAdobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence
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03 May 2024
Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonChair of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has written to the UK’s digital secretary about the government’s approach to generative AI, lamenting a lack of support for copyright holders and measures to ensure competition in AI markets