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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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27 Oct 2023
Webex deploys AI to enhance contact centre agent potential, boost CX
By Joe O’HalloranAI-powered innovations in contact centre designed to generate agent efficiency and well-being, resulting in reduced turnover and improved customer experiences, faster resolution of customer needs and real business outcomes
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26 Oct 2023
ChatGPT, Bard, lack effective defences against fraudsters, Which? warns
By Alex ScroxtonConsumer advocacy Which? warns that popular generative AI tools are vulnerable to loopholes that render existing protections against malicious usage easily bypassed
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26 Oct 2023
How Amazon AI image generation could help advertisers
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant joins others using generative AI technology to cater to advertisers and help small businesses scale their advertising through personalization.
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26 Oct 2023
Sunak sets scene for upcoming AI Safety Summit
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPrime minister Rishi Sunak has outlined how the UK will approach making AI safe, but experts say there is still too big a focus on catastrophic but speculative risks over real harms the technology is already causing
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26 Oct 2023
Boardrooms losing control in generative AI takeover, says Kaspersky
By Alex ScroxtonC-suite executives are increasingly fretful about what they perceive as a ‘silent infiltration’ of generative AI tools across their organisations
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26 Oct 2023
Facebook pins future on Quest 3 and AI development
By Cliff SaranParent company Meta has focused on establishing Twitter rival Threads and its new augmented reality headset Quest 3
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25 Oct 2023
Government-led Smart Data Discovery Challenge launched to stoke innovation
By Scarlet CharlesA government-led coalition has launched an open-call competition for ideas using smart data to help support individuals and small businesses, emulating open banking
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25 Oct 2023
SAP broadens CX offerings with new AI tools for Joule
By Mary ReinesThe ERP software vendor brings AI-based tools to strengthen identity and data security as well as end-to-end personalization to highlight its customer experience offerings.
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25 Oct 2023
Chip giant Nvidia takes on Intel with Arm CPUs for Windows PCs
By Don FluckingerNvidia plans to jump into the Windows Arm CPU fray along with Qualcomm, AMD and purportedly Microsoft as chipmakers bet that AI will take root in the operating system in 2025.
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25 Oct 2023
Apple's silence on generative AI is characteristic
By Esther AjaoThe consumer tech company is behind other tech giants in the generative AI race. However, stealth is the company's normal mode of operation with disruptive technologies.
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25 Oct 2023
SurveyMonkey launches Build with AI to create surveys faster
By Mary ReinesThe vendor releases generative AI capabilities to let users build custom questionnaires quickly and incorporate prompts that will yield better responses from customers.
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25 Oct 2023
Demystifying the top five OT security myths
By Aaron TanGoh Eng Choon, president of ST Engineering’s cyber business, outlines the common myths around OT security in a bid to raise awareness of the security challenges confronting OT systems
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25 Oct 2023
Copilots, AI and Azure drive Microsoft revenue growth
By Cliff SaranAI dominated the Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings. Copilot trials are being run by 40% of the Fortune 100
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25 Oct 2023
UK IT professionals express concerns about government’s generative AI goals
By Scarlet CharlesResearch reveals 93% of UK IT professionals are concerned by the government’s current plan to become a global leader in artificial intelligence because of lack of training and risk assessment
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24 Oct 2023
Cisco unveils Webex AI tools for hybrid work, contact center
By Mary ReinesThe vendor's new Webex AI offerings include Real-Time Media Models to track users' voices and movements and Webex AI Assistant tools for making, altering and suggesting messages.
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24 Oct 2023
Michelle Donelan reaffirms UK's commitment to AI safety
By Cliff SaranIn a keynote speech, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology discussed the UK's pro-innovation approach to AI safety
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24 Oct 2023
Research team tricks AI chatbots into writing usable malicious code
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers at the University of Sheffield have demonstrated that so-called Text-to-SQL systems can be tricked into writing malicious code for use in cyber attacks
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24 Oct 2023
OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot
By Aaron TanSingapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation
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24 Oct 2023
Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia
By Aaron TanMicrosoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country
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23 Oct 2023
Feds look for AI fingerprints in HR job rejections
By Patrick ThibodeauThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is working to learn all it can to detect AI-based discrimination in screening, recruiting and hiring.
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23 Oct 2023
CTO interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on using AI to set business goals
By Bill GoodwinGenerative AI is on the cusp of allowing companies to automate business processes to meet business goals
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23 Oct 2023
Gartner: CIOs must prepare for generative AI disruption
By Cliff SaranThe growth of generative AI poses risks and opportunities for IT and business leaders
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20 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters
By Mark SamuelsThe news and information provider places a premium on responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence, and central to that is the governance of data and the models surrounding it
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19 Oct 2023
Fair use may not help Anthropic against AI music lawsuit
By Esther AjaoUniversal Music Group and other music publishers allege the vendor's Claude 2 AI model responds to users' prompts with all or most of the lyrics to popular copyrighted songs.
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19 Oct 2023
How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI
By Aaron TanOlivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption
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19 Oct 2023
SAP results highlight AI-driven business software
By Cliff SaranSAP, like other enterprise software companies, is integrating artificial intelligence across its enterprise software portfolio
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19 Oct 2023
Loughborough Uni to create five cyber AI research posts
By Alex ScroxtonSupported by Darktrace, Loughborough University is to recruit five doctoral researchers focusing on cross-disciplinary research in AI and cyber security
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18 Oct 2023
Experts call for government to look beyond AI safety
By Cliff SaranExperts have warned there are far more near-term technology concerns than AI, such as facial recognition and the explosion of deepfakes
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18 Oct 2023
How YouTube's new AI-powered product aids advertisers
By Esther AjaoThe online video-sharing and social media platform is now using the AI technology as a way to help advertisers place ads on videos that better reach the intended audience.
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18 Oct 2023
SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI
By Brian McKennaOracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg posited AI old and new as means for organisations to do more with fewer resources, speaking at the company’s annual global SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas
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17 Oct 2023
Alluxio launches orchestration layer optimized for AI, ML
By Eric AvidonThe data orchestration specialist introduced Enterprise AI, a new version of its platform optimized for AI and machine learning models with improved performance and greater scale.
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17 Oct 2023
Government to pump £30m into NHS medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe government hopes the funding, which is available to integrated care systems across the country, will ease winter pressures through the help of technology
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16 Oct 2023
Talkdesk expands its AI offerings for the contact center
By Mary ReinesThe cloud-based contact center provider adds more tools to monitor large language model-supported capabilities, which are becoming commonplace offerings for CX vendors.
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16 Oct 2023
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion
By Brian McKennaIn a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real
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16 Oct 2023
How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI
By Aaron TanOrganisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges
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13 Oct 2023
Google Search Generative Experience AI updated for images
By Esther AjaoThe update enables the vendor to continue to push generative AI technology to the masses while showing enterprises how they can use different models within their own products.
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13 Oct 2023
UAE makes significant contribution to AI computing power
By Pat BransUAE technology holding company G42 recently began a partnership with US-based Cerebras Systems to build a cluster of supercomputers and a set of accompanying technologies that will speed up the training process for large language models
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12 Oct 2023
How generative AI and cloud complement each other
By Aaron TanMcKinsey partner explains the symbiotic relationship between generative AI and cloud, enabling organisations to speed up cloud migration and harness the benefits of AI
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12 Oct 2023
Box and OpenAI CEOs discuss the future of enterprise AI
By Don FluckingerOpenAI and Box founders discuss the rise of generative AI in the enterprise and how it will change knowledge workers' routines and influence business overall.
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11 Oct 2023
AMD tries to differentiate in AI market with acquisition
By Esther AjaoThe acquisition of the open source startup helps the chip vendor compete in the optimization market and offer flexibility compared to competitors such as Nvidia.
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11 Oct 2023
Adobe unveils Firefly AI models to quickly make vivid images
By Mary ReinesThe CX and multimedia vendor amps up its generative AI image creation offerings with Prompt Guidance, vector graphic production, template generation and photo-style image tweaks.
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11 Oct 2023
New Box Hubs uses AI to curate content, target users
By Shaun SutnerThe vendor adds a new internal publishing system to its stable of content management tools. It enables users to curate and publish select content within an organization.
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11 Oct 2023
Public sector buyers of AI tech must interrogate its suitability
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Ada Lovelace Institute has published a review on public sector use of artificial intelligence foundation models, looking at the risks and opportunities associated with the technology, and how these can be dealt with from the early stages of procurement onwards
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10 Oct 2023
OpenText's Aviator AI services 10 years in the making
By Don FluckingerOpenText's AI services for content, operations, DevOps, security and digital experience represent a blend of homegrown, acquired and licensed technologies.
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06 Oct 2023
How machine learning can combat climate change
By Lev CraigMachine learning can produce sustainability insights and help plan effective climate action. But researchers face challenges around data, compute and AI's own environmental impact.
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05 Oct 2023
Microsoft: Nation-state cyber espionage on rise in 2023
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMicrosoft’s latest Digital Defence Report outlines how nation-state cyber activity has largely moved from destructive attacks to espionage and intelligence gathering
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05 Oct 2023
Government launches £60m Regional Innovation Fund
By Lis EvenstadThe £60m fund aims to support universities in areas with lower R&D investment, while the government is also pumping £8m towards AI scholarships
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05 Oct 2023
Policing minister wants to use UK passport data in facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe policing minister’s plans to integrate the UK’s passport database with police facial-recognition systems have been met with criticism from campaigners, academics, and the biometrics commissioner for England and Wales
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04 Oct 2023
Meta introduces generative AI features for advertisers
By Esther AjaoThe capabilities include a background generation feature, an image expansion tool for fitting aspect ratio across different mediums, and a text variation tool for copy.
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04 Oct 2023
HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management
By Aaron TanHPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI
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04 Oct 2023
Gartner: Execs put generative AI on business agenda
By Cliff SaranGenerative AI is being pushed up the boardroom agenda, with more organisations appearing to be piloting the technology
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04 Oct 2023
Qualcomm looks to reshape digital world through spatial computing
By Joe O’HalloranMobile tech giant announces new platforms, developed in close collaboration with Meta, to provide breakthrough performance in immersive applications such as mixed and augmented reality
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04 Oct 2023
Visa to invest $100m in generative AI startups
By Karl FlindersPayments giant investing in startups that focus on applying generative AI to commerce and payments
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04 Oct 2023
ICO issues guidance on workplace surveillance
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGuidance on employee monitoring covers how employers can conduct their digital surveillance lawfully, transparently and fairly, and warns against businesses intruding on their workers’ private lives
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03 Oct 2023
Zendesk offers more AI tech with AI for Voice, AI bots
By Mary ReinesThe customer experience vendor released intelligent bots to quickly answer customers' questions and unveiled a tool to summarize transcripts of customer calls with agents.
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03 Oct 2023
Zoom expands workspace offerings with AI-supported Zoom Docs
By Mary ReinesThe videoconferencing vendor unveiled a document creation product that features AI Companion and content organization components to build layouts and workflows and manage data.
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03 Oct 2023
How Pure Storage is supporting AI workloads
By Aaron TanPure Storage’s cloud-compatible and energy-efficient modular flash storage architecture is well-poised to address the data storage demands of artificial intelligence workloads
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03 Oct 2023
Project management vendor Asana brings AI to Work Graph
By Mary ReinesThe project management platform vendor brings 'smart' tools to its work efficiency monitoring tool to unearth specific problems and identify concrete ways teams can solve them.
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03 Oct 2023
The AI developer opportunity
By Cliff SaranGiven the need for new software to support digitisation, we look at how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall
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03 Oct 2023
Public sector needs systemic reform of capacity to innovate
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonImproving the public sector’s capacity to innovate requires a culture of innovation underpinned by people, skills and new ways of working with the private sector
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02 Oct 2023
Lawyers win in race to generative AI without adequate laws
By Antone GonsalvesAs Congress drags its feet on passing AI regulations, lawyers are filling the vacuum by helping enterprises navigate court rulings and regulations based on outdated laws.
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02 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Lalo Luna, global head of strategy and insights, Heineken
By Mark SamuelsThe brewing giant is building a data ecosystem to bring new insights to the business and to make the most of emerging developments in artificial intelligence capabilities
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02 Oct 2023
How the Australian government is approaching AI
By Aaron TanThe Australian government is experimenting with AI use cases in a safe environment while it figures out ways to harness the technology to benefit citizens and businesses
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29 Sep 2023
Government hands over £12.5m to farming tech innovators
By Lis EvenstadSome 19 projects focusing on automation and robotic technology will get funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to boost the agricultural sector
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28 Sep 2023
SAP joins generative AI crowd with Joule
By Jim O'DonnellSAP's Joule is the company's generative AI assistant for its cloud portfolio, but the technology is still in the early stages and the ERP giant will need to prove its value.
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28 Sep 2023
US lawmakers write to AI firms about ‘gruelling’ work conditions
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLawmakers have written to nine tech companies – including Amazon, Google and Microsoft – about the working conditions of those they employ to train and maintain their artificial intelligence systems, giving them until 11 October 2023 to respond
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28 Sep 2023
How Akamai is driving growth in APAC
By Aaron TanAkamai's managing director for the region outlines the company’s growth journey, how it sets itself apart from competitors, and its strategies to drive the next phase of growth
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27 Sep 2023
ServiceNow continues to embed generative AI across workflows
By Esther AjaoThe vendor is not only focusing generative AI on various phases of the workflow, but also on domain-specific LLMs for its Now suite of digital assistants.
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27 Sep 2023
Meta introduces new AI assistant and studio
By Esther AjaoThe social media giant introduces new tools that incorporate generative AI capabilities in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Some features could be helpful for small businesses.
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26 Sep 2023
Getty’s AI-generated image tool allays some artist concerns
By Esther AjaoThe image generator helps the stock image company get into the generative market and answer copyright questions for businesses but could still be a concern to artists.
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26 Sep 2023
UK government quietly disbands data ethics advisory board
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe government has disbanded its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s advisory board in favour of pulling the relevant artificial intelligence (AI) and data knowledge from a pool of external experts
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25 Sep 2023
Amazon's $4B investment in Anthropic fuels GenAI race
By Esther AjaoThis makes the tech giant Anthropic's primary cloud provider. This arrangement is different from Google's investment in the AI startup and Microsoft's investment in OpenAI.
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25 Sep 2023
Visa to fund AI scholarships for underrepresented students in government scheme
By Karl FlindersPayments giant supports UK scheme to increase diversity in the data and artificial intelligence sector through funding
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22 Sep 2023
Lords begin inquiry into large language models
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLords will examine the risks and opportunities of large language models and look at how government can effectively manage them in the coming years
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21 Sep 2023
Oracle generative AI features differ from Microsoft offering
By Antone GonsalvesOracle's generative AI service, available in beta, uses partner Cohere's second large language model to analyze text for the feelings and opinions behind it, according to Gartner.
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21 Sep 2023
Benefits, risks of Google AI chatbot's Bard Extensions
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant's new extensions enable users to use the AI chat tool to summarize information from their email or make travel plans. However, it still has problems with accuracy.
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21 Sep 2023
Cisco snaps up Splunk in $28bn application observability deal
By Cliff SaranThe acquisition builds out Cisco’s observability portfolio, with AI-based full-stack observability for hybrid cloud environments
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20 Sep 2023
Intel promotes new computing era with AI PC
By Antone GonsalvesIntel says its upcoming Core Ultra will help lead personal computing to the AI PC era by making AI processing a mainstream task on PCs, like office productivity and video editing.
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20 Sep 2023
Multi-agency pilot aims to help innovators navigate regulatory landscape
By Cliff SaranRegulators join forces in pilot scheme to help businesses deploy new technologies in a way that complies with cross-industry regulations
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20 Sep 2023
Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Ellison heralds dawn of generative AI era
By Brian McKennaOracle’s founder and chief technology officer, Larry Ellison, lends his heft to the generative AI vogue
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20 Sep 2023
How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave
By Aaron TanThe technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads
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19 Sep 2023
Automation Anywhere intros new generative AI tools
By Esther AjaoThe new RPA tools come several months after the vendor added some initial GenAI capabilities to its platform and as vendors capitalize on the excitement about the AI technology.
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19 Sep 2023
SambaNova AI launches new chip: the SN40L
By Esther AjaoThe AI hardware and software provider's new chip offers enterprises a full stack approach to training LLM. It also makes it possible for customers to train multimodal models.
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19 Sep 2023
Oracle's CX GenAI tools consolidate data, manage knowledge
By Mary ReinesThe cloud platform vendor unveiled GenAI tools to increase productivity for marketers, sales teams and customer service agents by creating content and retrieving information.
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19 Sep 2023
38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
By Alex ScroxtonAn accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing
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19 Sep 2023
UK wants international collaboration on AI for development
By Lis EvenstadForeign secretary James Cleverly uses speech at United Nations General Assembly to set out vision for potential of AI technology to speed up development in the world’s poorest nations
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18 Sep 2023
New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs
By Esther AjaoThe AI startup introduced a service that lets enterprises deploy large language models into their applications using popular LLM APIs like Llama 2.
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18 Sep 2023
Zoom releases work management tools for the contact center
By Mary ReinesThe video conferencing vendor expands its CCaaS offerings with its Workforce Engagement Management suite, which includes forecasting and scheduling tools for agents and managers.
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18 Sep 2023
CMA focuses on data for AI foundation model
By Cliff SaranFoundational AI models require vast amounts of data. Without access to diverse datasets, the market for foundational models risks being stifled
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15 Sep 2023
Microsoft to offer Oracle cloud database on Azure
By Brian McKennaOracle and Microsoft have trumpeted an expansion of their joint activity with the launch of Oracle Database@Azure. Microsoft will be the only other hyperscaler to offer OCI services
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15 Sep 2023
Few organisations have a clear strategy for AI
By Cliff SaranFew organisations are confident with the main concepts involved in developing AI-enabled business models
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15 Sep 2023
How India is driving tech developments at G20
By Pratima HarigunaniIndia’s G20 presidency marks an important stride towards establishing a global regulatory framework for the crypto industry, among other tech developments discussed at the global forum in New Delhi this year
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14 Sep 2023
A venture capitalist's take on generative AI investment
By Esther AjaoFunding for startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and Hugging Face shows that money is still flowing into the market. However, the criteria for funding are still strict.
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14 Sep 2023
Singapore firefighters don smartglasses for equipment inspections
By Aaron TanFirefighters from the Singapore Civil Defence Force will employ smartglasses equipped with computer vision and 5G capabilities to perform visual inspections of their equipment
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14 Sep 2023
Bristol Uni to host one of Europe’s most power supercomputer clusters
By Cliff SaranA high-performance computer system being built at the University of Bristol will run thousands of GPUs to support research in artificial intelligence and scientific discovery
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13 Sep 2023
The fear surrounding generative AI
By Esther AjaoThe language surrounding generative technology can lead to anxiety and a bad reception among employees to LLMs and tools such as ChatGPT, Dall-E and Bard.
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13 Sep 2023
AI regulation talks heat up among U.S. policymakers
By Makenzie HollandAs Congress grows more concerned about the risks of AI, regulation is becoming a hot topic among policymakers.
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13 Sep 2023
Pegasystems releases new GenAI tools for Pega Infinity '23
By Mary ReinesThe vendor is out with new GenAI features for Pega Infinity '23. It also renews its business process management focus and makes other updates generally available.
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13 Sep 2023
ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data
By Alex ScroxtonNDR specialist ExtraHop says making its entire machine learning dataset available for anybody to view will help organisations better defend against cyber attacks originating from malicious domains generated by algorithms
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12 Sep 2023
How different industries apply generative AI
By Esther AjaoLarge language models such as ChatGPT, Bard and Llama have changed how enterprises think about technology. While some can use new AI tools now, others face challenges.