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19 Dec 2024
Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2024
As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2024
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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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05 Mar 2024
Open letter promising better AI for the future lacks action
The 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
Following 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
In 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
The 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
What'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
The 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
Pure 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
The 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
Artificial 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
ERP 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
More 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
The 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
The 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
Department 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
Nvidia'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
Microsoft 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
The 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
TeamViewer 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
We 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
Staff 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
Brad 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
Global 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
The 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
Generative 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
The 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
The 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
If 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
The 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
The 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’
Jensen 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
The 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
Qloo 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’
Uber 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
Alibaba 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
Collaboration 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
The 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
The 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
Cloud 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
Code 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
Sora 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
A 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
Threat 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
Southeast 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
The 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
While 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
Is 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
The 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
The 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
We 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
IT 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
Cisco 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
The 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?
Artificial 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
Meta 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
Large 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
Workers 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
The 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
Singtel 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
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31 Jan 2024
Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm
Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware
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31 Jan 2024
Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure
The company’s cloud business posted revenue of $33bn, with new AI inferencing workloads driving up demand
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31 Jan 2024
Datacentre operators face capacity planning challenges as AI use soars
A report by real estate consultancy JLL highlights the pressures datacentres operators are facing as they respond to the growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads
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30 Jan 2024
Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise
Oracle AI developments aim to blend enterprise data and LLMs across its technology stack and SaaS portfolio
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30 Jan 2024
Juniper claims first AI-native networking platform
AIOps and virtual network assistant expanded with first integrated digital experience twinning and end-to-end insight across campus, branch and data centre infrastructures to drive more speed, scale and value
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30 Jan 2024
How Simplyhealth is using Salesforce’s take on generative AI to boost email response times
Health and dental plan company is cutting response times to some common and recurring client queries – from 12 minutes to just one
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30 Jan 2024
Inside India’s supercomputing journey
India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field
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29 Jan 2024
Juniper adds data center networks to Mist AI
Juniper's Mist AI update will include using the Marvis virtual network assistant to obtain information on data center cabling, configurations and connectivity issues.
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29 Jan 2024
Podcast: Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism
The data annotation and labeling vendor, which has faced criticism for its practices in Africa despite its social good mission, is out with a new platform to reduce model failure.
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29 Jan 2024
Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives
Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state
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29 Jan 2024
Lords question legality of police facial recognition
Lords committee ‘deeply concerned’ about the rapid expansion of live facial recognition by UK police, which it says is progressing without any real oversight or accountability
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26 Jan 2024
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly
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26 Jan 2024
SAP puts the focus on AI, but cloud is still the key
ERP giant wants to boost its AI capabilities, but there remains work to be done persuading customers to shift to its cloud offerings
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26 Jan 2024
UK government consults on age verification tech in alcohol sales
The government has said it wants to allow the use of digital identities and various age-verification technologies in alcohol sales
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25 Jan 2024
FTC launches inquiry into generative AI partnerships
The FTC has announced that it's looking into the relationships between big tech companies and generative AI companies and their impact on the market.
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25 Jan 2024
Google and Hugging Face unveil AI partnership
The partnership reflects the cloud provider's support of open source and aims to appeal to enterprises looking to move from ideation to implementation of generative AI workloads.
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25 Jan 2024
DSIT unveils forum to drive AI adoption in UK businesses
UK government launches AI Opportunity Forum with tech and business chiefs to help firms drive up UK productivity through AI
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25 Jan 2024
Tony Blair Institute calls for creation of NHS Data Trust
The NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
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25 Jan 2024
Civil Service must embrace innovation, says Cabinet Office minister
John Glen sets out plans for Civil Service reform, highlighting a focus on technology and innovation, as he plans to ‘crack the productivity puzzle’ in government
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24 Jan 2024
Equinix data centers offer Nvidia AI infrastructure
Equinix data centers will offer Nvidia DGX as a managed service. The platform is also available on public cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
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24 Jan 2024
Enforcement remains a concern for EU AI Act
The EU AI Act is approaching finalization, and while there could be enforcement challenges down the road, businesses need to prepare.
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24 Jan 2024
Pegasystems unveils AI assistant for knowledge management
The workflow automation vendor aims to simplify informational querying processes with an iterative conversational interface that can automatically search all data sources.
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24 Jan 2024
AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC
The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks
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23 Jan 2024
ElevenLabs' funding success shows growth of AI voice market
The startup has quickly raised a total of $101 million, reflecting the fast growth of new technologies like deep neural networks. Along with growth comes challenges.
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23 Jan 2024
Watsonx AI bots assist IBM Consulting in client GenAI projects
IBM Consulting rolls out role-based bots to streamline consultants' work as they enable digital transformation for customers.
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23 Jan 2024
Oracle boosts generative AI service and intros new services
The tech giant's services are similar to what other big tech vendors have introduced. However, Oracle's input of GenAI technology in its SaaS applications makes it notable.
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23 Jan 2024
UN chief blasts AI companies for reckless pursuit of profit
The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance
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22 Jan 2024
Dutch companies not ready for AI
Many Dutch organisations are not ready to start working with AI, according to the Cisco AI Readiness Index
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22 Jan 2024
Upgraded Arabic large language model is twice as big
Techniques that were used to double the power of what was already the largest LLM for Arabic can now be applied to other languages whose native speakers do not yet have access to AI
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21 Jan 2024
Stellar Lifestyle opens high-tech retail space
The Hive 2.0 retail space in Esplanade Xchange uses AI and robots to enable self-checkout, prepare and serve beverages, and deliver items to offices in a nearby building
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19 Jan 2024
Unilever provides recipe support to blind and partially sighted shoppers
Accessible QR codes and an app from Be My Eyes link shoppers direct to Unilever customer support
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19 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office publishes 10-point generative AI guidance
Cabinet Office’s framework, which will evolve as the technology moves forward, sets out 10 principles for the government's use of generative AI systems
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19 Jan 2024
AWS plans huge investment in Japan cloud infrastructure
Amazon Web Services plans to invest over $15bn into its existing cloud infrastructure in Tokyo and Osaka by 2027 to meet growing customer demand
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18 Jan 2024
AI startup Writer expands LLMs with multilingual capabilities
Multilingual LLM capabilities make generative AI more accessible in non-English-speaking countries. However, they must be accurate.
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17 Jan 2024
Microsoft delivers Copilot Pro, eliminates 300 seat minimum
Copilot Pro, a faster version of Microsoft's AI tool, debuts with features such as 'roll your own GPT,' where users can build custom LLMs, along with looser license requirements.
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17 Jan 2024
Singapore proposes governance framework for generative AI
AI Verify Foundation and Infocomm Media Development Authority have proposed a governance framework for generative AI to address the risks and concerns about the emerging technology