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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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12 Sep 2023
Salesforce unveils Einstein 1 to embed AI in every app
By Mary ReinesThe CRM vendor unveils a suite of new capabilities for its revamped AI platform, including a genAI Copilot in every app, and a way to customize the Copilot's functions.
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12 Sep 2023
European enterprises to spend more on generative IT to close gap on US
By Karl FlindersEuropean organisations are upping their spending on generative AI innovation, but face challenges recruiting the right people to support this
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12 Sep 2023
European fintech investment plummets, but more sustainable future lies ahead
By Karl FlindersInvestment in European fintechs has seen a dramatic drop, but a more sustainable sector will result from investment discipline
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11 Sep 2023
University of Glasgow launches Centre for data science and AI
By Karl FlindersScottish university will apply artificial intelligence and data science to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges
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11 Sep 2023
How Culture Amp is tapping generative AI
By Aaron TanAustralia’s Culture Amp is building a generative AI capability that summarises employee survey responses, automating a process that typically takes HR admins up to hundreds of hours to complete
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08 Sep 2023
KPMG finds growing demand for emerging tech
By Cliff SaranKPMG’s latest global tech report reveals an increase in the number of businesses adopting emerging technologies
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07 Sep 2023
Government AI taskforce appoints new advisory board members
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAn initial progress report published by the Taskforce provides detail on new appointments to its external advisory board as well as rebrand to focus on “frontier” artificial intelligence
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07 Sep 2023
Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders
By Cliff SaranBMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling
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07 Sep 2023
Singapore taps Lidar and laser scanning in remote building inspections
By Aaron TanWith the 3D data generated reality capture technologies, detailed inspections can be conducted remotely, eliminating the need for inspectors from technical authorities to be present onsite
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06 Sep 2023
HubSpot unveils AI-based Campaign Assistant, LinkedIn tie-in
By Mary ReinesThe CRM vendor unveiled a virtual assistant tool, Campaign Assistant, to help marketers build campaigns and an integration between HubSpot and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
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06 Sep 2023
AI inference startup raises $110 million
By Esther AjaoInvestors are betting on d-Matrix to be a long-lasting vendor in the AI hardware and compute market, despite Nvidia's leading status. The startup offers a low-cost option.
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06 Sep 2023
Finance platform Intuit intros generative AI capability
By Esther AjaoIntuit Assist is integrated into TurboTax, Mailchimp, Credit Karma and QuickBooks. It's built on the vendor's GenOS and uses LLMs from OpenAI and Intuit.
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06 Sep 2023
HubSpot unveils AI capabilities, releases Sales Hub tools
By Mary ReinesThe CRM vendor unveiled virtual assistants to automate customer service and project future sales, and released tools to centralize sales reps' daily tasks and prioritize leads.
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06 Sep 2023
Business leaders anxious over tech disruption
By Cliff SaranAlthough there is significant investment in AI, the rate of change is a concern for many business leaders
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06 Sep 2023
Zoom releases its AI Companion and unveils new tools
By Mary ReinesThe video conferencing vendor released a virtual assistant to let users summarize meetings and draft messages, and new meeting tools for help before, during and after the call.
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06 Sep 2023
CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, Adobe
By Mark SamuelsAdobe's IT chief is looking to build on its cloud migration with widespread adoption of AI, machine learning and robotic process automation – as well as low-code/no-code software development tools
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05 Sep 2023
Employees missing out on AI training and development
By Cliff SaranWhile businesses and employees see the benefit of artificial intelligence in the workplace, people are not being given the training they need
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04 Sep 2023
TUC launches AI taskforce for workers’ rights and societal benefit
By Brian McKennaThe Trades Union Congress has launched what it calls an AI ‘taskforce’ to draft an AI and Employment Bill, aimed at safeguarding workers’ rights, early in 2024
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01 Sep 2023
Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice Scotland’s new strategy outlines how the force will approach and invest in its digital transformation over the next five years, but notes its ability to achieve its ambitions is subject to the availability of funding
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01 Sep 2023
Google Cloud eyes bigger market share with AI
By Aaron TanGoogle Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is confident the company’s generative AI capabilities will enable it to grow faster than the market and narrow the gap with rivals
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31 Aug 2023
IFS snaps up industrial AI provider Falkonry
By Jim O'DonnellOn the heels of buying Poka, IFS has acquired industrial AI software company Falkonry to help manufacturers detect and resolve anomalies in processes.
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31 Aug 2023
Schumer's AI policy objectives prioritize innovation
By Makenzie HollandThe SAFE Innovation Framework proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer names explainability, accountability and innovation as some of the top policy objectives for AI in the U.S.
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31 Aug 2023
8x8 releases conversational AI tools for the contact center
By Mary ReinesThe cloud-based UC vendor releases voice technology to enable CX workers to connect self-service and agent-assisted workflows and receive conversation context from voicebots.
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31 Aug 2023
Thousands of Klarna staff access ChatGPT Enterprise
By Karl FlindersFintech unicorn Klarna has become an early adopter of the enterprise version of ChatGPT as it continues to focus on artificial intelligence
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31 Aug 2023
Home Office and MoD seeking new facial-recognition tech
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator is running a ‘market exploration’ exercise on behalf of the Home Office to identify new facial-recognition capabilities for security and policing bodies in the UK
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31 Aug 2023
GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority
By Brian McKennaEnterprise Strategy Group research on the use cases for generative AI shows it as strategic for corporate IT, with impacts on customer experience, software development and IT Ops
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31 Aug 2023
MPs say UK at real risk of falling behind on AI regulation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMPs in charge of scrutinising the UK government’s proposals for regulating artificial intelligence have warned that time is running out for the introduction of new AI legislation before 2025
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30 Aug 2023
NCSC warns over possible AI prompt injection attacks
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s NCSC says it sees alarming potential for so-called prompt injection attacks driven by the large language models that power AI chatbots
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30 Aug 2023
Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI
By Aaron TanGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers
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29 Aug 2023
Google updates Vertex AI with new models, expands reach
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider updates Vertex AI with models from Meta, a better PaLM 2 LLM, and adds features to its text-to-image product. It also expands an alliance with AI vendor Nvidia.
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29 Aug 2023
Google releases Duet AI for Workspace; new Meet, Chat tools
By Mary ReinesThe tech giant released its collaboration suite virtual assistant and unveiled new tools to help users summarize and translate meetings and enable teleprompts for presentations.
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29 Aug 2023
ChatGPT Enterprise targets some enterprise concerns, not all
By Esther AjaoWhile the new product does not use customer prompts or company data in training OpenAI products, it fails to address other concerns surrounding hallucinations and copyright.
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28 Aug 2023
The compute problem AI startup Modular is targeting
By Esther AjaoThe vendor is looking to enable developers be more efficient in their training and inferencing of machine learning models. It uses a programming language called Mojo.
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24 Aug 2023
Meta AI translation model not ready for the enterprise
By Esther AjaoThe tech conglomerate's new AI model is a move toward universal translation. However, the vendor needs the open source community to help ready the model for the enterprise.
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24 Aug 2023
Bletchley Park to host UK government AI safety summit
By Cliff SaranAn international collaboration event on artificial intelligence safety is being run at the site that was home to the world’s first programmable computer
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24 Aug 2023
Accelerated datacentre computing propels record Nvidia revenue
By Cliff SaranGPU company Nvidia has seen record growth, driven by demand for AI acceleration in datacentres
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23 Aug 2023
Inside Micron Singapore’s sustainability journey
By Aaron TanThe chipmaker has been doubling down on sustainability efforts in Singapore by tapping solar power, recycling water and waste, as well as treating greenhouse gases, in a bid to achieve net zero by 2050
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23 Aug 2023
VMware, Nvidia unveil tech for building private enterprise AI
By Antone GonsalvesAvailable in early 2024, VMware's Private AI Foundation with Nvidia combines VMware Cloud Foundation with Nvidia AI Enterprise to help companies build private generative AI.
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23 Aug 2023
Six subpostmaster appeals to be heard in Scottish court
By Karl FlindersScottish court will hear appeals against the convictions of six former subpostmasters based on evidence from a Post Office computer system
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23 Aug 2023
VMware works with Nvidia to deliver generative AI cloud
By Cliff SaranThe two companies are collaborating on a platform that uses Nvidia GPUs and VMware cloud infrastructure
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22 Aug 2023
Opportunities, challenges of ServiceNow generative AI plan
By Esther AjaoThe vendor said that while it is creating its own LLM models, it's not interested in winning the LLM war. Instead, it wants its customers to use the models for specific use cases.
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18 Aug 2023
Europe’s fastest supercomputer trains large language models in Finland
By Pat BransMuch of the innovation in natural language processing comes from large enterprises in the US, resulting in proprietary technology with a bias towards English. One consortium in Finland decided to change the game
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18 Aug 2023
BSI launches sustainability-focused startup accelerator
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonStartups selected to participate in the BSI and Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership’s joint sustainability startup accelerator are working in a diverse range of areas and using a variety of technologies to positively affect society
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18 Aug 2023
More than 400 Liberty Global IT staff move to Infosys as part of €1.5bn contract
By Karl FlindersTV and broadband giant outsources the build and operation of its entertainment and connectivity platforms to Indian supplier in five year deal
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17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
By Aaron TanHealthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer
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16 Aug 2023
Google’s search generative experience and its AI strategy
By Esther AjaoThe vendor upgrades SGE with new definition and code features. The search experience updates dispel earlier concerns about the tech giant's search business.
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16 Aug 2023
AI is the most hyped technology of 2023
By Cliff SaranGartner's 2023 hype cycle puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations in its latest analysis of emerging tech trends
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16 Aug 2023
Accenture’s Brussels AI lab to focus on European public sector and health
By Karl FlindersAccenture will use its Brussels AI lab to test AI and generative AI's application in the European public sector
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15 Aug 2023
What big Korean telecom's investment in Anthropic AI means
By Esther AjaoThe telecom giant revealed that it will invest $100 million in the AI research vendor. The vendor will build a telecom-specific LLM to support the Global Telco AI Alliance.
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15 Aug 2023
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases
By Antony AdsheadNutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks
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14 Aug 2023
How Qualtrics is driving experience management
By Aaron TanQualtrics’ global and regional leaders outline the company’s product directions, including its work in AI, its traction in the region and the future of experience management
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14 Aug 2023
Managers need to assess jobs as AI evolves in workplace
By Cliff SaranAdvances in AI will mean business leaders need to rethink how they organise and motivate their employees
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14 Aug 2023
Network Rail uses Google AI to assess trackside biodiversity
By Cliff SaranThe rail network company has worked with London Zoo to monitor trackside bird and bat activity
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11 Aug 2023
IBM says all the building blocks for analogue AI are in place
By Cliff SaranAnalogue electronics promises a more efficient way to train AI systems than computers that rely on zeros and ones
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11 Aug 2023
Biden administration bans investment in Chinese high tech
By Cliff SaranExecutive Order prohibits investment firms from supporting Chinese firms specialising in AI, quantum and advanced semiconductors
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10 Aug 2023
AI copyright lawsuits are a warning to business users
By Makenzie HollandOpenAI is facing copyright lawsuits raising questions such as whether AI model creators need permission before using copyrighted data, like author's books, to train models.
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10 Aug 2023
Implications of SAP Rise premium strategy
By Cliff SaranSAP dropped a bombshell during its second-quarter 2023 results call that will negatively impact those using S/4Hana on-premise or through a hosted service provider
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09 Aug 2023
IBM collaborating with Meta to integrate Llama 2 in Watsonx
By Esther AjaoThe collaboration fits the vendor's strategy of offering enterprises both its own models and models from other vendors. It also shows the rise in popularity of open source.
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09 Aug 2023
AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonRemote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face
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09 Aug 2023
Nvidia seeks to help enterprises with generative AI
By Esther AjaoThe hardware and software vendor introduced new offerings to help enterprises work on models locally. It also updated its enterprise AI suite and Omniverse platform.
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08 Aug 2023
Pentland Brands marshals Google BigQuery to improve customer insight
By Brian McKennaThe name behind Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand and Kickers turns to Google BigQuery to improve customer data understanding
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08 Aug 2023
Workplace monitoring needs worker consent, says select committee
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonEmployers looking to monitor their employees through connected devices should only to so with the consent of those affected due to negative impacts such surveillance can have on work intensification and mental health
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04 Aug 2023
AI cloud vendor Alibaba still has a long way to go
By Esther AjaoThe China-based vendor introduced two open source models: Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat. The models are smaller versions of Tongyi Qianwen, the LLM it released in April.
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03 Aug 2023
White House receives feedback on national AI priorities
By Makenzie HollandThe White House plans to use public input on national priorities for AI to guide its adoption of a broad, comprehensive national AI strategy focused on AI's risks and benefits.
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03 Aug 2023
Lawmakers seek to restrict 'bossware'
By Patrick ThibodeauAI-enabled bossware and employee monitoring tech is getting increasing attention in the U.S. Senate and by the White House. An effort may be made to get a bill passed.
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03 Aug 2023
India’s booming IT market driving up wages
By Aaron TanMajority of India’s IT pros expect their pay to increase in the next 12 months, underscoring the country’s tight IT labour market fuelled by a booming tech sector, study finds
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02 Aug 2023
Microsoft, LexisNexis take partnership deeper with genAI
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider and the legal research giant plan to create points of integration within Word, Outlook and Teams, while minimizing the risks that come with LLMs.
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01 Aug 2023
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
By Antony AdsheadVast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores
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31 Jul 2023
Researchers bust ChatGPT guardrails, question gen AI safety
By Antone GonsalvesResearchers find they can trick AI chatbots including OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Bard into providing disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content.
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28 Jul 2023
Risks of opening up AI
By Cliff SaranMeta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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28 Jul 2023
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
By Brian McKennaServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships