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21 Feb 2025
Electronic frailty index predicts risk of adverse outcomes
Mass General Brigham's electronic frailty index analyzes EHR data to assess patient frailty, helping predict adverse outcomes and improve care for older adults.
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21 Feb 2025
Non-English speakers face multiple barriers to video visits
Patients primarily speaking Spanish or Cantonese were less likely to participate in video visits due to various technical and communication challenges.
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21 Feb 2025
Understanding intersectionality: Inclusion and employees’ whole life experience
While businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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02 Apr 2024
Edge AI startup reveals GenAI accelerator, $120M fundraise
The startup introduced a new GenAI accelerator for PCs and smart vehicles. The vendor's growth highlights the shift to training GenAI workloads from the cloud to the edge.
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02 Apr 2024
Risks and rewards of AI in HCM
Research from Citi Commercial Bank warns of the risks associated with overusing AI in human capital management
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02 Apr 2024
Finnish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures
Industrial companies across a broad range of sectors in Finland are applying artificial intelligence to their operation
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02 Apr 2024
US and UK agree AI safety collaboration
The UK and US governments have signed an agreement to forge close ties between their respective AI Safety Institutes
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01 Apr 2024
AWS, Google release contact center GenAI tools
AWS releases contact center workforce management features and post-call summaries powered by GenAI; Google previews its own for Contact Center AI Platform.
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28 Mar 2024
Microsoft intros new responsible AI tools in Azure Studio
The new tools address one of the barriers of adoption for enterprises looking to use generative AI technologies. They show Microsoft's thought process on government regulations.
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28 Mar 2024
US AI policy for federal agencies requires transparency
The OMB's new policy calls for federal agencies to be transparent about AI use and designate chief AI officers to coordinate efforts.
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28 Mar 2024
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
Team of data scientists expands as Treasury looks to drive ‘data transformation’ across department
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28 Mar 2024
Vonage boosts conversational commerce with GenAI
Ericsson-owned cloud comms tech provider integrates generative AI capabilities with Conversational Commerce service to let contact centre agents generate creative content, automate tasks and improve user experience
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27 Mar 2024
Adobe intros new GenAI tools and apps for marketers
The new applications and tools are for marketers looking to connect the different processes of the content supply chain in a safe and responsible manner.
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27 Mar 2024
Zoom spreads AI across collaboration services
Zoom's new AI-powered Workplace enters a market in which enterprises worry about the loss of data control in AI applications spreading across collaboration platforms.
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27 Mar 2024
Indian large language models gain momentum
Indian LLMs trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country
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27 Mar 2024
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks
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27 Mar 2024
Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI
Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts
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26 Mar 2024
Talkdesk releases on-prem AI contact center automation suite
Contact center as a service users have a leg up on generative AI integrations because of the nature of cloud infrastructure, but on-premises customer service will get theirs.
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26 Mar 2024
Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management
Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware
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26 Mar 2024
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline
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26 Mar 2024
Writer Inc.'s new AI tool generates voice of marketers' content
As generative AI technology grows in marketing, personalized tools such as these help brands define their style. It makes sure what's generated is on brand with a company's message.
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26 Mar 2024
Cisco releases Webex AI Assistant for office, contact center
Cisco brings AI Assistant for Webex to Enterprise Connect. Analysts break down the timing and potential for the new features available for office collaboration and contact center.
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26 Mar 2024
HPE taps GenAI to bolster AIOps on Aruba Networking Central
Cloud-native network management service to be enhanced through GenAI LLM models applied directly to AI search to improve performance and accuracy for enhanced operator experience
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26 Mar 2024
GTC 2024: Storage suppliers queue up to ride the Nvidia AI wave
Storage supplier announcements at Nvdia conference centre on infrastructure integration, tackling the GPU I/O bottleneck and AI hallucinations by running Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices
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26 Mar 2024
How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications
SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers
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25 Mar 2024
Turing Institute: Generative AI is going to change the face of government
Turing Institute researchers say there is a ‘huge’ opportunity for artificial intelligence to automate many government services
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22 Mar 2024
Nvidia partners, customers drive AI into data centers
Nvidia and its partners are providing the tools and infrastructure to build and deploy AI applications that companies say could transform their businesses.
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22 Mar 2024
Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto
The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data
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22 Mar 2024
Women in Data panel: NHS needs to get data basics right before rushing into AI
During a panel discussion at the recent Women in Data event, speakers from across the public healthcare sector outlined the groundwork that has to be laid for artificial intelligence to take the NHS by storm
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21 Mar 2024
UN AI resolution marks global interest in rules, principles
While the United Nations' artificial intelligence resolution does not create legally binding rules, it might indicate which countries are thinking in that direction.
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21 Mar 2024
Nvidia unveils text-to-3D AI research project
The new model helps generate 3D images faster. It was trained on different animals and objects using the vendor's A100 GPU and prompts generated with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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20 Mar 2024
Documenting, testing will help businesses navigate AI rules
Given the U.S.'s absence of AI regulations, businesses will likely mitigate AI deployment risks through contractual language.
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20 Mar 2024
Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public
Technology practitioners and experts gathered at an annual Alan Turing Institute-run conference discussed the need for more inclusive approaches to AI governance that actually engage citizens and workers
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20 Mar 2024
How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure
Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads
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20 Mar 2024
AWS Public Sector Day: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis
At this year’s AWS Public Sector Day, delegates heard how AI and cloud-based data processing tools are helping address skills shortfalls in the health and social care sector, as well as the UK’s biodiversity crisis
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20 Mar 2024
Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres
Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year
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19 Mar 2024
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder amid Google-Apple news
DeepMind's cofounder will head a new division that focuses on Copilot. The move comes amid talk that Microsoft's rival's LLM might be incorporated into the iPhone.
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19 Mar 2024
SAP, Nvidia partner to boost Business AI development
SAP and Nvidia are working together to combine platforms and services that help customers build business-specific generative AI capabilities across SAP's cloud products.
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19 Mar 2024
Vast targets AI checkpointing write performance with distributed RAID
AI checkpointing operations targeted by Vast Data as it touts QLC-based storage for AI workloads
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19 Mar 2024
Australia’s cyber security spending to grow 11.5% this year
Highly publicised cyber attacks and growing regulatory obligations are keeping security and risk top of mind for Australian organisations this year, says Gartner
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18 Mar 2024
Nvidia unveils new AI Blackwell chip, microservices and more
The vendor launched a barrage of AI tech including faster chips in its new Blackwell infrastructure and new microservices that enable enterprises to create custom applications.
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18 Mar 2024
Spring Budget risks funding legally questionable police tech
Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police
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18 Mar 2024
Budgets rise as IT decision-makers ramp up cyber security spending
Few IT leaders surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study say they are spending less this year
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18 Mar 2024
Employees more comfortable than bosses with GenAI, research shows
While many workers are getting used to artificial intelligence, managers have concerns about the impact on jobs
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18 Mar 2024
Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections
Deep fake services advertised on Telegram and other platforms pose a risk to upcoming elections in Europe, Asia and the US
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18 Mar 2024
Liverpool to get AI hub for health and social care
Artificial intelligence platform set to use NHS Integrated Care System Data to make better and decisions for patients in Liverpool, with a focus on mental health services
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18 Mar 2024
G7 nations sign deal to harness AI potential
G7 nations will produce a joint report on how to increase artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, boost growth of the quantum sector and create an AI toolkit to inform policy-making
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18 Mar 2024
Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO
Benefits of artificial intelligence in public sector will only be realised if government ensures overall programme for adoption is supported by realistic plan to tackle range of longstanding barriers
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17 Mar 2024
UK’s AI ambitions pointless while cyber security is still neglected
The UK’s AI ambitions may be at considerable risk without stronger cyber defences across the private and public sectors
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15 Mar 2024
NHS to extend use of AI to cut waiting times and missed appointments
Following a pilot of AI software predicting likely missed appointments at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, 10 further trusts will deploy the system
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15 Mar 2024
Government pumps £1.1bn into tech skills training
Government funding will be used to allow more than 4,000 students to pursue PhDs in technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 6G
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14 Mar 2024
Home Office plans to give UK police forces auto-redaction technology
The department has funded a market review of redaction tools and aims to deliver AI-powered automated redaction tools to the police as quickly as possible
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14 Mar 2024
Oracle adds generative AI tools to Fusion CX applications
The new tools are among 50 generative AI features Oracle released for several Fusion applications, from CX to HR and supply chain.
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13 Mar 2024
Cerebras introduces next-gen AI chip for GenAI training
The new accelerator is for training large AI models. It powers the startup's CS-3 supercomputer, which is designed to train models that are 10 times larger than GPT-4 and Gemini.
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13 Mar 2024
Zendesk to acquire AI customer service bot startup Ultimate
Zendesk continues its acquisition spree with plans to buy partner Ultimate, making way for more straightforward integration of virtual agents.
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13 Mar 2024
EU AI Act sets global standard for managing AI
The EU AI Act will come into force in 2024, meaning that global enterprise businesses will need to take steps toward compliance.
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13 Mar 2024
Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April
After a year being previewed by beta customers, Microsoft’s much vaunted Copilot for Security service is about to go on general release, promising time savings and improved accuracy for hard-pressed security pros
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13 Mar 2024
Dataiku intros GenAI cost monitoring tool: LLM Cost Guard
The tool lets customers be provider-agnostic and can integrate with models from providers like OpenAI, AWS and Anthropic. It watches for overruns and differentiates between costs.
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13 Mar 2024
AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne
The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment
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12 Mar 2024
Meta intros two GPU training clusters for Llama 3
The Facebook parent company said the training clusters are part of its plans to grow its infrastructure and obtain 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year.
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12 Mar 2024
Cohere tackles some generative AI challenges with Command-R
The startup's new large language model aims to address problems with factual accuracies in generative AI models. It also focuses on language problems, and cloud and API challenges.
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12 Mar 2024
Labour will use AI to grow the economy by 0.5%, says shadow tech secretary Peter Kyle
The Labour Party plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in small businesses and across government to grow the economy, but transparency and building trust with the public will be key
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12 Mar 2024
Industry partnerships and data key to better public services
Using public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan
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12 Mar 2024
UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration
Declaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech
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12 Mar 2024
Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads
Software-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS
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12 Mar 2024
Digitally transforming government: MoJ and GDS on using mobile devices and GenAI to help people
During a fireside chat at the Tech Show London, GDS CEO Tom Read and the Ministry of Justice CDIO Gina Gill swapped stories on how their teams are using technology to improve the quality of life for citizens
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11 Mar 2024
Elon Musk plans to take xAI chatbot Grok open source
The move comes nearly two weeks after the Tesla owner filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. It also comes as more vendors are providing open source options for enterprise users.
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11 Mar 2024
Salesforce AI a work in progress for customers
While eager to embed AI in Salesforce software, customers acknowledge that planning, time and work are needed to make AI useful in the company's applications.
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11 Mar 2024
Podcast: A look at SambaNova's open source AI strategy
Despite sometimes being seen as a direct competitor to Nvidia Systems, the AI hardware and software vendor tries to distinguish itself by focusing on training open source models.
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11 Mar 2024
AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs
AI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia
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11 Mar 2024
Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise
While optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests
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11 Mar 2024
How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services
Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector
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07 Mar 2024
Microsoft whistleblower, OpenAI, the NYT, and ethical AI
The vendor has filed a memorandum to dismiss some of the arguments The New York Times made in its copyright lawsuit. However, it now faces criticism from its own software engineer.
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07 Mar 2024
Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI
The government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach
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07 Mar 2024
BA sets out plan to revamp IT, add AI and update website
Airline plans to migrate 700 systems to cloud and run custom version of Teams to support in-flight customer comms with ground staff
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07 Mar 2024
Indian government issues advisory to mitigate AI risks
Tech firms will require permission from the government to use and provide under-tested or unreliable AI models and software to Indian users
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07 Mar 2024
HP emphasises AI in partner programme enhancements
Vendor uses partner event to share details of changes coming in May, and its plans to increase support for partners keen to get involved with artificial intelligence
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06 Mar 2024
Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan
In his 2024 spring budget, Jeremy Hunt announced funding to use tech to improve productivity across the public sector, with most of the cash focused on digital initiatives in the NHS
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06 Mar 2024
Nation states buying hacking tools from underground Russian cyber forums
State-sponsored hacking groups, posing as hacktivists, are using Russian cyber crime forums to stock up on cyber weapons, says Check Point Software’s threat analyst, Sergey Shykevich
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06 Mar 2024
Salesforce users empowered to build no-code Einstein Copilots
Salesforce admins and developers can build custom generative AI assistants for workflows across the platform for sales, service, marketing and e-commerce.
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05 Mar 2024
Box AI adds Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service integration
Box adds Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to its lineup of AI tools for document summaries, joining Google's Vertex and OpenAI LLMs for users to choose from.
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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