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China makes its bid for global AI governance

Countries around the world are vying to set the tone for global regulation of artificial intelligence — and now China has set out its views on global cooperation in the sector.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 11, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI Government IT Governance

Accuracy concerns slow manufacturers’ gen AI adoption

Manufacturers also face technical and operational challenges, such as the need for retrofitting existing systems, that contribute to their hesitation in adopting generative AI.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 11, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI

AMD buys Silo AI to counter Nvidia

AMD's acquisition of Europe’s largest private AI lab is its third AI-themed deal in less than a year, the latest installment in its plan to build an AI stack to rival Nvidia's.

By John E. Dunn

Jul 11, 2024 1 min

Computer Components Generative AI Mergers and Acquisitions

Accenture acquires Excelmax to bolster chip design expertise

It's the consulting firm's second chip design acquisition, as it seeks to build up a new business area serving enterprises wanting to make custom semiconductors.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 10, 2024 2 mins

IT Consulting Services Mergers and Acquisitions Technology Industry

Can a technology mindset save Paramount?

Faced with competition from Apple, Amazon, and Netflix, the 112-year movie studio has agreed to be acquired by Skydance, led by Larry Ellison’s son David, who wants to transform it into a technology company too. Can IT save the storied movie-ma

By Evan Schuman

Jul 10, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Mergers and Acquisitions

Nvidia’s advanced chips have no trouble getting into China, despite US restrictions

Although sale of the chips to China is unauthorized, the trade is “barely concealed” and easily circumvents Commerce Department efforts, the Wall Street Journal reported.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 4, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI Nvidia

Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

According to Gartner, Broadcom’s new licensing models, which transition from enterprise license agreements to more complex consumption models, can force businesses to pay 2-3 times more.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 4, 2024 5 mins

Data Center Virtualization

Morgan Stanley’s gen AI launch is about global analysis

The ability to have near-real-time view into what every client and Morgan Stanley person is saying in calls has massive potential.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 1, 2024 9 mins

Financial Services Industry Generative AI

AI incident reporting shortcomings leave regulatory safety hole

Failures in generative AI can have safety-critical consequences, so why isn’t the technology being monitored in the same way as other safety-critical technologies such as aviation or medicine?

By John Leyden

Jul 1, 2024 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Laws and Regulations

MicroStrategy boosts HyperIntelligence with artificial intelligence

MicroStrategy has added a chat interface to its HyperIntelligence system to deliver context-sensitive business information through natural language queries.

By Maneesha Tiwari

Jun 28, 2024 4 mins

Business Intelligence Generative AI

New trade body wants to license training data for AI use

Trade bodies like this one could play a role in enforcing legislation like the NO FAKES Act and the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 27, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Legal Technology Industry

SAP publishes open source manifesto

SAP has made five commitments — make consistent contributions to the community, champion open standards, strive to adopt an open-first approach, nurture open source ecosystems, and adopt a feedback-driven approach.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 27, 2024 4 mins

Open Source SAP

White House executive order restricting data brokers enters effect — but to what end?

‘It’s such a paper tiger,’ publishing CIO says of new rule aimed at stopping the export of Americans’ protected personal information to countries of concern.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 26, 2024 3 mins

Data Governance Data Management Privacy

Stability.ai gets new CEO and investment dream team to start rescue mission

Heavyweight tech team and investors added to board as generative AI startup looks for route to survival.

By John E. Dunn

Jun 26, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Extensive AI use makes employees lonely, nervous

The initial euphoria of having fewer mundane tasks to perform soon gives way to fears of job loss, says a study in the Harvard Business Review.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 25, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

MuleSoft unveils composability solution for gen AI

The Salesforce subsidiary is bringing together parts of its existing portfolio and new capabilities to help organizations build AI services as building blocks for more complex applications.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 25, 2024 4 mins

Application Integration Business IT Alignment Generative AI

Great Resignation 3.0? Rising workload and skills gap push workers to consider job changes

A PwC survey, conducted among over 56,000 workers in 50 countries, revealed that 28% of respondents are likely to switch employers within the next year.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 25, 2024 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Employee Experience IT Jobs

SAP, Salesforce lead $356 billion enterprise applications market: IDC

The software giants were neck-and-neck as the overall enterprise software market grew 12% in 2023, said IDC.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 21, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI SAP Salesforce.com

Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet is here, and it’s free

Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to solve 64% of problems related to bug fixing and functionality additions with open source codebases, a significant improvement over Claude 3 Opus’ 38% success rate.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 21, 2024 1 min

Generative AI

Ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever launches new AI startup

Safe Superintelligence aims to be the world’s first “straight-shot” superintelligence lab.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 20, 2024 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft bolsters quantum platform with gen AI, molecular simulation capabilities

The company unveiled its Generative Chemistry and Accelerated DFT platform to shorten research time for chemical and material scientists.

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Jun 19, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI Quantum Computing Science Industry

European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails

The Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network comes to Europe after US launch in March.

By John E. Dunn

Jun 19, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Healthcare Industry IT Governance

HPE and Danfoss put excess data center heat to use

With power consumption projected to skyrocket, the companies have launched an enhanced modular data center that recovers heat generated in its operations for reuse elsewhere.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 19, 2024 3 mins

Data Center Design

What’s behind OpenAI’s appointment of an ex-NSA director to its board

The company has appointed retired US Army General Paul Nakasone to its new safety and security committee.

By Paul Barker

Jun 18, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI IT Governance

Salesforce debuts gen AI benchmark for CRM

The software company’s new generative AI evaluation tool for CRM will help businesses choose the best LLM for a given job.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 18, 2024 4 mins

CRM Systems Generative AI Salesforce.com

Atos grabs lifeline from Onepoint

Atos has accepted a financial restructuring proposal from Onepoint, and may also sell parts of its business to Alten and to the French government.

By Martin Bayer

Jun 14, 2024 5 mins

IT Consulting Services Managed IT Services Technology Industry

Epicor buys PIM vendor Kyklo: it’s more about the data

Analysts said the acquisition is a good move for Epicor, as it tries to deepen its revenue from current customers with more critical but niche data.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 13, 2024 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Manufacturing Industry Mergers and Acquisitions

US Air Force seeks generative AI test pilots

An experimental chatbot called NIPRGPT took off for the first time this week, and will soon see action.

By Paul Barker

Jun 13, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI Government IT

Kyndryl reportedly in talks to buy DXC Technology

If the deal goes through, CIOs struggling with legacy integration strategies may have some new options.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 12, 2024 3 mins

IT Consulting Services Managed IT Services Mergers and Acquisitions

IBM-HashiCorp: Shareholder lawsuit seeks to derail $6.4 billion acquisition

The suit accuses Hashicorp’s directors of favoring their own interests over those of shareholders.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 12, 2024 3 mins

IBM Infrastructure Management Mergers and Acquisitions

IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

CIOs and CSOs would save large enterprises $200 million a year if they could eliminate downtime — and should budget more for dealing with ransomware, according to research by Splunk.

By Shweta Sharma

Jun 11, 2024 3 mins

IT Operations Ransomware Security

Pega GenAI brings more LLMs to low-code automation workflows

Framework expansion adds integrations for AWS, Google Cloud LLMs, giving Pega customers new AI options for their use cases.

By Paul Barker

Jun 11, 2024 4 mins

Business Process Management Generative AI No Code and Low Code

AWS offers new AI certifications

The cloud services provider said that it will provide free and low-cost training to help people prepare for certification exams in AI and ML.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 11, 2024 2 mins

Certifications IT Skills and Training Machine Learning

Jury clears Autonomy CEO of fraud charges

The case stemmed from Hewlett-Packard’s 2011 purchase of Autonomy for $11.1 billion. Some have blamed former CEO Meg Whitman for not testifying in the case.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 7, 2024 4 mins

Fraud Legal Mergers and Acquisitions

Salesforce updates Sales and Service Cloud with new capabilities

The CRM software provider also said that the vector database inside Data Cloud is now generally available for enterprise use.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 6, 2024 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Generative AI Salesforce.com

Complaints in EU challenge Meta’s plans to utilize personal data for AI

The complaint underscores wider privacy concerns and raises the question of whether model users or model creators are responsible for compliance with privacy rules.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 6, 2024 1 min

Data Governance Generative AI Privacy

Responsible AI Institute offers new AI policy template

RAI’s plug-and-play offering is designed to let organizations develop concrete guidelines.

By Paul Barker

Jun 6, 2024 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance

Zoho updates its collaboration tools to help with asynchronous work

Zoho is focusing on AI, automation, and personalization with solutions customized for specific industries.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 6, 2024 1 min

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Project Management

AI avatars in the workplace: A tricky equation CIOs must prepare for

New genAI capabilities from Asana and a recent interview with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan show how important it may soon be for IT leaders to lead the discussion on AI avatar and human digital twin usage in the enterprise.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 5, 2024 7 mins

Generative AI IT Governance

SAP CEO Christian Klein: Everything we do contains AI

SAP wants to revolutionize the way users work with SAP systems with the help of AI.

By Martin Bayer

Jun 5, 2024 5 mins

Enterprise Applications Generative AI SAP

SAP to buy digital adoption specialist WalkMe for $1.5 billion

After Signavio and LeanIX, SAP is acquiring the Israeli provider WalkMe to help user companies with their digital transformation.

By Martin Bayer

Jun 5, 2024 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Mergers and Acquisitions SAP

SAP embeds Joule in entire enterprise portfolio, plans integration to other AIs

Joule could communicate with other AIs to complete more complex tasks spanning multiple applications, SAP suggests.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 4, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI SAP

SAP adds more tools for developers on its platform

Behind the scenes, SAP is also using AI to extend the capabilities of its Business Technology Platform.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 4, 2024 5 mins

Analytics Enterprise Applications Generative AI

Microsoft vs CISPE: No agreement in cloud dispute

Since February, European cloud providers have been negotiating with Microsoft about its allegedly anti-competitive practices, but there is still no agreement in sight.

By Martin Bayer

Jun 3, 2024 3 mins

Laws and Regulations Microsoft Software Licensing

PwC integrates ChatGPT Enterprise into its practice, becomes a reseller

But the advice you get will be vetted by a human expert, the company promises.

By Lynn Greiner

May 30, 2024 3 mins

Generative AI PwC

NIST launches ambitious effort to assess LLM risks

The standards entity’s ARIA program attempts to establish guidelines on large language model (LLM) risks — a ‘delicate and challenging concept,’ according to industry experts.

By Evan Schuman

May 29, 2024 6 mins

Data Governance Generative AI IT Governance

Former OpenAI board member tells all about Altman’s ousting

Helen Toner speaks about why she voted Altman out, and why AI governance is so important.

By Paul Barker

May 29, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI Laws and Regulations

SAP AI pact with AWS offers customers more gen AI options

SAP wants to work more closely with AWS on AI, complementing existing partnerships with Google and Microsoft.

By Martin Bayer

May 29, 2024 3 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI SAP

Ex-Open AI researcher Jan Leike joins Anthropic amid AI safety concerns

Leike’s departure from OpenAI was one of several recent high-profile exits based on the premise that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat” at the ChatGPT creator.

By Gyana Swain

May 29, 2024 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance Technology Industry

OpenAI sets up new safety body in wake of staff departures

After losing a number of senior staff over disputes about oversight of its technology, OpenAI is creating new governance structures as it embarks on the development of its next-generation AI model.

By Elizabeth Montalbano

May 28, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI IT Governance