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AWS, Udemy launch generative AI leadership training program
The six-week cohort will equip executives across industries with change management strategies and talent development skills.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 6, 2024 -
Snowflake aims to ease analytics headaches, embeds Nvidia AI in data cloud
The vendor-agnostic Polaris Catalog streamlines access across Apache Iceberg data tables and extends the company’s integrations with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
By Matt Ashare • June 5, 2024 -
Trendline
Generative AI
Companies are pushing technology executives to leverage generative AI, a task that requires customize strategies and the necessary guardrails.
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Norwegian Cruise charts AI adoption course after 15-month AWS migration
The cruise company moved more than 100 applications and thousands of virtual and physical servers among other assets.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 5, 2024 -
Best Buy balances tech and staff investments to boost customer experience
The retailer expects AI-powered review filters, personalized app home screens and dedicated staff in certain departments to improve shopping experiences.
By Bryan Wassel • June 5, 2024 -
SAP beefs up copilot, trains Joule to assist with ERP migrations
The ERP giant embedded its generative AI assistant across business solutions and expanded integrations with Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud.
By Matt Ashare • June 4, 2024 -
Most businesses lack a clear AI adoption roadmap: McKinsey
Usage has doubled among businesses in the last year, but CIOs still have a laundry list of to-do’s to prepare the tech foundation and governance structure.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 3, 2024 -
Nvidia unveils new chip as the AI processor war heats up
CEO Jensen Huang laid out a roadmap for the company’s next generation GPUs Sunday. Chipmakers AMD and Intel are racing to keep pace.
By Matt Ashare • June 3, 2024 -
AI use could lead to a busy work boom, Slack finds
Without the right guidance, employees will spend time gained with AI on more performative tasks, Slack SVP of Research and Analytics Christina Janzer said.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 3, 2024 -
Salesforce hits software sales slump, bets on AI adoption to boost business
The top CRM provider saw “elongated deal cycles, deal compression and high levels of budget scrutiny,” COO Brian Millham said Wednesday.
By Matt Ashare • May 30, 2024 -
Workplace generative AI use soars, but risks linger
“If the benefits of generative AI are becoming more visible, so are the risks,” consulting firm Altman Solon said in the report.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 30, 2024 -
PwC plans ChatGPT Enterprise rollout to 100K employees
The consulting firm is the first reseller of OpenAI’s business-focused tool and will offer customers the option to purchase access as part of the expanded partnership.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 29, 2024 -
OpenAI forms safety committee as it pushes next model development
The AI provider formed a safety and security committee Tuesday to assess safeguards and provide recommendations.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024 -
JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects
The bank estimates its AI use cases can deliver up to $1.5 billion in value, according to President and COO Daniel Pinto.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024 -
CIOs tap citizen developers for IT and operational efficiencies
All employees can be technologists when provided the right set of tools. But companies are gauging how much autonomy to give them.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • Updated May 30, 2024 -
AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says
Skills gaps continue to drive up competition for AI-related talent, boosting the importance of reskilling and upskilling.
By Carolyn Crist • May 24, 2024 -
Snowflake banks on building modestly sized AI models
“Companies are talking about spending billions of dollars. I don’t think we need to be there,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.
By Matt Ashare • May 24, 2024 -
Microsoft president set to testify before Congress on ‘security shortcomings’
After the tech giant asked for more time, Brad Smith will now testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 13.
By Matt Kapko • May 24, 2024 -
Nvidia CEO promises to deliver ‘a mound of chips’ as AI development speeds ahead
Cloud providers are “consuming every single chip that’s out there,” Jensen Huang said Wednesday. “We’re racing every single day.”
By Matt Ashare • May 23, 2024 -
Enterprises, pressed for time, accelerate AI spending
There’s a two-year window closing in on enterprises to adopt generative AI before losing out on competitive advantages, a Genpact and HFS Research report said.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 23, 2024 -
IBM beats Meta, OpenAI in Stanford transparency index
Vendors have improved transparency in the past seven months, but clarity around guardrail effectiveness and downstream impact still lags.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 22, 2024 -
Tech chiefs grapple with the latest driver of shadow IT
Emerging software capabilities like generative AI challenge leaders to weigh the risks of adoption against the needs of the enterprise.
By Matt Ashare • May 22, 2024 -
16 tech providers agree to nail down AI safety curbs
The Frontier AI Safety Commitments unveiled Tuesday in Seoul outline a series of voluntary steps to mitigate risk associated with AI systems.
By Roberto Torres • May 21, 2024 -
IBM, Salesforce infuse Einstein with Granite
The integration brings the watsonx multimodel platform into the CRM’s data cloud ecosphere as IBM pushes its LLM solutions into multiple clouds.
By Matt Ashare • May 21, 2024 -
Slack tweaks AI policy language after user backlash
The company is working to clarify the relationship between customer data and generative AI in its collaboration platform following user concern.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 21, 2024 -
Popular LLMs are insecure, UK AI Safety Institute warns
AI models released by “major labs” are highly vulnerable to even basic attempts to circumvent safeguards, the researchers found.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 20, 2024