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• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  FTC wants vendors to stop lying about 'AI-powered' products

  As AI's popularity grows with trendy tools such as ChatGPT, the federal agency warns vendors that are lying about how their products are built or performing.

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  Snapchat's My AI uses ChatGPT, but not all enterprises can

  The social media app's new AI chatbot uses the latest OpenAI technology. However, OpenAI's privacy policy might make it difficult for enterprises to use the large language model.

• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  Infrastructure to support Open AI's ChatGPT could be costly

  Corporate users looking to implement OpenAI's ChatGPT internally likely need to upgrade infrastructure with a massive number of GPUs.

• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  Meta's Llama enters the generative AI fray with ChatGPT, Bard

  Trailing rivals Microsoft and Google, the Facebook parent company plunged into the surging large language model market with its own powerful interactive AI chatbot, Llama.

• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  ElevenLabs and the risks of voice-generating AI

  The startup's technology is popular among content creators and also bad actors who use it maliciously. But the AI voice platform also raises the issue of what's real and fake.

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• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  How ChatGPT can advance AI in the law industry

  AI technology has made it easier for lawyers to do their job effectively. The emergence of generative AI is no exception. But lawyers who use this tool must do so responsibly.

• February 22, 2023 22 Feb'23

  AWS, Hugging Face and the growing generative AI competition

  The tech giant and LLM vendor team up as rivalry intensifies between Microsoft and Google in the generative AI war. The partnership is Amazon's response to the competition.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  VR platform aims to give retailers entry into the metaverse

  Through a partnership with SAP, Obsess integrated the e-commerce platform within its virtual stores to create an interface that engages young consumers.

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  Nvidia and Intel partner to power new workstations

  The new workstations will bring together powerful AI computing, rendering and simulation horsepower for data science workloads and media and healthcare enterprises.

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  ChatGPT bursts into Microsoft Bing as Google Bard rises

  The AI search race heated up as Microsoft infused its struggling Bing search engine with OpenAI technology and Google introduced Bard, a lightweight version of its LaMDA chatbot.

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  Federal report focuses on AI diversity and ethics

  A national group formed to advance the research and development of AI in the U.S. proposes ways to add more variety among students, educators and researchers studying AI.

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Implications of AI art lawsuits for copyright laws

  Lawsuits filed by Getty Images and several artists could determine whether generative AI developers can use copyrighted materials as part of their training data sets.

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  How a digital retail firm uses enterprise search

  Glean trains language models based on a customer's documents and other stored content. Its platform sits on users' technology stack to provide for smooth integration.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  ChatGPT could boost phishing scams

  The conversational AI tool could make it hard to detect attackers due to how conversant and grammatically correct it is. A way to combat that is to create a detector.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Microsoft bets on AI to drive next wave of cloud, revenues

  While Microsoft revenues grew slightly in its second fiscal quarter, the company's cloud revenues continue to stall as users become more conservative with their IT spending.

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  What Microsoft's new investment in OpenAI means for Google

  The investment was expected as ChatGPT drew immediate worldwide attention. Observers now look to Google to see how the dominant search vendor will respond to ChatGPT's popularity.

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  AI21 intros text-generating AI capability that cites sources

  AI vendor AI21 Labs' Wordtune Spices is a writing assistant that provides users with different text options and links to sources so that writers know where the information is from.

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  DataStax acquires ML vendor as part of AI evolution

  The acquisition will let customers apply machine learning to real-time events. It is a natural step toward AI technology for the vendor as it looks to stay competitive.

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Nvidia intros new workflows to stem retail theft

  Retailers such as Target and Rite Aid have reported huge losses due to theft. Computer vision and image recognition tools can help identify and track products.

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  The chances of Microsoft using ChatGPT to challenge Google

  The tech giant likely is looking to incorporate OpenAI's platform into Bing to rival Google. While the AI platform has been popular among consumers, many believe it needs work.

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Nvidia, Intel team up on energy efficient AI server

  Nvidia and Intel go from competitors to partners by jointly developing a system designed to push heavy AI workloads and offer users significant energy savings.

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  AI platform helps medical company screen babies' eyes

  Startup Iris Technology unveils its new platform for 200 users. Medical AI company Pr3vent uses the platform to train its AI model and remove bias from its model.

• January 06, 2023 06 Jan'23

  AMD doubles down on AI with new Ryzen 7000 chips

  Looking to take on market leader Nvidia, AMD unveiled its first Ryzen 7000 series chip that includes a built-in AI engine to speed artificial intelligence content creation.

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Nvidia adds generative AI suite to Omniverse platform

  The AI hardware/software vendor released new generative AI tools for developers. It also updated its Omniverse Enterprise platform and introduced registration for avatar builders.

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Biggest AI news of 2022

  From misinformation and disinformation in the war in Ukraine to James Earl Jones lending his voice to voice cloning, these are the most notable stories of the year.

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Four AI trends to look for in 2023

  From a new algorithm law to combat hiring bias in New York City to the growth of generative tools and technologies, AI will keep growing and be used by more enterprises next year.

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Lensa AI app mixes up data, privacy and representation

  The app generates avatars from users' images. While the terms and conditions worry critics, the avatars provide representation of racial groups not usually seen in art.

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  Making avatars and metaverse technologies more mature

  While a digital human is likely to capture the attention of enterprises, those interacting with the avatar see ways the virtual being can be improved to help humans.

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  Diversity within your AI team can reduce bias

  The CEO of the Women Leaders in Data and AI group discusses why including women and other underrepresented groups on AI teams can help to address the problem of AI bias.

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  How enterprises determine whether to buy or build AI models

  From the USPS to appliance company Conair, organizations employing machine learning technology sometimes need to determine whether it's better to buy or build capabilities.

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS adds governance, geospatial tools to Amazon SageMaker

  The cloud computing giant added data governance and geospatial tools to its machine learning platform and provided 40 new data connectors to Data Wrangler.

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Apple's AI-powered RoomPlan complements a design app

  Interior design company Planner 5D introduced an API feature created by Apple that enables app users to quickly scan rooms without taking too much time to draw and trace manually.

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  How Cisco uses AI to find diverse suppliers

  The digital communications technology giant employs machine learning vendor Tealbook to gain access to data that fits the types of suppliers it wants.

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Enterprise applications of the metaverse slow but coming

  From holographic avatars to training surgeons, metaverse applications for enterprises are many. But the technology for organizations is still in its infancy.

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  What Microsoft, Nvidia AI supercomputer partnership means

  The public cloud supercomputer will incorporate A100 and H100 GPUs and the chipmaker's AI enterprise software suite. It will enable enterprises to build large AI models at scale.

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Finding what differentiates Cerebras' AI supercomputer

  The vendor's new technology enables organizations that might not have the money to build their own supercomputer to try the technology and see what they can accomplish with it.

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Intel deepfake detector raises questions

  The vendor created a detector that uses facial blood flow to determine if a video subject is fake or real. However, its effectiveness to detect a real or fake video is unclear.

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Augmentation a better approach than automation for AI

  Fears that robots will replace human workers grow as technologists create new tools that imitate what humans do. Instead, industries should focus on using AI to complement humans.

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Finding value in AI in the age of digitization

  Even as enterprises invest in AI technology, they are not applying it strategically, although they attempt to change their operations to become more focused on technology.

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  James Earl Jones, AI and the growing voice cloning market

  The growing text-to-speech and speech-to-speech market is sparking new enterprise applications. However, the technologies also raise concerns about privacy and misuse of the tools.

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Staying relevant in process mining: Celonis' challenge

  The vendor recently announced a $1 billion funding extension. But despite its popularity for process mining, Celonis faces competition from more vendors entering the market.

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  IBM expands embeddable AI software with NLP capabilities

  The addition to embeddable AI comes one week after IBM introduced its new AI chip. The libraries aim to make it easier for developers to use the Watson application.

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  AI groups work to tune, release large language models

  CarperAI, Scale AI and other research groups have partnered to deliver instruction-tuned language models as the NLP market grows.

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  CRM and BPM vendor Pegasystems adds new AI features

  The CRM and business process management vendor, looking to scale up, introduced new features for business users, service representatives and call center customers.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure incorporates Nvidia GPUs and AI

  Nvidia GPU chips will support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Also, OCI users will have access to Nvidia's Enterprise AI system and Clara healthcare-specialized platform.

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  New Microsoft AI tools aim at business end users

  Microsoft released new features for the Azure Cognitive Services suite, as well as a Form Recognizer and Responsible AI dashboard aimed at both data scientists and business users.

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud introduces new AI tools for business users

  The tech giant released new a translation hub aimed at business users, a computer vision feature for the Vertex AI platform, and the OpenXLA Project open source initiative.

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  The long-term answer to fixing bias in AI systems

  The technology is exploding with new developments daily. However, problems with training data can lead to bias. Fixing it requires retraining the data and educating users.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  The creative thief: AI tools creating generated art

  AI systems such as OpenAI's Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are used to create striking images. But it can be unclear if the images are inspired by others or stolen.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Automation and digital assistants in a post-pandemic world

  From the food industry to manufacturing and healthcare, enterprises are looking for more ways to enhance their businesses and scale their growth with digital automation.

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  RPA vendor Automation Anywhere aims at process discovery

  While the vendor's new platform is geared towards automation, the market is shifting. Many enterprises are now moving away from RPA and toward process mining and discovery.

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  AI Bill of Rights blueprint lacks enforceability

  The AI Bill of Rights blueprint offers guidance to businesses, but the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy cannot enforce its recommendations.

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Digital twin consortium accelerates growth of the technology

  Through its working groups, the consortium helps organizations deal with challenges in managing systems and data related to the technology. The subgroups publish their findings.

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  DataRobot-managed AI cloud now generally available

  With the managed version of its cloud platform, the vendor will run machine learning projects for enterprises that don't want them on the public cloud.

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Chipotle pilots AI systems to assist workers and diners

  The fast-food chain is trying out AI-powered cook assistants and consumer experience programs. Its tortilla-making bot will start making chips for some consumers next month.

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Domino Data Lab partnerships target AI project management

  The vendor has integrated its Nexus MLOps platform with Nvidia GPU architecture and the NetApp data management and storage system to help organizations better deploy ML projects.

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Nvidia unveils Omniverse Cloud for metaverse applications

  The new service lets enterprises build metaverse applications. The vendor also introduced new large language model services and unveiled upgrades to its H100 hardware line.

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Jabra provides sentiment analysis with first AI software

  The new SaaS offering voice coaches agents and provides self-coaching assessments and personalized evaluations. The vendor also introduced two new headsets.

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  AI vendor SambaNova intros next generation of DataScale

  The AI vendor released an updated version of its DataScale system. The new system boasts improved performance and expanded memory for enterprises working with large models.

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  How Loram reduces distracted driving with AI technology

  The road and rail maintenance company employs technology from a startup AI vendor with a computer vision and deep learning device that alerts unfocused fleet truck drivers.

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  National Grid saves $2 million by partnering with AI startup

  The gas and electric company used AiDash to realize efficiencies and improve reliability and vegetation management in Massachusetts after a challenging year.

• September 01, 2022 01 Sep'22

  Nvidia now needs special license to export AI chips to China

  The requirement applies to the vendor's A100 and H100 chips. It will also affect competitor AMD's M123O chips. The U.S. move will keep China from accessing advanced GPUs.

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Panera's AI drive-through test addresses labor concerns

  The restaurant chain is using Tori, a voice assistant from startup OpenCity. The company says its goal is to redirect employees from the drive-through lines to other tasks.

• August 26, 2022 26 Aug'22

  Troubled AI vendor DataRobot hit by more layoffs

  The layoffs come after the former CEO quit amid criticism that he and top execs dumped stock as the company's financial outlook dimmed. The AI vendor is now in downsizing mode.

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  New funding for Anyscale boosts popular Ray AI platform

  The startup raised $99 million and released a new version of its open source framework, which helps enterprises scale AI workloads and projects with available resources.

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Why you need to consider using small data to train AI models

  A smaller data set makes sense for certain applications, such as intelligent document processing. It is not helpful in cases in which a large volume is needed to avoid mistakes.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  A hyper-personalized AI platform for community finance

  Using the vendor's Cortex AI platform, DeepTarget created a digital experience platform that community finance institutions can use to predict what consumers will buy.

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Facing labor shortage, pizza franchise turns to AI phone bot

  Jet's Pizza says OrderAI Talk frees up employees, keeps consumers from enduring long wait times and is an option for those who prefer using the phone to text ordering.

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Lessons enterprises can learn from Meta BlenderBot 3

  The tech giant's AI chatbot raises concerns on how enterprises can train natural language generative systems without creating controversial and damaging products.

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  Nvidia targets metaverse with new Omniverse Avatar Engine

  The vendor's new cloud engine will help organizations easily build avatars and digital assistants. Nvidia also revealed plans to evolve USD with partners such as Pixar.

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  CHIPS Act targets emerging technologies including quantum, AI

  While semiconductors have grabbed most of the attention with the CHIPS and Science Act, emerging tech such as quantum and AI figures to grab a generous share of the $280 billion.

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Abbyy aims intelligent document processing at business users

  Since its birth three decades ago, Abbyy's trajectory has shifted from old-line OCR tech to the forefront of the fast-growing intelligent document processing sector.

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  New AI ethics advisory board will deal with challenges

  Created by the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, the board will help organizations without internal audit boards but will face some challenges.

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  How the economic downturn is affecting the AI sector

  Enterprise budget cutting is slowing AI projects. Vendors may not feel the impact now but likely won't be spared. Meanwhile, venture capitalists have cut back investments.

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  UiPath acquires NLP vendor in effort to expand beyond RPA

  The vendor's acquisition aligns with its strategy of expanding beyond its robotic process automation footprint to try to compete more effectively with tech giants.

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  A closer look at what makes the AI tool Dall-E powerful

  The language processing tool differs from most chatbots because it has access to specialized data sets. This makes it powerful, but also potentially dangerous.

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine discusses sentient AI

  Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine discusses why LaMDA and other AI systems may be considered sentient and explains exactly how much AI systems know about consumers.

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Deepfake technology risky but intriguing for enterprises

  Enterprises can generate synthetic data sets with the technology. It is useful in broadcast and for advertising. However, its privacy and political implications can be dangerous.

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  OpenAI Dall-E could spark enterprise creativity

  The natural language tool could entice enterprise users who create content and are interested in the metaverse -- if it can pass muster with the corporate compliance team.

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  DataRobot CEO resigns amid turmoil

  DataRobot CEO Dan Wright resigned amid turmoil surrounding 'immoral' stock sales and layoffs. His departure follows the protest resignation of DataRobot's chief AI evangelist last week.

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  AI predictive analytics startup aims for data analysts

  Pecan AI has raised $116 million for its predictive business intelligence platform aimed at data and business analysts. The platform automates model building and deployment.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  AI21 secures $64M in funding as NLP market grows

  AI21 Labs is now worth $664 million. Its growth shows the demand for more language models and tools despite the dominance of models like OpenAI's GPT-3, GPT-J and GPT-Neo.

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  AI for video editing: How one startup is doing it

  The vendor's Magnifi platform enables enterprises to generate clips from live or prerecorded videos. The platform uses AI and computer vision to create short clips.

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Green AI tackles effects of AI, ML on climate change

  AI and ML are making a significant contribution to climate change. Developers can help reverse the trend with best practices and tools to measure carbon efficiency.

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  Salesforce CodeGen lead discusses AI-generated programming

  The head of Salesforce's open source, AI-assisted no-code project discusses the company's approach to AI moving forward, as well as what users might see next on the roadmap.

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  Siemens forges digital twin deal with Nvidia for metaverse

  The industrial powerhouse partners with AI hardware/software vendor Nvidia on digital twins, a metaverse technology increasingly used in industrial and manufacturing settings.

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Microsoft reins in AI facial and voice recognition tech

  The tech giant plans to rein in some of its AI technologies based on facial and voice recognition to reduce or eliminate bias and discrimination and aim for 'inclusive AI.'

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  Alternative data, multimodal AI tech produce new insights

  AI fuels the delivery of new sources of investment and corporate information, such as satellite imagery, contact center audio logs, employee sentiment and social media data.

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  Microsoft invites access to Azure OpenAI Service, GPT-3

  Microsoft has invited corporate developers to apply for access to its cloud-based AI model for natural language processing. The service was invitation only.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  IBM Think 2022 news, trends and analysis

  AI adoption is driving advancement of cybersecurity and other business processes. At IBM Think 2022, enterprise leaders will learn how to capitalize on game-changing technologies.

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  Domino Data Lab releases latest MLOps platform update

  Domino 5.2 includes new features for data scientists to find the best model development environment and use Snowflake by automating model deployment to Snowflake's Data Cloud.

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  TeamViewer's AiStudio: AI is the next evolution for AR

  Frontline's new add-on enables enterprises to train models for image and object recognition. The system can detect shop floor warning signs and other safety problems.

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  AI's effects on climate change: Both good and bad

  With more companies building supercomputers and infrastructure that requires a lot of compute power, AI may be doing more harm than good to the planet.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  How a startup uses a facial recognition engine during COVID-19

  Sentry Interactive uses an AI facial recognition system in its Tower platform, a device that enables organizations to help people safely and securely enter buildings.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  HPE targets machine learning with AI platforms

  The Machine Learning Development System is a full stack of software and hardware for training and building models. Swarm Learning enables enterprises to share data at the edge.

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Chatbots and a tortilla-making robot: Chipotle's AI

  The restaurant chain uses the technology to provide recommendations to customers, help with complaints and improve its inventory system. It is also testing out AI in the kitchen.

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Combating AI bias in the financial sector

  Companies must use explainable AI to avoid making unfair and biased decisions about consumers. Some use machine learning tools; others avoid personally identifying information.

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  How Cerebras CS-2 update stands up to competitors' offerings

  The AI vendor's update now includes tighter support for PyTorch and TensorFlow. Focused on complex deep learning applications, Cerebras competes with Microsoft Azure and Nvidia.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Making AI systems responsible, competitive and functional

  Many enterprises have a tough time building fair and trustworthy models. Doing so could be profitable for enterprises, while not doing so could be catastrophic.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Monitaur makes AI governance tool generally available

  GovernML helps enterprises determine policies surrounding responsible and ethical AI. It also helps enterprises determine their risk management policies.