TechTarget News
News from TechTarget's global network of independent journalists. Stay current with the latest news stories. Browse thousands of articles covering hundreds of focused tech and business topics available on TechTarget's platform.Latest News
-
08 May 2024
Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges
By Bill GoodwinA ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states
-
07 May 2024
Red Hat OpenShift AI links LLMs into hybrid cloud
By Beth PariseauAn extensively updated OpenShift AI will underpin RHEL AI and, if Red Hat has its way, enterprises' AI infrastructure from the edge to the public cloud.
-
07 May 2024
SentinelOne: Ransomware actors are adapting to EDR
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, SentinelOne's Alex Samos discussed ongoing global threats such as ransomware and how threat actors are changing their techniques.
- Latest news from around the world
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
-
27 Jul 2023
Box unveils plugin for Microsoft Copilot, tighter integration
By Mary ReinesThe new integration lets joint customers use the tech giant's generative AI assistant to collaborate quicker with shared content summarization and querying.
-
27 Jul 2023
Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy
By Cliff SaranThe owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs
-
26 Jul 2023
AWS targets generative AI at NYC Summit
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant updated its Bedrock Platform with new foundation models and a new foundation model provider. It also introduced new services for developers and health professionals.
-
26 Jul 2023
U.S. senators sharpen focus on AI regulations
By Makenzie HollandLicensing AI systems, creating a federal AI agency, and establishing third-party testing and auditing regimes are just some of the AI regulation ideas U.S. senators are pursuing.
-
26 Jul 2023
AWS unveils generative AI tools for QuickSight BI platform
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant introduced two natural language processing features aimed at making dashboard developers more efficient and enabling more business users to work with data.
-
26 Jul 2023
Smartsheet's new AI tools answer queries, visualize data
By Mary ReinesThe project management vendor unveiled generative AI tools that visualize data insights, give guidance with a virtual assistant, generate formulas and create captions for visuals.
-
26 Jul 2023
Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy
By Aaron TanCloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas
-
26 Jul 2023
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue
-
26 Jul 2023
AWS seeks to teach executives about generative AI
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider is releasing five courses that will help developers understand how to use some of its applications. It's also providing two courses for executives.
-
25 Jul 2023
Wayfair and the generative AI boom
By Esther AjaoThe online home and furniture retailer is using the technology despite challenges such as unauthorized use of data and maintaining data privacy. It also released a room-planning tool.
-
24 Jul 2023
Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations that go all in on security AI and automation tend to incur lower financial costs when they experience a data breach incident, according to an IBM report
-
21 Jul 2023
Lack of agreement on AI rules in U.S., EU gives China a leg up
By Makenzie HollandWhile the EU and China have proposed AI rules, the U.S. is continuing a hands-off regulatory approach, which could affect its role in helping set the rules of the AI road.
-
21 Jul 2023
AI hype far exceeds its use within enterprises
By Antone GonsalvesExperts say most organizations are holding back on spending while investigating the cost, legal liabilities and data privacy risks associated with generative AI use.
-
21 Jul 2023
SAP’s Klein sees $1tn market for AI business software
By Cliff SaranEnterprise software company embeds AI across product portfolio to improve efficiency in business processes
-
20 Jul 2023
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
-
20 Jul 2023
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, DWP
By Lis EvenstadOnly 13 weeks into his new role, the Department for Work and Pensions’ CDIO speaks to Computer Weekly about plans for artificial intelligence, data modernisation and how to complete a business plan in record time
-
19 Jul 2023
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
By Aaron TanIaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner
-
19 Jul 2023
Meta Llama 2 brings new opportunity for enterprises
By Esther AjaoThe new LLM version is open for commercial use, meaning enterprises can train and experiment with it more. The social media giant also expanded its partnership with Microsoft.
-
19 Jul 2023
Qualtrics uses AI to analyze customer needs for better CX
By Mary ReinesQualtrics unveils new generative AI tools to minimize time spent searching for and disseminating customer feedback and creating text responses to increase brand loyalty.
-
19 Jul 2023
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence
-
19 Jul 2023
‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute
-
19 Jul 2023
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
By Alex ScroxtonA newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn
-
19 Jul 2023
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
By Cliff SaranThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
-
18 Jul 2023
A look at writers' battle to get AI vendors to pay them
By Esther AjaoAn Authors Guild open letter asks vendors to pay for works previously used to train generative AI systems and calls for lawmakers to tighten copyright laws.
-
18 Jul 2023
Microsoft releases Sales Copilot, teases Insights tools
By Mary ReinesThe tech giant released generative AI-supported functions for sellers to generate text and summaries, and unveiled new Dynamics 365 Customer Insights tools for marketers.
-
17 Jul 2023
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
By Aaron TanZoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market
-
14 Jul 2023
UCLH uses machine learning to cope with emergency beds demand
By Lis EvenstadUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a machine learning tool which uses real-time data to predict how many emergency beds will be needed
-
13 Jul 2023
Civil society groups call on EU to put human rights at centre of AI Act
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of civil society groups are calling on EU institutions to prioritise people and human rights in AI legislation as secretive negotiations begin
-
13 Jul 2023
Anthropic AI assistant differs from ChatGPT and Bard
By Esther AjaoThe new genAI product rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard. However, the research vendor is pushing it mainly to enterprises, while focusing on data privacy and security.
-
13 Jul 2023
CaixaBank adds hundreds more IT professionals to support digital transformation
By Karl FlindersCaixaBank is recruiting 200 more IT professionals in Spain to support its ongoing digital transformation
-
12 Jul 2023
Digital public services ‘riddled’ with problems, says TUC
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in how new technologies are being developed, deployed and controlled
-
12 Jul 2023
Forensic Institute provides Hansken viewing method for Dutch lawyers
By Kim LoohuisDutch lawyers can now view crypto communication in criminal cases from their own workplace via digital search engine Hansken. Previously, this had to be done at an external location
-
10 Jul 2023
Alibaba Cloud debuts AI image generator
By Aaron TanThe cloud supplier’s Tongyi Wanxiang generative AI model can respond to text prompts in Chinese and English to generate detailed images in an array of styles
-
10 Jul 2023
U.S. concern about generative AI risks prompts NIST study
By Makenzie HollandA new working group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will build on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to address generative AI.
-
10 Jul 2023
Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri
By Brian McKennaThe Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change
-
07 Jul 2023
House of Lords launches an investigation into generative AI
By Cliff SaranThe government wants the UK to lead AI regulation, but technology is developing at a breakneck pace
-
05 Jul 2023
Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption
By Caroline DonnellyGoogle's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy
-
03 Jul 2023
Driving synergies in digital healthcare
By Pratima HarigunaniAs group CIO of API Holdings, Chandresh Dedhia has been driving synergies across a spectrum of digital healthcare businesses to create operational efficiency and other business outcomes
-
03 Jul 2023
Salesforce to invest $4bn in its UK business over five years
By Brian McKennaAt its recent London conference, Salesforce UK managing director Zahra Bahrololoumi announced the supplier will invest $4bn in its own UK business over the next five years
-
30 Jun 2023
AI can never be given control over combat decisions, Lords told
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonArtificial intelligence is technically incapable of distinguishing between the complex contextual factors of combat situations, and will likely never be able to, according to legal and software experts
-
30 Jun 2023
Salesforce brings more AI tools to Sales GPT and Service GPT
By Mary ReinesThe CRM giant brings generative AI-supported tools like message creation and call summaries to sales and service workers, and teams with Deloitte Digital for AI safety resources.
-
29 Jun 2023
Resume company builds non-biased generative AI feature
By Esther AjaoWorkStory used startup Armilla AI's AutoAlign platform. The platform tunes open source large language models and acts as a guardrail for non-open source ones.
-
29 Jun 2023
‘Shadow’ AI use becoming a driver of insider cyber risk
By Alex ScroxtonOff-the-books use of generative AI tools will inevitably lead to a costly, high-profile data breach for someone, but a little attention paid to appropriate data management policy can help mitigate the risk
-
29 Jun 2023
The Finnish Food Authority uses AI to accelerate research
By Karl FlindersResearchers have reduced the time taken to get critical insights into potential public health crises and address issues in real-time, through artificial intelligence
-
28 Jun 2023
Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues
-
27 Jun 2023
New AWS service targets data security, genAI feature to come
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider's new service helps employees within organizations be more productive while securing their work. The vendor will add a generative AI feature in the future.
-
27 Jun 2023
Snowflake targets generative AI with new capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor unveiled new features -- including new containerization capabilities in Snowpark -- to create a secure environment for developers to build LLM-infused applications.
-
27 Jun 2023
UK AI plans offer ‘inadequate’ human rights protection, says EHRC
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s equality watchdog says the government must properly consider human rights when implementing rules to regulate artificial intelligence, as current plan offers little protection
-
27 Jun 2023
Infosys to acquire Danske Bank Indian IT centre as part of $454m outsourcing deal
By Karl FlindersAgreement will accelerate Danske Bank’s digital transformation and widen Infosys’ growing customer base in the Nordic region.
-
26 Jun 2023
Databricks acquiring MosaicML to add more generative AI
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse vendor's purchase of the generative AI vendor will enable customers to build and train language models specific to their needs by using their own data.
-
26 Jun 2023
Office workers feel AI is better than a human boss
By Cliff SaranUK and US workers are quitting their jobs due to frustrations with how they are being managed – and some feel AI can be a better boss
-
25 Jun 2023
Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut
By Aaron TanMongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database
-
23 Jun 2023
Tesla full self-drive software and autonomous vehicle safety
By Esther AjaoThe automaker gave North American users access to its full self-driving system in 2022. However, critics say it fails to perform basic tasks and could lead to catastrophic results.
-
23 Jun 2023
Government announces £21m AI diagnostic fund as NHS hits 75
By Brian McKennaTo coincide with the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the NHS, the government has announced a £21m fund for NHS trusts to buy diagnostic tools that use artificial intelligence
-
22 Jun 2023
Mastercard, Moderna expect AI to improve jobs, productivity
By Patrick ThibodeauThe HR chiefs at Mastercard and Moderna see much potential in AI's future and ability to help their organizations. That includes helping them shape upskilling programs.
-
22 Jun 2023
AWS invests $100 million in new generative AI program
By Esther AjaoThe Generative AI Innovation Center will connect AWS machine learning experts and data scientists with enterprises. Enterprises can also use AWS services to train and scale models.
-
22 Jun 2023
How Vedanta is harnessing tech in aluminium production
By Pratima HarigunaniIndia’s largest aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is using industrial internet of things devices to improve emissions control and robotic process automation to improve efficiency, among other digitisation efforts
-
21 Jun 2023
Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023
By Karl FlindersBanks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed
-
21 Jun 2023
The security interviews: Exploiting AI for good and for bad
By Cliff SaranThe chief product officer of AI security firm Darktrace explains how large language AI models are making it harder for people to spot email attacks
-
21 Jun 2023
Belgian researchers build energy-efficient AI frameworks
By Pat BransResearchers in Belgium are working on a new generation of platforms to support artificial intelligence applications in an energy-efficient manner
-
20 Jun 2023
HPE offers Cray supercomputer cloud service for AI models
By Ed ScannellHPE unveils cloud AI services powered by its Cray supercomputers working in tandem with a version of its GreenLake for Large Language Models.
-
20 Jun 2023
Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance
By Karl FlindersJapanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance
-
20 Jun 2023
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’
By Brian McKennaBill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
-
20 Jun 2023
Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce
By Lis EvenstadThe government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology
-
16 Jun 2023
Dremio adds first generative AI-infused tool, intros others
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's initial generative AI-infused tool is Text-to-SQL, which enables customers to work with data using natural language that automatically gets translated to code.
-
16 Jun 2023
Latest ONS data shows that 10% of UK businesses plan to adopt AI
By Cliff SaranThe Office for National Statistics has found that UK adults are aware they have been using AI-based chatbots, and approximately one in six businesses are implementing AI applications
-
16 Jun 2023
Citi US Personal Banking turns to AI to ‘delight’ customers with personalised services
By Bill GoodwinCitigroup’s US Personal Banking business has created a repository of customer data and is rolling out a decision engine to provide customers with personalised services
-
16 Jun 2023
Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments
By Aaron TanLenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner
-
15 Jun 2023
BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification
By Caroline DonnellyThe British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content
-
15 Jun 2023
Department for Education plans to assess AI risk and benefits
By Cliff SaranThe department has begun a consultation looking at the role of generative artificial intelligence in education
-
14 Jun 2023
US won't follow in EU's footsteps with AI regulation
By Makenzie HollandWhile the European Union tries to get in front of how companies use AI by adopting regulatory measures, the U.S. could take a different tack -- litigation.
-
14 Jun 2023
EU AI act passes a significant milestone
By Cliff SaranThe European Union’s AI Act will ban the use of artificial intelligence to profile people based on race or gender and prohibit use of biometric identification in public spaces
-
14 Jun 2023
How an ML engineer cut his teeth in AI
By Pratima HarigunaniMachine learning engineer Saurabh Agarwal talks up his career journey in artificial intelligence and what it takes for one to succeed in the field
-
13 Jun 2023
Oracle plans to provide generative AI services with Cohere
By Esther AjaoFollowing Microsoft's strategy, the big tech vendor allied with a startup to get into the generative AI market. It plans to integrate the services with business applications
-
13 Jun 2023
Artificial intelligence creates 40,000 new roles at Accenture
By Karl FlindersAccenture is planning to add thousands of AI experts to its workforce as part of a $3bn investment in its data and artificial intelligence practice
-
13 Jun 2023
London Tech Week: Keir Starmer calls for AI job loss discussion
By Cliff SaranLabour leader sees a need for a broad regulatory framework and a frank discussion with business to inform policy around job losses arising from artificial intelligence
-
13 Jun 2023
Salesforce moves forward with secure, private generative AI
By Mary ReinesWith its new AI Cloud and built-in Einstein GPT Trust Layer, The CRM and CX vendor is investing in generative AI technology and adding data security and privacy features.
-
12 Jun 2023
Nvidia and Hexagon collab to create digital twin products
By Esther AjaoThe vendors will integrate Hexagon's reality capture technology and Nexus manufacturing platforms with Omniverse, Nvidia's system for developing and creating metaverse apps.
-
12 Jun 2023
Ada Lovelace Institute warns against Covid app reuse
By Cliff SaranThere are a number of lessons policy-makers should take away from the use of apps developed as part of the Covid-19 response
-
12 Jun 2023
Salesforce unveils AI Cloud with new Einstein GPT Trust Layer
By Mary ReinesAI Cloud houses the Einstein GPT Trust Layer with generative AI safety features, including data masking to remove personal information from data sent to large language models.
-
12 Jun 2023
Rishi Sunak calls for urgency in building out UK tech
By Cliff SaranThe UK prime minister used his speech during London Tech Week to discuss funding tech, attracting talent and AI safety
-
09 Jun 2023
UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration
By Cliff SaranJoe Biden and Rishi Sunak agree greater collaboration on responsible artificial intelligence, quantum computing and Open RAN
-
08 Jun 2023
AI startup Cohere raises $270 million from big tech vendors
By Esther AjaoThe new funding comes as the generative AI market grows rapidly and investors pour money into companies that build foundation models. Cohere competes with GPT creator OpenAI.
-
08 Jun 2023
U.S. doesn't need a new AI regulator, experts argue
By Makenzie HollandInstead of establishing a new AI regulator in the U.S., it's crucial for existing agencies to conduct a review and determine their existing capacity for handling AI-related cases.
-
08 Jun 2023
Google intros generative AI consulting services and updates
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant is aiming at enterprises with a series of new AI consulting services and tools to help businesses find new ways to summarize, automate and create content.
-
08 Jun 2023
CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has published a variety of case studies to show how different assurance techniques can build and maintain trust in artificial intelligence systems
-
08 Jun 2023
Government and industry figures meet to discuss AI regulation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTech industry figures are broadly supportive of the need for artificial intelligence to be regulated, but despite growing consensus, there is still disagreement over what effective AI regulation looks like
-
07 Jun 2023
NatWest and University of Edinburgh form partnership to research data use in banking sector
By Karl FlindersScottish university and banking group set up research centre that will aim to improve the use of banking data
-
07 Jun 2023
Global workforce firm uses Glean's generative AI assistant
By Esther AjaoThe distributed global workforce platform vendor uses generative AI search to find information across its network. As an early user, Velocity Global found it helps with efficiency.
-
06 Jun 2023
TechUK publishes ‘UK tech plan’ for next government
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTechnology businesses are calling on UK politicians to devise a ‘comprehensive, forward-thinking strategy’ to realise the benefits of technology ahead of the next general election
-
05 Jun 2023
Workers ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with digital surveillance at work
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonEmployees express discomfort towards employers’ use of various digital surveillance and monitoring techniques, which are often powered by artificial intelligence
-
01 Jun 2023
A look at 'risk of extinction from AI' statement
By Esther AjaoThe statement equates the potential risk of human eradication from AI to that of nuclear war. However, some argue society should instead mitigate the existing risk of AI bias.
-
01 Jun 2023
Dataiku integrates with OpenAI, targets responsible AI
By Esther AjaoThe vendor's new data science platform includes integration with OpenAI's GPT-4 and multiple features to provide business users with control in the model creation process.
-
01 Jun 2023
Automation Anywhere infuses RPA platform with generative AI
By Esther AjaoThe RPA vendor unveiled new features for its AI Success platform aimed at expanding the number of automation applications while providing users with a choice of cloud providers.
-
01 Jun 2023
AI interview: Dan McQuillan, critical computing expert
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan speaks to Computer Weekly about the top-down imposition of artificial intelligence on society, and how AI is a fundamentally political technology shaped by humanity’s most reactionary tendencies
-
01 Jun 2023
Met Police director of intelligence defends facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Met Police’s director of intelligence has appeared before MPs to make the case for its continuing use of facial-recognition technology, following announcements from the force and the Home Office that they intend to press on with its adoption
-
01 Jun 2023
How India’s DICV is tapping smart manufacturing
By Pratima HarigunaniDaimler India Commercial Vehicles has deployed augmented and virtual reality, advanced sensors, data analytics and other technologies to improve manufacturing processes and customer fleet management
-
31 May 2023
Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings
By Cliff SaranThe hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings
-
31 May 2023
Singapore government teams up with Google Cloud on AI
By Aaron TanThe Singapore government and Google Cloud will make AI capabilities, including developer tools and AI models, available to public sector agencies through a locally hosted AI platform
-
30 May 2023
Nvidia's AI supercomputer garners support of Microsoft, Google
By Ed ScannellNvidia details plans to deliver multiple AI supercomputers this year using its new GH200 Superchip. The new system is capable of delivering 1 exaflop performance.