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26 Apr 2024
European Parliament approves platform worker directive
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic decision-making at work
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26 Apr 2024
Global 5G non-terrestrial networks show growth but stay in infancy
By Joe O’HalloranMobile industry trade body’s latest report on satellite networks for cellular comms shows that while satellites are rapidly gaining prominence, the full extent of their potential to complement terrestrial networks, phone services and broadband is still unclear
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26 Apr 2024
AI not yet making a channel marketing impact
By Simon QuickeLack of guidelines, concerns over data, and a failure to deliver compelling results are hindering adoption of artificial intelligence tools
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26 Apr 2024
Logi analytics suite to add new GenAI, SaaS capabilities
By Eric AvidonInsightsoftware, parent company of the embedded BI specialist, unveiled a new generative AI assistant and SaaS version of Symphony to enable efficiency and cost savings.
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26 Apr 2024
European Parliament approves platform worker directive
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic decision-making at work
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24 Apr 2024
AtScale adds semantic layer support for AI, GenAI models
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new platform update centers around decision-making flexibility, collaboration and community, and includes a metadata hub along with support for advanced applications.
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24 Apr 2024
AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage
By Antony AdsheadAI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero
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24 Apr 2024
Snowflake targets enterprise AI with launch of Arctic LLM
By Eric AvidonThe data cloud vendor's open source LLM was designed to excel at business-specific tasks, such as generating code and following instructions, to enable enterprise-grade development.
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23 Apr 2024
Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?
By Cliff SaranSaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue
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23 Apr 2024
Lords split over UK government approach to autonomous weapons
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDuring a debate on autonomous weapons systems, Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current position, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use
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22 Apr 2024
NCSC announces PwC’s Richard Horne as CEO
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonFormer PwC and Barclays cyber chief Richard Horne set to join UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as CEO
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19 Apr 2024
Tech companies operating with opacity in Israel-Palestine
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTech firms operating in Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel are falling “woefully short” of their human rights responsibilities amid escalating devastation in Gaza, says Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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18 Apr 2024
TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonProposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them
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17 Apr 2024
AI-fueled efficiency a focus for SAS analytics platform
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest product development plans include an AI assistant and prebuilt AI models that enable workers to be more productive as they explore and analyze data.
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Gleaning data insights with AI
By Aaron TanHong Kong-based Citic Telecom CPC has built a data platform that leverages large language models to generate insights and speed up data retrieval and analysis
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Making AI pervasive
By Aaron TanDBS Bank’s AI Industrialisation Programme has been instrumental is industrialising the use of data and AI across its business, resulting in over S$370m of incremental economic benefits
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16 Apr 2024
Why Salesforce needs a data management platform
By Cliff SaranThere are reports that Salesforce is looking to acquire Informatica, but such a move needs to fit with its AI and GenAI strategy
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16 Apr 2024
Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation
By Aaron TanDBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024
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15 Apr 2024
Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index
By Antony AdsheadWhen the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure
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15 Apr 2024
EU’s AI Act fails to protect the rule of law and civic space
By Josh OsmanAnalysis reveals that the AI Act is ‘riddled with far-reaching exceptions’ and its measures to protect fundamental rights are insufficient
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11 Apr 2024
PSNI criticised after ‘utterly vague’ answers on covert surveillance of journalists
By Bill GoodwinThe Policing Board of Northern Ireland has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland to produce a public report on its use of covert surveillance powers against journalists and lawyers after it gave ‘utterly vague’ answers
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11 Apr 2024
Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government will fund roll-out of police facial recognition across the country as part of its crackdown on shoplifting and violence against retail staff, but civil society groups say the government is attempting to police its way out of the cost-of-living crisis
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11 Apr 2024
How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers
By Josh OsmanWith more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents
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11 Apr 2024
Government dismisses Lords’ concerns over facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it
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10 Apr 2024
Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption
By Aaron TanVertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data
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10 Apr 2024
Collibra launches AI Governance, unveils GenAI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's AI Governance suite enables users to ensure the quality and security of AI models while new GenAI features let them automate data quality and governance.
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09 Apr 2024
Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio
By Aaron TanGoogle Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users
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09 Apr 2024
Public worried by police and companies sharing biometric data
By Josh OsmanMore than half of the British public do not feel comfortable with police forces sharing biometric data with the private sector, including facial recognition images, to tackle crimes such as shoplifting
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09 Apr 2024
Google Cloud to inject Gemini into data, analytics tools
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant unveiled integrations between its LLM and BigQuery, Looker and its databases to provide customers with a foundation for developing GenAI models and applications.
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09 Apr 2024
Government struggles to upgrade legacy IT systems, says PAC chair
By Lis EvenstadIn her annual report, Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier calls legacy IT one of government’s ‘big nasties’ and says money urgently needs to be spent to fix the situation
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09 Apr 2024
Police forces check intelligence and criminal databases after errors discovered in O2 phone data
By Bill GoodwinCriminal Bar Association calls for information about reliability of communications data used in criminal trials to be disclosed
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09 Apr 2024
Greek government fined over AI surveillance in refugee camps
By Lydia EmmanouilidouGreece’s Data Protection Authority has issued a €175,000 fine against the country’s migration ministry over its deployment of artificial intelligence-powered security systems in refugee camps after the watchdog’s investigation found ‘serious shortcomings’ with the roll-out
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08 Apr 2024
UN adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on making AI safe and trustworthy
By Josh OsmanA UN draft resolution promoting the use of artificial intelligence in sustainable development and the protection of human rights was backed by over 120 member states
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05 Apr 2024
Europol offers law enforcement agencies data on Europe’s most threatening crime networks
By Bill GoodwinEuropol has collected and analysed data from over 40 countries to identify 800 most threatening criminal networks operating in Europe in what it describes as a unique dataset for law enforcemnt
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04 Apr 2024
Coalesce raises $50M to expand data transformation platform
By Eric AvidonThe startup's new funding is a vote of confidence from investors given how difficult it has been for technology vendors to secure financing over the past two years.
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04 Apr 2024
Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI
By Eric AvidonThe vendor will use the funding to develop added vector search and storage capabilities as well as graph technology, both of which can be used to train generative AI models.
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03 Apr 2024
Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy
By Aaron TanBoomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region
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02 Apr 2024
AI assistant from Tableau targets efficiency, deep analysis
By Eric AvidonThe analytics vendor's copilot can recommend questions that might lead to otherwise undiscovered insights as well as understand follow-up questions that result in deep analysis.
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01 Apr 2024
Vector search and storage key to AWS' database strategy
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant is prioritizing vector search and storage, adding the capabilities to its data storage tools so customers can use them with language models to build AI applications.
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27 Mar 2024
New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models.
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27 Mar 2024
Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis.
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27 Mar 2024
Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
By Cliff SaranSmart meters make it possible to manage the electricity grid in a more flexible way, but millions are facing connectivity issues
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27 Mar 2024
Indian large language models gain momentum
By Pratima HarigunaniIndian large language models 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
Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLegislation 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
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
By Yann SerraHPE 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
New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI
By Eric AvidonThe longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI.
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22 Mar 2024
Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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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21 Mar 2024
Databricks acquisition of Lilac targets GenAI development
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor's latest purchase expands its generative AI development capabilities by adding improved access to unstructured data that can be used to train models.
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20 Mar 2024
Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios
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20 Mar 2024
Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTechnology 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
By Aaron TanVast 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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19 Mar 2024
Confluent adds support for Apache Flink, unveils update
By Eric AvidonThe streaming specialist has added a managed service for the popular open source compute layer so customers can use the tools of their choice to develop a data ecosystem.
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19 Mar 2024
Redpanda serverless streaming option targets cost control
By Eric AvidonThe real-time data management specialist's new serverless platform enables customers to pay only for the compute power they use, which helps predict and manage spending.
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19 Mar 2024
Vast targets AI checkpointing write performance with distributed RAID
By Antony AdsheadAI checkpointing operations targeted by Vast Data as it touts QLC-based storage for AI workloads
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18 Mar 2024
Spring Budget risks funding legally questionable police tech
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonOpen 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
Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections
By Bill GoodwinDeep 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
Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonBenefits 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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14 Mar 2024
Sisense targets hardcore developers with new toolkit
By Eric AvidonThe embedded BI specialist's latest update features a software development kit that enables developers to compose applications using prebuilt APIs, libraries and visualizations.
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14 Mar 2024
Questions raised over NHS deletion of thousands of emails during whistleblower tribunal
By Tommy GreeneNHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal ruling that found no procedural unfairness when an NHS trust deleted thousands of emails. The case that raises wider questions about the use of electronic evidence
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14 Mar 2024
Databricks partners with Mistral AI to aid GenAI development
By Eric AvidonThe data cloud vendor joins Microsoft and Snowflake in partnering with -- and investing in -- the startup to provide customers with access to Mistral's open source language models.
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12 Mar 2024
Snowflake boosting its commitment to AI, including GenAI
By Eric AvidonRecent moves, including the appointment of a new CEO and the formation of a new partnership, are representative of the vendor's heightened focus on artificial intelligence.
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12 Mar 2024
Industry partnerships and data key to better public services
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUsing 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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11 Mar 2024
Alation platform update targets building a data culture
By Eric AvidonNew business lineage and data discovery capabilities aimed at helping customers develop an enterprise-wide data culture are included in the data catalog specialist's latest update.
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11 Mar 2024
Ocient raises $49.4M in funding to fuel development, growth
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor plans to use the new financing for product development and to fund sales and marketing efforts as it moves into its growth phase.
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11 Mar 2024
AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs
By Aaron TanAI 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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07 Mar 2024
Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
HP emphasises AI in partner programme enhancements
By Simon QuickeVendor 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
By Bryan GlickIn 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
Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan
By Aaron TanMasterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub
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06 Mar 2024
Interview: How a fundraiser became more data-savvy
By Cliff SaranWe speak to a fundraiser in the charity sector about how an apprenticeship in data analytics has given her Excel, PowerBI and Power Query skills
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05 Mar 2024
New Informatica governance suite automates data access
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new suite of AI-powered capabilities manage access to an enterprise's proprietary information to help ensure security and compliance while enabling analysis.
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05 Mar 2024
Snowflake signals AI commitment with Mistral AI partnership
By Eric AvidonDays after appointing a new CEO, the data cloud vendor showed a heightened focus on emerging technologies by aligning closely with a rising large language model developer.
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05 Mar 2024
Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPrivacy campaigners at Open Rights Group have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators about allegedly unlawful data processing by online advertising firm LiveRamp
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05 Mar 2024
Own targets SaaS backup and offers analytics insight
By Antony AdsheadTargeting a growing market – SaaS applications that lack backup – Own offers backup, fine-grained restores and analytics on data stores that can bring business insight
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05 Mar 2024
How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Don FluckingerWhat'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
How ANZ organisations can address challenges in AI adoption
By Stephen WithersPure 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
APAC firms bullish on IT spending
By Aaron TanMore 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
Couchbase unveils vector search that extends to the edge
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new capabilities will enable users to feed and train AI models, and through an embeddable version of its database extend to edge devices for real-time insight.
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29 Feb 2024
Google Cloud unveils new GenAI-fueled data, analytics tools
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant introduced extensive support for vector search and improved access to unstructured data while also making a pair of GenAI capabilities generally available.
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29 Feb 2024
Snowflake CEO Slootman steps down, Ramaswamy takes over
By Eric AvidonSlootman resigns after five years at the helm of the data cloud vendor. Revenues grew fivefold under him and the company went public in a record-setting initial public offering.
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29 Feb 2024
Collibra adds AI governance to data management platform
By Eric AvidonThe 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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28 Feb 2024
Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations
By Eric AvidonThe data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem.
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28 Feb 2024
UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan
By Stephen WithersThe University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap
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27 Feb 2024
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
By Aaron TanTeamViewer 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
By Cliff SaranWe 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
Microsoft president commits to Azure open platform for AI
By Cliff SaranBrad 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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26 Feb 2024
Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making.
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26 Feb 2024
Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists
By Bill GoodwinJournalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom
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23 Feb 2024
Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel
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22 Feb 2024
Arcitecta leverages metadata to move critical data faster
By Adam ArmstrongArcitecta has found a way to increase the data transfer speed of its Mediaflux Livewire software, which can be valuable for projects that demand significant collaboration.
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22 Feb 2024
Tableau launches Pulse, a GenAI-fueled insight generator
By Eric AvidonThe tool, which monitors data for metric changes and uses natural language to alert users, is the longtime analytics vendor's first generally available GenAI capability.
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20 Feb 2024
Generative AI dominates Google's data and analytics roadmap
By Eric AvidonFollowing recent integrations between Gemini and the tech giant's major data and analytics platforms, more product innovations featuring LLMs are expected over the next few months.
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20 Feb 2024
Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’
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20 Feb 2024
Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio
By Aaron TanAlibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models
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15 Feb 2024
Alan Turing Institute hits ‘key milestone’ in AI strategy
By Steve RangerThe Alan Turing Institute reaffirms its commitment to addressing “grand challenges” in health, environment and security with the appointment of four new directors
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14 Feb 2024
Alteryx, Databricks expand complementary partnership
By Eric AvidonThe expanded partnership features new integrations designed to better enable joint customers to combine self-service data preparation and analysis with data science and AI.
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14 Feb 2024
Met Police to scrap and replace ‘racist’ Gangs Violence Matrix
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA database used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and track people linked with gang violence is being decommissioned and replaced. The decision follows a long-running controversy over its discriminatory impacts on young black people, but campaigners warn that racial discrimination will persist with new tool
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13 Feb 2024
How DBS is industrialising AI across its business
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank
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13 Feb 2024
Alation launches benchmark tool to assess data maturity
By Eric AvidonThe data catalog specialist's new tool examines four key criteria, including literacy and governance, in assessing an organization's business intelligence culture.
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09 Feb 2024
Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police
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08 Feb 2024
Why open data is needed in the battle to address homelessness
By Cliff SaranCentrepoint needed to send FOIs to more than 300 local authorities in England to access required information
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07 Feb 2024
Government reaffirms commitment to hold off on AI laws
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government reaffirming its commitment hold off on artificial intelligence legislation has been received positively by industry for balancing innovation and safety