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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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08 May 2024
Panasas embraces software-defined storage, rebrands as Vdura
By Adam ArmstrongPanasas is now Vdura, a software-defined storage company that aims to make its cluster parallel file system work on a swath of storage media on premises and in the cloud.
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08 May 2024
New Arcserve CEO aims to rebuild trust with customers
By Tim McCarthyOutages, data loss and discontinued products have eroded trust in the Arcserve brand, but Arcserve's latest CEO, Chris Babel, wants to streamline its catalog and win back customers.
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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
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06 Feb 2024
UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence
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06 Feb 2024
New Acceldata co-pilot targets efficiency, broader use
By Eric AvidonThe data observability specialist's new generative AI-powered capabilities are designed to help experts be more efficient as well as enable non-technical users to work with data.
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06 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet
By Bryan GlickThe short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud
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06 Feb 2024
Dell encourages GenAI involvement with partner competency
By Simon QuickeOne of the features of the enhanced Partner programme was the launch of a process to validate those up to speed on the technology
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01 Feb 2024
Databricks acquisition of Einblick enhances GenAI portfolio
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer's latest purchase adds NLP capabilities to the generative AI features at the core of its new Data Intelligence Platform.
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01 Feb 2024
Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWorkers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics
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31 Jan 2024
Rockset targets cost control with latest database update
By Eric AvidonThe real-time database specialist added new compute power optimization and workload autoscaling capabilities to help customers better control their cloud computing costs.
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31 Jan 2024
ThoughtSpot update adds feedback loop to help train GenAI
By Eric AvidonThe vendor continues to focus on generative AI, updating its conversational interface with more in-depth analysis capabilities and adding new methods of improving LLM accuracy.
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29 Jan 2024
Podcast: Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism
By Esther AjaoThe data annotation and labeling vendor, which has faced criticism for its practices in Africa despite its social good mission, is out with a new platform to reduce model failure.
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26 Jan 2024
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly
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26 Jan 2024
UK government consults on age verification tech in alcohol sales
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe government has said it wants to allow the use of digital identities and various age-verification technologies in alcohol sales
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24 Jan 2024
SingleStore update adds new tools to fuel GenAI, analytics
By Eric AvidonThe database vendor unveiled Pro Max, a rebranded version of its platform that includes new vector search and change data capture capabilities that enable AI and BI at scale.
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23 Jan 2024
UN chief blasts AI companies for reckless pursuit of profit
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance
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19 Jan 2024
ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government
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19 Jan 2024
Qlik's Kyndi acquisition targets unstructured data, GenAI
By Eric AvidonThe longtime analytics vendor's latest purchase adds support for unstructured data that can be combined with structured data to inform GenAI models and improve decision-making.
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18 Jan 2024
Ascend.io, DBT integration targets cost control, efficiency
By Eric AvidonThe partnership aims to address the difficulty of efficiently and inexpensively deploying and managing data models developed in DBT by automating previously manual processes.
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17 Jan 2024
Pinecone unveils serverless vector database, targets costs
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new tool is designed to help customers control their cloud computing costs while developing and maintaining generative AI applications and models.
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17 Jan 2024
Databricks launches platform for the telecom industry
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse vendor's latest industry-specific set of tools is aimed at telecommunications providers that features a GenAI chatbot and customized analytics capabilities.
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16 Jan 2024
NAO head calls for clean data and modern government IT
By Cliff SaranBetter IT procurement, better IT systems and better data are among the recommendations Gareth Davies is giving to Parliament
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15 Jan 2024
British Library catalogues back online after ransomware attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library has restored online access to its main catalogue of nearly 40 million items on a limited basis as it continues the long and arduous process of recovering from a ransomware attack
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15 Jan 2024
AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWhile artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities
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15 Jan 2024
How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry
By Martin NikelFrom overly narrow search terms, overzealous deduplication of documents and failed email migrations, poor management of legal discovery has delayed justice for postmasters in the Horizon inquiry
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12 Jan 2024
Microsoft unveils new GenAI, data tools for retail industry
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant is adding industry-specific features in Data Fabric along with GenAI Copilots designed to better personalize shopping as well as aid frontline workers in real time.
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12 Jan 2024
UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe government’s Pornography Review will look in part at the use of AI throughout the industry to generate sexually explicit content without people’s consent
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10 Jan 2024
Davos 2024: AI-generated disinformation poses threat to elections, says World Economic Forum
By Bill GoodwinDisinformation and misinformation are the top risks facing businesses, governments and the public over the next two years
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10 Jan 2024
Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK
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09 Jan 2024
Generative AI a key tech for analytics, but within limits
By Eric AvidonDespite its potential benefits, including increased productivity, users need to be wary of overreliance on generative AI given its propensity for delivering incorrect outputs.
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09 Jan 2024
Dresner: Analytics trends include prioritization of BI
By Eric AvidonWhile generative AI is the BI craze of the moment, increased investments in BI, attempts to expand BI use to business users and embedded analytics are also in vogue.
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07 Jan 2024
India firms warm to responsible AI
By Aaron TanAlmost two-thirds of organisations said their responsible AI practices and policies were mature or they had taken steps towards responsible AI adoption, according to a Nasscom study
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03 Jan 2024
Fighting money laundering with AI
By Aaron TanMike Foster, CEO of SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, talks up how AI can be used to fight financial crime and how the company’s technology can augment existing AML investments
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02 Jan 2024
Qualtrics supports Dow digital transformation
By Cliff SaranHow US-based materials science company has used analytics tools from Qualtrics to target improvements to customer experience
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 India IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanWe recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonFrom the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanWe recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 business applications stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 police technology stories of 2023
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023
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21 Dec 2023
Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage
By Brian McKennaThe UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage stories of 2023
By Antony AdsheadIn this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more
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20 Dec 2023
Qlik's Mozaic acquisition adds decentralized data management
By Eric AvidonThe longtime analytics vendor continues to expand into data management, now adding capabilities that enable a decentralized approach and an emphasis on data products.
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19 Dec 2023
Snowflake acquisition of Samooha adds data clean room tools
By Eric AvidonThe data cloud vendor's purchase aims to give users a way to share data with partners and collaborate on decisions without compromising data privacy and security.
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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18 Dec 2023
Alteryx to be acquired by private equity firms for $4.4 billion
By Eric AvidonFollowing slow revenue growth in recent quarters, the data management vendor will become a private company and be afforded time to restructure.
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15 Dec 2023
Police defend facial recognition target selection to Lords
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonSenior police officers confirm to Lords committee that facial recognition watchlist image selection is based on crime categories attached to people’s photos, rather than a context-specific assessment of the threat presented by a given individual
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14 Dec 2023
CDO interview: Andy Moore, chief data officer, Bentley Motors
By Mark SamuelsData sits at the heart of the luxury car maker’s plans for a future with electric vehicles and a ‘hyper-personalised’ customer experience
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13 Dec 2023
No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary
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08 Dec 2023
Knime updates analytics platform with new GenAI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest release improves the accuracy of its GenAI chatbot, including citations so users can know the source of the chatbot's responses, and features a new UI.
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08 Dec 2023
Databricks intros suite to aid generative AI development
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse vendor's new set of tools includes vector search and aims to enable users to develop data pipelines that train language models with proprietary data.
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06 Dec 2023
New MongoDB tools enable generative AI development
By Eric AvidonThe independent database vendor added vector search and workload management tools that work together to enable developers to build and run cutting-edge analytics applications.
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06 Dec 2023
NHS whistleblower Peter Duffy threatens trust with legal action in row over alleged email tampering
By Tommy GreeneNHS whistleblower warns his former employer of potential litigation over a dispute concerning allegations of email tampering
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05 Dec 2023
CIO interview: Jarrod Phipps, Holman
By Mark SamuelsThe automotive services firm is accumulating vast amounts of data from its fleet and using it to bring insights to improve customer and employee experiences
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01 Dec 2023
Human augmentation tech requires dual use oversight
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonResearchers investigating human augmentation technologies must acknowledge the potential military applications of their work, and military bodies cannot be allowed to dismiss ethical concerns in their pursuit of national security interests, says NGO Drone Wars UK
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01 Dec 2023
Lords committee urges caution on UK use of autonomous weapons
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government must ensure proper democratic oversight of its development and use of AI-powered weapon systems, says Lords committee
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30 Nov 2023
Yarra Valley Water to roll out smart water meters
By Stephen WithersThe move is expected to stem water losses, alert customers to possible leaks and improve the affordability of water
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29 Nov 2023
AWS unveils Amazon Q in QuickSight to add more generative AI
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant's new generative AI chatbot could help more employees within organizations work with data by enabling them to query and analyze data using conversational language.
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29 Nov 2023
New AWS tools simplify access, management of data at scale
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant revealed serverless tools that eliminate limitations on workload size as well as integrations that simplify access to data within the Amazon Web Services ecosystem.
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29 Nov 2023
Re:Invent 2023: Selipsky cues Q to project future shape of work
By Brian McKennaAt Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, Re:Invent, CEO Adam Selipsky hails GenAI capacity of product Q to reshape the future of work
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28 Nov 2023
Starburst update adds new GenAI, streaming data features
By Eric AvidonGalaxy, the cloud-based version of the vendor's platform, now includes text-to-code translation capabilities as well as automated governance and real-time ingestion tools.
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24 Nov 2023
UK police plan national roll-out of facial-recognition phone app
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK police chiefs plan to expand use of facial-recognition technology through a nationwide roll-out of mobile-based tools and increases in retrospective facial-recognition, but oversight problems persist
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23 Nov 2023
DWP to surveil bank accounts of benefit claimants for fraud
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government has outlined how it plans to tackle benefit fraud by giving the Department for Work and Pensions new powers compelling banks to collect and share data on claimants’ bank accounts
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22 Nov 2023
Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract
By Alex ScroxtonNHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners
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22 Nov 2023
Boomi doubles down on AI and automation
By Stephen WithersBoomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney
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20 Nov 2023
Acquia takes on web content accessibility with Monsido buy
By Don FluckingerAcquia adds generative AI and accessibility checker tools to its digital experience platform; partnerships avail close integrations of A/B testing and content personalization tools.
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20 Nov 2023
AI productivity gains could result in four-day weeks for millions
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAutonomy think tank publishes paper on potential for artificial intelligence-driven large language models to shorten people’s work weeks
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20 Nov 2023
NHS England hits 90% target for electronic patient records
By Scarlet CharlesSome 90% of trusts in NHS England have adopted electronic patient records in hospitals, ahead of government schedule
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17 Nov 2023
US civil society groups demand better conditions for AI workers
By Scarlet CharlesSome 24 US civil society groups and unions and have written a letter to the US Senate asking for action to improve the working conditions of the people who train and maintain their artificial intelligence systems
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17 Nov 2023
Databricks puts AI at core of new Data Intelligence Platform
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new platform, now in beta testing, combines its existing lakehouse with AI to better enable users to manage and prepare data for model training and analytics.
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17 Nov 2023
Oracle NetSuite CEO Goldberg: AI a sleeping giant coming to life
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteWorld, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence has emerged from obscurity to be of business moment
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17 Nov 2023
Capgemini and Heathrow strike deal to enhance passenger experience
By Scarlet CharlesCapgemini and Heathrow team up to provide development and operations support for the airport’s technology estate
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16 Nov 2023
Workato CEO calls for new automation mindset
By Aaron TanWorkato CEO Vijay Tella urges organisations to go beyond the ‘mechanistic glue’ of automating manual processes and embrace a new automation mindset that focuses on transforming their business
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16 Nov 2023
Outgoing police tech watchdog warns of declining oversight
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe outgoing biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales discusses police deployment of powerful new surveillance technologies, and the declining state of oversight in this area
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16 Nov 2023
Cancer Research UK uses AWS for payments and trial search function
By Clare McDonaldCharity Cancer Research UK has been using AWS to make its donations platform more scalable, as well as making it easier for patients to find clinical trials
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16 Nov 2023
SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
By Scarlet CharlesAn annual sustainability study by SAP reveals UK businesses are on the right track, but still face barriers in the long run
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15 Nov 2023
IBI launches new full-featured data management platform
By Eric AvidonThe data management and BI specialist has released Data Intelligence, an AI-driven suite that includes data quality and data integration capabilities in an integrated environment.
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15 Nov 2023
Microsoft launches Fabric, adds Copilot for the new platform
By Eric AvidonThe suite unites Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics and Data Factory in an integrated environment to better enable data management and analysis, including developing AI models.
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15 Nov 2023
PeopleSpot dishes out people-related advice
By Stephen WithersThe PeopleSpot app provides resources to help workers deal with people-related challenges and enables organisations to surface HR issues through its analytics capabilities
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10 Nov 2023
UN disarmament body calls for global action on autonomous weapons
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUN draft resolution highlighting the dangers of autonomous weapons passes with overwhelming majority
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09 Nov 2023
MongoDB unveils Atlas for Retail, Partner Ecosystem Catalog
By Eric AvidonThe database vendor is making industry verticalization a significant part of its product roadmap to help customers in various industries develop applications that meet their needs.
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09 Nov 2023
UK government does not see need for specific AI legislation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government does not currently see the need for new artificial intelligence legislation, as many regulators are already dealing effectively with AI-related harms
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09 Nov 2023
Why IT governance is a coding issue
By Cliff SaranTwo new pieces of research point to benefits of policy as code
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09 Nov 2023
How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud
By Stephen WithersAustralian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service
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08 Nov 2023
Monte Carlo unveils data observability for vector databases
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new integration with vector database specialist Pinecone is designed to enable users to ensure quality of the data they use to train generative AI models.
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08 Nov 2023
AI Summit not the place for human rights, says French finance minister
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDespite commitments at the UK’s AI Safety Summit to respect and protect human rights, the French finance minister said it was not the right forum to discuss signatories' human rights records
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08 Nov 2023
NTT Data strengthens SAP channel position with Sapphire
By Simon QuickeTie-up will provide greater coverage of the mid-market customer base and provide more geographical reach
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07 Nov 2023
AI Safety Summit review
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonComputer Weekly takes stock of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit and the differing perspectives around its success
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03 Nov 2023
Generative AI capabilities highlight latest Denodo update
By Eric AvidonThe data virtualization specialist's platform update includes natural language processing capabilities that reduce repetitive tasks as well as some complexities of data management.
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02 Nov 2023
How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data
By Bill GoodwinUK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life in messages sent on encrypted phone network
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02 Nov 2023
SAP lays out generative AI strategy
By Aaron TanSAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers
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01 Nov 2023
Snowflake previews slew of AI, governance, development tools
By Eric AvidonThe data cloud vendor introduced more than a dozen features currently in various stages of development designed to help users build and govern data models and applications.