AI infrastructure
Enterprises investing in deep learning platforms need AI infrastructure sufficient enough to synthesize a massive amount of data. Find the information you need to make decisions about AI-specific compute architectures -- from GPU-packed servers to highly scalable clustered computing systems built for big data and machine learning applications.
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02 Jun 2023
AI transparency: What is it and why do we need it?
As the use of AI models has evolved and expanded, the concept of transparency has grown in importance. Learn about the benefits and challenges of AI transparency. Continue Reading
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24 May 2023
Dell enters generative AI market with Nvidia partnership
The initiative provides enterprises with both Dell servers and Nvidia's H100 GPUs and software. It could appeal to Dell users that want to create generative models on premises. Continue Reading
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23 May 2023
Microsoft pushes to dominate in AI race
The cloud platform provider revealed an expanded plugin ecosystem and an updated ChatGPT, while forging a key strategic partnership with AI vendor Nvidia. Continue Reading
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19 May 2023
Meta infrastructure focus key to AI and metaverse ambitions
The company sees its new AI chip, data center and supercomputer as ways to develop a strong foundation for what it calls an immersive metaverse experience. Continue Reading
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12 May 2023
A guide to artificial intelligence in the enterprise
AI in the enterprise will change how work is done, but companies must overcome various challenges to derive value from this powerful and rapidly evolving technology. Continue Reading
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10 May 2023
History of generative AI innovations spans 9 decades
ChatGPT's debut has prompted widespread publicity and controversy surrounding generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence that's deep-rooted in historic milestones. Continue Reading
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09 May 2023
IBM launches Watsonx, a new generative AI platform
The longtime tech giant is focusing on providing a hybrid cloud environment and a generative AI strategy that centers on enterprise, data and governance aspects of the technology. Continue Reading
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09 May 2023
Storage's role in generative AI
Generative AI continues to create industry buzz. Experts say storage plays a critical role in making the technology run. Continue Reading
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Podcast
27 Apr 2023
Tech news this week: Fragmented AI rules and SD-WAN
Several states have introduced legislation for AI, but there's no comprehensive federal approach. This could lead to a patchwork of different standards businesses must navigate. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2023
The effect of Reddit’s decision to charge for data use
The sprawling social media platform's decision to charge for the commercial use of data will not only affect AI vendors but also enterprises and consumers. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2023
Google needs to ramp up AI-powered search to keep Samsung
The search giant faces tough challenges as it squares off against Microsoft and its newly re-emergent search engine powered by OpenAI's GPT technology. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2023
Generative models: VAEs, GANs, diffusion, transformers, NeRFs
Choosing the right GenAI model for the task requires understanding the techniques each uses and their specific talents. Learn about VAEs, GANs, diffusion, transformers and NerFs. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2023
Generative AI landscape: Potential future trends
Learn more about the growth of generative AI, its impact on other technologies, use cases and 10 trends that will contribute to the technology's development. Continue Reading
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18 Apr 2023
New Microsoft AI chip pressures Nvidia and hardware market
The tech giant's new chip reflects a need to cut costs while scaling large models. The move could force AI hardware providers such as Nvidia to make changes. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2023
AWS' new generative AI service fills need in market
The cloud giant partnered with startups including Stability AI and AI21 Labs to offer a service that enables enterprises to create their own foundation models without leaving AWS. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2023
CNN vs. GAN: How are they different?
Convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks are both deep learning models but differ in how they work and are used. Learn the ins and outs of CNNs and GANs. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2023
GAN vs. transformer models: Comparing architectures and uses
Discover the differences between generative adversarial networks and transformers, as well as how the two techniques might combine in the future to provide users with better results. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2023
How to prevent deepfakes in the era of generative AI
Businesses must be ever vigilant in detecting the increasingly sophisticated nuances of deepfakes by applying security techniques that range from the simple to the complex. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2023
New Meta AI model targets problem in computer vision market
The research lab's new model helps enterprises in the computer vision market access a well-labeled set of images without having a person manually tag different images. Continue Reading
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06 Apr 2023
Google touts AI supercomputer; Nvidia tops MLPerf 3.0 tests
Google added a little more heat to the AI supercomputing wars, revealing the latest details of its upcoming system positioned against that of market leader Nvidia. Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2023
The call for an AI pause points to a major concern
The call to stop creating LLMs for six months comes as AI systems become more powerful and are moving too fast. There's a need to address data and privacy concerns. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2023
Self-healing networks goals, benefits and how they work
With help from automation and AI, self-healing networks promise to detect, remediate and even predict network problems. But can these systems be trusted? Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2023
AI vendor Cerebras releases 7 open source LLMs
The hardware/software vendor diverges from tech giants such as Google, Meta and Microsoft partner OpenAI by making models available to both researchers and for-profit enterprises. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2023
How a time series forecasting vendor uses PyTorch Lightning
Time series forecasting company Nixtla uses the framework for building deep learning models as it works to develop open source software for its customers. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2023
DataRobot intros AI Platform 9.0, generative AI to come
With the new platform, the vendor aims to help enterprises focus not only on model performance but also on business performance. The vendor also unveiled key new partnerships. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2023
New Microsoft Azure VMs target generative AI developers
Generative AI app developers can soon access the supercomputing infrastructure they need through Microsoft Azure. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2023
Microsoft incorporates AI foundation model in business apps
The tech giant made the Florence foundation model available to a wider audience through Azure Cognitive Services. The service also is now available in Teams and other applications. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2023
SambaNova aims to meet generative AI challenges
The vendor's new platform enables enterprises to build generative models with their own data. The approach aims to resolve privacy and data ownership problems with generative AI. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2023
10 top AI and machine learning trends for 2023
Multi-modal learning, ChatGPT, the industrial metaverse -- learn about the top trends in AI for 2023 and how they promise to transform how business gets done. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2023
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. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2023
Inside the MLOps lifecycle stages
Developers tasked to train machine learning models are turning to the MLOps lifecycle. The different stages are meant to increase operational speed and efficiency. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2023
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. Continue Reading
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22 Feb 2023
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. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2023
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. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2023
U.S. AI research goal is to innovate and stay ahead of China
The U.S. government has released a report outlining plans to build a National AI Research Resource democratizing access to AI research and development resources. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2023
The role of automation in SD-WAN
API integration, machine learning and AIOps are vital to achieve the benefits of SD-WAN automation, which include better network performance and faster operations. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2023
Centralized services as a hedge against shadow IT's escalation
Proliferation of cloud, AI and integration tools has increased the deployment security risks of shadow IT and the need to centralize business functions and share support services. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2023
10 steps to achieve AI implementation in your business
Maximizing the value of insights into your business, industry and competition requires a thoughtful, creative, experimental, incremental and team approach to deploying AI. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2023
Building a shared services organization structure
Amid the shifting economic climate and new reality of hybrid workforces, there's no better time for companies to consolidate business functions and centralize support services. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2023
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. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
18 Jan 2023
Map physical GPUs to VMs with this GPU passthrough guide
Learn how to set up GPU passthrough -- a useful technique to support graphically intensive apps and machine learning models -- with a step-by-step tutorial for VMware environments. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2023
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. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2023
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. Continue Reading
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21 Dec 2022
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. Continue Reading
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14 Dec 2022
How AI can assist industries in environmental protection efforts
While technology for environmental protection isn't a new concept, AI advancements empower businesses to achieve sustainable operations. Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2022
How significant is AI's role in Industry 4.0?
Many examples exist to demonstrate the effectiveness of AI in Industry 4.0. It entails the newest revolution in manufacturing, so naturally advanced tech like AI will play a crucial role. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2022
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. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2022
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. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2022
How AI in weather prediction can aid human intelligence
AI and machine learning models are becoming more widely used in climate prediction and disaster preparedness to aid experts without replacing them. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2022
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. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2022
Defining requirements key to manage machine learning projects
Machine learning projects are likely to fail without proper planning. 'Managing Machine Learning Projects' provides guidance on how to plan by defining ML project requirements. Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2022
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. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2022
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. Continue Reading
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27 Sep 2022
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. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2022
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. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2022
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. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2022
What an AI-driven network looks like
Log analysis and wireless management are common AI use cases in networking. Future applications could include chatbot alerts, digital experience monitoring and traffic engineering. Continue Reading
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02 Aug 2022
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. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2022
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. Continue Reading
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19 May 2022
How AI and automation play a role in ITOps
Tech professionals agree that AI, intelligent automation and cybersecurity play important roles in the enterprise and can revolutionize ITOps when implemented and used correctly. Continue Reading
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Conference Coverage
10 May 2022
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. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
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. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
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. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2022
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. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2022
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. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2022
Use an AI governance framework to surmount challenges
As AI governance adapts to the rapidly expanding field of AI, businesses need a holistic framework to surmount challenges with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2022
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. Continue Reading
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05 Apr 2022
New IBM Z mainframe blunts quantum cyber attacks
Looking to compete with AI-based supercomputer vendors, IBM unveiled a Z mainframe armed with new AI features and security that deflects attacks launched from quantum computers. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2022
Spotify personalizes audio experiences with machine learning
The streaming platform builds models using analytics, data from users and content to create a personalized audio experience for users and try to keep them as long-term customers. Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2022
Enterprises not focused enough on AI governance, security
AI has reached a plateau, with many organizations using similar AI and machine learning tools. But enterprises have been slow to implement AI ethics and effective cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2022
Nvidia shows updated AI, omniverse tools for enterprises
Software is the engine that powers many of the AI hardware and software giant's systems, including a new computing system for the omniverse, according to CEO Jensen Huang. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2022
Nvidia beefs up its line of AI supercomputers, chips
Nvidia rolls out a new GPU architecture, supercomputers and chips that in concert will aid developers in creating the hardware foundation for the next generation of AI applications and services. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Dialysis lab uses SambaNova, DeLorean AI for renal care
The lab ingests data from test results of kidney patients into the AI engine. The engine finds patterns and provides recommendations for the best care for patients. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Mar 2022
AI and disinformation in the Russia-Ukraine war
From false videos circulating on TikTok to AI-generated humans and deepfakes, the Russia-Ukraine war is playing out both in the physical world and virtually. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2022
RPA market expected to plateau in the next few years
While the technology was useful during the pandemic, enterprises are shifting away from its simple fix and are looking at more complex ways of automating business processes. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2022
Swiss retailer uses open source Ray tool to scale AI models
Ricardo uses Anyscale's Ray for scaling its product classification models. Ray helps enterprises scale their applications from a laptop to the cloud. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2022
Data crucial for finance companies using AI
Organizations in credit, banking and insurance must pay attention to data to build explainable models. This Q&A with an AI vendor CEO explores data, governance and explainability. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
SambaNova unveils GPT Banking for financial industry
The product is aimed at giving financial institutions deep learning language capabilities. However, deep learning is hard to navigate in the finance industry. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
Why NetOps is a bridge to AIOps
As IT infrastructure grows more complex, NetOps teams should identify ways to ensure their networks remain operational and perform at peak levels. One option is AIOps. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
Nintex expands range by acquiring RPA vendor Kryon
Acquiring Kryon enables Nintex to expand its scale. Robotic process automation is important for enterprises seeking digital transformation in their business. Continue Reading
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08 Feb 2022
Nvidia, Arm deal fails after heightened regulatory scrutiny
Nvidia's acquisition of Arm Ltd. faced its share of regulatory hurdles, but the global semiconductor chip shortage prompted increased scrutiny of the chip-related deal. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2022
IRS drops facial recognition plans after criticism
The agency said it will no longer require taxpayers to use a third-party website to authenticate identity and will develop its own tools to boost security and prevent fraud. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Feb 2022
What's the status of AI in networking?
The use cases for AI are expanding, but despite the advantages, network pros have yet to implement AI fully. Three analysts explain the status of AI in enterprise networks. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Jan 2022
Piloting machine learning projects through harsh headwinds
To get machine learning projects off the ground and speed deployments, data science teams need to ask questions on a host of issues ranging from data quality to product selection. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2022
AI's growing cybersecurity role
Artificial intelligence capabilities are increasingly used to detect cybersecurity threats. As threats proliferate, AI cybersecurity capabilities will likely be the norm. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2022
Securing AI during the development process
AI systems can have their data corrupted or 'poisoned' by bad actors. Luckily, there are protective measures developers can take to ensure their systems remain secure. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2022
Nvidia Arm deal another step closer to -- death?
Negotiations of the long-awaited Nvidia acquisition of Arm Ltd. have come to a halt with rumors of Nvidia telling partners they can't come to agreement on a deal. Continue Reading
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24 Jan 2022
Meta AI supercomputer looks toward the metaverse
The tech giant will use its new AI Research Supercluster internally for NLP and computer vision and to build new technologies for the metaverse. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2022
How cloud RPA is key to automation's future
Companies have traditionally used robotic process automation (RPA) as on-premises software but are now embracing cloud RPA as its business benefits are outweighing the drawbacks. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2022
Nvidia releases updates to AI enterprise suite
The AI suite includes a full integration with Tanzu, giving enterprises the flexibility to run workloads on containers and VMs. The vendor also introduced two new servers. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2021
Efforts to craft AI regulations will continue in 2022
Regulating AI can be challenging for many reasons, including varying definitions of fairness and explainability. However, AI regulations will be a top focus for lawmakers in 2022. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Language models and the metaverse top AI stories of 2021
From moves toward government regulation to the metaverse, language models getting bigger and autonomous vehicle tech slowing, these are some of the biggest stories of the year. Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2021
Microsoft unveils responsible AI guidelines and dashboard
The tech giant unveiled 10 guidelines for organizations to consider when building AI models, and a dashboard that data scientists can use to ensure their models are ethical. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2021
AWS SageMaker equipped with new features for model building
The tech giant revealed new tools for its AI and machine learning platforms geared toward making model building easier for enterprises and users. Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2021
DataRobot introduces AI Cloud for Industries
The independent AI vendor has created a taxonomy for specific industries by building out its AI Cloud platform on which customers can take advantage of industry-specific services. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets an AI boost
The vendor added AI services to its public cloud. The prebuilt machine learning algorithms enable users to automate language, speech, vision, anomaly detection and forecasting. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2021
Microsoft gives enterprises preview of Azure OpenAI service
During the Ignite 2021 virtual conference, the tech giant previewed its new enterprise AI language service that it said provides enterprises with security, compliance and scale. Continue Reading
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26 Oct 2021
Teradata and H2O.ai partner on multi-cloud platform
The partnership between the open source AI vendor and veteran data service provider demonstrates the emphasis enterprises are now placing on the data in their AI systems. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2021
SambaNova makes a mark in the AI hardware realm
The startup says it is innovating AI hardware systems with its data flow architecture that enterprises can use to be more efficient when processing large AI data sets. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2021
A look at AI trends and bias in AI algorithms
In the past few years, more and more organizations have focused on AI. However, just as the use of AI and machine learning has expanded, concern about AI bias is also growing. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2021
AI hardware and software: The key to eBay's marketplace
At the AI Hardware summit 2021, an eBay exec discusses how its similarity system enables it to build an AI-driven marketplace for better latency and throughput. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2021
Why companies should use AI for fraud management, detection
AI is involved in many cybersecurity processes. Now it's making inroads in fraud management and detection. The benefits, however, are not without AI's nagging bias challenge. Continue Reading