IBM, Salesforce infuse Einstein with Granite

The integration brings the watsonx multimodel platform into the CRM’s data cloud ecosphere as IBM pushes its LLM solutions into multiple clouds.

By Matt Ashare • May 21, 2024

Slack tweaks AI policy language after user backlash

The company is working to clarify the relationship between customer data and generative AI in its collaboration platform following user concern.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 21, 2024

Popular LLMs are insecure, UK AI Safety Institute warns

AI models released by “major labs” are highly vulnerable to even basic attempts to circumvent safeguards, the researchers found. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 20, 2024

Employers should include workers in AI plans, DOL says

The agency outlined a list of eight “AI Principles for Developers and Employers” on Thursday, following up on a 2023 directive from the White House.

By Ryan Golden • May 20, 2024

What’s the cost of the IT skills gap? IDC says $5.5 trillion by 2026

AI coding and workforce training capabilities could trim as much as $1 trillion from the losses by 2027, according to IDC researcher Gina Smith.

By Matt Ashare • May 17, 2024

Enterprises struggle to show the value of AI projects

While existing applications are placing generative AI within reach for the average business, many are finding it difficult to craft mature AI strategies, Gartner found.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 17, 2024

Senate AI working group releases long-awaited policy guidance

The bipartisan group spent the past year on a listening tour and is recommending federal investments of at least $32 billion per year in AI innovation.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 16, 2024

AI raises CIO cyber anxieties

Using third-party generative AI products without the proper controls exposes existing security gaps, McKinsey and Company Partner Jan Shelly Brown said Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 16, 2024

Google puts Gemini closer to the enterprise tool stack

The tech company updated Gemini 1.5 Pro, introduced a smaller Gemini 1.5 Flash model and added two Gemma models to its portfolio.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 15, 2024

Technology executives extol the virtues of ‘old-school’ AI

“One of our jobs as CIOs is not to get so swept up in generative AI that we don’t make use of all the tools that are available to us,” Mathematica CIO Akira Bell said, speaking Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 15, 2024

What LinkedIn engineers learned while building in generative AI

The social media company’s engineers wanted the technology to improve experiences and engagement. But the final product required more tweaking than previously thought.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 14, 2024

OpenAI introduces faster, cheaper GPT-4o model

GPT-4o is the LLM maker’s first multimodal model and will begin to roll out to customers Monday. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 13, 2024

Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises

An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.

By Matt Ashare • May 10, 2024

Employees are using AI at work — even without CIO approval

Shadow IT is proliferating as burnout and challenging workloads push workers to find their own AI solutions, according to Microsoft and LinkedIn.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 9, 2024

IBM embeds AI business solutions in SAP’s cloud

The two companies plan to build tailored tools for manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and automotive industries.

By Matt Ashare • May 9, 2024

Microsoft unveils $3.3B AI infrastructure plan as it grows US data center capacity

The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 8, 2024

Oracle to add AI coding companion to cloud portfolio

The tech company joins a growing group of enterprise software vendors contributing to the proliferation of coding tools powered by large language models.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 7, 2024

Financial industry alliance pushes for collective AI governance framework

Citi, Morgan Stanley, Databricks and Microsoft will help guide a FINOS initiative aimed at devising best practices for onboarding the technology.

By Matt Ashare • May 6, 2024

Enterprises prep for big AI spending, but data woes prevent progress

Modernizing IT estates will cost enterprises an average of $35.5 million this year, according to a Couchbase survey.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 6, 2024

Amazon tempts enterprises to customize AI on AWS

CEO Andy Jassy called the hyperscaler’s move to open its Bedrock platform to tailored models “a sneaky big launch.”

By Matt Ashare • May 3, 2024

Marriott gears up for another year of major tech spending

The company expects full-year investments to reach $1 billion as digital transformation projects advance, according to its latest earnings call.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 2, 2024

Microsoft captures one-quarter of global cloud spend in Q1

“This is not just all an AI story,” CEO Satya Nadella said during a quarterly earnings call, pointing to “an acceleration of revenue from migrations to Azure.”

By Matt Ashare • May 2, 2024

Amazon CEO touts AWS cloud security as AI risk concerns mount

Andy Jassy urged enterprises “not to overlook the security and operational performance” of cloud-based generative AI services. “It’s less sexy, but critically important.”

By Matt Ashare • May 1, 2024

White House AI hiring push draws ‘unprecedented’ interest

Federal agencies plan to hire 500 more AI workers through 2025 as the Biden administration pursues in-demand skills.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 1, 2024

NIST details 400 risk-mitigating actions in safety push

A 2,500-member public working group offered input on the guidelines, which aim to help developers manage threats, such as violent, toxic or biased model recommendations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 30, 2024