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In this segment: Why data is your moat, the latest in generative AI productivity research and why chief data officers are set up to fail.

As AI labs become beholden to the interests of investors and big tech companies, they may be incentivized to focus more on research with...

AI assistants can boost productivity if used judiciously, but we must not implement the technology in ways that degrade human capabilities.

I had a chance to pick the brain of Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center and AI Group at Intel.

AI won't replace humans, just as supplements don't replace a healthy diet. But AI will strengthen operations and fill in critical gaps.

It's a big validation of Meta's open source approach toward generative AI, and indicates that open source can compete with the closed source.

DataStax's LangStream, an open-source project, has revolutionized event-driven AI by enabling real-time data streaming and integration with multiple vector databases.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of its Amazon Bedrock service, a vital tool in meeting the requirements of enterprise applications for generative AI.

Cohere touted the fact that its new chatbot API features Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a method of controlling a chatbot's information sources.

Luda announced it's launched its Real-Time Reinforcement Learning system for AI agents and raised $7 million in funding.

Meta's AI announcements come as fast-paced AI product releases are raising concerns about security, privacy, and just plain-old tech hubris.

Generative AI can bring more capabilities to IT operations, according to IT management platform vendor Atera, which today is announcing its new AI-powered IT (AIT) platform.

Microsoft announced today in an exclusive VentureBeat report the opening of its fifth AI Co-Innovation Lab, located in downtown San Francisco.

Slope further offers financing for its customers' customers, allowing those who can't pay upfront to be granted credit options.

At a keynote speech at the annual Meta Connect conference today, Mark Zuckerberg announced massive AI updates, building "state-of-the-art AI into the apps that billions of people use."

Campfire, which makes 3D collaboration tools for virtual reality, announced its platform for enterprises will debut on the Meta Quest 3.

Mistral’s demonstration of a small model delivering high performance across a range of tasks could mean major benefits for businesses.

The company said the capability was now available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and ChatGPT Enterprise users, and could be chosen...

Canada will be the first country with official regulations covering the emerging AI sector, said François-Philippe Champagne

Zerobroker, the San Francisco-based startup, is making waves in the logistics sector with its AI-backed platform aiming to upend traditional brokerage models.

Revefi, an AI startup aiming to be a "copilot" for enterprise data teams, announced $10.5 million in seed funding today.

Kyber Knight Capital launched a $120 million Vc fund and one of the founders said that game investments are part of the firm's focus.

Cloudflare's new Workers AI service, provides a serverless capability for delivering AI inference models around the world.

Activision Blizzard’s King division is celebrating 20 years of as a company, and it noted that Candy Crush Saga now has 15,000 levels for the match-3 game. The company said that Candy Crush Saga has reached $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date since its debut in 2012 on mobile. That is […]

The prohibitions seem flexible enough to enable AI to be used when writing screenplays, but only under the control and volition of a human.

Because social engineering attacks will only continue to grow, cybersecurity needs insight from both AI and human threat hunters.

Jensen Huang, CEO of one of the biggest tech companies in the world, celebrated Nvidia's founding today at a Denny's restaurant.

Such realtime data is vital for use cases where speed is of the essence in business processes, such as fraud detection.

UnitQ's platform aggregates and analyzes vast amounts of user feedback data — gathered from app reviews, support tickets, online posts and...

Microsoft, in a barrage of announcements, has once again made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is at the core of its business strategy, positioning itself as a leader in enterprise AI.

Microsoft announced a series of new enterprise security features today that utilize artificial intelligence to help defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. The tech giant claims its new AI capabilities will reduce security incidents by 60% and firmware attacks by 300% for businesses using its latest software.

Joule's capabilities range from answering questions in multiple languages to suggesting solutions based on data from SAP's various services.

AI and analytics are powering innovative use cases for financial services with the potential for real ROI – if they’re executed right.

Nearly half of the gen AI job postings in the past year were for roles in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle.

Vectara is going a step further in its quest to reduce the risk of AI hallucination with the debut of its new Boomerang technology that the company refers to as a neural information retrieval model.

Mattel announced it's launching a new version of its classic board game Pictionary, integrating AI as a new opponent for players.

Cloud computing leaders Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all now backing different AI foundation models and/or incubating their own.

In the first large-scale study on GPT-4 usage in enterprises, Harvard researchers found that using generative AI helped hundreds of consultants working for the respected Boston Consulting Group (BSG), giving them a 40 percent productivity boost.

ChatGPT is being enhanced with voice and image prompting capabilities that will roll out for Enterprise and Plus users over next two weeks.

The all new Google Bard 2.0 is here, but it stinks. So far, at least. Maybe Google’s upcoming model “Gemini” will be the fix it’s looking for. But until then, I recommend relying on GPT-4 for the bulk of your work tasks.

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, the company that has built a powerful chatbot called Claude.

AI's promise and perils are profound. This demands deep wisdom and caution in building models that benefit (and don't threaten) humanity.

I've been more active than ever lately. So I wrote about Lumen, a tool that has helped me gain better awareness about my metabolism.

How does ChatGPT deliver when it comes to cybersecurity advice? One security expert found the bot's responses both helpful and harmful.

The paper found that when producing a page of text, an AI system such as ChatGPT emits 130 to 1500 times fewer carbon dioxide equivalents.

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With its AI platform, Secoda wants to make searching for enterprise data as easy as looking up information on Google.

The cybersecurity leader is strengthening its commitment to platform consolidation, DevSecOps, cloud security and generative AI tools.

In an interview with VentureBeat after announcing Amazon's new Alexa LLM, the company's generative AI leader said Alexa is now a "super agent"