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OpenAI forms safety committee as it pushes next model development
The AI provider formed a safety and security committee Tuesday to assess safeguards and provide recommendations.
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Cyberattacks are good for security vendors, and business is booming
More secure enterprise technology could stem the tide of cyberattacks, but digital threats are ever present.
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JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects
The bank estimates its AI use cases can deliver up to $1.5 billion in value, according to President and COO Daniel Pinto.
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CIOs tap citizen developers for IT and operational efficiencies
All employees can be technologists when provided the right set of tools. But companies are gauging how much autonomy to give them.
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Microsoft president set to testify before Congress on ‘security shortcomings’
After the tech giant asked for more time, Brad Smith will now testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 13.
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Snowflake banks on building modestly sized AI models
“Companies are talking about spending billions of dollars. I don’t think we need to be there,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.
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AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says
Skills gaps continue to drive up competition for AI-related talent, boosting the importance of reskilling and upskilling.
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Nvidia CEO promises to deliver ‘a mound of chips’ as AI development speeds ahead
Cloud providers are “consuming every single chip that’s out there,” Jensen Huang said Wednesday. “We’re racing every single day.”
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Enterprises, pressed for time, accelerate AI spending
There’s a two-year window closing in on enterprises to adopt generative AI before losing out on competitive advantages, a Genpact and HFS Research report said.
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Ballooning AI budgets expected to face ROI pressure
Corporate AI expenditures will likely come under increased scrutiny in earnings calls, Gartner’s Frances Karamouzis said.
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IBM beats Meta, OpenAI in Stanford transparency index
Vendors have improved transparency in the past seven months, but clarity around guardrail effectiveness and downstream impact still lags.
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Tech chiefs grapple with the latest driver of shadow IT
Emerging software capabilities like generative AI challenge leaders to weigh the risks of adoption against the needs of the enterprise.
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16 tech providers agree to nail down AI safety curbs
The Frontier AI Safety Commitments unveiled Tuesday in Seoul outline a series of voluntary steps to mitigate risk associated with AI systems.
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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.
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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.
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AI could perform more than half of HR assistant tasks by 2032, report says
Companies will overhaul their business and operating models as AI adoption grows over the next three years, according to a Cognizant report.
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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.
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Google leverages Microsoft’s cyber gaps to woo Workspace customers
“The repeated security challenges with Microsoft call for a better alternative for enterprises and public-sector organizations alike,” Google said Monday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Palo Alto Networks signs broad enterprise cybersecurity partnership with IBM
The enterprise security giant will capitalize on a platform consolidation strategy as IBM concedes on transition to cloud security.
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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.
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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.