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  CISA warned 1,750 organizations of ransomware vulnerabilities last year. Only half took action.

  The majority of CISA's ransomware vulnerability warning pilot alerts were sent to government facilities, healthcare and public health organizations.

  IT Strategy

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  3 signs your team is suffering from bad service management

  Service teams worldwide are suffering from Bad Service Management (BSM) – a condition caused by outdated and expensive IT Service Management (ITSM) tools. Learn the tell-tale signs of BSM and how to overcome the affliction.

  IT Strategy

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  The customer data stockpile is growing. Here’s how to protect it

  Data collection and disposal practices play an important role in building and retaining customer trust.

  IT Strategy

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  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.

  IT Strategy

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  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.”

  Cloud

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  Retail banking turns to core modernization as cloud strategies mature

  Legacy systems rife with technical debt are blocking customer service upgrades in the industry, according to IT consulting firm Endava.

  IT Strategy

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  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.

  AI & Future Tech

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  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.”

  Cloud

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  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.

  AI & Future Tech

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  Google’s Gemini beats GPT-4, Llama 2 in model grading test

  An evaluation from Vero AI compared the effectiveness and transparency of 10 generative AI models.

  AI & Future Tech

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  IT executives rethink data strategies as enterprises push AI adoption

  Disruptive LLM technologies drove more than half of organizations to evolve analytics operating models, elevating the chief data officer role, according to Gartner research.

  IT Strategy

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  What is success in cybersecurity? Failing less.

  Defenders aren’t measured by pure wins or losses. Intrusions will happen, and their job is to keep a bad situation from getting worse.

  Security

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  Estée Lauder CIO wants to bring AI to the forefront of beauty

  The cosmetics giant is collaborating with Microsoft on an innovation lab that will help it explore generative AI applications across its brands.

  AI & Future Tech

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  Google Cloud revenue soars as AI drives billions in infrastructure spend

  The tech giant reported $9.6 billion in cloud segment revenue on the quarter, a 28% increase year over year.

  Cloud

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  IBM deepens multicloud solution portfolio with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

  “CIOs and developers are up against dramatic complexity in their tech strategies,” IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said Wednesday.

  Cloud

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  Meta sharpens AI focus, boosts research spending

  The tech company will focus on efficiency as AI services scale by improving how models run and using open-source improvements.

  AI & Future Tech

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  Moderna turns to AI to change how its employees work

  An expanded partnership with OpenAI is helping Moderna embed custom-built AI chatbots in a wide range of research and business processes.

  AI & Future Tech

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  Mattel toys with AI as cost-saving plan unfolds

  The company is on the heels of surpassing a previous cost-savings target and is looking to AI to keep the momentum going.

  AI & Future Tech

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  Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM focused on transparency

  The data cloud company peeled back the curtain on the open-source model’s architecture and released a “cookbook” of technical specifications.

  IT Strategy

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  Coca-Cola pours $1.1B into Microsoft cloud, generative AI partnership

  The beverage maker will test Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot 365 use cases across business functions, the companies said Tuesday.

  Cloud

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  SAP leans on Business AI to spur ERP migrations

  Enterprise customers accelerated their shift to cloud-based solutions this year, CEO Christian Klein said during a Monday earnings call.

  Cloud

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  Salesforce bundles AI, data governance tools

  The two sets of tools will help enterprises address security concerns while supporting data management, the software company said.

  Updated April 23, 2024

  AI & Future Tech

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  Manufacturing, auto leaders reach the cloud, but cost woes remain

  While cloud delivers more capabilities today, its architecture, applications and funding model is more complex, Infosys' Global Head of Manufacturing Jasmeet Singh said.

  IT Strategy

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  Truist CIO, chief audit officer leave bank

  The bank, meanwhile, has added new leaders in its payments business and logged $70 million in restructuring charges in the first quarter, CEO Bill Rogers said Monday.

  Corporate

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  AI is a power-hungry beast: Who’s responsible for taming its energy appetite?

  Sourcing the power to feed large language models is a growing concern as AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud embark on a data center building boom.

  Cloud

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  Llama 3 arrives as confusion around open-source AI persists

  Open source has entered the AI model lexicon, creating a gray area around what it means in the context of large language models. 

  AI & Future Tech

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