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AI in the Enterprise: 5 key findings of AI usage and threat trends

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from buzz to business necessity over the past yearsomething Zscaler has seen firsthand while pioneering AI-powered solutions and tracking enterprise AI/ML activity in the worlds largest security cloud. Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI tools to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and accelerate decision-making.

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Cybersecurity Firm Island Raises $250M, Jumps Valuation To $4.8B

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Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8 billion valuation. The new round was led by Coatue Management , with several existing investors participating in the round, per the company. The new valuation represents a 60% jump from last April when Island raised a $175 million Series D at a $3 billion valuation, also led by Coatue.

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Cybersecurity under siege: How AI and ransomware are redefining threats in the Middle East

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As Middle Eastern countries accelerate digital transformation through smart cities, AI adoption, and giga-projects, cybersecurity threats are evolving faster than defenses can keep up. In an exclusive interview with Abdul Ghaffar Setareh, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zain Group, he paints a stark picture of the regions cyber battleground: AI-powered ransomware, 300 Gbps DDoS attacks, and hackers exploiting supply chain loopholes to target critical infrastructure.

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Unleashing the multimodal power of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation to transform unstructured data into actionable insights

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of generative AI solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023. The McKinsey 2023 State of AI Report identifies data management as a major obstacle to AI adoption and scaling. Enterprises generate massive volumes of unstructured data, from legal contracts to customer interactions, yet extracting meaningful insights remains a challenge.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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With $6.2B Purchase Of Chip Designer Ampere, SoftBank Is Going Big This Year

Crunchbase News

As an investor, SoftBank is known for going big. That mentality came across clearly Wednesday evening, when the storied tech dealmaker announced it will acquire chip design company Ampere Computing , in a $6.2 billion cash transaction. Under terms of the deal, Ampere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group. Founded in 2017, Silicon Valley-based Ampere designs high-performance AI chips based on the Arm compute platform.

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HDR10+ Now Streaming on Netflix

Netflix Tech

Roger Quero , Liwei Guo , Jeff Watts , Joseph McCormick , Agata Opalach , AnushMoorthy We are excited to announce that we are now streaming HDR10+ content on our service for AV1-enabled devices, enhancing the viewing experience for certified HDR10+ devices, which previously only received HDR10 content. The dynamic metadata included in our HDR10+ content improves the quality and accuracy of the picture when viewed on thesedevices.

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SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027

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At a press conference held in Seoul on March 20, SAP CEO Christian Klein personally introduced the Korean market to SAPs AI-specific services, describing how SAPs AI vision can help Korean companies realize theirs. Samsung, LG, and other top 10 conglomerates in Korea are SAP customers, and many excellent customers in Korea are using SAP to enhance their global competitiveness, said Klein.

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Create generative AI agents that interact with your companies’ systems in a few clicks using Amazon Bedrock in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today we are announcing that general availability of Amazon Bedrock in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. Companies of all sizes face mounting pressure to operate efficiently as they manage growing volumes of data, systems, and customer interactions. Manual processes and fragmented information sources can create bottlenecks and slow decision-making, limiting teams from focusing on higher-value work.

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The role of developer skills in agentic coding

Martin Fowler

As agentic coding assistants get more capable, Birgitta Böckeler is trying them to change existing codebases. This has led to some impressive collaboration sessions, but she's needed to intervene, correct and steer all the time. In her latest post , she describes examples of these interventions, giving ideas of the types of skills we currently need to correct the tools' missteps.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Choosing the Right Cloud Security Provider: Five Non-Negotiables for Protecting Your Cloud

Tenable

Protecting your cloud environment for the long term involves choosing a security partner whose priorities align with your needs. Here's what you need to know. As organizations embrace multi-cloud and hybrid environments, the complexity of securing that landscape increases. However, the overlooked risks may not come solely from threat actors. Choosing a security provider that has conflicting priorities can also introduce risk.

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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

CIO

The United States has been trying to counteract the popularization of technological solutions from China for years, often taking steps that are contrary to the development of an open market. Further tariffs and the inclusion of large companies on the Department of Commerce blacklists limit competition while favoring solutions from the US. China is not remaining passive and is increasingly overcoming American sanctions by gaining new market segments.

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Generative AI-powered game design: Accelerating early development with Stability AI models on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In the competitive world of game development, staying ahead of technological advancements is crucial. Generative AI has emerged as a game changer, offering unprecedented opportunities for game designers to push boundaries and create immersive virtual worlds. At the forefront of this revolution is Stability AIs cutting-edge text-to-image AI model, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (SD3.5 Large), which is transforming the way we approach game environment creation.

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The 3 Golden M&A Rules Founders And CEOs Should Follow

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By Anas Nader With signs indicating that 2025 will finally bring the upswing in M&A the market has long been predicting, many management teams (and their investors) will be looking to pursue a buy and build strategy this year. For founders who are used to being in sales mode, the pivot to being a buyer can be a tricky gear change. Last year, I helmed my scale-up through its first acquisition , bringing a fellow healthtech company into our business.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Microsoft’s quantum computer hit with criticism at key physics meeting

Ooda Loop

Microsofts recently revealed quantum computer was dealt another blow this week, as data presented by the firm at the worlds biggest annual gathering of physicists failed to convince researchers that the device works as advertised. Thanks for waking up early and coming out today. I appreciate you all in the back, said Chetan Nayak at […] The post Microsofts quantum computer hit with criticism at key physics meeting appeared first on OODAloop.

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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit

David Heinemeier Hansson

We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp , HEY , and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our departure date for the final leg of our cloud exit. We've already racked the replacement from Pure Storage in our two primary data centers.

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CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-1974, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514: Frequently Asked Questions About IngressNightmare

Tenable

Frequently asked questions about five vulnerabilities in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes, collectively known as IngressNightmare. Background The Tenable Security Response Team (SRT) has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding IngressNightmare. FAQ What is IngressNightmare? IngressNightmare is the name given to a series of vulnerabilities in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes , an open source controller used for managing network traffic in Kube

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These Are The Fintech IPOs That Could Follow Klarna’s Debut

Crunchbase News

With Klarna now on tap for a public offering, the question arises: Who could be next? Turns out theres a pretty fat pipeline of venture-backed fintech startups that meet the basic criteria for an IPO. The list of likeliest suspects, however, includes many familiar names that have so far resisted the call of the public markets. To illustrate, we used Crunchbase s new forecasting tools to curate a list of a dozen venture-backed financial services startups that have generated buzz as potential IPO

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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The Art of Requirement Prioritization: Navigating the Complexities of Business Analysis

InnovationM

As Business Analysts (BAs), one of our most critical tasks is managing and defining requirements for various projects in one go. Among the many challenges we face, one of the most crucial is requirement prioritization. A well-organized set of requirements will also ensure that engineers, programmers, and database analysts build the most essential components of a project in accordance with business objectives.

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John Snow Labs Introduces First Commercially Available Medical Reasoning LLM at NVIDIA GTC

John Snow Labs

The new models are optimized specifically for clinical reasoning, can verbalize their chain of thought, and apply medically recommended planning and decision-making processes John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, today announced Medical LLM Reasoner, the first commercially available healthcare-specific reasoning large language model (LLM) to date.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. Gartners recent prediction that 60% of AI projects that run without AI-ready data will be abandoned by next year sheds light on the time bomb IT leaders need to immediately diffuse.

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The ‘living globe’ that can help drones fly without GPS

Ooda Loop

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isnt workingor gets jammed by electronic warfaredrones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead. This concept underpins a growing wave of efforts […] The post The living globe that can help drones fly without GPS appeared first on OODAloop.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Who Owns Your Face? The Legal Fight for Identity In The Age of AI

Crunchbase News

In an era where artificial intelligence can generate hyper-realistic deepfakes, companies monetize biometric data, and athletes fight for their rights under name, image and likeness, or NIL, contracts, a fundamental question emerges: Do we truly own our own faces? We all see our personal identity as sacrosanct, but the pace at which technology is evolving and the legal system desperately trying to catch up challenges our assumption.

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Agile marketing: The source of enterprise agility

Agile Alliance

Enterprise agility depends not just on software, but on marketings ability to drive customer-informed, strategic adaptation. The post Agile marketing: The source of enterprise agility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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AI Bias: What Is It and How to Minimize It

Apiumhub

Among the many concerns humans have about artificial intelligence, AI bias stands out as one of the most significant. This article aims to shed light on the issue, exploring its implications and why it has become an increasingly pressing topic. Fortunately, solutions like COGNOS are emerging to help mitigate these biases and improve AI neutrality. As reflected in Google search trends , interest in the term bias related to Computer Science has been steadily rising over the past ten years, indicat

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AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing

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Heres the secret to success in todays competitive business world: using advanced expertise and deep data to solve real challenges, make smarter decisions and create lasting value. Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case

Ooda Loop

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by Universal Music Group and other music publishers to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee said that the publishers’ request was too broad and that they failed to […] The post Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case appeared first on OODAloop.

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Eye On AI: Dealmaking Takes Off

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. For the past few years, venture capitalists have bemoaned a lack of liquidity in the industry as the IPO pipeline froze and M&A dealmaking slowed. Well, the IPO pipeline is still fairly chilled, but if the past few weeks are any indication, dealmaking when it comes to AI-related startups may be about to take off.

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Revisiting Herzog’s Dirty Dozen: The Progress Report - Part 1

Infinidat

Revisiting Herzogs Dirty Dozen: The Progress Report - Part 1 Adriana Andronescu Thu, 03/20/2025 - 08:21 I introduced Herzogs Dirty Dozen two-and-a-half years ago to shine a light on the challenges that enterprises face in their data infrastructure. The Dirty Dozen is a list of challenges, gaps, misconceptions and problems that keep CxOs, storage administrators, and other IT leaders up at night, worried about what they dont know.

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