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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small

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Bank of America will invest $4 billion in AI and related technology innovations this year, but the financial services giants 7-year-old homemade AI agent, Erica, remains a key ROI generator , linchpin for customer and employee experience , and source of great pride today. We are not writing essays with Erica. We are not trying to write software.

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How AI orchestration has become more important than the models themselves

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As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

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Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

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The product works with both off-the-shelf models and customer-built models. It can run in a customer’s cloud environment or as a SaaS application. Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. But what about legacy players in the financial industry?

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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data

TechCrunch

Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service.

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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025

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Like the PC revolution of the 80s and 90s, and the rise of cloud computing and SaaS in the early 2000s, when everyone has access to the same tools, its the way theyre used that confers a competitive advantage. This year saw the initial hype and excitement over AI settle down with more realistic expectations taking hold.