Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
In 2022, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas left their jobs developing artificial intelligence at Google. They said the tech giant moved too slowly. So they created Character.AI, a chatbot start-up, and raised nearly $200 million. Last week, Mr. Shazeer and Mr. De Freitas announced that they were returning to Google.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
There’s no end in sight to the gen AI boom. Every week, we see new advances in the technology, new use cases, and new fears of AI overwhelming humanity or, at least, some industries. Experts predict radical realignments and the emergence of new industrial superpowers, similar to what we saw during the dot-com transition. Some companies, with their very survival at stake, are willing to spend any amount of money in order to stay relevant.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
In DevOps, the ability to release software fast, sometimes multiple times a day, is imperative. Developers must be ready to conduct and complete testing in minutes, sorting out whether software is ready to advance to the next phase or if teams should move on from the project.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
The business narrative around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been consumed with real-world use cases. From the earliest demos of ChatGPT to the current state of play where new AI co-pilots and point solutions are launching every day, it’s been all about the tools – how can this new AI-powered widget make me faster, more efficient, and more competitive?
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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?
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
By harnessing the power of AI with the right ITOps solution, DevOps teams can achieve a more intelligent and automated approach to IT operations.
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DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
As we anticipate the advancement of AI over the next decade, we must recognize that we are not equipped to grant these tools complete control.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. IT teams benefit from the sprawling, dynamic support communities that surround major open source projects. Yet, for CISOs, open source is more likely in many cases to inspire fear than love.
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 8, 2024
For a long time, adtech startups regularly picked up billions of dollars in venture funding in a given year. Not anymore. So far this year, U.S. advertising-focused startups have raised only around $360 million, per Crunchbase data. That puts the industry on track for the slowest year in over a decade. For a sense of how far funding has fallen, we charted out annual adtech investment from 2015 till today.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
If you watched DUNE or read the book, then you’ll get my drift: waste not, want not. This story is about three water utilities that worked together, like the fictional Fremen of the desert-planet Arakkis, to build a synergistic system to manage water usage across their entire water sector sustainably and much more efficiently. Farys is a water utility that provides cities and municipalities in Belgium with public domain services and infrastructure management—from the distribution and transport
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
AUGUST 8, 2024
This post is co-written with Aishwarya Gupta, Apurva Gawad, and Oliver Cody from Twilio. Today’s leading companies trust Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) to build direct, personalized relationships with their customers everywhere in the world. Twilio enables companies to use communications and data to add intelligence and security to every step of the customer journey, from sales and marketing to growth, customer service, and many more engagement use cases in a flexible, programmatic
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
Mientras GPT-4 supera la prueba de Turing, Microsoft impulsa su asistente de inteligencia artificial (IA) Copilot en los productos empresariales y Google anuncia la disponibilidad de la aplicación Gemini en los teléfonos móviles en Italia, los CIO estudian la tecnología de IA generativa para mantenerse al día, pero sin dejarse distraer ni por el entusiasmo tecnológico ni por las propuestas comerciales.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
AUGUST 8, 2024
Seamless access to content and insights is crucial for delivering exceptional customer experiences and driving successful business outcomes. Box, a leading cloud content management platform, serves as a central repository for diverse digital assets and documents in many organizations. An enterprise Box account typically contains a wealth of materials, including documents, presentations, knowledge articles, and more.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
Technical debt is a growing problem that businesses can’t ignore. Also known as code debt, it’s the accumulation of legacy systems and applications that are difficult to maintain and support, as well as poorly written or hastily implemented code that increases risk over time. These technical challenges can significantly impact the performance and stability of critical operations and must be addressed as a priority.
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Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 8, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. As the generative AI race gets hotter and hotter, it seems like Big Tech is begging the government to get more involved. Just a couple weeks ago we discussed Microsoft ’s machinations to try to avoid more antitrust scrutiny, even as it announces deal after deal in the AI space.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
El ascenso de Joy Brown a través de los escalones superiores de las funciones digitales y de TI modela lo que ahora es la preparación necesaria para el liderazgo tecnológico. Preparada por un programa de rotación que pasaba por diversas tareas para construir una base tecnológica y empresarial, Brown pudo desarrollar una sólida orientación a los procesos, además de habilidades en comunicación, gestión del cambio a gran escala e incluso una certificación Master Black Belt Six Sigma.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2024
Thank-you notes are a powerful professional tool for leaders. The author — a senior communications professional at Pfizer — shares her experiences learning about the power of thank-you notes from her high-powered mentor and seeing how it benefitted their business, professional relationships, and personal well-being. She also posits five principles of thank-you note-writing: Take time to reflect; thank those who are often forgotten; be specific; make it matter; and it’s never too late.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
This weird little device blew up on TikTok, but there are quite a few impressive things you can do with it. Here are some of the most useful.
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Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 8, 2024
Running an AI workload on a GPU machine requires the installation of kernel drivers and user space libraries from GPU vendors such as AMD and NVIDIA. Once the driver and software are installed, to use AI frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow , one needs to use the proper framework built against the GPU target. Usually, the AI applications run on top of popular AI frameworks and as such hide the tedious installation steps.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
The new version of the Mac Mini is said to be the smallest computer Apple's ever made, but one of the most powerful with the new M4 chip.
Dell EMC
AUGUST 8, 2024
Dell's integrated solutions streamline IT, reduce risk and offer flexible consumption options to keep you competitive.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
This Blackview Tab 18, with an octa-core processor, 12GB of RAM, and a huge battery, is just the thing for me.
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There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h
Confluent
AUGUST 8, 2024
The new Confluent Cloud Homepage UI adds many features including Clusters/Topics modals, health indicators, favorites, recently visited, recommended actions, & more.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
We've tested and researched the top USB-C chargers that can power up your smartphone or tablet, and sometimes even your laptop. Here are our favorites from Anker, Ugreen, and more.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2024
Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has gone on a journey from being the least efficient user of technology in the Blue Cross system to the most efficient as measured on a technology cost per employee basis. Not only that but they have absorbed waves of new technology: cloud, new security protocols, extensive mobile support, more than 20 production AI applications and now generative AI (gen AI).
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
As many as 240 million Windows 10 PCs can't be upgraded to Windows 11. But instead of trashing your device when Windows 10 support runs out, here are five viable alternatives to save you money and trouble.
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IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 8, 2024
The previous post laid out the basic idea of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation can get teams started. However, you can’t rely only on auto-instrumentation. This post will discuss the limitations in more detail and how a CoPE can help teams overcome them. Custom instrumentation Once your teams begin working with telemetry from auto-instrumentation, they’ll soon realize something: it’s reeeeally barebones.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
With the Connect IQ store supported on watches, bike computers, and outdoor handhelds, developers gain access to a huge market. Now Garmin needs to expand its payment options.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
For years, tech giants like Google and startups such as OpenAI have been racing to build ever bigger and costlier artificial intelligence models using a tremendous amount of online data.
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