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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

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After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. Across the globe, customers should not wait any longer for a magical one size fits all solution or ever trust that their due diligence of regulatory requirements can be delegated to any vendor. legislation.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Emergency response services have had a big boost of data thanks to advances in connected technology, with watches that can detect when their wearers are falling down and are experiencing trauma, cars that can pinpoint where their drivers are located and home systems that can transmit important data about fires when you cannot.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

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The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI. Kar advises taking a measured approach to system modernization.

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IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

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Downtime cost large enterprises an average of $200 million annually, cutting 9% from yearly profits, according to a study commissioned by Splunk. For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems.

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With $20M A round, Promise brings financial flexibility to outdated government and utility payment systems

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The last year has been one of financial hardship for billions, and among the specific hardships is the elementary one of paying for utilities, taxes and other government fees — the systems for which are rarely set up for easy or flexible payment. “These systems do not recognize that most people are struggling with their basic needs. .

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?