Practical quantum computers are over a decade away, says NEC
A practical, commercial quantum computer is over a decade away, executives at Japanese IT services company NEC are reported as saying. That’s why, according to Japanese news publication The Mainichi,...
View ArticleTether addresses AI underinvestment in Africa with open-source machine...
Most translation models are primarily trained for high-resource Asian and European languages. Most African languages, spoken by hundreds of millions of people, are relatively neglected, compared to...
View ArticleThe best workplace culture in America is being built by companies you’ve...
Microsoft’s announcement that they would be cutting 4,800 jobs was met with confusion by many, who contrasted the layoffs with the company’s recent market success (Microsoft’s net income was $31.8...
View Article16 governance tools for securing your AI fleet
Every DevOps team member knows that dealing with an AI is like being a circus lion tamer. The boss and the audience are happy when the lions sit on the pedestal and roar on cue, but there’s always the...
View ArticleMcDonald’s reintroduces AI at drive-thrus
At its global convention in Las Vegas in June, McDonald’s unveiled its strategy for the coming years. Among the announcements was one about the company’s AI platform ArchIQ and its order-taking voice...
View ArticleEnterprise AI desperately needs a lifecycle for context
Every successful enterprise AI deployment begins long before anyone types the first prompt. Teams spend weeks defining business metrics, documenting policies, connecting enterprise systems, and...
View ArticleHealthcare AI’s real bottleneck isn’t intelligence — it’s integration
In 2012, MD Anderson Cancer Center began working with IBM on one of the most ambitious experiments in healthcare AI. The premise was compelling: combine the knowledge of a leading cancer center with...
View ArticleSAP CEO: The end is near for the keyboard
SAP CEO Christian Klein says in an interview with Fortune that he believes the keyboard may soon have a significantly smaller role in the workplace. “The end of the keyboard is near,” says Christian...
View ArticleAn undisclosed Microsoft presentation is now central to a multi-million...
There’s a new development in a Microsoft antitrust case, originally filed in England’s High Court in April 2021, and it doesn’t look good for the tech giant. A consent order from the UK Competition...
View ArticleThe more autonomous your AI, the more people it needs
A few months ago, researchers let a bunch of AI agents run loose in a simulated city for fifteen days, with granular instructions that included not committing arson. By the end of the experiment, two...
View ArticleThe amount of e-waste caused by AI is underestimated: we can’t only include...
When enterprise IT calculates the likely environmental and ROI impact from replacing data center systems, it fails to account for much of it, and also tends to discard hardware far too quickly,...
View ArticleTypeSafe AI’s new models work with machines, not humans
Today’s large language models are verbose, even if they’re being asked to recommend a simple decision, driving up usage costs through the sheer volume of tokens they consume or generate. Enterprises...
View ArticleOpenAI admits six new misalignment incidents under new reporting framework
OpenAI has published six new reports detailing AI model misalignment, including instances of hidden instructions, unauthorized communication, and attempts to locate exposed API keys, adding to the...
View ArticleAI-smart, not AI-first
Many companies are rushing into “AI-first” mandates right now. We’ve seen this pattern before. A decade ago, it was “cloud-first,” and it led to the same outcome: Fast adoption, thin governance and a...
View ArticleAI agents should retrieve facts, not define them
I have made this mistake before. The goal was to create an executive intelligence agent: an artificial intelligence (AI) engine where C-suite executives could self-serve their analytics and pull...
View ArticleAI failures are inevitable. So is the CIO getting blamed.
Even when CIOs don’t have visibility into AI agent actions or don’t choose the vendor, chances are they’ll still take the blame when anything goes sideways. IT leaders already see this happening...
View ArticleThe CIO-Legal partnership will define the future of enterprise AI
AI is moving quickly across organizations. Companies are scaling existing use cases, introducing new tools and giving more employees access to AI as they look for ways to improve efficiency and stay...
View ArticleThe 7 new Cs of IT leadership for the AI era
AI is accelerating the pace of change, shortening the shelf life of expertise, reshaping operating models, and compressing the time IT leaders have to learn, decide, and act. As a result, IT leaders...
View ArticleDigital transformation fails without this culture shift
In companies where digital transformation (DX) isn’t progressing as expected, the common barrier is not technology but the organization. You’ve introduced AI tools. You’ve organized your data. You’ve...
View ArticleSalesforce’s massive outage exposes the hidden risks of cloud dependencies
While its flagship Dreamforce event was in full swing on Wednesday, Salesforce was triaging a roughly seven and a half hour-long service outage that disrupted user access and caused “severe delays”...
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