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.
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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.
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?
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.
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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
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.
Dell EMC
AUGUST 8, 2024
Dell's integrated solutions streamline IT, reduce risk and offer flexible consumption options to keep you competitive.
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: 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
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
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 tecnologÃa de IA generativa para mantenerse al dÃa, pero sin dejarse distraer ni por el entusiasmo tecnológico ni por las propuestas comerciales.
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
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.
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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.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
AUGUST 8, 2024
This post is co-authored with Travis Mehlinger and Karthik Raghunathan from Cisco. Webex by Cisco is a leading provider of cloud-based collaboration solutions, including video meetings, calling, messaging, events, polling, asynchronous video, and customer experience solutions like contact center and purpose-built collaboration devices. Webex’s focus on delivering inclusive collaboration experiences fuels their innovation, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to remo
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.
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
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.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
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.
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.
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
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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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.
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
If you enjoy using a stylus to capture quick notes, create GIFs, and even solve basic handwritten calculations, look to Motorola's Moto G Stylus 5G (2024). For a limited time, you can also get a free pair of earbuds with it.
Cloudera
AUGUST 8, 2024
Cloudera is excited to announce a partnership with Allitix, a leading IT consultancy specializing in connected planning and predictive modeling. This collaboration is set to enhance Allitix’s offerings by leveraging Cloudera’s secure, open data lakehouse, empowering enterprises to scale advanced predictive models and data-driven solutions across their environments.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
We tested the best Android VPNs that provide high levels of security and high speeds without slowing down your phone.
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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.
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
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.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
DEF CON 32 runs from August 8th through 11th. Panels, challenges, and events we track annually at DEFCON 32 are included here.
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