DevOps.com
OCTOBER 29, 2024
GitHub today revealed it is adding support for both the Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Anthropic and the Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM from Google to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing code.
CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. At Google’s parent company, she worked with moonshot companies such as Waymo, Wing, and X, to shape sustainable businesses and global impact.
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InfoQ Culture Methods
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself. In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 31, 2024
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. While the goblins and ghouls make their rounds this month, so have some pretty fascinating startups with funding news. From startups trying to make sure tech is more usable for people with disabilities, to those looking to harness the power of the ocean, there was some eye-catching tech that raised cash this month.
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
Xebia
OCTOBER 30, 2024
At Xebia, knowledge sharing isn’t just a practice—it’s ingrained in our DNA. This quarter, we continued to build on that foundation by organizing and contributing to events, meetups, and conferences that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in Data, AI, and MLOps. As always, the more we share, the more we learn. We’re excited to take you on a whirlwind journey through everything we’ve accomplished in Q3 2024!
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI , they face challenges in managing the associated costs. With demand for generative AI applications surging across projects and multiple lines of business, accurately allocating and tracking spend becomes more complex. Organizations need to prioritize their generative AI spending based on business impact and criticality while maintaining cost transparency across customer and user segments.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. There may not have been a $1 billion raise this week, but large money deals did abound.
Xebia
OCTOBER 28, 2024
On October 29, 2024, GitHub, the leading Copilot-powered developer platform, will launch GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. This will enable enterprises to choose precisely where their data is stored — starting with the EU and expanding globally. GitHub’s new solution addresses long-standing concerns for organizations operating under strict regulations, particularly in highly regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and industries managing sensitive intellectual property.
CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. In fact, a recent Cloudera survey found that 88% of IT leaders said their organization is currently using AI in some way.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 31, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It really never stops. It’s only been a few weeks since OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 billion at a post-money valuation of $157 billion. The Thrive Capital -led raise nearly doubled the San Francisco-based AI giant’s $80 billion valuation from its secondary offering in February.
Xebia
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Do you want to know how to get your error logs to appear in Google Error Reporting? In this blog, I will show you how to configure your application’s logging so that errors logged in Google Cloud Logging will automatically appear in Google Error Reporting : By configuring structured logging and adding two properties to the log record, this integration can be done quickly.
CIO
OCTOBER 31, 2024
CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 31, 2024
AWS offers powerful generative AI services , including Amazon Bedrock , which allows organizations to create tailored use cases such as AI chat-based assistants that give answers based on knowledge contained in the customers’ documents, and much more. Many businesses want to integrate these cutting-edge AI capabilities with their existing collaboration tools, such as Google Chat, to enhance productivity and decision-making processes.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 30, 2024
By Priya Saiprasad It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase data. However, as AI booms, exit value in the United States is plummeting. M&A for venture-backed companies totals just $47 billion so far in 2024, down from $148 billion in 2021, Crunchbase data shows.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Crowdbotics today made available an extension for GitHub Copilot that makes it simpler to generate code using higher-quality requirements documents. Unveiled at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference, this extension provides a simpler method to invoke an AI platform that Crowdbotics created to convert plain language descriptions of applications into a requirements document.
CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2024
As businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to interact with customers, the need for advanced tools to understand and optimize these experiences has never been greater. Enter Gen AI, a transformative force reshaping digital experience analytics (DXA). Gen AI allows organizations to unlock deeper insights and act on them with unprecedented speed by automating the collection and analysis of user data.
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Recently, we’ve been witnessing the rapid development and evolution of generative AI applications, with observability and evaluation emerging as critical aspects for developers, data scientists, and stakeholders. Observability refers to the ability to understand the internal state and behavior of a system by analyzing its outputs, logs, and metrics.
Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 29, 2024
My colleagues are often involved in modernizing legacy systems, and our approach is to do this in an incremental fashion. Doing this with a mobile application raises some specific challenges. Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida share their experiences of a recent engagement to do this, shifting from a monolithic legacy application to one using a modular micro-app architecture.
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 31, 2024
As cyberthreats evolve, financial institutions are leveraging AI to bolster their defenses, streamline operations and protect their assets. Like other data-rich industries, banking, capital markets, insurance and payments firms are lucrative targets with high-value information. Conversely, threat actors – from cybercriminals to nation-states – are harnessing AI to craft more sophisticated attacks, automate their operations, and evade traditional security measures.
CIO
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, and take actions much as a human worker would, without human intervention. It’s more than just a smarter RPA Agentic AI isn’t just a better version of robotic process automation (RPA) : It promises to take enterprises places RPA never could.
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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?
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 31, 2024
A number of organizations use Gmail for their business email needs. Gmail for business is part of Google Workspace , which provides a set of productivity and collaboration tools like Google Drive , Gmail , and Google Calendar. Google Drive supports storing documents such as Emails contain a wealth of information found in different places, such as within the subject of an email, the message content, or even attachments.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Instabug today revealed it has added an ability to both analyze mobile application crash report data and source code, to better pinpoint the root cause of issues accurately, which it then feeds into a proprietary generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, dubbed SmartResolve, that automatically generates the code needed to resolve it.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out September’s biggest rounds here. OpenAI led the way last month and it really wasn’t even close. However, there were lots of other big raises — as a startup had to raise more than $200 million to make October’s list as investors were very willing to open their checkbooks for megadeals. 1.
CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2024
While new technologies have shifted priorities, the need to manage stakeholders has not, says Krishna Prasad, CIO of technology services business UST. And with AI used in almost every part of the business, stakeholders have become much more tech savvy, reducing their dependency on IT departments. But as a result, anybody could then expose a lot of company data inadvertently.
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Professionals in a wide variety of industries have adopted digital video conferencing tools as part of their regular meetings with suppliers, colleagues, and customers. These meetings often involve exchanging information and discussing actions that one or more parties must take after the session. The traditional way to make sure information and actions aren’t forgotten is to take notes during the session; a manual and tedious process that can be error-prone, particularly in a high-activity or hi
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 30, 2024
As policymakers across the globe approach regulating artificial intelligence (AI), there is an emerging and welcomed discussion around the importance of securing AI systems themselves. Indeed, many of the same governments that are actively developing broad, risk-based, AI regulatory frameworks have concurrently established AI safety institutes to conduct research and facilitate a technical approach to increasing AI system resilience.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Cybersecurity firm Armis Security closed a $200 million Series D led by Alkeon Capital and General Catalyst. The round boosts the company’s valuation nearly 25% to $4.2 billion. The San Francisco-based startup last raised a $300 million private equity round in 2021 led by One Equity Partners at a $3.4 billion valuation. The Series D also included participation from existing investors Brookfield Growth and Georgian.
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