Cybersecurity investments boost profitability, resilience: White House

Resilience spending will help companies avoid downtime, acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit.

Most unstructured enterprise data is siloed, report finds

Potential data breach costs nearly double for organizations with more fragmented data stockpiles, an IDC report found.

SaaS moves to usage-based pricing as enterprises optimize tech spend

Software providers shift to pay-as-you-go billing to bolster revenue growth and give customers more flexibility. 

Slack expands no-code, AI capabilities in latest update

The software vendor announced a slate of updates to its native automation features, allowing users to create custom workflows or choose from templates.

Intuit launches AI-fueled financial assistant for consumers, small businesses

The tool assists Intuit tax advisors, providing personalized recommendations and helps customers contextualize finances through a conversational interface.

BMW Group taps AWS to engineer its automated driving platform

The luxury carmaker will shift engineering and operational deployment of new vehicle technologies from on-prem to the cloud.

Zoom plugs more generative AI into solutions, revamps assistant tool

The company's AI Companion tool, formerly known as Zoom IQ, will connect with products across the company's software suite. 

Don’t rush ethics in generative AI adoption plans

Even when leaders feel the pressure to adopt generative AI quickly, ethical frameworks and use case policies should guide their plans.

IT unemployment ticked back up in August

The tech sector marked its third straight month of job gains, adding 12,643 roles in August, according to CompTIA.

SEC cyber disclosure rules are taking effect: Here’s what to expect

With enforcement on the horizon, much of the SEC's rules for material disclosures are subject to interpretation.

Software industry urged to assume risk on open source security

The Open Source Security Foundation called on commercial and non-commercial organizations that use open source software components to adopt better security practices.

Salesforce banks on price hike, generative AI to spur revenue growth

In the words of the CRM giant's CEO Marc Benioff, “that's the AI revolution coming at you, baby, so get ready.”

Microsoft unbundles Teams from 365 in Europe amid antitrust query

The company will sell Teams separately to customers in Europe as EU regulators review potentially anticompetitive practices.

Cloud interoperability remains elusive as tech stacks grow

The push to modernize the enterprise can add unwanted complexity to tangled IT ecosystems, even in the cloud.

Generative AI copyright battle heats up with Copyright Office inquiry

Officials are looking into the use of protected works to train AI models and whether copyright protections should be granted to AI-generated works.

Walmart rolls out generative AI-powered assistant to 50K employees

The retailer joins a growing group of large U.S. enterprises equipping workers with generative AI capabilities customized to internal systems.

Salesforce’s on-prem clients face cloud migration pressure: Gartner

The SaaS company raised fees for on-prem Tableau users, signaling its intention to keep shifting customers to the cloud, Gartner analysts said.

Google Cloud unveils new TPUs in race to optimize AI hardware

The new generation chips are optimized to handle the growing volume of generative AI model training and inference workloads.

Few employees are confident in their generative AI abilities

Don’t be fooled by the hype — employees need guidance to use generative AI tools safely and effectively.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise as hyperscalers grow AI marketplaces

Though ChatGPT sparked the generative AI wave, hyperscalers are positioning themselves as all-inclusive shopping destinations for large language model solutions.

SAP brings generative AI to data cloud platform with Google’s help

The solution infuses the ERP provider’s data ecosystem with Vertex AI tools and initially targets the automotive industry.

GM to close IT innovation center in Arizona, cut staff

The closure will impact more than 900 General Motors employees as the company works to align its footprint and IT resources in the U.S.

How the VA CIO tackles tech debt, workflow woes

CIO Kurt DelBene is drawing on past change management experience to rethink processes and reduce technical debt.

Google Cloud taps Deloitte, Hitachi Energy to expand ESG toolkit

The collaborations will let organizations leverage cloud, data and analytics tools to further sustainability goals.

Meta taught Llama 2 how to code

Code Llama was trained on code-specific databases and supports popular languages, including Python, C++ and Java.