Technology executives extol the virtues of ‘old-school’ AI

“One of our jobs as CIOs is not to get so swept up in generative AI that we don’t make use of all the tools that are available to us,” Mathematica CIO Akira Bell said, speaking Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 15, 2024

What LinkedIn engineers learned while building in generative AI

The social media company’s engineers wanted the technology to improve experiences and engagement. But the final product required more tweaking than previously thought.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 14, 2024

OpenAI introduces faster, cheaper GPT-4o model

GPT-4o is the LLM maker’s first multimodal model and will begin to roll out to customers Monday. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 13, 2024

Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises

An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.

By Matt Ashare • May 10, 2024

Employees are using AI at work — even without CIO approval

Shadow IT is proliferating as burnout and challenging workloads push workers to find their own AI solutions, according to Microsoft and LinkedIn.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 9, 2024

IBM embeds AI business solutions in SAP’s cloud

The two companies plan to build tailored tools for manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and automotive industries.

By Matt Ashare • May 9, 2024

Microsoft unveils $3.3B AI infrastructure plan as it grows US data center capacity

The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 8, 2024

Oracle to add AI coding companion to cloud portfolio

The tech company joins a growing group of enterprise software vendors contributing to the proliferation of coding tools powered by large language models.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 7, 2024

Financial industry alliance pushes for collective AI governance framework

Citi, Morgan Stanley, Databricks and Microsoft will help guide a FINOS initiative aimed at devising best practices for onboarding the technology.

By Matt Ashare • May 6, 2024

Enterprises prep for big AI spending, but data woes prevent progress

Modernizing IT estates will cost enterprises an average of $35.5 million this year, according to a Couchbase survey.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 6, 2024

Amazon tempts enterprises to customize AI on AWS

CEO Andy Jassy called the hyperscaler’s move to open its Bedrock platform to tailored models “a sneaky big launch.”

By Matt Ashare • May 3, 2024

Marriott gears up for another year of major tech spending

The company expects full-year investments to reach $1 billion as digital transformation projects advance, according to its latest earnings call.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 2, 2024

Microsoft captures one-quarter of global cloud spend in Q1

“This is not just all an AI story,” CEO Satya Nadella said during a quarterly earnings call, pointing to “an acceleration of revenue from migrations to Azure.”

By Matt Ashare • May 2, 2024

Amazon CEO touts AWS cloud security as AI risk concerns mount

Andy Jassy urged enterprises “not to overlook the security and operational performance” of cloud-based generative AI services. “It’s less sexy, but critically important.”

By Matt Ashare • May 1, 2024

White House AI hiring push draws ‘unprecedented’ interest

Federal agencies plan to hire 500 more AI workers through 2025 as the Biden administration pursues in-demand skills.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 1, 2024

NIST details 400 risk-mitigating actions in safety push

A 2,500-member public working group offered input on the guidelines, which aim to help developers manage threats, such as violent, toxic or biased model recommendations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 30, 2024

IT executives rethink data strategies as enterprises push AI adoption

Disruptive LLM technologies drove more than half of organizations to evolve analytics operating models, elevating the chief data officer role, according to Gartner research.

By Matt Ashare • April 29, 2024

Google’s Gemini beats GPT-4, Llama 2 in model grading test

An evaluation from Vero AI compared the effectiveness and transparency of 10 generative AI models.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 29, 2024

Estée Lauder CIO wants to bring AI to the forefront of beauty

The cosmetics giant is collaborating with Microsoft on an innovation lab that will help it explore generative AI applications across its brands.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 26, 2024

Google Cloud revenue soars as AI drives billions in infrastructure spend

The tech giant reported $9.6 billion in cloud segment revenue on the quarter, a 28% increase year over year.

By Matt Ashare • April 26, 2024

IBM deepens multicloud solution portfolio with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

“CIOs and developers are up against dramatic complexity in their tech strategies,” IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 25, 2024

Meta sharpens AI focus, boosts research spending

The tech company will focus on efficiency as AI services scale by improving how models run and using open-source improvements.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 25, 2024

Moderna turns to AI to change how its employees work

An expanded partnership with OpenAI is helping Moderna embed custom-built AI chatbots in a wide range of research and business processes.

By Ned Pagliarulo • April 25, 2024

Mattel toys with AI as cost-saving plan unfolds

The company is on the heels of surpassing a previous cost-savings target and is looking to AI to keep the momentum going.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 24, 2024

Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM focused on transparency

The data cloud company peeled back the curtain on the open-source model’s architecture and released a “cookbook” of technical specifications.

By Matt Ashare • April 24, 2024