Alibaba cuts cloud prices in global market play

The China-based hyperscaler reduced core service costs by up to 59% for workloads running in data centers outside its domestic market.

By Matt Ashare • April 8, 2024

Big tech unites around AI workforce training for 100M workers

Microsoft, Google, Intel, IBM and SAP are among the companies in the Cisco-led consortium to prepare workers in roles the technology will most likely impact.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 8, 2024

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Generative AI

Companies are pushing technology executives to leverage generative AI, a task that requires customize strategies and the necessary guardrails.

By CIO Dive staff

KPMG taps Google Cloud for generative AI tools, upskilling

The professional services firm opened a cloud training center and will deploy Google’s Gemini AI assistant internally.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 5, 2024

IT hiring swings upward after 4-month slump

The addition of more than 200,000 tech positions across the economy marks a “welcome return to stability,” CompTIA Chief Research Officer Tim Herbert said.

By Matt Ashare • April 5, 2024

Banking’s mainframe strategies shift as boards push for AI, cloud

Nearly two-thirds of global banking leaders plan to use generative AI to expedite cloud migrations, according to NTT Data.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 4, 2024

Is prompt engineering’s party over?

The novel position could be on the chopping block before ever truly gaining enterprise traction, VMware researchers found. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 4, 2024

ChatGPT use is up, including at work

Employees under age 30 are most likely to report using the generative AI tool for tasks in the workplace, Pew says.

By Carolyn Crist • April 3, 2024

US, UK partner to demystify AI system evaluations

The collaboration between the nations’ safety institutes will result in robust model testing and “rigorous guidance,” the U.S. Secretary of Commerce said in a statement.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 2, 2024

Cloudflare activates global GPU network, deploys Hugging Face integration

The cloud connectivity provider’s Workers AI edge solution is now generally available in more than 150 cities, the company announced Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • April 2, 2024

Generative AI unlocks the door to unstructured enterprise data

“Getting all this data to the right place at the right moment – it’s not an easy task,” Alon Amit, VP of product, analytics, AI and data at Intuit, said during a CIO Dive panel.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • April 2, 2024

4 executive views from AI’s data underbelly

American Honda, Intuit, Cushman & Wakefield and Accenture tech chiefs shared insights on the systems that are fueling LLM innovations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson , Matt Ashare • April 1, 2024

SMBs aren’t scared of generative AI, survey finds

Nearly 9 in 10 small business owners are not concerned about the negative consequences associated with using the technology for work, GoDaddy found.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 29, 2024

Hyperscaler data center expansions ignite AI server market boom

As LLM technologies proliferated, GPUs surpassed CPUs in revenue for the first time last year, according to Dell’Oro research.

By Matt Ashare • March 28, 2024

Amazon cements minority ownership in Anthropic with $4B investment

With the final $2.75 billion installment paid, the ties between the two companies are growing stronger as AWS expands access to Claude models via Amazon Bedrock.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 28, 2024

American Honda gives data a promotion on the road to AI

The automotive company is pursuing an AI-for-all strategy, VP of IT Bob Brizendine said on a CIO Dive panel.

By Matt Ashare • March 28, 2024

White House wants in on sought-after AI skills

The Biden administration plans to hire 100 AI professionals by this summer, Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 28, 2024

A look at how the EU AI Act will impact US generative AI deployments

Industry experts advise tech chiefs on initial next steps and why the GDPR comparison matters before the European Union begins regulatory enforcement of its act.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 27, 2024

Zoom launches AI collaboration hub, brings automation to the fore

Zoom One bundles will rebrand to Zoom Workplace bundles for new and existing customers following a public release in April and May.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 26, 2024

Hybrid makes a comeback as cloud strategies mature

Companies are diversifying IT environments, mixing and matching on-prem with public cloud and edge locations, according to Nutanix data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024

Banks balance cloud, cyber priorities with AI eagerness

More than two-thirds of financial firms have made meaningful progress on core modernization, according to Broadridge data.

By Matt Ashare • March 25, 2024

How generative AI can create business processes on-the-fly

Generative AI is top of mind for everyone and business leaders are taking note. Read about how generative AI can be used to increase efficiency around business processes.

By Markus Zirn, Chief Strategy Officer, Workato • March 25, 2024

Accenture sees companies struggling to scale AI

“Clients are coming to grips with the investments needed to truly implement AI across the enterprise and nearly all are finding it difficult to scale,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • March 22, 2024

How CIOs can infuse security into generative AI adoption

As the AI ecosystem grows and more tools connect to internal data, threat actors have a wider field to introduce vulnerabilities.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • March 21, 2024

Finance chiefs play it safe on AI spending

Most organizations say spending on the technology will make up less than 1% of the company's budget next year, according to a Deloitte survey.

By Alexei Alexis • March 21, 2024

Nvidia lures all 4 major cloud hyperscalers with Blackwell ‘superchip’

AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle will embed the chipmaker’s new GPU processors, which experts say is critical for AI infrastructure

By Matt Ashare • March 20, 2024