PwC plans ChatGPT Enterprise rollout to 100K employees

The consulting firm is the first reseller of OpenAI’s business-focused tool and will offer customers the option to purchase access as part of the expanded partnership.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 29, 2024

OpenAI forms safety committee as it pushes next model development

The AI provider formed a safety and security committee Tuesday to assess safeguards and provide recommendations.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024

JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects

The bank estimates its AI use cases can deliver up to $1.5 billion in value, according to President and COO Daniel Pinto.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 28, 2024

CIOs tap citizen developers for IT and operational efficiencies

All employees can be technologists when provided the right set of tools. But companies are gauging how much autonomy to give them.

By Suman Bhattacharyya • Updated May 30, 2024

AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says

Skills gaps continue to drive up competition for AI-related talent, boosting the importance of reskilling and upskilling.

By Carolyn Crist • May 24, 2024

Snowflake banks on building modestly sized AI models

“Companies are talking about spending billions of dollars. I don’t think we need to be there,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • May 24, 2024

Microsoft president set to testify before Congress on ‘security shortcomings’

After the tech giant asked for more time, Brad Smith will now testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 13.

By Matt Kapko • May 24, 2024

Nvidia CEO promises to deliver ‘a mound of chips’ as AI development speeds ahead

Cloud providers are “consuming every single chip that’s out there,” Jensen Huang said Wednesday. “We’re racing every single day.”

By Matt Ashare • May 23, 2024

Enterprises, pressed for time, accelerate AI spending

There’s a two-year window closing in on enterprises to adopt generative AI before losing out on competitive advantages, a Genpact and HFS Research report said. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 23, 2024

IBM beats Meta, OpenAI in Stanford transparency index

Vendors have improved transparency in the past seven months, but clarity around guardrail effectiveness and downstream impact still lags.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 22, 2024

Tech chiefs grapple with the latest driver of shadow IT

Emerging software capabilities like generative AI challenge leaders to weigh the risks of adoption against the needs of the enterprise.

By Matt Ashare • May 22, 2024

16 tech providers agree to nail down AI safety curbs

The Frontier AI Safety Commitments unveiled Tuesday in Seoul outline a series of voluntary steps to mitigate risk associated with AI systems.

By Roberto Torres • May 21, 2024

IBM, Salesforce infuse Einstein with Granite

The integration brings the watsonx multimodel platform into the CRM’s data cloud ecosphere as IBM pushes its LLM solutions into multiple clouds.

By Matt Ashare • May 21, 2024

Slack tweaks AI policy language after user backlash

The company is working to clarify the relationship between customer data and generative AI in its collaboration platform following user concern.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 21, 2024

Popular LLMs are insecure, UK AI Safety Institute warns

AI models released by “major labs” are highly vulnerable to even basic attempts to circumvent safeguards, the researchers found. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 20, 2024

Employers should include workers in AI plans, DOL says

The agency outlined a list of eight “AI Principles for Developers and Employers” on Thursday, following up on a 2023 directive from the White House.

By Ryan Golden • May 20, 2024

What’s the cost of the IT skills gap? IDC says $5.5 trillion by 2026

AI coding and workforce training capabilities could trim as much as $1 trillion from the losses by 2027, according to IDC researcher Gina Smith.

By Matt Ashare • May 17, 2024

Enterprises struggle to show the value of AI projects

While existing applications are placing generative AI within reach for the average business, many are finding it difficult to craft mature AI strategies, Gartner found.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 17, 2024

Senate AI working group releases long-awaited policy guidance

The bipartisan group spent the past year on a listening tour and is recommending federal investments of at least $32 billion per year in AI innovation.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 16, 2024

AI raises CIO cyber anxieties

Using third-party generative AI products without the proper controls exposes existing security gaps, McKinsey and Company Partner Jan Shelly Brown said Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

By Matt Ashare • May 16, 2024

Google puts Gemini closer to the enterprise tool stack

The tech company updated Gemini 1.5 Pro, introduced a smaller Gemini 1.5 Flash model and added two Gemma models to its portfolio.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • May 15, 2024

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