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28 Oct

AI workforce automation reshaping industries with innovation and efficiency – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAI workforce automation: Balancing innovation with workforce challenges, Chad Wilson, SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence is at the forefront of shaking up industries, with AI workforce automation poised to transform how businesses operate. While the promise of increased efficiency and innovation is clear, the challenges that come with integrating these technologies — such as ensuring governance, security and minimizing workforce disruptions — are just as significant, according to Craig Le Clair (pictured, right), vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. As AI becomes more central to mission-critical tasks, companies are focusing on how to build robust automation systems that are resilient, reliable and trusted. This balance between advancing technology and addressing…

28 Oct

Cohere announces Aya Expanse multilingual AI model family for researchers – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTCohere announces Aya Expanse multilingual AI model family for researchers, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research lab run by the artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., pushed the boundaries of multilingual frontier AI model research today with the release of Aya Expanse, a family of high-performance multilingual large language models that it says outperform other leading open rivals. The new family includes two new models in 8 billion and 32 billion parameters released with open weights on hosting sites Kaggle and Hugging Face. The models cover 23 languages including English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek and Hindu. “Aya Expanse marks an important step to expand high-quality coverage of languages…

28 Oct

Google Cloud beefs up database services for generative AI workloads – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIGoogle Cloud beefs up database services for generative AI workloads, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Google Cloud said today it’s updating multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Spanner and Memorystore for Valkey 7.2, with new features that should make them more suitable for generative artificial intelligence applications. To begin with, Google announced that it’s making the ScaNN vector index generally available in AlloyDB, which is the company’s fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service, aimed at high-performance database workloads. In a blog post, Andi Gutmans, Google Cloud’s general manager and vice president of engineering of databases, explained that the ScaNN vector index is the same technology that powers services such as Google Search and YouTube. The ScaNN technology…

28 Oct

Anthropic introduces a new feature that lets it write data analysis with JavaScript – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAnthropic introduces a new feature that lets it write data analysis with JavaScript, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Anthropic PBC, the creator of the generative artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, today introduced an analysis tool that allows Claude to write and run JavaScript code. Using the new tool, which is currently in preview, Claude can analyze data, perform complex math and create visualizations using code. “When you need precise, verifiable answers from data, Claude now works more like a real data analyst,” the company said. “Instead of relying on abstract analysis alone, it can systematically process your data — cleaning, exploring and analyzing it step-by-step until it reaches the correct result.” The new feature is available in Claude.ai, Anthropic’s…

28 Oct

Big-data company dbt Labs’ new AI copilot to simplify data analytics lifecycles – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIBig-data company dbt Labs' new AI copilot to simplify data analytics lifecycles, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Big-data company dbt Labs Inc. kicked off its annual user conference Coalesce 2024 in Las Vegas this week with a host of updates to its flagship dbt Cloud product, saying they will help cement its status as a “data control plane” for enterprise analytics. The company said the new services announced at the event support users across every stage of the analytics development lifecycle, introducing what the company says is unrivaled cross-platform flexibility. They include a new artificial intelligence-powered copilot that’s embedded throughout the dbt Cloud platform, enabling more people to contribute to analytics workflows by simplifying various data preparation tasks.…

28 Oct

Intelligent automation drives efficiency and innovation in business operations – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTChad Wilson, How intelligent automation is helping companies do more with less, SiliconANGLE

Intelligent automation is quickly becoming a game-changer for businesses looking to stay competitive in an increasingly digital landscape. From streamlining repetitive tasks to enhancing accuracy across complex processes, this technology is revolutionizing operations by allowing organizations to optimize resources and improve efficiency, according to Vivek Sinha (left), global head of sales — AI and automation — Topaz, at Infosys Ltd. The integration of AI-driven solutions, such as self-healing robots and agentic AI, is empowering companies to do more with less, reducing manual errors and accelerating workflows. As businesses seek higher returns on investment, intelligent automation is setting the stage for a…

27 Oct

Business processes evolve: Celonis leads transformation – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAI and object-centric mining enable Celonis to liberate business processes, Mark Albertson, SiliconANGLE

Agentic AI solutions are driving important changes within enterprise platforms as businesses change how they think about backend systems, databases and user interfaces. Celonis SE is emerging as a key player in this transformation, as demonstrated by its recent announcements enabling organizations to exchange intelligence relative to their shared business processes. Celonis’ Carsten Thoma talks with theCUBE about business processes at Celosphere 24. “We consider ourselves change-makers,” said Carsten Thoma (pictured), president of Celonis. “At one point in time, and I’ve seen those examples, there used to be a lot of innovation over the decades. But at one point, it…

27 Oct

Open-source BI startup Lightdash raises $11M and launches its first AI data analyst – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, Open-source BI startup Lightdash raises $11M and launches its first AI data analyst, SiliconANGLE

London-based business intelligence startup Lightdash, officially known as Telescope Technology Ltd., said today it has raised $11 million in an early-stage funding round. Today’s Series A round was led by Accel and saw participation from new investors Operator Partners and Shopify Ventures, plus existing backers that took part in the company’s seed round two years earlier, such as Y Combinator and a number of angels. The company describes its platform as a kind of open-source rival to Google LLC’s Looker. It offers a command-line-based data transformation tool called dbt, which leverages Structured Query Language to help business workers transform raw…

27 Oct

White House issues memorandum on AI use in national security initiatives – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMaria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE, White House issues memorandum on AI use in national security initiatives

The White House today released a document that outlines how the government should use artificial intelligence in national security initiatives. The new national security memorandum, or NSM, is the fruit of an AI-focused executive order that President Joe Biden signed last year. Alongside the creation of the memorandum, the order launched an array of other machine learning initiatives in the federal government. Some are designed to improve AI safety, while one program will use the technology to find and fix flaws in critical software. The first focus of today’s NSM is the way the government procures AI technologies for national security…

27 Oct

Informatica’s blueprints outline how to build generative AI apps in the cloud – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTInformatica's blueprints outline how to build generative AI apps in the cloud, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Informatica LLC is looking to increase its relevance in generative artificial intelligence application development with the release today of several “blueprints” that outline the best way to create AI applications on different cloud infrastructure platforms. The Generative AI Blueprints are aimed at making it easier for companies to build enterprise-grade generative AI-powered apps quickly on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Snowflake and Databricks. They contain standard reference architectures and a number of what the company calls “ecosystem-specific recipes” to help customers get started. In addition, it provides valuable building blocks in the shape of its GenAI…