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  • The Oracle Headquarters on April 24, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
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    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.

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    Generative AI interest now shapes talent strategy, employers say

    Talent limitations are slowing down the ability to scale the technology, leaders said, prompting organizational changes.

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    IT services spend will reach $2 trillion by 2028: Forrester

    Tepid growth this year will give way to a landslide of cloud infrastructure spending driven by AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud, the analyst firm said.

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    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.

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    Microsoft restructures security governance, aligning deputy CISOs and engineering teams

    The company will enhance management roles under the CISO and partially tie compensation to security performance.

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    Tech skills gaps put pressure on existing IT staff

    Technologists surveyed by Pluralsight said workloads have increased and projects have been abandoned as tech proficiency gaps mount.

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    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.

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    Tech jobs are bouncing back as IT unemployment rate falls again in April

    The February spike in IT unemployment is steadily reversing, CompTIA said Friday.

  • Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on November 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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    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.”

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    CISA warned 1,750 organizations of ransomware vulnerabilities last year. Only half took action.

    The majority of CISA's ransomware vulnerability warning pilot alerts were sent to government facilities, healthcare and public health organizations.

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    The customer data stockpile is growing. Here’s how to protect it

    Data collection and disposal practices play an important role in building and retaining customer trust.

  • People walk past the New York Marriott Marquis in Time Square on August 01, 2023 in New York City.
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    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.

  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Open AI DevDay conference.
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    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.”

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    Retail banking turns to core modernization as cloud strategies mature

    Legacy systems rife with technical debt are blocking customer service upgrades in the industry, according to IT consulting firm Endava.

  • People enjoy the warm weather outside the White House on April 28, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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    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.

  • Andy Jassy, Amazon President & CEO attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Amazon Prime Video's "The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power" at The Culver Studios on August 15, 2022 in Culver City, Califor
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    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.”

  • US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England.
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    What is success in cybersecurity? Failing less.

    Defenders aren’t measured by pure wins or losses. Intrusions will happen, and their job is to keep a bad situation from getting worse.

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    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.

  • Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 10, 2023 in Mountain View, California.
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    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.

  • IBM CEO Arvind Krishna arrives for the "AI Insight Forum" outside the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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    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.

  • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, arrives to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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    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.

  • The Moderna headquarters is seen on November 30, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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    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.