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Walmart goes all-in on generative AI – but with guardrails
The generative artificial intelligence feeding frenzy is just a few months old, but retail giant Walmart Corp. has been using the technology for years. The company unveiled its plans to build a conversational AI platform more than three years ago and was experimenting with generative and other forms of machine learning years before that. Its Converse conversational ...
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Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers
Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use. But over the past three weeks that image has taken a hit. The company’s decision last month to impose restrictions ...
LeanIX makes software-as-a-service renewals a team sport
LeanIX GmbH is adding a feature to its software-as-a-service management platform that gives organizations better insight into the state of their existing SaaS applications and the renewal terms associated with them so renewal decisions can be more informed. Renewals Board works much like the popular agile project management frameworks called Scrum and Kanban. It enables cross-functional ...
Verifiable reels in $27M to automate delay-ridden healthcare credentialing processes
Verifiable Inc., a startup that’s tackling the problem of the long lag times that bedevil the process of verifying the credentials of healthcare providers, said it has raised $27 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $47 million. The company is addressing inefficiencies in healthcare administration costs, which make up about one-quarter ...
CASE STUDY
Healthcare analytics firm targets $10B in savings with the help of speedy data pipelines
Improving the quality of cardiovascular care while reducing its enormous cost is a big-data problem. Biome Analytics LLC believes it’s primed for a breakthrough. The San Francisco-based firm harvests data from more than 70 hospitals, health systems and clinicians and analyzes it to determine which medical treatments yield the best and most cost-effective results. The ...
Dremio appoints former Splunk exec Sendur Sellakumar as new CEO
Dremio Corp. developer of a data-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to analyze, curate and serve data from multiple sources in a converged platform called a “lakehouse,” today said it has appointed former Splunk Inc. Chief Cloud Officer Sendur Sellakumar as chief executive officer. The CEO position has been open since former CEO Billy Bosworth left the ...
How organizations can combat AI-equipped attackers
Assuming that artificial intelligence is poised to become a standard part of the cybercriminal’s toolbox, what can organizations do to protect themselves? Experts say doubling down on the basics is the best defense. AI doesn’t change the rules of the game as much as help adversaries do what they already do faster and better. With OpenAI ...
Salesforce’s sales and service clouds get GPT support
Salesforce Inc. today said it’s adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities to its Sales Cloud and Service Cloud applications that focus on customer interaction. Sales GPT uses technology for such purposes as automatically generating customer emails, call summaries and account research. Service GPT will automatically create service replies and customer interaction summaries into knowledge base articles. ...
Typeface lands $100M for its generative AI content creation engine
Generative artificial intelligence has given birth to another unicorn. Typeface Inc., a platform that automates enterprise content creation, today announced a $100 million Series B investment round led by a blue-chip cast of venture capitalists. The oversubscribed round brings the total amount the San Francisco-based startup has raised to $165 million at a valuation of ...
Databricks adds federation, generative AI front end and development tools to its lakehouse
Databricks Inc. is joining the generative AI parade today with a query engine that lets users ask questions and get contextually relevant answers in natural language. LakehouseIQ is integrated with the company’s Unity Catalog governance platform to ensure adherence to internal security and governance rules. The company noted that although large language models are good ...