I recently had a good friend call me with a dilemma and he asked me if I would talk to his son. His son was considering putting his third year in college on hold to pursue his computer animation career in Southern California. I got a call later that evening from my friend’s son and ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an annual ...

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists. Discussions with data professionals in leading organizations show that Databricks Inc. is heavily influencing these emergent personas. We believe Databricks is embarking on a mission to broaden ...

Trend Micro Inc. today released Companion, a new generative artificial intelligence assistant based on GPT 3.5, to which security operations center teams can ask threat hunting questions.  Companion integrates with the Trend Vision One XDR or extended detection and response platform. It can explain cross-layer event alerts, decode tracker scripts, create breach mitigation recommendations, email automations ...

Our research and analysis point to a new modern data stack that is emerging where apps will be built from a coherent set of data elements that can be composed at scale. Demand for these apps will come from organizations that wish to create a digital twin of their business to represent people, places, things ...

Most white-collar works aren’t all that worried that adoption of generative artificial intelligence will hurt their job security in the foreseeable future. That’s one takeaway from a survey released today by KPMG LLP that polled 1,035 U.S. white-collar workers on the latest trends affecting the workforce. It found that 43% believe generative AI poses an immediate threat to ...

A common narrative among cloud database providers is that they are winning lots of migrations from Oracle Corp. By conventional wisdom, Oracle’s market should be shriveling. Yet Oracle continues to show very strong growth numbers, with an organic annual constant dollar growth rate of 8%, including substantial increases from cloud databases. Furthermore, its Autonomous Database ...

Cybersecurity firm Red Sift today launched Relevance Detection, the first GPT-4 powered asset discovery and classification solution for its OnDOMAIN hostname and certification monitoring platform.  Relevance Detection uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 large language model to automatically discover and contextualize identities associated with DNS, WHOIS info and SSL certificates. It tells the user what identities are associated with ...

Organizations face countless potential cybersecurity threats as they pursue digital transformation and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Even the most well-funded enterprises cannot address every one of these threats. Responding effectively is about validating and prioritizing the risks that are most impactful for the business. Security and risk management leaders must refine their strategy to ...

No-code security automation platform Blink Ops today announced the launch of Blink Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence assistant designed to generate cloud security operations workflows on-demand.  The solution, based on LLMs provided by Microsoft Corp., Google LLC’s Bard and OpenAI LP, has been trained on thousands of security workflows so that it can automatically generate no-code ...