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Snowflake claims breakthrough can cut AI inferencing times by more than 50%
Snowflake Inc. today said it’s integrating technology into some of its hosted large language models that it says can significantly reduce the cost and time required for artificial intelligence inferencing, the use of trained models to make predictions or generate outputs based on new input data. The technique, called SwiftKV, is an optimization technique for ...
Insightsoftware boosts EPM capabilities with JustPerform acquisition
Insightsoftware, a provider of software for chief financial officers, today announced its 29th acquisition since its 2018 founding, picking up enterprise performance management firm JustPerform Inc. for an undisclosed price. Insightsoftware, which is the business name of GS Topco GP LLC, said JustPerform adds cloud-native planning, consolidation and reporting to its portfolio. Enterprise performance management ...
Red Hat releases OpenShift for virtualization and tools for multicloud traffic management
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today announced the general availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a version of the OpenShift orchestration platform that’s geared exclusively toward virtualization workloads. The company also announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multicloud traffic management, policy enforcement and role-based access control platform for ...
Nvidia partnerships aim to accelerate use of AI agents in healthcare research
Nvidia Corp. today will use the J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco to announce multiple partnerships with healthcare technology firms aimed at apply artificial intelligence to speed up workflows in tasks ranging from drug discovery to genetic engineering. The partnerships are based on Nvidia’s concept of “AI factories,” which are data centers that ...
WatchGuard seeks to accelerate expansion into MDR market with ActZero acquisition
WatchGuard Technologies Inc., the maker of integrated threat management software, appliances and services, today said it has acquired ActZero Inc., a managed detection and response services provider for an undisclosed amount. WatchGuard said the deal would accelerate its expansion into the MDR market, which began in 2023. Both companies primarily serve managed service providers, which ...
Oracle touts speedy vector search in new Exadata machine
Oracle Corp. today is rolling out the latest version of its Exadata database-optimized computing platform, claiming 55% better performance on vector searches used in artificial intelligence model training, 2.2 times faster analytics scanning throughput and 25% speedier transaction processing performance than its predecessor. The Exadata X11M succeeds the Exadata X10M, which was introduced 18 months ...
Dell overhauls brand portfolio and adds NPU-equipped portables and desktops
Dell Technologies Inc. is using the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas today to announce a broad streamlining of its brand portfolio and new personal computers and monitors addressing uses ranging from schoolwork to artificial intelligence development to high-end design. The company also said it’s expanding its relationship with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to ...
AI agents may lead the next wave of cyberattacks
While artificial intelligence agents are expected to lead the next wave of AI innovation, they’ll also empower cyberattackers with a more potent set of tools to probe for an exploit vulnerabilities in enterprise defenses. That’s according to Reed McGinley-Stempel, chief executive officer of identity platform startup Stytch Inc. OpenAI LLC’s GPT-4 large language model, which debuted early ...
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TransUnion’s AI initiatives pay off in some unexpected ways
Since launching a massive data lake earlier this year to support its analytics, application development and artificial intelligence use cases around the globe, TransUnion LLC has begun to realize the benefits of deploying artificial intelligence models in back-office cases – and they’re not necessarily what you would expect. Self-service AI models for data preparation are helping ...
Florida rolls out AI-driven emergency warning system
Following the second-costliest hurricane season on record, the Florida Division of Emergency Management is launching a warning system that uses artificial intelligence to deliver detailed information to affected residents at what it says are unprecedented speeds and levels of detail. The Broadcast Emergency Alerts and Communications Operations Network, which news syndicator Futuri Media LLC developed ...
