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Tavus toolkit lets developers create video ‘digital twins’ that converse just like humans
Tavus Inc., a startup developing digital twin technology for human speakers, today announced a set of building blocks that developers can use to create interactive visual experiences with digital twins that speak, see and respond like humans. The technology (example pictured) delivers the nuances of a realistic face-to-face interaction with an AI agent with a ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
Cybersecurity tool sprawl is out of control – and it’s only going to get worse
Any chief information officer who assembled a portfolio of 130 discrete products to address a single problem would probably be accused of mismanagement. But when the problem is cybersecurity, they’re more likely to be seen as prudent. That’s the number of products the average enterprise has assembled to protect its infrastructure, applications and data, according ...
Kyndryl raises earnings forecast on strong consulting growth
Depending on whom you believe, Kyndryl Holdings Inc. defied the recent down-earnings trend by beating Wall Street estimates or it undershot expectations on critical metrics. The information technology infrastructure services and consulting firm reported revenues of $3.74 billion in its first fiscal quarter, a decline of 8% in constant currency from the same quarter last year. ...
Strong Microsoft results dampened by slight miss on cloud sales
Microsoft Corp. shares fell 3% in after-hours trading as cloud computing revenue slightly undershot analysts’ estimates. Consistent with Alphabet Inc.’s announcement last week that it was sharply increasing its investments in cloud infrastructure to support artificial intelligence, Microsoft said it spent $13.9 billion to build out data centers and computing infrastructure for AI processing, up ...
Nvidia expands microservices library and support for 3D and robotic model creation
Nvidia Corp. announced today at the Siggraph conference in Denver that it’s significantly expanding its library of Nvidia Inference Microservices to encompass physical environments, advanced visual modeling and a wide variety of vertical applications. Among the highlights are the availability of Hugging Face Inc.’s inference-as-a-service on the Nvidia cloud and expanded support for three-dimensional training ...
CASE STUDY
A close look at JPMorgan’s aggressive cloud migration
With more than 300,000 employees and operations in more than 100 countries, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a vast and complex organization. But that hasn’t stopped the world’s largest bank from implementing an ambitious strategy to move most of its operations to the cloud. JPMorgan Chase isn’t inclined to shy away from big technology investments. ...
Alphabet beats the Street but slowing ad growth drags on stock price
Google LLC reported a slowdown in advertising sales growth in the second quarter, triggering an after-hours selloff of its shares of about 1.5%. Parent Alphabet Inc. said Google generated $64.6 billion in ad sales in the quarter, up 11.1% from $58.14 billion in the same period last year. That was slightly ahead of analysts’ expectations ...
SAP posts solid results and raises profit target for 2025
SAP SE posted second-quarter revenue and operating profit that beat analyst expectations and raised 2025 operating profit projections, sending the enterprise software maker’s stock up more than 4% after hours. Revenue rose to $9.02 billion from $8.22 billion in last year’s second quarter and beat analysts’ consensus forecast of $8.98 billion. Cloud and software revenue ...
Gartner revises server spending forecast sharply upward as generative AI effect kicks in
Gartner Inc.’s latest worldwide information technology spending forecast predicts a 24.1% jump in spending on data center systems, more than double the 10% growth expected just three months ago and six times the actual growth of 4% last year — thanks to generative artificial intelligence. That’s according to John-David Lovelock (pictured), a distinguished vice president ...
Red Hat enhances OpenShift with better support for diverse workloads
Red Hat Inc. today introduced enhanced and new features for its OpenShift version of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers, with a particular focus on handling diverse workloads. Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is intended to provide consistent management of disparate workloads ranging from transaction-intensive uses to artificial intelligence model training and inferencing. The new version ...