Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin is the Senior Editor for Wikibon’s micro-analysis team. He is the author of five books and more than 300 articles on the topic of social media and digital marketing. Gillin has 23 years experience in tech journalism, including his time as founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget as well as editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and a member of the Procter & Gamble Digital Advisory Board.

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Domino Data Lab seeks to embed governance in AI development

Data science startup Domino Data Lab Inc. has become the latest company to introduce a platform for automating governance in artificial intelligence development, saying its extensive experience with large organizations and federal government agencies gives it a unique advantage. Domino Governance is an attempt to automate the largely manual processes that many organizations use to ...

Dell introduces AMD-based AI servers and tightens Hugging Face ties

Dell Technologies Inc. today launched five new PowerEdge servers using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s 5th Generation EPYC processors and targeted at artificial intelligence development and model deployment. The announcements represent “a massive expansion of our partnership with the AMD,” said Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of product marketing at Dell. The PowerEdge XE7745 is designed ...

Relyance AI raises $32M to make AI data governance more transparent

Relyance AI Inc., developer of a governance platform that provides visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, today announced a $32.1 million Series B funding round. The four-year-old startup, which secured a $30 million funding round in 2021, plans to use the money to scale up operations and address the rapidly growing demand for more transparency ...

Apollo bridges the gap between GraphQL and REST APIs

Apollo GraphQL Inc., a provider of tools and services for working with the GraphQL open-source data query language, today announced a set of connectors that bridge the gap between GraphQL and representational state transfer application programming interfaces, which are widely used to build web services that allow communication between services and applications. Developed by Facebook ...

Smartsheet overhauls user experience and expands project management capacity

Smartsheet Inc. used its annual Engage conference today to unveil a completely overhauled user experience aimed at making its work management platform simpler to use. The company’s platform, which is used by more than 13 million professionals and 85% of Fortune 500 companies, enables project managers to track their tasks at a fine-grained level, displaying ...

Sonar now inspects AI-generated code for glitches

Sonar, which sells tools that check software code for bugs, inconsistencies and security flaws, today announced two new products aimed at artificial intelligence-powered software development. AI Code Assurance for the company’s SonarQube and SonarCloud managed services inspects code created by generative AI copilots to ensure it meets a business’s quality and security standards. A companion ...

Nvidia and Accenture partner to foster development of AI agents

Nvidia Corp. and Accenture plc today are announcing a partnership that will apply 30,000 Accenture consultants trained in Nvidia technology to building artificial intelligence agents for customers across 120 countries. The newly formed Accenture Nvidia Business Group is aimed at laying the foundation for the next generation of AI functionality using Accenture’s AI platform and ...

DataPelago raises $47M to optimize hardware for analytical workloads

DataPelago Inc. today unveiled what it calls a “universal data processing engine” that powers high-speed computing at massive scale by making better use of an organization’s underlying infrastructure. The three-year-old startup also announced $47 million in new funding. The company’s cloud-based software framework is independent of the operating system and leverages all available CPU, graphics ...

StarTree eyes observability market with Apache Pinot-based real-time engine

StarTree Inc., a company that’s commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is setting its sights on the market for observability tools, saying it’s a ripe target for disruption. Last week the company demonstrated how its StarTree Cloud, a managed Pinot service, can now be used as a time-series database compatible with the ...

HP applies AI to fix the most maddening printing problems as it debuts new AI PCs

HP Inc. today said it’s addressing some of the most common frustrations users have with printing webpages by introducing a new technology that it advertises as the “industry’s first intelligent print experience.” HP Print AI features a new capability called Perfect Output that reformats and reorganizes content to fit on the page in a way ...