U.S. lawmakers last week had the rare chance to question Shou Zi Chew, chief executive of TikTok, about the video app’s relationship with its Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd. The criticism came from both sides of the political aisle. “Research has found that TikTok’s algorithms recommend videos to teens that create and exacerbate feelings of emotional distress, ...

The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank continues to reverberate and is leading to some big questions for the government, regulators and investors. More detail continues to emerge, including, as The New York Times and others reported this week, that, for over a year, the bank’s risky practices were on the Federal Reserve’s ...

The impact of generative artificial intelligence models on the internet, on applications and on people is still in its infancy, but it’s clear it’s a major “game-changer.” “I call it the fifth wave in the industry,” theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier said during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. “This generative AI thing ...

Amid a period of significant disruption, MWC 2023 in Barcelona brought forward several major trends to watch regarding telcos and transformation. “In a lot of ways, they’re sort of protecting their existing past from their future, so they have to be careful about how fast they move,” said theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante, during an exclusive ...

There’s no question that there are some complex questions around hybrid and multicloud trends. But for some corporations, the agility and flexibility of these solutions are too appealing to pass up. So how best to lead a cloud transformation? To get answers to that question, theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, talked with experts who’ve been ...

Companies are increasingly embracing hybrid cloud and multicloud, but that journey doesn’t come without its challenges. IT services provider Hitachi Vantara LLC often cites studies suggesting roughly half of major modernizations fail. For that reason, along with critical areas such as managing uptime, performance and security, Hitachi Vantara has built more robust solutions for digital transformations ...

Almost in the blink of an eye, generative artificial intelligence models have captured society’s collective imagination. It’s been called a “game-changer” with huge implications for technologists, investors, policymakers and broader society.  And there are questions about how platforms such as ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business. But large foundational models ...

With the rapid pace with which automation is advancing these days, certain headlines that may have once seemed ripped from the pages of an Isaac Asimov novel are now just regular reports in the business section of the news. Take this recent CNBC headline: “Robots could surpass workers at Amazon by 2030 …,” referring to ...

The growing sophistication of cyber threats has already come into sharp focus at the start of 2023, yet the struggle to close the IT security gap remains prominent. Employee tokens were stolen from the chat service Slack Technologies LLC, and 200 million email addresses were stolen from Twitter. Inevitably, more such incidents are due to ...

These days, businesses are awash with data ⁠— and the demand for that data is extremely high, with smart devices, domain experts, ecosystem partners and many others requiring access simultaneously. That creates some significant challenges for organizations. It’s also creating significant demand in the market. The data fabric sector is expected to grow from $1.6 ...