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Wiliot brings generative AI to real-time supply chain analytics
Wiliot Ltd., a company that develops tiny, battery-free internet of things devices that enable data to be captured and transmitted as items traverse supply chains, is adding a generative artificial intelligence front end to its cloud analytics platform to allow customers to formulate sophisticated queries about the status and history of tracked items using natural ...
Pindrop says it can detect deepfake audio with 99% accuracy
Pindrop Security Inc. today announced the launch of its Pindrop Pulse Inspect deepfake detection tool in preview mode, saying it can detect artificial intelligence-generated speech in any digital audio file with 99% accuracy. A deepfake is synthetic media in which a person in an existing image, audio or video recording is replaced with false content. Recent advances in ...
HPE to acquire Morpheus Data to round out hybrid cloud orchestration capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it will acquire hybrid cloud automation vendor Morpheus Data LLC for an undisclosed amount. HPE said the acquisition’s technology will add multicloud automation and orchestration to its GreenLake hybrid cloud and complement the observability capabilities it picked up with its acquisition of OpsRamp Inc. last year. The Greenwood Village, ...
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 ...