SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade
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by Lindsay Clark
1w ago
HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms SAP has launched a raft of AI and cloud technologies amid ongoing attempts to shift its majority on-prem ERP customer base onto a stack better suited to the fluffy white stuff ..read more
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Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge
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by Lindsay Clark
2w ago
Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells Qlik has closed its acquisition of Talend, tying together two data analytics and visualizion vendors backed by private equity biz Thoma Bravo ..read more
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EU monopoly regulators probing complaints about Microsoft Azure
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by Paul Kunert
2w ago
Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing EU antitrust wagons are circling Microsoft's Azure just as a probe by the Federal Trade Commission takes shape, with software vendors' heavy-handed licensing practices in the cloud drawing fire stateside ..read more
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National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece
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by Katyanna Quach
2w ago
When Irish AIs are smiling The Irish Times, one of the republic's respected broadsheet newspapers, has apologized for publishing an opinion article said to have been generated by AI software and submitted by an anonymous trickster ..read more
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Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage?
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by Tobias Mann
2w ago
It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be Shortly before 1100 PT, Apple suffered a momentary lapse of service across several products, including its App Store ..read more
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When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage
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by Thomas Claburn
2w ago
hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work Online labor markets like Upwork have yet to formulate meaningful policies governing the use of generative AI tools to bid for and perform posted jobs. According to machine learning firm Intuition Machines, that lack of clarity is putting these platforms at risk ..read more
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White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers
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by Katyanna Quach
3w ago
In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris met with leaders from some of the top players in AI – Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic – this week to discuss AI safety risks as the government steps up efforts to regulate the technology ..read more
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DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
3w ago
Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to show up, dive in, and find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others ..read more
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Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams
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by Paul Kunert
3w ago
How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something Microsoft is putting forward a plan to charge customers different prices for Office if it does or doesn’t come with Teams - the latest twist in its campaign to head off an EU antitrust probe at the pass ..read more
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Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to
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by Katyanna Quach
3w ago
Slack GPT and Einstein GPT for Salesforce users currently under development Slack previewed generative AI tools on Thursday, aimed at helping boost worker productivity by automatically summarizing text in channels users might miss, or even drafting messages of a specific tone or length.  ..read more
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