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SAS, a provider of analytics, to invest $1 billion (€0.92 billion) over the next three years to further develop advanced analytics solutions targeted at the needs of specific industries. In banking, government, insurance, health care, retail, manufacturing, energy and more, SAS will build upon its decades long focus on providing tailored solutions to industry challenges. This industry commitment and time-to-value these solutions deliver are key SAS differentiators.

Outbound AI uses importance of generative artificial intelligence, including GPT, to remove the burdens of administrative work across the healthcare revenue cycle.

Veritone, Inc., a provider of enterprise AI software and services, has announced deployment of a series of product enhancements to its aiWARE-powered Veritone Redact application for the legal and law enforcement sectors, delivering greater customisation capabilities to enable users to operate with a higher overall degree of efficiency.

Accenture has made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Stardog, an enterprise knowledge graph platform enabling organisations to do more with, and achieve greater value from, their data in this age of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Stormboard, has launched StormAI, an augmented intelligence co-collaborator that works alongside humans to generate ideas, strategise and collaborate more actively.

Salesforce has announced plans to collaborate with Accenture to accelerate deployment of generative AI for CRM (Customer relationship management). Together, the companies intend to establish an acceleration hub for generative AI that provides organisations with technology and experience they need to scale Einstein GPT Salesforce’s generative AI for CRM helping to increase employee productivity and transform customer experiences. 

Rocket Lab USA, Inc announced that it has completed and shipped a custom Photon spacecraft developed for Varda Space Industries, a skilled in-space manufacturing and hypersonic re-entry logistics company.

Fulcrum, a field inspection management platform, has integrated Esri’s ArcGIS Maps software development kit (SDK) into its platform to provide customers with access to Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) capabilities. The integration will allow Fulcrum’s customers in industries such as power, water, telecom, agriculture, environmental engineering, and others to access and leverage Esri data directly within the Fulcrum platform, streamlining their workflows and saving valuable time.

Orion Advisor Solutions debuted its new integration with Open AI’s ChatGPT 3.5, called ‘Redtail Speak’. The platform is now live through Redtail Technology and uses the previous 20 text messages between advisors and clients to generate prompts and responses to questions, according to the company.

Innominds has announced availability of iDhi, its edge Artificial Intelligence Hardware (AIHW) and Software (AISW) platform with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. iDhi is available in the Microsoft Azure Device Catalogue or directly from Innominds. The integrated edge to cognitive cloud offering, based on the Qualcomm QCS8250 System-on-Chip (SoC) and the Qualcomm QRB5165 SoC is now generally available.

Chia Network, Inc. has announced launch of its CODE (Chia Open Digital Economy) framework with initial efforts focused on supporting the video game industry in its path to a more open metaverse. Providing a sustainable and compliant public on-chain infrastructure, CODE enables game developers to incorporate their creative work into the web3 digital economy, cultivating a flourishing ecosystem for creators and consumers.

Accenture through its Accenture Ventures Project Spotlight initiative, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Cervest, an AI-powered climate intelligence (CI) platform. This will expand Accenture’s capabilities to deliver on-demand access to historical, current and predictive views of combined climate risks to assess and address asset and portfolio vulnerabilities for clients across industries.

Appy Pie Chatbot Builder, a no-code platform, has announced integration of several language models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, Stability AI’s StableLM Alpha, Meta’s LLaMA, and Databricks’ Dolly, into its AI chatbot builder. This integration provides businesses with access to advanced natural language processing capabilities, empowering them to create more sophisticated chatbots that can understand and respond to customer inquiries in real-time.

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., has announced development of a data interaction system that integrates data mining and neural network topology visualisation. The system meets the requirements of real-time data interaction, realises flexible configuration of data interaction, and can solve the problem of “information silos.” In addition, it achieves safe information transmission by using encryption and redundant checksum technology to ensure the integrity and security of the data interaction process.

While the migration to SAP S/4HANA is gaining pace, companies using SAP ECC Human Capital Management (HCM) to run HR and payroll are lagging behind. And for good reason. While SAP is totally committed to its S/4HANA and the Success Factors HCM platform, it could take up to a decade to replicate the depth of payroll functionality in this system that many customers, especially those in Local Authorities, require. With the clock ticking for the product’s end of life, what are the options for ECC customers? Don Valentine, commercial director, Absoft explains.

Mary Lou Jepsen is a Silicon Valley heavyweight with a pedigree of improvement and success that goes back many years. Named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine, Jepsen has held senior executive positions at Facebook, Oculus, Google and Intel. She has been involved with the founding of no fewer than four hardware companies, including as CTO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. Her companies have shipped billions of dollars’ worth of products. She has been a professor at MIT and is the creative force behind around 250 patents.

Artificial intelligence and its capabilities are a boon for businesses but many companies may mistakenly believe that they can’t afford it as technology costs climb, says Martin James, VP EMEA, Aerospike.

11 May 2023 – In today’s world of fake news and AI-generated content, it is increasingly difficult to know if documents and files are trustworthy. But now anyone can easily verify the provenance of any file by simply dragging and dropping that file onto RKVST Instaproof to get the information they need to decide what data to trust. It’s just as simple to use RKVST to create a strong provenance record for your data.

Cloud computing is one of the most forces in the world of enterprise technology. Especially after the pandemic and the shift to remote working, cloud computing has been a skilled driver in the transformation of businesses of all sizes, says Nerdio’s product manager, Toby Skerritt.

In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, authors H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty discussed collaborative intelligence for developing employees. They states, “humans and machines can enhance each other’s strengths.” In summary, their research concluded the following:

Claro Enterprise Solutions, a global integrator skilled in managing secure-by-design cybersecurity and information technology solutions, announces launch of its AI video analytics product, powered by Iveda, a global solution provider for AI video and sensor technologies, to offer a tool for enhancing vigilance in public spaces, including school campuses.

Moveworks has announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted government IT solutions provider, to deliver its conversational AI platform for employee support to the public sector.

Booz Allen Hamilton has announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made an investment in Credo AI, a provider of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables context-driven and continuous governance, oversight, and accountability of AI. Focused on compliant, fair, transparent, and auditable AI solutions, Credo AI enables organisations to create AI with the high ethical standards to leverage the technology’s significant benefits while mitigating unintended negative consequences.

Ambiq, a developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces Ambiq HeartKit, its addition to neuralSPOT’s Model Zoo. This highly optimised AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers identify any irregular events to take necessary actions. As with all Ambiq Model Zoo components, HeartKit includes scripts and tools to help AI developers add real-time ECG monitoring capabilities to their health-tech applications.

AeroVironment, Inc. has been awarded a $10 million (€9.15 million) contract by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to co-design and co-develop conceptual designs and engineering development units of Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter flight systems. Future efforts could include detailed design, build, and test of qualification and flight hardware. The helicopters build upon the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter design heritage and feature upgraded robotics to supplement aerial mobility.

Viasat Inc., a global communications company, has announced the launch of ViaSat-3 Americas aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Airgap Networks has announced that it is bringing the AI to its Zero Trust Firewall with ThreatGPT. Built on an advanced AI/ML model designed to protect enterprises from evolving cyber threats, ThreatGPT delivers a new level of insight and productivity for network security teams.