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Energy

Big Tech Is Still Grappling With AI’s Energy Problem

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Meeting energy demand without excess carbon emissions may require doing more with what we have.

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Enterprise AI

DeepMind Patent Gives AI Robots ‘Inner Speech’

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Kognitos Works to Remove the AI ‘Language Barrier’

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Location Bias: Why AI Data Centers Are Clustered in the North

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Cybersecurity

How the ‘Bot Epidemic’ Threatens Enterprise Security

Non-human identities often slip past security guardrails by mimicking human users.

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Cybersecurity

Reducing Data Security Risks from Model Context Protocol

“If you compromise that AI, you compromise everything that it’s connected to.”

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Data

Coinbase Patent Tracks AI Contributions With Blockchain

The technique is particularly useful for open source models that often involve many contributors.

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Big Tech

Is Meta Chasing a Superintelligence Pipe Dream?

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The risks may be greater than the payoff.

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Technology

Amazon Patent May Stabilize Quantum Computers

The stability of qubits has long posed a barrier to scaling quantum computers.

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Enterprise AI

Increasing Your Enterprise’s ‘Adaptability Quotient’

Staying flexible and informed can help your enterprise get the most out of AI agents.

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Enterprise AI

Finance Departments Struggle to Balance AI Adoption Risks With Rewards

Figuring out where to keep a human in the loop is critical for safe deployment.

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Big Tech

Why is the Quantum Race Moving Faster?

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“I don’t think we can think of this as business as usual.”

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Data

IBM Patent Seeks to Help AI Models ‘Unlearn’

Enterprises are still grappling with balancing innovation and risk as the AI race rages on.

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Data

Oracle Patent Keeps Large Language Models From Spilling Secrets

Oracle’s patent highlights a key issue that AI developers are still reckoning with: Data privacy.

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Productivity Tech

Hallucinations Create Complications When AI Goes to Court

CIOs need to talk to their legal teams about AI “clarity, boundaries, and accountability,” one expert said.

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Enterprise AI

Struggling to Navigate Thorny AI Contracts? Question Everything

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Why getting in the weeds on wording and definitions could save your enterprise in the long run.

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Enterprise AI

Does Agentic AI Have Staying Power?

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‘Humanity’s never automated intelligence before in the way that we’re doing it now.’

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Cybersecurity

Ransomware Groups Use AI to Level Up

Threat actors are “targeting businesses eager to adopt AI but unaware of the risks,” one expert said.

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Big Tech

Nvidia Safety Patent Signals Physical AI Push

The goal of Nvidia’s tech is to help give autonomous systems more reliable memory, hazard detection and depth perception.

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Cloud Computing

Amazon Ups Its AI Infrastructure Ante

The cloud giant is continuing to build out its massive cloud footprint.

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Enterprise AI

Which Industries Need AI Skills the Most?

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Finding a jack of all trades is difficult in AI.

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Data

JPMorgan Chase Patent Tackles Synthetic Data Bias

“Biases can significantly impact the equity of machine learning models and their decisions.”

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Enterprise AI

AI’s Potential Marketing Payoffs Come With Outsized Brand Risks

“It’s more than simple streamlining. It’s about outsourcing brand decisions.”

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Productivity Tech

Why It’s So Hard to Modernize Your Outdated ERP

Fractured ERP systems are “going to get fewer returns on your investment.”

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