Tag: Cloud

Security expert Chris Krebs on TikTok, AI and the key to survival

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. This is part one of a two-part series. VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Chris Krebs, formerly, the inaugural director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and, […]

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PostgreSQL and Databricks founders join forces for DBOS to create a new type of operating system

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Is it time for a new type of operating system? The founders of DBOS think so. Back in 1986, Michael Stonebraker started the open-source PostgreSQL database project, which to this day remains one of the […]

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Amazon adds GPT-4-beating Claude 3 to Bedrock

Big news in the world of generative AI this morning: not only did San Francisco startup Anthropic release a new large language model (LLM), Claude 3, that appears to be the most powerful in the world to date — besting previous leaders OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Advanced on common benchmark tests — but its […]

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Groq launches developer playground GroqCloud with newly acquired Definitive Intelligence

Groq, the Mountain View, California-based startup that caught the attention of the AI community with its own microchips designed specifically run large language models (LLMs) quickly and efficiently, is making more waves this week. Today, it announced the acquisition of another startup, Definitive Intelligence, and a new product built atop their prior and ongoing collaboration: […]

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How can enterprises achieve AI governance? Collibra offers new solution

By now, most businesses in the world have realized that generative AI is here to stay and they should be using it in at least some capacity for their operations. But how do so in a way that is safe, secure, and achieves “AI governance,” the term given to tracking AI deployment and data usage […]

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Couchbase brings new database vectors to AI powered adaptive applications

Couchbase is updating its namesake NoSQL database platform with new capabilities to accelerate the development of AI-powered adaptive applications The big new addition to Couchbase is support for vector search, which allows similarity queries using vector representations of data. The use of vectors is increasingly common in generative AI applications and has spawned a host […]

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The Five Most Alarming Cyber Threats from CrowdStrike’s 2024 Global Threat Report

Traditional security approaches aren’t closing the gap fast enough against the onslaught of cyberattacks growing in severity and sophistication every day. Attackers sharpening their tradecraft and looking for the weakest areas of businesses to attack made 2023 the year that will be remembered for a drastic rise in cyber threats.  Cloud intrusions jumped 75%, there […]

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What is Apple’s generative AI strategy?

Apple was not mentioned much in the highlights of the 2023 generative AI race. However, it has been doing some impressive work in the field, minus the publicity that other tech companies have engaged in.  In the past few months alone, Apple researchers have released papers, models and programming libraries that can have important implications […]

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10 reasons why securing software supply chains needs to start with containers

Containers and Kubernetes are table stakes for multi-cloud app development, and they’re also among the least protected of any areas of software supply chains. Kubernetes commands 92% of the container orchestration platform market, despite DevOps teams seeing it as a less secure container platform to use. It’s become the de facto standard for container platforms […]

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Digs announces $7M seed round to power its collaborative homebuilding software

Software may indeed be eating the world, as big time VC and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen is fond of saying, but most of us still need a physical place to call home (for now, at least — with the Vision Pro and other mixed reality devices, who knows…) Yet even there, when it comes to […]

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How enterprises are using gen AI to protect against ChatGPT leaks

ChatGPT is the new DNA of shadow IT, exposing organizations to new risks no one anticipated. IT and cybersecurity leaders need to find a way to capitalize on its speed without sacrificing security. OpenAI reports that enterprise adoption is surging, with over 80% of Fortune 500 companies’ employees and departments having accounts. Enterprise workers are […]

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Will retailers look up to the cloud for gen AI? Google Cloud hopes so

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. As the retail industry gears up for the big NRF 2024 conference that gets started on Jan. 13, it is clear that generative AI will be top of mind for many and Google is […]

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16 Cybersecurity leaders predict how gen AI will improve cybersecurity in 2024

With greater AI power comes greater complexity, especially for CISOs adopting generative AI. Gen AI is the power surge cybersecurity vendors need to reduce the risks of losing the AI war. Meanwhile, adversaries’ tradecraft and new ways of weaponizing AI while combining social engineering have humbled many of the world’s leading companies this year.  VentureBeat […]

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Cisco goes all in on AI to strengthen its cybersecurity strategy

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Configuration complexity and rules are among organizations’ most lethal, accidental risks when configuring networks and firewalls. Gartner predicts that misconfigurations will cause 99% of all firewall breaches this year. It’s […]

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Astronomer gives boost to Apache Airflow platform data orchestration for AI

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Getting data to and from different systems is often the domain of data orchestration. It is among the most widely used tools in the open-source Apache Airflow technology, originally created […]

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Highlights from the AWS re:Invent keynote: Q AI, strong bedrock foundation, and a smarter cloud

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Amazon is growing its already formidable array of AI services, with a long list of new capabilities announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in Seattle today. In a […]

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AWS re:Invent 2023 defines a resilient vision for cloud security’s future

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. AWS‘s vision for achieving stronger, more resilient cloud security relies on implementing generative AI, human insight, and improved usability correctly with every product release — all from a posture of […]

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Kim Jeffries Describes Capturing ‘Incredible Animal Journeys’

Director of Photography Didier Noirot films a humpback whale mating dance on rebreather. (National … [+] Geographic for Disney/Kim Jeffries) National Geographic for Disney/Kim Jeffries I recently took a little detour into the natural world, exploring National Geographic’s new series “Incredible Animal Journeys.” More specifically, let’s dig into what it takes to capture nature and […]

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DeepInfra emerges from stealth with $8M to make running AI inferences more affordable

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Ok, let’s say you’re one of the company leaders or IT decision-makers who has heard enough about all this generative AI stuff — you’re finally ready to take the plunge […]

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Cloud vs. on-prem? Oxide wants to bring together the best of both worlds

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More San Francisco-based Oxide, a startup founded by computing experts from Joyent and Dell, today launched what it calls the world’s first “commercial cloud computer,” a rack-scale system that enterprises can own to reap the […]

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Databricks acquires enterprise data replicator Arcion for $100M

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The white house data lakehouse provider Databricks is further boosting its portfolio, spending $100 million to acquire data replication and ingestion tech provider Arcion, the companies announced this morning. Arcion had already had good […]

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Deta raises $3.6M seed round to develop cloud-based operating system

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Deta, an upstart Berlin-based technology company, is aiming to revolutionize personal computing with the launch of Deta Space — a platform its founder describes as the world’s first personal cloud computer.  The startup has […]

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AI for recruiters: iCIMS unveils a new generative copilot

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Finding the right person for the job is no walk in the park, as any recruiter will tell you. And it’s at least as challenging for job seekers to wade through the opportunities, apply […]

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The implications of the generative AI gold rush

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Big tech companies and venture capitalists are in the midst of a gold rush, investing astronomical sums into leading AI labs that are creating generative models. Last week, Amazon announced a $4 billion investment […]

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Taking generative AI from experiments to high-impact production

Presented by Capgemini Generative AI has shown proven benefits for organizations — but where do you start? In this VB Spotlight, experts from Google, Capgemini and VentureBeat share the real-world ROI companies across industries are realizing with gen AI, and actionable insights for implementing it at scale and more. Register to watch free on-demand now. […]

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