Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of August 23; Updates from Accenture, AWS, OpenAI & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of August 23, 2024.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.

Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of August 23, 2024

Accenture Partners with AWS on Responsible AI Scaling

Accenture announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create the Accenture Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform. Powered by AWS, the solution is designed to help organizations adopt and scale AI rapidly with trust and confidence throughout their enterprise.

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Appian Adds AI Enhancements to Data & Process Automation Platform

Appian’s Copilot updates empower users to get faster answers from their enterprise data and documents with plain language and fewer steps. AI Copilot and AI Skills also now meet HITRUST certification requirements.

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Boomi Releases ‘Strategic Playbook’ for AI Adoption

Nearly all organizations (98 percent) say they are willing to forgo being the first to use AI if that ensures they can deliver it safely and securely. Governance, security, and privacy are the biggest brake on the speed of AI deployment, cited by 45 percent of respondents (and a full 65 percent of respondents from the largest companies).

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Deloitte Releases Q3 State of Generative AI in the Enterprise Report

The survey findings reveal that although senior executives and board members remain interested in GenAI, their enthusiasm is waning as the initial excitement fades. Interest among senior executives remains high (63 percent) and boards (53 percent), but these figures have declined since the first quarter of 2024, dropping by 11 and 8 percentage points, respectively.

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Domino Data Survey Reveals Real-World Priorities for AI

The results show that while GenAI may be stoking AI enthusiasm and even budgets, today’s real-world AI initiatives and their underlying stacks are still diverse, rapidly evolving, and far from perfect for addressing today’s infrastructure and governance challenges.

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Elastic Partners with LangChain

The collaboration has been core to the development of Elastic Security features—Automatic Import, Attack Discovery and Elastic Assistant for Security—on the Elastic Search AI Platform. These features streamline user migration to AI-driven security analytics and expedite security operations workflows.

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IBM: Organizations Preparing to Accelerate GenAI Adoption

The global study of 2,500 of C-level technology executives (tech CxOs) from 34 countries revealed that less than half (47 percent) of those surveyed think their IT organization is effective in basic services compared to 69 percent surveyed in 2013.

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Reliant AI Raises $11.3 Million in Seed Funding

The founders are passionate about how generative AI can solve information challenges to reduce repetitive mental labor and accelerate decision making for enterprises. The company is initially targeting the biopharma industry and will use the new funding to hire engineering talent to expand its technology investment and footprints in Europe and North America.

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Sway AI Integrates with Microsoft Azure

Sway AI announced that it has integrated its flagship low-code/no-code (LCNC) AI platform with Microsoft Azure, allowing Azure customers to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning (ML) applications directly within the Azure ecosystem.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

NEW Episode of Insight AI with Doug Shannon: Multi-Agent Frameworks & the Vision for Enterprise AI

Join Doug and Doug as they dive into the fascinating world of AI and robotics. From Sony’s venture into elder care robots to the multi-agent framework for autonomous enterprises, this episode is packed with mind-bending insights.

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NEW Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Percona CEO Ann Schlemmer

Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson talks with Ann about the state of open-source databases and the challenges facing the tech industry. They also discuss the evolution of database technology, the impact of AI on various industries, and the future of remote work.

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