Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of November 1; Updates from Bloomberg, Cisco, Salesforce & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of November 1, 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.

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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of November 1, 2024

Ascendion Survey Says High-Quality Data Imperative for GenAI

Data engineers use the platform to create future-state data schemas, convert legacy processes, and migrate data with speed and transparency. This typically cuts the migration process in half while delivering up to 60 percent in cost savings due to reduced manual effort.

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Barracuda Uncovers ‘Large-Scale’ OpenAI Impersonation Campaign

Barracuda threat researchers recently uncovered a large-scale OpenAI impersonation campaign targeting businesses worldwide. Attackers targeted their victims with a well-known tactic — they impersonated OpenAI with an urgent message requesting updated payment information to process a monthly subscription.

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Bloomberg Says GenAI Top Keys in Analyzing Macro Environment

The role of economists continues to evolve as they conduct thematic and market analysis on government policy responses, the effects on the labor market and other macro drivers that move markets and impact investment portfolios. Economists’ heightened demand for alternative data and generative AI-enhanced research solutions reveal how the macro investment industry may evolve in the future.

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Cisco Releases NVIDIA-Powered AI Solutions

These innovations extend customers’ existing infrastructure, enabling customers to grow and innovate without adding complexity. The new solutions are managed by Cisco Intersight, which enables centralized control and automation, simplifying everything from configuration to day-to-day operations.

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Anthropic Announces Claude Desktop App and Dictation Support

Anthropic also released a dictation tool for Claude. However, this feature is currently not available in the new desktop apps. On iOS, Android, and iPadOS, users can record and upload a message up to 10 minutes in length to have Claude transcribe and respond to it. To be clear, this isn’t a conversation mode. Dictation is more akin to sending a voice message.

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Conversica Enhances AI Agents

This latest generation of Conversica’s AI agents integrates cutting-edge advancements from top providers like OpenAI, Meta, and Google, enhancing both the depth and precision of its responses for next-level customer experience, and grounding its capabilities exclusively in each client’s data.

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Landbase Announces Landbase Intelligence

To demonstrate the power of the Landbase Intelligence suite and GTM-1 Omni, Landbase has integrated them into Ameca, one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots. Ameca was onsite at the TechCrunch Expo Hall with the Landbase team on Tuesday, October 29th, to meet visitors, take selfies, and answer pressing go-to-market questions.

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Lightbits Collaborates with Crusoe

Crusoe is a leading AI cloud pioneer, powering its data centers with a combination of wasted, stranded, and clean energy resources to lower the cost and environmental impact of AI cloud computing. The Crusoe AI data center is constructed to industry-leading efficiency and reliability standards, advancing the frontier of data center design and scale for AI training and inference workloads.

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LinkedIn Launches First AI Agent for Jobs

LinkedIn said the AI assistant is now live with a “select group” of customers (large enterprises such as AMD, Canva, Siemens and Zurich Insurance among them). It’s slated to be rolling out more widely in the coming months. The platform was always an early adopter of AI in its back end — (somewhat creepily) folding AI techniques into its algorithms to produce surprisingly accurate connection recommendations to users, for example.

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LogicGate Adds New AI Features to Compliance Platform

LogicGate is committed to innovating and investing in AI to help customers be more efficient in their GRC processes and unlock new insights, which is demonstrated through enhanced features and capabilities available to customers for free through Risk Cloud Spark AI.

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Microsoft GitHub Expands Beyond OpenAI

GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, said in a statement Tuesday that developers will be able to power the GitHub Copilot Chat feature with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model or Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro model, as alternatives to OpenAI’s GPT-4o, if they choose.

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MinIO Announces New Optimizations and Benchmarks for High-Performance AI

MinIO’s work leveraged the latest Scalable Vector Extension Version (SVE) enhancements. SVE improves the performance and efficiency of vector operations, which are crucial for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other data-intensive applications.

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NextSilicon Releases New Maverick-2 ICA

In addition to unveiling Maverick-2, NextSilicon showcases its robust financial positioning with $303 million in funding from prominent investors such as Aleph, Amiti, Liberty Technology VC, Playground Global, Standard Investments, StepStone, and Third Point Ventures. This strong financial backing, combined with groundbreaking innovation, positions NextSilicon to reshape the future of high-performance computing with its revolutionary Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA) architecture.

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search

OpenAI said it collaborated with its news partners, including The Associated Press, Reuters, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Hearst, Dotdash Meredith, the Financial Times, News Corp., Le Monde, The Atlantic, Time and Vox Media.

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Opsera Partners with Databricks

Opsera leverages its DevOps platform and integrations and builds AI agents and frameworks to revolutionize the software delivery management process with a unique approach to automating data orchestration.

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Salesforce Officially Launches Agentforce AI Platform

Agentforce does so by taking a natural language description of the task, isolating relevant resources within the business’s Customer 360 environment, and – with this business understanding – developing an AI Agent prototype. The AI Agent then auto-suggests knowledge, actions, and guardrails that will enable it to perform more effectively, allowing the CX team to optimize its performance.

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SAP Enhances Embedded AI Across SuccessFactors & HCM Suite

SAP also has launched the SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development solution, a fully integrated offering, which combines the robust features of the SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development solution with the SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace solution, powered by skills data from the talent intelligence hub.

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Securiti Announces New Gencore AI Tool

The solution, according to Securiti, borrows its homegrown data security and compliance capabilities to deliver a generative AI maker that addresses the control and governance challenges faced by similar tools while handling enterprise data for building smart in-house models.

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Timescale Expands PostgreSQL AI Offerings

Timescale is dedicated to this mission, bringing cutting-edge technology to the PostgreSQL community, without needing specialized tooling or knowledge. Timescale did this first by extending PostgreSQL for real-time analytics, now, Timescale brings AI to PostgreSQL with the pgai suite and the launch of pgai Vectorizer – putting AI development in every developer’s hands.

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Unisys Finds Employees Satisfied Early in the AI Era

The study surveying respondents from four countries highlights the transformative impact of AI on job satisfaction, productivity and career progression, underscoring its growing importance on organizational strategies.

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WEKA Unveils Two New Appliances for Enterprise AI

The WEKA Data Platform delivers scalable AI-native data infrastructure purpose-built for even the most demanding AI workloads, accelerating GPU utilization and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data pipelines efficiently and sustainably while providing efficient write performance for AI model checkpointing. Its advanced cloud-native architecture enables ultimate deployment flexibility, seamless data portability, and robust hybrid cloud capability.

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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.

Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI, November 14

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.

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NEW Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Data Dynamics CEO Piyush Mehta

They discuss how AI has transformed data into a critical asset while exploring the challenges organizations face in managing, protecting, and leveraging their data effectively. Stick around for Piyush’s insights on future of work, the impact of AI on technology careers, and maintaining company culture in a hybrid work environment.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring Mike Ferguson

Ferguson emphasizes the need for organizations to focus on practical use cases identified by employees rather than getting caught up in technological hype, while also addressing concerns about scalability, cost, and compliance.

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For consideration in future artificial intelligence news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.