InnovationBig Data

Using AI for a greater good is a real thing...but careful what you wish for.

The truth is digital transformation itself is disrupting the entire way companies structure their businesses, even wiping out some age-old job descriptions altogether.

What’s happening is that we, as a global society, lack data literacy and it’s enabling companies to manipulate the world in invisible, but powerful ways. It’s time for this to change. This note is a call for an audit of Silicon Valley and everything being hidden within the blackbox.

The Hague Summit for Accountability in the Digital Age (#I4ADA) takes place November 6-7 2019, Peace Palace, Netherlands

Analyst Karl Freund provides his takeaways from the second annual AI HW Summit in Silicon Valley.

Visual configurators need to push beyond the veneer of delivering shock-and-awe and enable real-time collaboration between PLM, ERP, and CRM & CPQ systems to achieve their full potential.

As more of the world's GDP is being transacted digitally, it becomes even more important that businesses know who they are dealing with for compliance matters. Middesk is working to build the infrastructure to allow for frictionless trust between modern corporations.

As CIO of Comcast, Rick Rioboli has a great deal of influence over the company's digital customer experience. He has discovered that as the company creates better ways for customers to serve themselves digitally through a voice remote for example, net promoter scores increase and costs decrease.

As B2B e-commerce continues to grow, more sophisticated tools are needed to connect buyers and sellers in the marketplace. Convictional founders Chris Grouchy and Roger Kirkness are fresh off of raising a seed round to fund their efforts to create a B2B Trade Network.

AI applications require local fast memory/storage to support them and minimizing data movement. This is increasing the quantity and performance requirements for training AI models and the low power AI inference efficiency needs for edge and endpoint applications.

47% of U.S.-based enterprises are using AI today for recruitment, leading all countries in the survey.

The general AI ecosystem classifies AI efforts into two major buckets: weak (narrow) AI that is focused on one particular problem or task domain, and strong (general) AI that focuses on building intelligence that can handle any task or problem in any domain.

It’s not everyday that an NBA great funds your company, shows off your swag at the NBA Finals, tweets about you to his 13.7M Twitter followers, and pulls you on stage at Disrupt SF, one of the most popular tech startup events, but that’s exactly what's happened to AI startup, SnapTravel.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can save lives, money and livelihoods from climate disasters. What key questions should you be asking to avoid being blindsided?

At Disrupt SF, a leading startup tech conference taking place this week in San Francisco, machine learning took center stage as actor and entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt addressed concerns over the data mining practices of the social media titans.

A 1% price increase yields a 22% increase in Earnings before Interest & Taxes (EBITDA) margins for distribution-based businesses. Manufacturers can get more than their fair share of channel sales and margins by improving price management for their channel partners.

Recent surveys of the progress of AI highlighted the growing reluctance of US consumers to chat with chatbots, the growing expectations of AI as a critical business component, and the growing employee skills gap due to the deployment of new technologies,

Here’s a selection of seven popular reasons that your firm’s information backbone (and database structure) might need to change... which may validate the need for data monitoring and management.

The retail industry has seen a paradigm shift in the last few years. The industry is turning to digital methods and technologies to carry out its daily operations. The use of technologies like VR and AR in retail is helping retailers adapt well to changes in the industry.

Memory technology drives computer applications. New developments, particularly the move from volatile to non-volatile memory could change the capacity, management and uses for memory technology and computer architectures.