Austria’s technology and AI landscape is located in much smaller places than the typical international hubs. The capital of Upper Austria, Linz, is the perfect example. At the core of the Linz AI ecosystem is the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), where Austrian AI pioneer Sepp Hochreiter and his team…
I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.” Well, when it comes to a nationwide automotive group in the world’s largest automotive market, that proverb about a hundred could be hundreds of thousands. Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., Ltd. (CGA) is China’s leading…
The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. The bill will turn into an EU law once it is approved by the European Parliament at a vote scheduled for…
AI has whet the appetites of organizations across nearly every sector. As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” But ensuring those and other measures are taken into consideration is a weighty task that CIOs…
AI is increasingly being embraced for workplace enhancements across every industry — and that includes the legal world. Pittsburgh-based global law firm Reed Smith has enlisted AI to facilitate resource management, improve employee engagement, and reduce imbalanced workloads among lawyers across the firm. The resulting Smart Resourcing earned Reed Smith a 2023 CIO 100 Award…
Barely a year after the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, 75% of surveyed companies have already put them to work, according to a VentureBeat report. But as the numbers of new gen AI-powered chatbots grow, so do the risks of their occasional glitches—nonsensical or inaccurate outputs or answers that are not easily…
Increased security, productivity gains and enhancing innovation are among the reasons IT leaders are modernising their device fleets more frequently, new research reveals. Most organisations typically refresh both desktops and laptops on a three to four-year refresh cycle. Yet nearly a third of the 416 IT leaders who responded to a recent survey by Forrester…
“One of my bold bets is I want to eliminate our traditional service desk by 2025,” says Jason Ballard, IT executive and general manager for infrastructure and operations services at Toyota Motor North America. Ballard is also the technology executive responsible for both the company’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform as it shifts to electrification,…
CSM certification Agile practices are being rapidly adopted in project and product management across many industries, and the ScrumMaster is an important leadership role in agile development to not only improve workflow but increase your value as your career evolves. The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification, available through the Scrum Alliance, is an entry-level certification aimed at providing professionals with…
Artificial intelligence has already unlocked opportunities that most organizations never thought possible. Now, it’s time to pay for it, and that’s putting a spotlight squarely on the chief financial officer (CFO), who has increasingly become the gatekeeper deciding which projects get funded and how significantly AI will play a role in enterprise strategy. For the…