Jury clears Autonomy CEO of fraud charges

A jury in San Francisco on Thursday unanimously cleared Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch of 15 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from his company’s purchase by Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for $11.1 billion dollars. HP executives had maintained that Lynch fooled them when he sold Autonomy — HP subsequently had to…

AES enlists AI to boost its sustainable energy business

American utility and power company AES launched a renewable energy program in mid-2022 that is not only reducing its carbon footprint but adding wealth to its coffer. To achieve that, the Arlington, Va.-based company, which claims to be the top-ranked supplier of renewable energy sales to corporations, turned to machine learning to help forecast renewable…

Responsible AI Institute offers new AI policy template

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services,…

Zoho updates its collaboration tools to help with asynchronous work

Zoho is updating its extensive range of collaboration products with new AI, workflow automation, and industry-specific functionality to, it said, “promote unified project management and support productive asynchronous collaboration for global businesses whose employees, customers, and partners operate on different timetables.” Four core collaboration tools — Zoho Projects, Zoho Notebook, Zoho WorkDrive, and Zoho Sign…