New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as…
GPU powerhouse Nvidia has bet its future on AI, and a handful of recent announcements focus on pushing the technology’s capabilities forward while making it available to more organizations. During its GPU Technology Conference in mid-March, Nvidia previewed Blackwell, a powerful new GPU designed to run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs),…
To succeed in the mortgage industry, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. So too is keeping your options open. That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one…
There’s been no shortage of new tools, claims, and ideas about what generative AI can, cannot, and should not do over the past year. And despite the hype, there are only a handful of successful real-world enterprise projects applying the technology. The healthcare industry is the exception, with a breadth of generative AI use cases…
US government agencies will need to provide human oversight to AI models that make critical decisions about healthcare, employment, and other critical issues affecting people to comply with a new policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The AI use policy, announced Thursday, requires agencies to hire chief AI officers and…
Cyberattacks on utilities more than doubled from 2020 to 2022. It’s likely the case that the rapid growth of connected assets is outstripping security capabilities. One analyst firm predicts that by 2026, industrial organizations will have more than 15 billion new and legacy assets connected to the cloud, internet, and 5G. Security and IT leaders…
NetSuite is expanding on the generative AI capabilities added to its SaaS-based ERP offerings in October last year. The new capabilities, which include incremental feature additions to its Text Enhance offering and two new connectors for its analytics warehouse and point of sale (POS) offerings, were announced on Thursday at the company’s SuiteConnect event in New York.…
Leading a technical workforce requires a rapidly changing skillset. Gone are the days when your title allowed you to boss everyone around, rule with an iron fist, and expect a successful outcome. The mood of leadership now is all about collaboration, mutual elevation, and leading without authority. Even if you have a job title where…
It seems every week I’m on the phone with a CIO or other technology executive who’s either contemplating, on the verge of, or has recently gone through the process of retiring. Most struggle with it. They’ve been so heads-down doing the work that they’ve failed to properly and intentionally prepare themselves for this next chapter. …
Railway construction couldn’t be more laborious than in Switzerland, as the country consists almost exclusively of mountains, most of which are now spanned with bridges and riddled with holes, like the famous local cheese. The rail network is also the densest in Europe to the point where it can no longer be expanded because all the necessary…