Data readiness is the biggest AI challenge for global life insurers

Musk clashes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over Trump-supported Stargate AI data center project

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two billionaires ...

ABC News - 10h

Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Training AI Models With User Data

The suit alleges LinkedIn quietly introduced a privacy setting that let users enable or disable the sharing of their personal data.

Inc. - 21h

Sunway Healthcare Readies IPO That Will Likely Be Malaysia's Biggest in Years

Malaysia’s Sunway Healthcare Group will set in motion plans for an initial public offering early next month that is likely to value the business at over $4.0 billion, people familiar with the ...

The Wall Street Journal - 1d

Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker

Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, ...

VentureBeat - 1d

How Harness is ‘harnessing’ agentic AI to help improve enterprise incident response with automated data collection and playbooks

The software development vendor now offers agentic AI-powered incident response that could dramatically minimize downtime.

VentureBeat - 1d

Trump announces 'Stargate' AI infrastructure project with 'colossal data centers'

President Trump is joined by Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman to announce a new American company that will invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure.

NBC News - 2d

Trump announces $500 billion investment in 'colossal' AI data centers

The 47th president is meeting with congressional leaders this afternoon and plans to deliver remarks from the White House later today.

NBC News - 2d

Deloitte: 74% of enterprises have already met or exceeded gen AI initiatives (but challenges remain)

Deloitte's state of gen AI report shows that three-quarters of enterprises are seeing ROI and many are set to increase spending.

VentureBeat - 2d

LogicMonitor equips CIOs to lead the new era of AI-optimized data centers

Observability is essential as AI introduces new challenges for data centers. With Observability, CIOs can monitor, analyze and optimize in real time, ensuring systems remain scalable, reliable, and ...

CBS News - 2d

In the biggest game of his life, Ohio State's Will Howard rose to another level

Howard has had plenty of ups and downs throughout his college football career, but he'll finish it a champion after a historic title run that'll live forever in Buckeyes lore.

Yahoo Sports - 2d

AI mania takes over Davos as the world's biggest firms tout their offerings

The Promenade in Davos, Switzerland is the focal point of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in the Swiss ski town — and AI is front and center

CNBC - 2d

How continuous improvement led to a solution for a global animal health challenge

PIC's PRRS-Resistant Pig protects pigs from a devastating global swine disease. This solution provides disease resistance, creates healthier pigs, reduces the need for antibiotics and increase ...

CBS News - 3d

Borderless AI secures $32 million to challenge HR software giants with its AI-powered platform

Borderless AI launches an enterprise HR platform powered by AI that streamlines employee data management, policy compliance, and HR workflows, securing $32M in funding to challenge traditional HR ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 16

AI factories are factories: Overcoming industrial challenges to commoditize AI

The infrastructure to support AI inherits many challenges that defined industrial factories, from power to scalability and reliability.

VentureBeat - Jan. 16

What Happens When You Turn Your Life Over to an AI Assistant?

The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went.

Wired - Jan. 16

Biden Issues Executive Order to Ensure Power for AI Data Centers

The rapid growth and huge electricity needs spawned by the artificial intelligence revolution spurs a directive to lease federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments for power supply centers.

Inc. - Jan. 14

KPMG readies challenge to US law firms

Big Four accounting firm wins panel endorsement for Arizona license to offer legal services to corporate America

Financial Times - Jan. 14

What are the challenges facing the government's AI action plan?

Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled proposals which he says will make the UK 'one of the great AI superpowers'.

BBC News - Jan. 13

New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients

Waystar announced a new generative AI feature that aims to help hospitals quickly fight insurance denials.

CNBC - Jan. 13

Uranium prices hit record as thirsty AI data centres add to market squeeze

Industry pressured to build new conversion facilities to cover end of US import waiver and impact of Ukraine war

Financial Times - Jan. 11

Breaking the data bottleneck: Salesforce’s ProVision speeds multimodal AI training with image scene graphs

Salesforce is using structured representation of image semantics to power programs that synthesize instruction datasets for AI training.

VentureBeat - Jan. 10

Elon Musk says all human data for AI training ‘exhausted’

Tech boss suggests move to self-learning synthetic data though some warn this could cause ‘model collapse’. Business live – latest updates Artificial intelligence companies have run out of ...

The Guardian - Jan. 9

How Narvar is using AI and data to enhance post-purchase customer experiences

How Narvar's new tech is using AI to harness the power of 42 billion consumer interactions a year to improve retail operations.

VentureBeat - Jan. 9

Tietoevry: A Nordic Vision for Global AI Innovation - reshaping businesses and societies

Tietoevry has played a leading role in many technology evolution cycles that have enhanced quality of life and the societies we live in. The era of AI will once again offer new opportunities for ...

CBS News - Jan. 9

Cohere just launched ‘North,’ its biggest AI bet yet for privacy-focused enterprises

Cohere launches North, a secure enterprise AI platform outperforming Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in testing, with Royal Bank of Canada among early adopters implementing the technology ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 9

Shutterstock and Getty Merge to Meet AI Challenge in $3.7 Billion Deal

The two big players in the licensed visual content will pair up to counter threats from artificial intelligence tools like Midjourney.

Inc. - Jan. 8

Oprah Just Revealed Her Biggest Regret. It’s an Essential Lesson for Anyone Who Wants to Change Their Life

Oprah’s biggest regret is a reminder to the rest of us about what to avoid when making a big life change.

Inc. - Jan. 8

Online holiday spending rises nearly 9%, as deals and AI-powered chatbots fuel purchases, data shows

Online spending rose 8.7% during the holiday season from last year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as deals and the use of AI-powered chatbots helped inspire purchases.

NBC News - Jan. 7

Nvidia releases gaming chips for PCs, tapping AI features from data center GPUs

At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia showed that it's still focused on serving gamers even as the company's primary business is now in the data center.

CNBC - Jan. 7

Online holiday spending rises nearly 9%, as deep discounts and AI-powered chatbots fuel purchases, Adobe data says

The holiday e-commerce results from Adobe are a promising sign for the retail industry, which will begin reporting holiday results in February.

CNBC - Jan. 7

Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI tools for creating autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES.

Wired - Jan. 7

Samsung Electronics banking on AI to outpace global growth in smartphones, home appliances

Samsung Electronics plans to ramp up on-device AI, as it bets on the consumer electronics unit to exceed overall global market growth this year.

CNBC - Jan. 7

Putin orders Russia's top bank to team up with China in AI push to challenge Western tech dominance

Yahoo News - Jan. 6

Using Artificial Intelligence for Speech Writing? Here’s How to Overcome AI’s Biggest Defect

Artificial intelligence can’t hack authenticity. Here’s how to make sure you are connecting with people even if you’re getting help from GenAI.

Inc. - Jan. 5

Phantom data centers: What they are (or aren’t) and why they’re hampering the true promise of AI

So-called fake data centers are a bottleneck to scaling infrastructure to keep up with compute demand for AI and other critical workloads.

VentureBeat - Jan. 4

Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025

Over half of Microsoft's $80 billion in spending will take place in the U.S., Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote in a Friday blog post.

CNBC - Jan. 4

Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers over next 12 months

Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post.

NBC News - Jan. 3