Generative AI

Trump taps Sriram Krishnan for AI advisor role amid strategic shift in tech policy

The appointment signals a strategic focus on AI innovation, data governance, and US enterprise competitiveness.

IT leaders’ top 9 takeaways from 2024

CIOs share insights on the lessons they’ve learned this year about navigating change — and helping others do the same — while getting real about AI and leading IT initiatives exclusively with business value in mind.

United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

The Chicago-based airlines has moved beyond the pilot phase with production LLMs built on a strong data foundation in the cloud.

IDC chief research officer: GenAI, from experimentation to adoption

How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

Salesforce has priced its agent per conversation, but several other pricing models are emerging. The best choice depends on how much an organization uses agents.

Salesforce’s Agentforce 2.0 update aims to make AI agents smarter

The second release of Salesforce’s agentic AI platform offers an updated reasoning engine, new agent skills, and the ability to build agents using natural language.

OpenAI continues to get pushback, but only stands to gain from going for-profit

Meta and Zuckerberg have echoed rival Elon Musk’s call to keep OpenAI as a non-profit, but for OpenAI, there’s really nothing to lose in going to a for-profit model.

Gig workers behind AI training firm sue for better conditions

“Scale AI is the sordid underbelly propping up the generative AI industry,” says a lawsuit accusing the company of exploiting the workers to whom it outsources processing of AI training data.

The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

Data is now a living organism driving company success. To thrive, businesses must embrace AI-powered, automated data management across five critical pillars.

Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

Commercial generative AI platforms like OpenAI and Anthropic get all the attention, but open source alternatives can offer cost benefits, security, and flexibility.