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DeepMind Founder To Lead Microsoft's New AI Unit

Microsoft has carved out a new AI-focused product group within its walls to be spearheaded by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google-owned DeepMind.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang Unveils Hopper Successor 'Blackwell' at GTC

Nvidia's Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang kicked off his company's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), dubbed "the Woodstock of AI," with a keynote that introduced the Blackwell platform and more.

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AI-Driven 'Augmented Data Quality' Market Has 3 Leaders

When it comes to augmented data quality solutions, the top vendor in the market is Informatica, followed by IBM and Ataccama.

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$28B Cisco-Splunk Deal Positioned as an AI Play

Enterprise networking stalwart Cisco on Monday finalized its acquisition of data analytics firm Splunk for an estimated $28 billion.

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Anthropic's Claude 3 Models Land on AWS Bedrock

Amazon Web Services' $4 billion investment in generative AI firm Anthropic is paying dividends.

The Week in AI: Oracle, Apple, Meta, xAI, Amazon, Cerebras, Knotch, Ithaka S+R and More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI product and services news includes Oracle's roll out of a range of GenAI tools for its Fusion Cloud App Suite, Apple's acquisition of DarwinAI, Meta's new 24k GPU clusters, xAI's open-source plan, Cerebras Systems' massive new AI processor, and more.

Microsoft Data Scientist Weighs In on AI Hallucinations

Research results indicate that AI systems, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and Google's Gemini (formerly Bard) hallucinate much more frequently than you might guess, and that in many cases, incorrect results are surprisingly difficult to detect.

Altman and Brockman Leadership Reaffirmed by OpenAI Board Following Investigation

The reaffirmation of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman's leadership by the Board at OpenAI following an investigation by the Special Committee was a signal to employees, investors, and the broader AI community that the company's leadership is secure and trusted. But that's not the only implication of this leadership reaffirmation.

European Union Enacts Major AI Regulation Law

The European Union passes the AI Act to tackle the regulation of artificial intelligence systems.

Salesforce Unveils 'Einstein' Low-Code AI Tool

CRM giant Salesforce recently announced a Data Cloud update along with Einstein 1 Studio, a low-code AI tool for customizing the company's Einstein Copilot assistant and embedding AI into any CRM app.

SAP Announces Generative-AI Copilot and AI Governance

SAP announced data and analytics solutions during a virtual company event last week, including a new copilot named "Joule."

The Week in AI, March 4-10: Anthropic, Salesforce, MLCommons, Stability, Inflection, C3 AI, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI product and services news includes Anthropic's Claude upgrade, Salesforce's Einstein 1 Studio launch, C3 AI's 2nd edition GenAI, developments in ML Common's Croissant project, Inflection AI's new LLM, Netlify's AI-enabled deployment assistance tool, and more.

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Feds: Google AI Trade Secrets Stolen by Own Engineer

A former Google software engineer has been arrested on four counts of theft of confidential information related to Google's generative AI technologies.

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