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IDC: Generative AI a 'Watershed Moment' for PC Market

Is AI the shot in the arm that the beleaguered PC market needs? According to researchers at IDC, it's one of them, at least.

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Microsoft Adds More Generative AI Perks to Healthcare Cloud

Microsoft is buttressing its healthcare-specific Azure offering with more AI capabilities.

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The Week in AI: Oct. 2-6

We asked ChatGPT to create a list of "the Top 5 articles from the Web this week that are about generative AI." Here were its picks.

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IBM's Watsonx AI Platform Gets a Prompt-Tuning Tool

IBM enhances its enterprise-focused AI and data platform, watsonx, with a new tool, Tuning Studio, which is designed to help prompt engineers write better prompts for generative AI.

IBM Launches 'Granite' AI Models for Businesses

The Granite models were developed specifically for business, not consumer, use, and have been trained on datasets from five areas.

Amazon's Answer to Azure OpenAI Officially Launched

Roughly five months after its debut, Amazon Bedrock, the generative AI service that's effectively Amazon Web Services' answer to Micrsooft's Azure OpenAI, is now generally available.

The AI Arms Race Heats Up: Amazon Partners with Anthropic

"The stakes are obviously huge, and no large tech company, including Amazon, wants to be left behind."

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AWS Takes Minority Stake in 'Claude' Chatbot Owner with $4B Infusion

Anthropic, in turn, has committed to expanding its support of the Amazon Bedrock foundational model platform.

Windows with Copilot Rolling Out Sept. 26

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Copilot for Windows will transform the personal computing era.

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Half of Medical Professionals Say AI 'Desirable' Tool Against Burnout

Privacy and security concerns about generative AI are rampant, but there's significant demand for it among healthcare workers.

AWS-Owned Kindle Puts Pressure on AI-Generated Works

Amazon Web Services is joining tech giants like Microsoft in erecting ad hoc guardrails around AI-generated content.

Salesforce's New AI Coding Assistant Snags 'Copilot' Moniker

Salesforce has unveiled a new AI coding assistant based on its Einstein technology, and the name all but standardizes a term popularized by Microsoft's GitHub with its game-changing tool, GitHub Copilot.

Microsoft Steps into Generative AI's Legal Morass with Copilot Copyright Pledge

As copyright challenges to generative AI tech ramp up, Microsoft offers legal protection to Copilot users.

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