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A cloud-storage company is using AI to save employees weeks of cybersecurity-threat work

Pure Storage uses generative AI to automate cybersecurity, reducing weeks of manual work to hours. Led by CTO Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, the AI tool enhances threat analysis and security checks, boosting efficiency. Future plans include expanding AI for product configuration automation.

Business Insider

From bytes to bushels: How gen AI can shape the future of agriculture

Generative AI (gen AI) and analytical AI in agriculture promise substantial economic benefits—$100 billion for on-farm optimization and $150 billion for enterprise efficiency. McKinsey urges strategic AI adoption to enhance sustainability and operational effectiveness in food production.

McKinsey & Company

How Adobe's enhanced AI can transform document management, customer engagement

Adobe enhances document management and customer engagement with AI assistants in Acrobat and Adobe Experience Platform (AEP). These tools streamline tasks and ensure data security, supporting marketing and customer experience workflows.

ZDNet

Microsoft Takes AI Push to Customer Service Call Centers

Microsoft is introducing AI tools, including Copilot, into customer service call centers to streamline operations. These tools aim to enhance chatbot responses and simplify tasks for human agents by integrating multiple applications into a unified interface for faster customer support.

INC.

How one agency uses AI to track and manage thousands of campaign assets — building its own library of 'collective knowledge'

Saatchi & Saatchi uses Lucy, an AI search engine in Microsoft Teams, to streamline access to vast campaign assets. This AI tool helps retrieve and organize creative materials and campaign data, enhancing operational efficiency and knowledge sharing across teams.

Business Insider

Hooking up generative AI to medical data improved usefulness for doctors

Heidelberg University integrated GPT-4 with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enhance medical question-answering accuracy in oncology, addressing information overload for clinicians.

ZDNet

Mastercard's AI system is helping banks keep fraudsters in check — and it could save millions of dollars

Mastercard uses AI to prevent payment fraud, collaborating with banks like Lloyds, NatWest, and TSB. Led by Chris Reid, their system provides real-time risk scores to detect and stop fraudulent transactions, potentially saving millions in losses across the UK banking sector.

Business Insider

How AI is Changing the Legal Landscape in Business

The article explores AI's rapid growth, highlighting ethical dilemmas (privacy, bias) and legal challenges (liability, copyright). It advocates for global AI regulations to balance innovation with protection, emphasizing the need for nuanced, culturally aware frameworks.

INC.

How generative AI could accelerate software product time to market

Generative AI enhances software product management by speeding up time to market, increasing productivity by 40%, and improving PM experience significantly, per McKinsey's study. Adoption requires phased implementation and careful ethical considerations.

McKinsey & Company

AI Helping Klarna Cut Marketing Costs by $10 Million

Klarna saved $10M annually by using generative AI for marketing, cutting its budget by 11%. AI tools generated over 1,000 images, reducing production costs by $6M and external expenses by $4M. An AI assistant from OpenAI replaces 700 full-time agents.

INC.

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

The article explores AI's evolving accessibility, detailing advancements by major players like Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, while addressing concerns about misinformation and highlighting recent developments and partnerships across tech companies.

The Verge

Generative AI: The New Lifeline To Overwhelmed Healthcare Systems

Generative AI revolutionizes healthcare by aiding patient guidance, administrative tasks, data retrieval, image analysis, and drug development.

Forbes

AI could take investor relations to the next level and 'deliver more value,' says a tech CEO

AI streamlines investor relations, saving time for strategic engagement. Darrell Heaps advises clear AI policies and focuses on valuable use cases.

Business Insider

Should AI Be Steering The Course Of Cruise Ships?

AI transforms cruising: Personalized experiences, smooth boarding, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are enhanced, shaping the future of ocean travel.

Forbes

Cybercrime Costs Skyrocket to $10.5 Trillion: AI in Cybersecurity Fights Back

Cybercrime costs will reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. AI helps combat this by automating fraud detection, identifying zero-day threats, and improving response times. Companies like Bank of America, Palo Alto Networks, and IBM use AI to enhance security and manage threats.

Virtasant

AI's Influence on Corporate Cultures: Insights from Amazon, SprintIT, and HP

AI transforms corporate cultures, enhancing engagement, boosting decision-making, and reducing turnover rates, as seen in Amazon, SprintIT, and HP.

Virtasant

Mastercard Using AI to Stop Fraud Before a Card Is Misused

Mastercard employs AI to preempt card fraud by swiftly identifying compromised numbers, enhancing security and reducing disruptions for consumers.

INC.

AI Roundup: Adobe's Images for Business, Google Tests AI Ads, Everyone Loves New ChatGPT

Adobe's AI aids marketing with Express for Enterprise; Google's AI enhances ad interactions; ChatGPT's human-like abilities drive record visits.

INC.

Using AI in economic development: Challenges and opportunities

The article discusses AI's potential in economic development, highlighting benefits like competitive analysis, investment attraction, workforce planning, and economic forecasting. Challenges include data scarcity, talent acquisition, and building public trust through transparency.

McKinsey & Company

How to Use AI to Help You Raise Prices and Increase Customer Purchase Frequency

Peter Cohan explores the potential of generative AI investments, highlighting its impact on businesses. Itzik Levy, CEO of vcita, discusses their AI tool BizAI, designed to boost revenue for SMBs.

INC.

Productivity Surging in AI-Intensive Sectors

Sectors heavily using AI, like finance, see productivity soar, offering economic growth potential and increasing demand for AI skills.

INC.

Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks

Microsoft's Copilot AI agents automate tasks for businesses, like monitoring emails and onboarding employees, aiming to remove mundane tasks without replacing jobs entirely.

The Verge

From RAGs to Vectors: How Businesses Are Customizing AI Models

Businesses enhance AI with methods like RAG and fine-tuning, bridging gaps between general knowledge and specific data needs for personalized responses.

Wall Street Journal

How AI And Technology Can Impact Mental Health Care

Stacey Shulman, VP at Intel, highlights AI's potential in mental health care for personalized support and predictive analytics. Challenges include privacy, security, and lack of clinical validation. Effective solutions require collaboration among companies, universities, and experts to ensure safety and efficacy.

Forbes

From oceans to your gut: AI helps researchers understand how viruses act

The article explores challenges in understanding viruses' impact on ecosystems. AI, specifically protein language models, helps annotate viral sequences, aiding in discovering their functions and potential roles in microbiology, including in the human body.

Fast Company

Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines

Spoor, a startup, uses AI to reduce bird collisions at wind farms. Its software predicts bird movements, aiding compliance and minimizing environmental impact. Recently, it raised $4M in seed funding from investors like Futurum Ventures and Ørsted Ventures.

TechCrunch

Neuro-Symbolic AI Could Redefine Legal Practices

Neuro-symbolic AI blends symbolic reasoning with deep learning, reshaping legal analysis for precision and insight, exemplified by Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry.

Forbes

The future of email marketing lies in AI

Michelle Taite emphasizes AI's role in email marketing, citing its power for personalized messaging and overcoming challenges like hypersegmentation.

Fast Company

Can AI Replace Doctors Who Read X-Rays?

AI can assist radiologists by interpreting scans and drafting reports. Despite FDA approvals, adoption is low due to concerns over testing and transparency. Experts see AI enhancing, not replacing, human oversight.

INC.

Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video

Google's Gemini AI models, including Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash, can now process longer documents, videos, and audio recordings, with up to 2 million tokens. Features like context caching and controlled generation enhance efficiency and customization for various tasks.

TechCrunch

AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails

Gmail's Gemini Pro in Workspace Labs uses AI to summarize emails, provide search summaries, and send emails based on user prompts. It aims to streamline email management and save users time by leveraging AI to sift through and summarize email content.

Ars Technica

How Red Hat is embracing AI to make sysadmins' lives easier

Red Hat integrates AI across RHEL AI, OpenShift AI, and Ansible Automation to streamline system administration. Key figures include Ashesh Badani and Sathish Balakrishnan. AI tools enhance automation, security, and resource management.

ZDNet

How to deliver faster ROI on your fiber investment with AI and Automation

The article highlights using AI and automation to drive fiber expansion, focusing on data gathering, targeted messaging, streamlined onboarding, and loyalty programs to retain subscribers.

Salesforce Blog

Data and AI Are Transforming the Customer Experience in Retail Stores and Online.

Data and AI are reshaping retail CX, emphasizing personalized interactions, unified customer journeys, and AI-powered service tools for enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Salesforce Blog

How to deliver faster ROI on your fiber investment with AI and Automation

The article highlights using AI and automation to drive fiber expansion, focusing on data gathering, targeted messaging, streamlined onboarding, and loyalty programs to retain subscribers.

Salesforce Blog

Data and AI Are Transforming the Customer Experience in Retail Stores and Online.

Data and AI are reshaping retail CX, emphasizing personalized interactions, unified customer journeys, and AI-powered service tools for enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Salesforce Blog

Here's how airlines are using AI to make flying less of a nightmare

Airlines use AI tools like ConnectionSaver and Smart Gating to manage flights efficiently, reduce delays, and enhance passenger experience.

Business Insider

Deciphering the Future of AI

The article explores AI's role in business, emphasizing its potential for economic growth and the need for strategic integration, led by Juan José López Murphy from Globant.

InformationWeek

Deciphering the Future of AI

The article explores AI's role in business, emphasizing its potential for economic growth and the need for strategic integration, led by Juan José López Murphy from Globant.

InformationWeek

AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet

The report explores AI's potential to address UN SDGs, highlighting funding trends, scaling challenges, and risks, emphasizing collaboration for global impact.

McKinsey & Company

Taking the fight to the fraudsters: How AI safeguards the digital economy

Mastercard employs AI to fight financial fraud, safeguarding billions of transactions and enhancing security in the digital economy.

Fast Company

Taking the fight to the fraudsters: How AI safeguards the digital economy

Mastercard employs AI to fight financial fraud, safeguarding billions of transactions and enhancing security in the digital economy.

Fast Company

Navigating The Time-Saving Continuum: The Dual Promise Of AI

The article explores AI's potential to reclaim 30% of time, emphasizing its impact on personal growth and organizational objectives to prevent burnout and boost productivity.

Forbes

Enhancing Beauty: How AI Transforms Aesthetic Medicine From Patient Desires To Real Outcomes

The article explores the rise in cosmetic procedures and the role of AI in revolutionizing aesthetic medicine, enhancing patient outcomes.

Forbes

Navigating The Time-Saving Continuum: The Dual Promise Of AI

The article explores AI's potential to reclaim 30% of time, emphasizing its impact on personal growth and organizational objectives to prevent burnout and boost productivity.

Forbes

Enhancing Beauty: How AI Transforms Aesthetic Medicine From Patient Desires To Real Outcomes

The article explores the rise in cosmetic procedures and the role of AI in revolutionizing aesthetic medicine, enhancing patient outcomes.

Forbes

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

Reddit, now public, focuses on global expansion with French translations, aiming to match peers' non-U.S. audience. Revenue surged 48%, users up 37%. Revival of Reddit Gold and data licensing planned.

TechCrunch

Google DeepMind’s new AI can model DNA, RNA, and ‘all life’s molecules’

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaFold 3, a breakthrough AI model predicting structures of all life's molecules, offering free access to researchers while addressing biosecurity concerns.

The Verge

Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA

Google's AlphaFold software, now upgraded to version 3, predicts DNA and other molecular structures, aiding drug discovery. While not open-source, it offers high accuracy, although some experts desire access to its source code for scientific validation.

Wired

Data Privacy in the Age of AI Means Moving Beyond Buzzwords

The article stresses the significance of prioritizing privacy amidst AI advancements, citing breaches like 23andMe's. Maritza Johnson advocates for companies to invest in robust privacy measures.

InformationWeek

Meta Reveals New Slate of AI Advertising Tools to Help Businesses Expand Their Reach

Meta introduces AI tools for ads, including image generation and text mimicry, to boost revenue. Hegeman, Raychoudhury offer insights.

INC.

Data Privacy in the Age of AI Means Moving Beyond Buzzwords

The article stresses the significance of prioritizing privacy amidst AI advancements, citing breaches like 23andMe's. Maritza Johnson advocates for companies to invest in robust privacy measures.

InformationWeek

Puzzle leverages AI and machine learning to automate accounting for startups

Puzzle, led by Sasha Orloff, leverages AI to automate accounting for startups, ensuring accuracy and freeing up time for strategic growth.

VentureBeat

Puzzle leverages AI and machine learning to automate accounting for startups

Puzzle, led by Sasha Orloff, leverages AI to automate accounting for startups, ensuring accuracy and freeing up time for strategic growth.

VentureBeat

Leveraging AI for Growth: Essential Strategies for Digital Creators

The article explores how digital creators can boost business growth using AI to automate tasks, create content, and refine strategy, enhancing efficiency and client satisfaction.

INC.

How you can use AI to streamline your social media management

AI streamlines social media: content generation, sentiment analysis, ad optimization, scheduling. Enhances human efforts, connects better with audiences.

INC.

How generative AI is clouding the future of Google search

Generative AI challenges Google's search quality, raising spam concerns. Google adapts with algorithm updates and favors human-generated content to maintain relevance amidst competition.

Fast Company

UPS delivers customer wins with generative AI

UPS implemented MeRA, a generative AI, reducing email resolution time by 50%. They plan to expand its use beyond customer service, facing challenges in customizing models and ensuring response accuracy.

CIO

Through The Roof: AI Adoption Accelerates Manufacturing Growth And Transformation

Manufacturers embrace AI for efficiency and productivity, but success requires a solid data foundation and skilled workforce.

Forbes

Reimagining the Customer Service Experience With Gen AI

Generative AI, like DEEP AI by BCG X, revolutionizes customer service by automating inquiries, supporting agents, and improving service quality.

Wired

Reimagining the Customer Service Experience With Gen AI

Generative AI, like DEEP AI by BCG X, revolutionizes customer service by automating inquiries, supporting agents, and improving service quality.

Wired

How generative AI unlocks creativity in all professions

Generative AI, like Canva's tools, revolutionizes creativity across professions, democratizing design and streamlining workflows for transformative impact.

Fast Company

AI Powered Knowledge Management Could Redefine the Workforce of the Future

AI-driven knowledge management transforms workforces, enhancing efficiency and innovation. Bloomfire leads in integrating AI, ensuring seamless implementation and fostering a culture of collaboration.

Wired

AI Powered Knowledge Management Could Redefine the Workforce of the Future

AI-driven knowledge management transforms workforces, enhancing efficiency and innovation. Bloomfire leads in integrating AI, ensuring seamless implementation and fostering a culture of collaboration.

Wired

How Cloud-Based AI Infrastructure is Shaping Tomorrow’s Businesses

Cloud-based AI infrastructure empowers sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, addressing challenges and fostering innovation for better customer experiences.

Harvard Business Review

Tableau further democratizes analytics with AI-fueled features

Tableau enhances data analytics accessibility with AI features like Tableau Pulse and Einstein Copilot, empowering users to gain insights effortlessly.

CIO.com

AI At The Edge: The New Vanguard Of Railway Innovation

AI at the edge revolutionizes railway safety and efficiency, empowering workers and ensuring seamless inspections with innovations like Duos Technologies' Railcar Inspection Portal.

Forbes

GenAI Can Help Companies Do More with Customer Feedback

GenAI streamlines customer feedback analysis, aiding in summarization, sentiment analysis, and response suggestion for enhanced satisfaction and workflow efficiency.

Harvard Business Review

GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software'

GitHub launches Copilot Workspace, an AI-powered developer environment for end-to-end coding assistance, aiming to simplify software development and democratize coding.

ZDNet

Beyond Chatbots: Why Businesses Need AI Agents To Stay Competitive

Businesses are adopting autonomous agents, advanced AI systems, to revolutionize industries, streamline processes, and gain a competitive edge in intelligent automation.

Forbes

Oracle doubles down on generative AI with new features to accelerate enterprise deal cycles

Oracle enhances Fusion Cloud CX with AI features for sales, marketing, and service, competing with Salesforce and Hubspot. Over 50 AI capabilities aim to boost customer engagement and streamline enterprise workflows.

VentureBeat

OpenAI Enterprise API Expands Offerings, Eyes Growth and Safety

OpenAI enhances enterprise API, targeting businesses of all sizes. Focus on security, pricing, and responsible AI deployment.

InformationWeek

AI in a chainsaw? Stream Analyze launches in the U.S. to make ‘stupid’ devices smarter

Stream Analyze, a Swedish company, partners with Microchip to bring AI to tools like chainsaws in the US. Their platform enables real-time data processing on devices with minimal memory usage, tailored to diverse industry needs.

VentureBeat

Estée Lauder and Microsoft partner to help beauty brands use generative AI

Estée Lauder and Microsoft partner for AI Innovation Lab, leveraging generative AI to enhance customer experiences and accelerate product development.

VentureBeat

Exclusive: Visa’s CIO shares insights on generative AI’s transformative potential in payments industry

Visa's CIO champions generative AI in payments, focusing on privacy, talent, fraud detection, personalized services, and financial inclusion, foreseeing AI's crucial role in shaping the industry's future.

VentureBeat

At Moderna, OpenAI’s GPTs Are Changing Almost Everything

Moderna collaborates with OpenAI, integrating ChatGPT Enterprise to automate processes and accelerate product development in biotech.

Wall Street Journal

Amplifier emerges from stealth to orchestrate AI-driven ‘self-healing’ security for enterprises

Amplifier Security launches AI-driven self-healing security platform for enterprises, backed by $3.3M pre-seed funding.

VentureBeat

How AI hallucinations could help create life-saving antibiotics

AI hallucinations aid antibiotic discovery. SyntheMol generates novel drugs for resistant bacteria, accelerating drug development.

ZDNet

AI-powered engineering: A modern must-have

Altair discusses AI-powered engineering's role in accelerating design cycles, fostering innovation, and enabling new design paradigms, emphasizing its efficiency and effectiveness in modern industries.

Fast Company

Embedding AI into education will personalize learning

The article explores how AI integration in education can personalize learning, empower students, aid teachers, engage parents, and balance risks for transformative change.

Fast Company

AI in Customer Support: Separating Potential from Practicality

AI in customer service shows promise but faces challenges. 56% of businesses integrate AI, yet its limitations in handling complex interactions persist. Successful integration strategies and real-world case studies highlight its benefits when expectations are realistic.

Virtasant

Improving heart health with AI

Egnite employs AI in CardioCare to expedite cardiovascular treatments, identify patients for clinical trials, and publish research based on extensive patient data.

Fast Company

Improving heart health with AI

Egnite employs AI in CardioCare to expedite cardiovascular treatments, identify patients for clinical trials, and publish research based on extensive patient data.

Fast Company

Optimizing the Selling Process for Staffing and Recruiting with Automation and AI

The article explains how AI, data, and CRM enable staffing and recruiting sellers to boost growth through personalized experiences, addressing challenges and emphasizing automation benefits.

Salesforce Blog

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Impact of AI in Personalized Medicine and Beyond

AI in healthcare, termed "augmented intelligence," poised for $188 billion market by 2030, transforms diagnostics, personalized treatment, and patient engagement.

InformationWeek

From Concept To Impact: Navigating The Climate Tech Landscape With AI And Robotics

AI and robotics play pivotal roles in climate tech, emphasizing customer-focused solutions for sustainability alongside operational efficiency and cost savings.

Forbes

How AI can rescue IT pros from job burnout and alert fatigue

The article explores how AI, particularly AIOps, can relieve stress for IT professionals by automating tasks like troubleshooting and resolving alerts, with generative AI enhancing problem-solving capabilities.

ZDNet

How AI can rescue IT pros from job burnout and alert fatigue

The article explores how AI, particularly AIOps, can relieve stress for IT professionals by automating tasks like troubleshooting and resolving alerts, with generative AI enhancing problem-solving capabilities.

ZDNet

From Analog To Algorithm: How AI Is Transforming Fleet Management

AI revolutionizes fleet management, boosting efficiency and sustainability in logistics, led by key players like Geotab, Verizon Connect, Omnitracs, and Penske.

Forbes

Learning and leading: Harnessing GenAI power in biopharma

GenAI revolutionizes biopharma, reshaping drug discovery, clinical trials, and workforce skills for a more innovative and human-centric future.

Accenture Insights

OpenAI's GPT-4 can diagnose eye problems and suggest treatments like your doctor

OpenAI's GPT-4 competes with ophthalmologists in diagnosing eye issues, surpassing junior doctors, but not expert specialists, raising ethical questions.

ZDNet

National Guard will use Google's AI for faster disaster response and recovery

The National Guard will deploy Google's AI from Bellwether to swiftly respond to disasters by analyzing aerial imagery, expediting recovery efforts.

ZDNet

Google Maps will use AI to help you find out-of-the-way EV chargers

Google Maps introduces AI-driven updates for EV charging stations, including summaries of customer reviews, real-time plug availability, and a filter for finding accommodations with EV chargers.

The Verge

Accelerating Industry 4.0 at warp speed: The role of GenAI at the factory edge

GenAI at the edge accelerates Industry 4.0, transforming manufacturing with streamlined operations, faster decision-making, and smarter insights, despite inherent risks like biases and data privacy concerns.

CIO

Cities Use AI to Help Ambulances and Firetrucks Arrive Faster

US cities employ AI startups like C2Smarter, Lyt, and MD Ally to enhance emergency response, tackle traffic congestion, and redirect noncritical 911 calls, promising to save lives and resources.

Bloomberg

Qureight uses AI to help speed up drug development.

Qureight, a British techbio startup, raised $8.5 million in Series A funding to simplify pharma data management using AI-driven tools, with Hargreave Hale AIM VCT leading the round.

Business Insider

How Spotify AI plans to know before you do what your brain wants to listen to.

Spotify uses AI for personalized music recommendations, including an AI DJ feature, but balancing user preferences for familiar and new music remains a challenge.

CNBC

How this company’s AI-powered tools are reducing nurse turnover for hospitals

Laudio's AI tools reduce nurse turnover by streamlining management and fostering meaningful interactions, saving costs and enhancing workforce well-being.

Fast Company

Generative AI Is Changing the Hiring Calculus at These Companies

Generative AI reshapes hiring strategies, aiming to reduce workforce needs. KeyBank and Oshkosh Corp. deploy AI to streamline tasks, while Nationwide focuses on efficiency for future growth.

Wall Street Journal

Generative AI can boost customer experiences and sales figures

Accenture's research indicates generative AI drives revenue up by 25%, reshapes marketing, and boosts productivity, with significant investment plans.

ZDNet