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Panel examines the role humans must play living in a GenAI world

A panel last week at VMWare Explore 2023 probed the many twists and turns organizations must be prepared to take when it comes to...

Google expands AI compute offerings, partnership with Nvidia and more

AI stood at centre stage at Google Cloud Next this week, as Google announced TPU updates, virtual machine instances powered by Nvidia GPUs, enhancements...

Google Cloud Next keynote places spotlight on firm’s GenAI efforts

The arrival of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) advances will trigger the “most profound shift we will see in our lifetimes,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai...

VMware Canada’s Reeves and Near weigh in at VMware Explore

Organizations are looking for practical ways to execute an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, said VMware‘s country manager, Canada, Claude Reeves in an interview during...

Coffee Briefing Aug 29. – Thinkific launches automated sales tax solution for creators; BTQ unveils ‘The Quantum State’ podcast; TMU and Xanadu collaborate on...

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed...

Google upgrades Vertex AI, foundation models, adds Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic to portfolio and more

Today, at Google Cloud Next 2023, Google announced that it is expanding the capabilities of Vertex AI, upgrading its own foundation models and is...

Tanzu expansion, edge offering, ‘next evolution’ of VMware Cloud launch

VMware Inc. launched a number of new product offerings this week, key among them being what it called the “next evolution” of VMware Cloud;...

VMware, NVIDIA team up, launch major GenAI initiative at VMware Explore

The generative AI (GenAI) offensive continued yesterday with VMware Inc. and NVIDIA announcing an expansion of a partnership the two said is designed to...

IBM launches GenAI offering it says accelerates mainframe app modernization

There was a time when mainframe computers ran the world, and they ran it with software written in COBOL. Even today, there are more...

In Conversation With Red Hat Canada’s Fred Patterson

Welcome to a Q&A Discussion with IT Channel Executives. Our guest is Fred Patterson, the ecosystem director for Red Hat Canada. Prior to joining the company,...

Study reveals Canadians aren’t aware of potential AI downsides

A study by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) shows that Canadians are diving into new AI tools with excitement but are missing...

TuringBot is not your average AI assistant: Forrester assesses the budding technology

TuringBots are going to be a game changer for development teams, with early adopters claiming increased software development productivity of 15 per cent to...

Advocacy group raises privacy concerns as facial recognition technology booms

Safety, efficiency and profitability are touted as the key drivers behind the growing popularity of digital ID technologies like facial recognition, but they present...

OpenText unveils its vision for AI

Last week, information management company OpenText announced opentext.ai, the company’s strategy and vision for artificial intelligence (AI). “The internet changed everything. With AI, everything must...

Identity-based attacks increasing, warns CrowdStrike

Successful identity-based attacks continue to plague IT departments, according to CrowdStrike’s sixth annual Threat Hunting report. Based on an analysis of what they call interactive...

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