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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Explainability Patent Highlights Need for AI Trustworthiness

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These technologies still have some trustworthiness issues.

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Enterprise AI

Why Open Source AI May Be a ‘Marginal Player’

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What’s At Risk When You Replace Workers With AI?

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DeepMind Patent Gives AI Robots ‘Inner Speech’

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Cybersecurity

Why Security and AI Need to Grow Hand in Hand

Zero trust might be the best place to start.

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Healthcare

Philips Patent Leverages AI to Make Healthcare More Predictable

This patent isn’t the first time we’ve seen AI make inroads into healthcare.

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Big Tech

Murky AI Rules Leave Enterprises Grappling With Self-Regulation

“I think everybody would agree: It’s a free-for-all.”

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Energy

Big Tech Is Still Grappling With AI’s Energy Problem

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Meeting energy demand without excess carbon emissions may require doing more with what we have.

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Data

Coinbase Patent Tracks AI Contributions With Blockchain

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The technique is particularly useful for open source models that often involve many contributors.

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Big Tech

Is Meta Chasing a Superintelligence Pipe Dream?

The risks may be greater than the payoff.

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Enterprise AI

Location Bias: Why AI Data Centers Are Clustered in the North

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Technology

Amazon Patent May Stabilize Quantum Computers

The stability of qubits has long posed a barrier to scaling quantum computers.

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Enterprise AI

Increasing Your Enterprise’s ‘Adaptability Quotient’

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Staying flexible and informed can help your enterprise get the most out of AI agents.

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Enterprise AI

Finance Departments Struggle to Balance AI Adoption Risks With Rewards

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Figuring out where to keep a human in the loop is critical for safe deployment.

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Big Tech

Why is the Quantum Race Moving Faster?

“I don’t think we can think of this as business as usual.”

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Data

IBM Patent Seeks to Help AI Models ‘Unlearn’

Enterprises are still grappling with balancing innovation and risk as the AI race rages on.

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Data

Oracle Patent Keeps Large Language Models From Spilling Secrets

Oracle’s patent highlights a key issue that AI developers are still reckoning with: Data privacy.

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Productivity Tech

Hallucinations Create Complications When AI Goes to Court

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CIOs need to talk to their legal teams about AI “clarity, boundaries, and accountability,” one expert said.

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Enterprise AI

Struggling to Navigate Thorny AI Contracts? Question Everything

Why getting in the weeds on wording and definitions could save your enterprise in the long run.

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Enterprise AI

Does Agentic AI Have Staying Power?

‘Humanity’s never automated intelligence before in the way that we’re doing it now.’

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Cybersecurity

Ransomware Groups Use AI to Level Up

Threat actors are “targeting businesses eager to adopt AI but unaware of the risks,” one expert said.

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