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Shrinking IT Teams Increasingly Rely on AI Helpers

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By 2030, Gartner projects that 25% of IT work will be done solely by AI; the remaining 75% will be done by humans, but augmented by AI.

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‘Finally Good Enough’: Agents Take On Voice AI

Agentic capabilities with Voice AI are bounding forward, but there’s a sizable gap between pilot and production.

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How Vibe-Coding Is Democratizing the Field

With vibe-coding, success depends less on actually writing code, and more on understanding how AI operates.

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Nvidia Wants to Balance Workloads Between GPUs

The system Nvidia wants to patent would spread out and balancing GPUs’ capacity to help avoid problems as demand ramps up in AI data centers.

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Microsoft Wants to Improve AI-Powered Code Generation

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Microsoft wants to patent a system to improve how an LLM writes code in response to requests. One step is learning to recognize good code.

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Google Wants to Fix a Lot About Video

From avatars’ face movements to audio enhancement, Google is seeking to patent methods for improving video calls.

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Bloom Energy, Brookfield Form $5B Partnership Reimagining AI’s Power Supply

Bloom Energy teams with Brookfield Asset Management to help cover a 75-gigawatt shortfall in US electrical power due to the AI boom.

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Microsoft Patent Could Enable Enterprises to DIY AI Models

Microsoft may want to lower the entry barrier to machine learning.

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Why AI Augmentation Tech Is More Than a ‘Cost-Cutting Tool’

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Companies are beginning to wake up to the potential pitfalls of filling jobs with AI rather than simply letting AI assist human workers.

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Big Tech’s AGI Dreams Overshadowed by Smaller, In-Demand AI Advances

Though AGI could have some enterprise viability, most businesses are better off with small models.

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Enterprises Push Ahead with AI-Powered Job Replacement Despite Risks

Companies are facing pressure on all sides to garner ROI from AI. Workers may be on the chopping block.

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Microsoft Patent Highlights Weaknesses in Code Generators

AI-powered coding has emerged as one of the best use cases for the powerful foundational models.

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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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Why It’s So Hard to Modernize Your Outdated ERP

Fractured ERP systems are “going to get fewer returns on your investment.”

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Building a Strategy to ‘Coexist’ with AI

“How does AI coexist and partner with humans?” says Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana.

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Big Tech Conferences Highlight Commitment to Agentic AI

Information technology leaders want to give enterprises a “clear-cut path” to ROI.

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