Vodafone Delivers Marketing Innovation With V-Hub
R. Pritchard Summary Bullets: • V-Hub offers a range of online advice help from digital experts to help SMBs and SOHOs make the most of technology to optimize their businesses. • Vodafone’s V-Hub is...
View ArticleSalesforce Agentforce Takes Aim at Popular Microsoft Copilot
C. Dunlap Research Director Summary Bullets: • Salesforce goes after Microsoft Copilot via Agentforce’s autonomous decision-making abilities. • Enterprises are demanding abstraction of data and AI in...
View ArticleOpenAI Raises $6.6 Billion in New Funding Round, but Drama is Never Far Away
B. Valle Summary Bullets: • OpenAI’s latest fundraising round puts it at a $150 billion valuation. • The startup recently released the OpenAI o1 platform, designed to solve complex tasks in science,...
View ArticleGenerative AI Watch: Text-based Data is the Next Logical Evolution of...
Summary Bullets: R. Bhattacharyya • Synthetic unstructured data, or text, can be used to train and finetune large language models (LLMs) used in customer support applications or chatbot conversations....
View ArticleNew AMD Pensando Offerings for AI, HPC, and Hyperscalers Shine
S. Schuchart Summary Bullets: On October 10, 2024, AMD announced the latest editions of its DPU lineup from its acquisition of Pensando. The UEC 1.0 standard will be a big deal in HPC and AI circles....
View ArticleCyberattack with China Ties Against Major Telcos May Have Tapped into...
Amy Larsen DeCarlo – Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services Summary Bullets: • In a published blog, Lumen says its Black Lotus Labs has identified an active exploitation of a zero-day...
View ArticleSMBs Are Part of the AI Boom – Show Me the Telco Money?
Summary Bullets: Research from Verizon Business and opinion from Deutsche Telekom highlight the growing importance and transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the SMB segment. The...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Summit UK: Integrating AI Across Silicon, Platform, Cloud, and...
Summary Bullets: • Google Cloud held its first annual summit at the Tobacco Docks in East London (England) in October 2024. • Announcements included Google’s expanded data residency to help customers...
View ArticleSafaricom’s Deal with SaaS Company tappi Highlights Importance of Startups in...
Summary Bullets: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup tappi teamed up with Safaricom’s mobile platform M-PESA to improve the digital presence of M-PESA’s small and medium business (SMB) users. The...
View ArticleColt Research Finds UK at Bottom Of Long-Term Sustainability Leaderboard
R. Pritchard Summary Bullets: Colt research finds UK CIOs behind the curve on having a multi-year plan to minimize their companies’ environmental impact, despite 71% of CIOs having this...
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