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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
2024 GenAI Predictions
January 17th, 2024
Declaring that interest in generative AI will grow in 2024 is the easiest prediction in the history of predictions. The more interesting bits are how GenAI adoption will unfold this year, what impact it will have on businesses, and ...
Shield AI Raises Valuation to $2.8B with New Funding
January 3rd, 2024
Shield AI, a defense technology company, raised its valuation to $2.8B with additional capital in Series F funding, which now stands at an impressive $500M. The tech startup is aiming to build the world’s first AI pilot for the ...
MIT Researchers Leverage AI to Identify Antibiotic That Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
January 3rd, 2024
As bacteria continue to evolve to withstand the effects of antibiotics, it has rendered bacterial infections more challenging to treat. The issue of “antibiotic resistance” has already become a critical health issue. The overuse and misuse of antibiotics have ...
And the Top Paying AI Job Is…
December 15th, 2023
If your Monday through Friday gig is working as a prompt engineer, then congratulations: You are among the highest paid AI professionals in the world at the moment. That’s according to new research from EPCGroup that looked into the ...
Inside AWS’s Plans to Cope with GenAI’s Insatiable Desire for Compute
December 13th, 2023
Companies that toyed around with generative AI this year will be looking to play for keeps in 2024 with production GenAI apps that move the business needle. Considering there’s not enough GPUs to go around now, where will companies ...
Rules Approved for EU AI Act
December 8th, 2023
The European Union’s AI Act took a big step toward becoming law today when policymakers successfully hammered out rules for the landmark regulation. The AI Act still requires votes from Parliament and the European Council before becoming law, after ...
AWS and Nvidia Talk 65 Exaflop ‘Ultra-Cluster’ at re:Invent
November 29th, 2023
AWS yesterday unveiled new EC2 instances geared toward tackling some of the fastest growing workloads, including AI training and big data analytics. During his re:Invent keynote, CEO Adam Selipsky also welcomed Nvidia founder Jensen Huang onto the stage to ...
Inside Microsoft’s AI Announcements at Ignite
November 24th, 2023
From new copilots and AI development tools, to vector search and AI chips, artificial intelligence featured prominently in Microsoft’s annual Ignite developers conference held last week. It also unveiled some data news around OneLake and Microsoft Fabric. It would ...
Two-Thirds of Organizations Already Using GenAI, O’Reilly Says
November 24th, 2023
Large language and image AI models, also referred to as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), have been the big story of 2023. It has opened a new set of opportunities for professionals and businesses. While most businesses acknowledge the potential ...
Altman Returns Amid Swirl of Questions About Project Q-Star
November 24th, 2023
Sam Altman’s wild weekend had a happy ending, as he reclaimed his CEO position at OpenAI earlier this week. But questions over the whole ordeal remain as rumors of a powerful new AI capability developed at OpenAI called Project ...
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