Todd R. Weiss

Where to Expect Enterprise AI Growth in 2021: More Predictions from Our AI Experts

February 10th, 2021 Comments Off

So many industry predictions for how AI use in business will change and grow in 2021 have come in to EnterpriseAI that we didn’t have room to share them all in our first predictions story on Feb. 1. Now ...

New Open AI Energy Initiative Launches to Expand AI Use in Energy Industry

February 5th, 2021 Comments Off

Shell, C3.ai, Microsoft and Baker Hughes are collaborating on an Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI) that aims to grow AI use across the energy and process manufacturing industries. The OAI is envisioned by the partners as an open ecosystem ...

Ubuntu Core 20 Linux Gets Bolstered Security, Full Disk Encryption for Embedded, IoT

February 4th, 2021 Comments Off

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu Core 20 Linux operating system now features several important security updates, including anti-malware and anti-hijacking technologies and full-disk encryption capabilities. The new version of Ubuntu Core 20, which is built as a minimal, containerized version of ...

What Bezos Leaving as CEO Means for Amazon and AWS

February 3rd, 2021 Comments Off

As Jeff Bezos prepares to give up Amazon’s CEO seat to become the company’s executive chair in the third quarter of 2021, the big question now being asked is what will the market-dominating cloud and online retailer look like ...

How Enterprise AI Use Will Grow in 2021: Predictions from Our AI Experts

February 1st, 2021 Comments Off

AI tackles new real-world IT uses every day across a broad range of businesses, manufacturing companies and industries, while constantly growing and evolving through fledgling innovations and possibilities around the globe. Further fueling those creative fires are ongoing discussions ...

AI Virtualization and Orchestration Startup Run:AI Captures $30M in Series B Funding

January 27th, 2021 Comments Off

Upstart AI vendor Run:AI dove into AI by creating Kubernetes-based software to help customers get more production out of their existing AI infrastructure investments. Run:AI’s software is an orchestration and virtualization layer that pools together compute resources so they ...

Here Are the Impacts of Trump’s Parting Actions Against Huawei

January 25th, 2021 Comments Off

Before leaving the White House on Jan. 20, former President Donald Trump blasted one last political salvo out against Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei by revoking licenses for specific U.S. companies to sell needed components to Huawei. Now the Biden ...

Red Hat’s Disruption of CentOS Unleashes Storm of Dissent

January 22nd, 2021 (2)

Five weeks after angering much of the CentOS Linux developer community by unveiling controversial changes to the no-cost CentOS operating system, Red Hat has unveiled alternatives for affected users that give them several options for using existing Red Hat ...

Qualcomm’s $1.4B Deal for Nuvia a Good Move: Analysts

January 15th, 2021 Comments Off

Qualcomm apparently isn’t letting the bitter memories of its failed $47 billion attempt to acquire NXP Semiconductor in 2018 halt its growth plans. Instead, the company’s latest $1.4 acquisition proposal, this time for processor startup Nuvia, could help Qualcomm ...

Honing In on AI, U.S. Launches National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office

January 13th, 2021 Comments Off

To drive American leadership in the field of AI into the future, the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office has been launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The new agency was established under the ...

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