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IBM’s Watson Retreat Highlights AI Shortcomings for Medical Research

Amid reports of declining sales and growing skepticism about the utility of machine learning for complex medical research, IBM will reportedly end sales of its Watson AI software used ...Full Article

What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?

The utility of IBM’s latest man-versus-machine gambit is debatable. At the very least its Project Debater got us thinking about the potential uses of artificial intelligence as a way of ...Full Article

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Struggling IBM Uses CES to Reinvent Itself

Among the featured speakers at the largest consumer electronics show next week in Las Vegas is the CEO of a a major enterprise IT vendor not generally associated with ...Full Article

IBM, Lenovo Bring Watson to Call Centers

IBM and Lenovo continue to expand their ongoing relationship beyond computing to include the automation of mundane but revenue-saving call centers and other customer support services. While the enterprise ...Full Article

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IBM Opens Up with Multi-Cloud Manager, AI Tools

With upwards of 85 percent of companies using more than one cloud provider, the shift to multi-cloud deployments driven by emerging open-source platforms has prompted infrastructure vendors to begin ...Full Article

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IBM Expands Partnership With App Developer

IBM has been working with an application developer startup called Lightbend Inc. on artificial intelligence, cognitive and other distributed applications, most destined to run in the cloud. The startup ...Full Article

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Watson Deal Targets Industrial Apps

Artificial intelligence will hit the factory floor and the smart grid as an automation specialist joins forces with IBM Watson to being real-time decision-making to those and other industrial ...Full Article

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IBM Launches Container Service Around Watson

A new IBM cloud service targeting the development and deployment of cognitive applications will utilize the Docker container engine running on the Kubernetes container orchestrator. IBM's container service running ...Full Article

Cyber Skills Gap Grows Along With Threats

A corporate job opening typically draws as many as 250 applicants with varying qualifications. In stark contrast, a new survey of the growing cyber security skills gap reveals that ...Full Article

IBM Promotes Era of Cognitive Computing

Cognitive computing, not digitization, is the destination enterprises should target, and employees should not worry about mass layoffs but rather seek out new career opportunities, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty ...Full Article