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Generative AI fuels growth of online deepfakes threatening organizations and election integrity
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The growth of deepfakes in the past few years is a threat to not only organizations but also the U.S. general election in November. Information security vendor Pindrop saw a sharp rise in deepfakes in the first few months of the year compared to the previous year. Deepfakes of Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, President J…
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Examining the tech stances of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, plus J.D. Vance
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is a product of two decades of California politics who has longstanding ties to the tech and AI communities in her home state. But in her role as President Joe Biden's vice president during the past four years, Harris was tasked with overseeing Biden's executive order on AI, with its emphasis on gover…
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A year in review with the Targeting AI podcast
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For the past year, the Targeting AI podcast has explored a broad range of AI topics, none more than the fast-evolving and sometimes startling world of generative AI technology. From the first guest, Michael Bennett, AI policy adviser at Northeastern University, the podcast has focused intently on the popularization of generative AI, while also touc…
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AWS GenAI strategy based on multimodel ecosystem, plus Titan, Q and Bedrock
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AWS is quietly building a generative AI ecosystem in which its customers can use many large language models from different vendors, or choose to employ the tech giant's own models, Q personal assistants, GenAI platforms and Trainium and Inferentia AI chips. AWS says it has more than130,000 partners, and hundreds of thousands of AWS customers use AW…
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Walmart uses generative AI for payroll, employee experience
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The biggest global retailer sees itself as a tech giant. And with 25,000 engineers and its own software ecosystem, Walmart isn't waiting to see how GenAI technology will play out. The company is already providing its employees -- referred to by the retailer as associates -- with in-house GenAI tools such as the My Assistant conversational chatbot. …
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Lenovo stakes claim to generative AI at the edge
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While Apple garnered wide attention for its recent embrace of generative AI for iPhones and Macs, rival end point device maker Lenovo already had a similar strategy in place. The multinational consumer products vendor, based in China, is known for its ThinkPad line of laptops and for mobile phones made by its Motorola subsidiary. But Lenovo also ha…
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The rise of generative AI has also brought renewed interest and growth in open source technology. But the question of open source is still "open" in generative AI. Sometimes, the code is open -- other times, the training data and weights are open. A leader in the open source large language model arena is Meta. However, despite the popularity of the…
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A vision of an AI future that may not include humans
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In intellectual tech circles, a debate over artificial general intelligence and the AI future is raging. Dan Faggella is in the middle of this highly charged discussion, arguing on various platforms that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be here sooner than many people think, and it will likely take the place of human civilization. "It is …
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Salesforce open model AI strategy aims for trust, automation
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Salesforce was an early adopter of generative AI, seizing on large language model technology from OpenAI to integrate into its own applications. But the CRM and CX giant quickly evolved an open model strategy. It now gives customers access to multiple third-party LLMs while providing its own AI trust layer to try to ensure that Salesforce users can…
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Examining developers' perception of AI tools at GitHub
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The explosive popularity of generative AI has been accompanied by the question of whether developers are finding great uses for the new technology. While the hype around GenAI has grown, the perception of its usefulness for developers has changed. "Developers are eager to kind of embrace AI more into their complex tasks, but not for every part, and…
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Fostering a positive culture in the age of hybrid work
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more people than ever before began working almost exclusively from home. Now, in the pandemic's aftermath, many employees continue to work remotely several days a week while employers struggle to find ways to entice them back into the office. This emerging hybrid work model is challenging managers to set reali…
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Musicians and the fight for fairness in the age of GenAI
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The growth of generative AI technology has led to concerns about the data AI technology companies use to train their systems. Authors, journalists and now musicians have accused generative AI vendors of using copyrighted material to train large language models. More than 200 musicians signed an open letter released Tuesday by the Artists Rights All…
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Security, bias risks are inherent in GenAI black box models
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From bias to hallucinations, it is apparent that generative AI models are far from perfect and present risks. Most recently, tech giants -- notably Google -- have run into trouble after their models made egregious mistakes that reflect the inherent problem with the data sets upon which large language models (LLMs) are based. Microsoft faced critici…
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A look at independent AI hardware and software vendor SambaNova's open source strategy
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AI hardware and software provider SambaNova Systems seeks to put enterprise customers in charge of their data while using open source models. A smaller competitor of AI hardware vendor Nvidia, the AI vendor is trying to distinguish itself by helping enterprises train and deploy large models that they can't train on Nvidia's systems. "What we try to…
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It's looking like 2024 is the year of ROI for generative AI
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Generative AI vendors and investors have turned their attention from last year's innovative frenzy to ROI, monetizing the language models that have revolutionized the tech world in a short time. That's the outlook on 2024 from Kashyap Kompella, founder and analyst at RPA2AI Research, who was a guest on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Edito…
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AI, hiring and the need for humans in the loop
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The fear of AI technology eliminating thousands of jobs or affecting the hiring process continues to prevail in the age of generative AI. While many believe that AI technology will augment workers, some are already seeing the effect of AI in the job market. Indeed, tech companies and other large enterprises have laid off thousands of workers in rec…
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B Corp Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism
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Data labeling and annotation vendor Sama seeks to make an impact not only in the tech market but also in parts of the world where it's hard for people to partake in the digital economy. As a women-led B Corporation chartered to do social and environmental good, Sama employs numerous people in countries such as Kenya and has created, said CEO Wendy …
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How Will Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Acquisition of Juniper Networks Benefit Customers?
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks would benefit Juniper shareholders, but what about its customers? In this week’s podcast, Editor At Large Antone Gonsalves and Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte discuss whether Juniper customers are the losers in the deal.By TechTarget Editorial
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Examining Microsoft venture fund M12’s AI investment approach
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In the age of generative AI, Microsoft has become one of the lead investors after its massive investment in ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Since Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the AI market has seen changes including a tilt toward smaller and open source AI language models. Meanwhile, the tech giant's venture fund, M12, (which did not take …
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How technology improves the employee experience at ServiceNow
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In recent years, HR leaders have strived to use information technology not just to digitize HR processes, but to democratize HR technology, transforming it into a tool every employee can use for personal and professional development. Some practitioners go a big step further by redesigning digital systems with the express goal of improving the overa…
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Guiding generative AI toward responsible use
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When Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner started working on their book, The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, generative AI had not yet exploded into the public consciousness. But after OpenAI released its blockbuster AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in October 2022, the co-authors went back to revise their narrative to accommodate the sudden em…
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How Do Businesses Justify Gen AI Spending in 2024?
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In 2024, businesses will quickly shift from testing to implementing generative AI in customer-facing apps. Due to high costs, GenAI providers must offer clear pricing, says Mike Leone, a TechTarget Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Related stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366563445/Small-language-models-an-emerging-GenAI…
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Looking ahead: 2024 will see generative AI mature
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With 2023 being the year for generative AI, 2024 will be the year the technology grows and develops. Many industry experts think that instead of the hype slowing, it will blossom. "In 2024, there will not be a trough of disillusionment with this tech, ever," said Mike Leone, an analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group, on the Targeting AI …
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Gen AI and Open Source LLMs, Exploring Cloud Vendor Security
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In this episode of Tech News This Week, ESG analysts Paul Nashawaty and Mike Leone discuss why open-source large language models will become more critical in generative AI applications. Analyst Melinda Marks describes the security differences between the major cloud providers. Related stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/3665…
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AI-assisted driving here long before autonomous vehicles
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Wide use of autonomous vehicles is far off in the hazy future. But truck and "last-mile" delivery van fleets serving online shoppers are already using advanced AI technology to guide drivers to their destinations safely. As Stefan Heck, CEO of Nauto, vendor of an AI-powered driver and fleet safety system, explained it on the Targeting AI podcast fr…
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How Will Microsoft’s AI Strategy Affect Tech Buyers?
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In an interview with Editor At Large Antone Gonsalves, analyst Paul Nashawaty of Enterprise Strategy Group describes the critical roles of tech industry giants and startups in developing generative AI for enterprises. Related Stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/opinion/Microsoft-Ignite-highlights-future-of-AI-customer-succe…
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Cisco Earnings Disappoint, What Does It Mean for IT Spending?
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In an interview with Editor At Large Antone Gonsalves, analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group explains why he doesn’t see a slowdown in IT spending despite bellwether Cisco’s disappointing revenue forecast. Related Stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/Enterprise-IT-shops-more-likely-to-buy-GenAI-than-build-it h…
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Diving into Wayfair’s machine learning and AI odyssey
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Wayfair's machine learning strategy has been critical to its growth. The online furniture retailer's machine learning and AI journey started in 2013. "It was about 'We think we can do better business, make our dollars go longer if we actually optimize this toolkit,'" said Tulia Plumettaz, Wayfair's director of machine learning, during the Targeting…
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Tech industry reaction to Biden’s AI executive order mixed
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The tech industry is dealing with the implications of an executive order on AI signed by President Joe Biden Oct. 30. The order aims to establish new standards for AI safety and security, while protecting the privacy of American citizens, promoting innovation and spurring development of responsible AI. "It's really looking at developing guidelines …
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Venture capital firm helps launch early AI startups
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The success of an AI startup depends on not only the technology and the problem the startup seeks to solve within the market, but also the support it has from investors and venture capital firms. One venture capital (VC) firm that prides itself on working closely with the founders of startups is Glasswing Ventures. As an early VC firm, Glasswing is…
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Oracle’s business app challenge, cloud claims, and second-place healthcare status
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Tech News this Week Host Antone Gonsalves discusses Oracle with Abhishek Singh, who leads the cloud transformation research at the Everest Group. Singh shares his thoughts on Oracle’s challenges in the business applications market, its second-place status behind Epic in healthcare, and why you should be skeptical of Oracle’s claims to be a less exp…
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Generative AI and CX co-existing, carefully
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Customer experience chatbots that not only fail to deliver but also fall short of their human counterparts are the bane of CX designers' vision of an automated future. Now, the arrival of generative AI technology is promising to correct dysfunctional chatbots' missteps, ease the burden on overworked and underappreciated human customer service agent…
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Global hiring tech company Oyster treads carefully with generative AI
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Oyster is keeping its distance from the generative AI craze, at least for now. When the vendor, whose platform helps companies with hiring, paying and managing employees in 180 countries around the world, recently came out with a new chatbot, Pearl, it fueled it with basic conversational AI, not the generative variety. That's largely because Oyster…
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Digital assistant platform vendor talks AI disruption
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Much of the world became aware of generative AI and large language models with the release of Dall-E and ChatGPT last year, but Conversica CEO Jim Kaskade has known about the technology since 2019. During a walk with a top AI executive at Google, Kaskade said he learned about a lot about where the tech giant was heading with generative AI technolog…
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AI technology has become a “turtles all the way" down problem. It's a dilemma in which AI technology is created to solve a particular problem. But in order to test the first AI tool, the tester has to use another AI technology, and then a third, and so on. According to Johna Till Johnson, CEO of advisory and IT consulting firm Nemertes Research, mo…
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AI: good and evil in the movies, and in reality
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Whether AI is good and helpful or evil and dangerous is the stuff of endless debate in tech circles during this year's "generative AI moment." In the movies, though, it's been pretty consistent: AI is the kind of malevolent force as embodied the HAL 9000 computer in the 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. But CX analyst Liz Miller of Constel…
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Tesla, federal highway officials deficient on autonomous vehicle safety: an interview with industry analyst Sam Abuelsamid
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Sam Abuelsamid thinks Tesla's driver assist technology is unsafe. The mobility ecosystem analyst at Guidehouse Insights is a vocal critic of the electric vehicle giant's AI-powered "Autopilot" technology. A former mechanical engineer, automotive journalist and Ford and General Motors employee, Abuelsamid also charges that the National Highway Traff…
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An Interview with AI Expert Michael Bennett of Northeastern University
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Our guest is Michael Bennett, director of education curriculum and business lead for responsible AI at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University. Bennett, a practicing lawyer, holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic University in Philosophy -- Science, Technology and Society. Bennett is al…
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EU’s Potential AI Regulations, AI Plans from Cisco and Oracle
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Each week, TechTarget Editorial's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. Today's show covers the generative AI plans within Cisco, Oracle, and Salesforce and the European Union's big step toward AI regulation. Watch Tech News this Week on the TechTarget News Bytes Channel: Te…
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Each week, TechTarget Editorial's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. Today's show focuses on the key product launches at Cisco Live in Las Vegas. We talk to Cisco executives at the show and industry analysts from Enterprise Strategy Group. Watch Tech News this Week on the…
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On today's show, the experts discuss Google's new managed service for connecting public clouds; the latest AI news from Nvidia, Dell, and Microsoft; and Snowflake's Neeva acquisition. Watch Tech News this Week on …
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Each week, TechTarget Editorial's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On today's show, medical center Baptist Health of Jacksonville, Fla., describes how IT is evolving in the healthcare industry, and we discuss the changing dynamics between tech startups and channel partn…
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Biden Admin Pushing Security Vendors to Embrace Best Practices
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Each week, TechTarget Editorial's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. Today's show examines generative AI's impact on software development, the need for higher-performing storage for AI applications, and the cybersecurity industry's reaction to the Biden administration's p…
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Why Are Companies Finding It Harder to Get Visas for Foreign Tech Talent?
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On today's show, we look at the generative AI plans of IBM and Salesforce-owned Tableau and discuss how H-1B visa fraud is making it more difficult to hire foreign tech workers. Watch Tech News this Week on the Te…
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On today's show, Chanley T. Howell of Foley & Lardner discusses how AI makes easier for companies to review software and services contracts; TechTarget AI reporter Esther Ajao explains why "the godfather of AI" le…
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On today's show, tech analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group discusses the highlights of HPE Aruba's Atmosphere conference; security reporter Alex Culafi describes how AI dominated the RSA security sho…
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On this week's show, ESG senior analyst Bob Laliberte discusses the latest products form Versa and Prosimo, TechTarget reporter Esther Ajao reveals more about AWS Bedrock, and TechTarget reporter Jim O'Donnell exp…
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States Rein In AI, SASE Struggles, and Security’s AI Helper
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SD-WAN is never just a feature of SASE. It's the foundation of a successful SASE implementation. In today's Tech News This Week, EMA analyst Shamus McGillicuddy tells you why. Also, get an update from TechTarget Editorial reporters on AI in security and how U.S. states are taking the lead in AI regulation. Watch Tech News this Week on the TechTarge…
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Will Generative AI Doom the Software Engineer?
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On this week's show, J. Gold Associates analyst Jack Gold talks Amazon Sidewalk, TechTarget senior reporter Beth Pariseau explains how generative AI will affect software engineers, and TechTarget reporter Arielle …
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AI in HR, Networking as a Service, and News from Enterprise Connect
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Each week, TechTarget's news team and industry experts provide candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week. On this week's show, ESG principal analyst Bob Laliberte discusses NaaS, TechTarget senior editor Katherine Finnell brings news from Enterprise Connect, and TechTarget news reporter Patrick Thibodeau explores how …
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