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• IBM, Salesforce join forces in enterprise AI push

  31-08-2023 22:01
  
  Salesforce and IBM are teaming up to provide generative AI for the enterprise, combining their respective efforts into what the companies hope will be a more attractive package for CRM customers.The partnership, announced on Thursday, will focus on several areas in the CRM value chain, including the integration of Salesforce offerings for sale with IBM’s consulting business. IBM said it will use its Garage digital transformation methodology to help customers implement Salesforce AI techno
  
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• Pew Research finds a big problem with AI: People don’t trust it

  31-08-2023 18:31
  
  As time goes by, people are becoming less trusting of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the results of a recent Pew Research study. The study, which involved 11,000 respondents, found that attitudes had changed sharply in just the past two years.In 2021, 37% of respondents said they were more concerned than excited about AI. That number stayed pretty much the same last year (38%), but has now jumped to 52%. (The percentage of those who are excited about AI declined from 18% in 2021 to
  
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• Microsoft to unbundle Teams from its Office suites in Europe

  31-08-2023 17:40
  
  Microsoft today said that as of Oct. 1, it will start unbundling Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in Europe after the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation into the company.The original competition complaint was filed by team chat software rival Slack in July 2020, alleging that Microsoft was engaging in the “illegal and anti-competitive practice of abusing its market dominance to extinguish competition in breach of European Union competition law” by tying its
  
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• MTN Group Names Marina Madale Executive for Sustainability & ... - IT News Africa

  31-08-2023 15:10 via news.google.com
  
  MTN Group Names Marina Madale Executive for Sustainability & ...  IT News Africa
  
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• With BYOD comes responsibility — and many firms aren't delivering

  31-08-2023 13:59
  
  Apple deployments are accelerating across the global enterprise, so it’s surprising that many organizations don't properly recognize that change. Even when companies put Macs, iPhones, and iPads in the hands of their employees, they are failing to manage these deployments. It’s quite shocking.That’s the biggest take-away from the latest Jamf research, which warns that almost half of enterprises across Europe still don’t have a formal Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD
  
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• US Copyright Office opens inquiry into laws needed to rein in genAI

  31-08-2023 12:00
  
  The US Copyright Office is seeking public input on copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI and is assessing whether federal legislative or US government regulation are warranted.Generative AI (genAI) technology has been documented relying on copyrighted works used to train up underlying language models. The Copyright Office will be looking into the appropriate levels of transparency and disclosure involving the use of copyrighted works, the legal status of AI-generated outp
  
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• 4 secret settings for a smarter Chrome Android setup

  31-08-2023 12:00
  
  Hey. You. Yes, you there — the one with your overly moist eyeballs pointed at the screen. What if I were to tell you that that the browser you rely on for all of your web-based exploring on Android had oodles of extra features — top-secret settings that'd add awesome powers into your mobile browsing adventures and make wiggling your way around this wacky ol' web of ours meaningfully better?Well, provided you're using Google's Chrome browser for Android, that's as true as true can be
  
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• Google brings its Generative Search Experience to India, Japan

  31-08-2023 11:57
  
  India and Japan became the first two countries outside the US to get access to Google’s Generative Search Experience as the company introduced its Search Labs initiative in the two Asian nations.Search Labs, which was launched in May at Google I/O this year, is an initiative to experiment with new internet search technologies before they are made generally available to users.The Generative Search Experience will allow Indian and Japanese users to access generative AI-based search capabili
  
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