Cisco Hypershield: new security architecture protects agains new (and old) problems
According to Cisco, what we need is not so much new security products, but a completely new architecture to better protect organizations and especially their workloads. That's what Hypershield is supposed to accomplish.
Hypershield is a big announcement for Cisco. A very big one, even, based on ... Read more
SAS wants to make AI models and AI modeling as accessible as possible
AI models sometimes have an almost mythical status. You can do a lot with them, but building and deploying them is no easy task. If it were up to SAS, that wouldn't be necessary at all. How does it want to achieve that? Some announcements during SAS Innovate shed light on this question.
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Google hints at breakthrough for LLMs with Infini-attention
Google researchers claim they've cracked the code to give large language models (LLMs) the literary equivalent of an endless appetite. Their latest paper unveils 'Infini-attention,' a technique that supposedly lets models munch on input of infinite length without getting indigestion from memory ove... Read more
Process HQ steals the show in 24.2 release of Appian Platform
Process mining is taking on an increasingly important role within Appian's automation and orchestration platform. It should provide both more insights into organizations' processes, but also into the underlying Data Fabric. Of course, there is also the necessary space and focus on AI in version 24.... Read more
Google Chat must compete with Slack and Teams
The market for business tools such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, as well as Teams, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox and Webex has been booming over the past few years. With the introduction of all kinds of GenAI tools, there is going to be another shift in this area. The only question is in whose favour ... Read more
Noname Security wants to sell itself to Akamai: an inevitable move?
Noname Security is in talks with Akamai for a possible sale. The API security player would cost Akamai $500 million as things stand, a halving of its market value from 2021. Can API security simply not stand on its own?
The two parties have yet to reach a deal, meaning negotiations could still l... Read more
Hasura supergraph charts course for GraphQL data & API integration
Hasura has announced the third version (aka V3) of its GraphQL platform. Key developments in Hasura V3 are promised to enable a ‘modern approach’ to data and API integration, a claim meant to be validated by the ability to allow API consumers to flexibly compose data on demand – across any nu... Read more
Arcadis operates as a global company on Oracle Fusion foundation
For consulting and engineering organization Arcadis, a company that operates globally in the fields of buildings, infrastructure, environment and water, ERP, CRM and HCM are extremely important and closely intertwined. An application platform such as Oracle Fusion is indispensable.
We spoke with... Read more
Intel and Nvidia have radically different visions for AI development
Is the future of AI development open or closed? Both Intel and Nvidia have both tackled that question - and given opposite answers.
Many developers use TensorFlow, an AI platform originally developed by the Google Brain team. Users can manage everything through it, from data collection to traini... Read more
Google Cloud unveils updates to Gemini, Imagen, Gemma and Vertex AI
At Google Cloud Next this year, AI once again plays centre stage. Google Cloud is bringing the necessary updates to its existing LLM offerings within Vertex AI. For example, Gemini 1.5 Pro is in public preview effective immediately. On top of that, it is introducing Imagen 2.0 to generate images, a... Read more