As enterprises across sectors look to adopt new AI tools and technologies, one issue standing in their way is concerns among leaders and employees about the trustworthiness and risks of these systems.
In response to this challenge, Toronto-based startup Armilla AI’s insurance spinoff, Armilla Assurance, this week announced the launch of Armilla Guaranteed, a new warranty service aimed at…
This will be an unpopular take: I believe AI is teetering on the edge of a disillusionment cliff. Whether that goes beyond Gartner’s famous “trough,” and whether it lasts, remains to be seen. But something is shifting — and it’s not just the slight early-autumn…
Asana adds new AI smarts to simplify project management
October 4, 2023
Today, enterprise work management platform Asana strengthened its offering with a slew of AI smarts aimed at helping organizations improve how they work and deliver business outcomes.
Leveraging the company’s proprietary Work Graph, which captures the relationship between…
3D motion capture app Move AI raises $10M in seed funding
October 4, 2023
VentureBeat has written on multiple occasions about Move AI, the four-year-old, UK-based company that makes a smartphone app capable of generating 3D motion capture models from standard 2D video.
Now, the company that threatens to upend the longstanding traditional, expensive, and time-consuming method of 3D motion capture used for sports, film, TV, video games, and music videos — putting ping…
Most organizations have no idea how many exposed, out-of-date endpoints they have or whether their remote and hybrid workers are safe. IT and security teams are often overwhelmed with work and conflicting urgent priorities. Unfortunately, it often takes an intrusion or…
When it comes generative AI, data really is your moat. This week, we cover the latest in gen AI research from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (you may have read VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall’s latest perspective on the findings). I also bring an expert guest to help…
What comes after AIOps? Atera says it’s AI powered IT (AIT)
October 3, 2023
The concept of AIOps, that is using AI to help optimize IT operations is not a new one and predates the modern era of generative AI
Generative AI can bring more capabilities to IT operations, according to IT management platform vendor Atera, which today is announcing its new AI-powered IT (AIT) platform. Back in January, Atera began to integrate generative AI into its platform, to help enable its…
The implications of the generative AI gold rush
October 3, 2023
Big tech companies and venture capitalists are in the midst of a gold rush, investing astronomical sums into leading AI labs that are creating generative models. Last week, Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in AI lab Anthropic. Earlier this year, Microsoft invested a…
Recent research has demonstrated the potential productivity gains that can come from incorporating ChatGPT (and presumably other chatbots) into knowledge work.
Wharton Business School Professor Ethan Mollick participated in a study alongside several other social scientists…
Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California. The company talked a lot about its manufacturing advances, its Meteor Lake chip, and its future schedule for processors. It felt like a heavy download of semiconductor chip information. And it piqued my interest in a variety of ways.
After the talks were done, I had a chance…
