As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s. Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…
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Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at NatWest Retail Bank, has had a distinguished career leading technology-led change in some of the world’s biggest financial services organisations. Now, she’s using that experience to drive even more innovation. After four years as CIO for collaborative technology solutions with Deutsche Bank, Redshaw says she was eager…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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During an earnings call for the third quarter of 2024, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would make its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model available to developers. The company reported a 15% increase in revenue for the quarter, reaching $88.3bn. Google Cloud posted a 35% revenue increase to $11.4bn, led by accelerated growth in…
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Every digital leader likes to think their work helps boost a greater cause. For James Fleming, CIO at the Francis Crick Institute, that value-adding element is a core element of his job. “I go to sleep at night thinking that I’m helping cure cancer with computers,” he says, reflecting on his everyday roles and responsibilities.…
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Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI at Tripadvisor, has a broad remit. As well as leading a spectrum of data functions, from artificial intelligence (AI) to engineering and platforms, he’s also responsible for ensuring the business monetises the information it collects. Todkar found the scale of this opportunity hugely tempting when he joined the…
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When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has reported a 19% increase in revenue to $40.6bn for the third quarter of 2024, driven in part by what founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “good progress with AI [artificial intelligence]”. “We had a good quarter driven by AI progress across our apps and business,”…
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It has long been held that a surefire way for anybody to protect themselves – and their employer – from falling victim to a cyber attack was not to download any unexpected email attachments, but according to email security specialist Mimecast, cyber criminals seem to be moving away from this tactic. In the first six…
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The iPhone 16 is just around the corner. After a last-minute leak revealed everything Apple is expected to announce at the Monday keynote, 9to5Mac‘s Filipe Espósito reveals the company’s plans for the iPhone 16 Pro camera.People familiar with the matter told the journalist that several changes are coming to the iPhone 16 Pro camera. Some…
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