The only way out of this mess is with technology, an old Labour prime minister told a new Labour prime minister in London today (June 9) – four days after a new UK government won power in a landslide election victory, and got a...
IBM has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG for a fee of about €2.13 billion ($2.3 billion). The double-deal, announced at the end of last year, has passed regulatory approval. It adds data ingestion capabilities to IBM's WatsonX AI and...
Singapore-based operator Singtel is working with Hitachi Digital, the digital-change unit of Japanese tech conglomerate Hitachi, to combine their respective 5G and AI offerings in service of the Industry 4.0 sector. Hitachi Digital will deploy Singtel’s Paragon edge platform at its R&D Labs in...
The World Economic Forum has listed 10 emerging technologies with the “greatest potential to make a positive impact in the world in the next three-to-five years”. Which is a curious kind of exercise, as it turns out, because five years is not long in...
The big problem for Industry 4.0 is that most manufacturing companies do not have a live view of production in their factories. Which means the sector’s big hopes about AI-assisted automation and efficiency are unrealistic. This is the conclusion of a poll of 1,200...
IBM’s research and development (R&D) unit has issued an interesting blog about domain-specific generative AI (gen AI) for Industry 4.0, which talks about how developers can convene around a “community-driven approach” to language model development. It has introduced a new technique for training enterprise-geared...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Nvidia have introduced a portfolio of joint AI solutions and integrations, together with joint sales tactics, to accelerate adoption of generative AI in Industry 4.0. They are presented under the banner Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, and include, as...
Telefónica Tech, the enterprise division of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has signed with IBM to develop AI solutions for enterprises in its home market. They will use the US firm’s Watsonx AI and data platform as the basis of all their work, which is to...
The new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets a common regulatory and legal framework for the development and application of AI in the European Union (EU). It was proposed by the European Commission (EC) in April 2021 and passed in the European Parliament last...
Following hard on the heels of a similar-sounding deal with Google Cloud, Hitachi has announced a three-year partnership with Microsoft with a major focus on generative AI (gen AI) for its own staff and services, as well as for enterprise customers, notably in the...
Fujitsu is readying a generative AI framework to help enterprises manage large volumes of data, and comply with regulations for its governance. It will be offered with its enterprise AI platform, called Kozuchi, from July. It said the new framework will solve issues for...
