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Unlocking Potential, Managing Risk: The Cloud AI Conundrum

February 10, 2025
cloud technology
The Business Professionals’ Guide to AI Prompting
artificial intelligence // February 10, 2025

There are many user guides to artificial intelligence (AI) prompting on the internet, most of which are free but some charge a fee for a course with certification. This guide is different. Most of the prompting techniques here come from the tech companies that created...

Tech Giants Plan Massive $320 Billion AI Spend for 2025
artificial intelligence // February 09, 2025

America’s tech giants could reportedly spend more than $320 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) this year. AI investments by the four biggest tech firms — Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft — jumped 63% last year, and will jump again for 2025, the Financial Times (FT)...

AI Cheat Sheet: Large Language Foundation Model Training Costs
artificial intelligence // February 07, 2025

Foundation models are large artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on humongous datasets that enable them to do a wide range of tasks across various industries. They are called foundation models because they form the backbone for other models that businesses and individuals can customize to...

Open-Source vs Proprietary AI: Which Should Businesses Choose?
artificial intelligence // February 04, 2025

When deploying generative artificial intelligence (AI), one of the most fundamental decisions businesses face is whether to choose open-source or proprietary AI models — or aim for a hybrid of the two. “This basic choice between the open source ecosystem and a proprietary setting impacts...

Interviews & Exclusives
DeepSeek Day Two: Focus Turns to Enterprise AI Adoption

January 28, 2025
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s deeply discounted foundation models could herald lower prices for businesses seeking to adopt AI — by removing one of the biggest blockers to enterprise deployment. “Cost is the biggest hurdle to adoption of AI applications,” wrote BofA Global Research analysts Brad Sills and Carly Liu in a note published on Tuesday […]

DeepSeek Open-Source Model Could Shake Up Enterprise AI

January 27, 2025
Shares of Nvidia, the darling stock of the generative AI boom, are down 15.3% in midday trading on Monday (Jan. 27) as Wall Street grapples with the revelation that it...

Live Pillar Leads Gains as CE 100 Index Bucks Broader Markets

January 06, 2025
The CE 100 Index ended the last few days of 2024 and the first few days of the new year with a slight gain, adding 0.3%, while broader markets fell...

AI Shopping Bots Race to Fill Online Carts

December 13, 2024
Silicon Valley is unleashing artificial intelligence agents that can surf online stores, swipe digital credit cards and buy goods without a human lifting a finger — forcing eCommerce players to...

Quick Reads
Tech Giants Plan Massive $320 Billion AI Spend for 2025

February 09, 2025
America’s tech giants could reportedly spend more than $320 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) this year. AI investments by the four biggest tech firms — Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft — jumped 63% last year, and will jump again for 2025, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (Feb. 7). However, the report added, investors are […]

LinkedIn AI Training Data Lawsuit Dismissed 

January 31, 2025
A lawsuit accusing LinkedIn of using user messages to train AI models has been dismissed. Plaintiff Alessandro De La Torre, who filed the proposed class action suit last week, has...

Microsoft Investigates DeepSeek-Tied Group’s Access to OpenAI Data

January 29, 2025
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly investigating whether OpenAI’s data was improperly accessed by a group tied to DeepSeek. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Jan. 28), sources familiar with the matter...

Chinese AI Firm DeepSeek Deep-Sixes US Tech Stocks

January 27, 2025
Tech stocks plunged Monday (Jan. 27) following a new AI model from China’s DeepSeek. As the Financial Times (FT) reported, DeepSeek’s latest large language artificial intelligence (AI) model has sowed doubt about...