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The enterprise service revolution: Supercharging ESM with AI
IT service management (ITSM) tools and practices transformed the tech side of the enterprise by automating service and support operations, along with adding employee self-service options. The combination was so effective that organizations are applying the principles to the entire organization in the form of enterprise service management (ESM), allowing departments such as human resources…
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Nexa AI Releases OmniVision-968M: World’s Smallest Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices
Edge AI has long faced the challenge of balancing efficiency and effectiveness. Deploying Vision Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices is difficult due to their large size, high computational demands, and latency issues. Models designed for cloud environments often struggle with the limited resources of edge devices, resulting in excessive battery usage, slower response times,…
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AI startup Gendo — the Midjourney for architecture — secures fresh capital
London-based startup Gendo has secured €5.1mn amid booming demand for its generative AI software built for architects. British architectural designer George Proud and software engineer Will Jones founded Gendo in 2022. The platform transforms simple inputs like sketches, 2D drawings, or text descriptions into hypereal building designs. It works a bit like Midjourney or DALL-E,…
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Generative AI fuels demand for better mobile connectivity – and users ready to pay for it
Quality issues with AI-driven apps are making more mobile users unwilling to settle for standard best-effort 5G network connectivity.
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What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA
What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Now Supports Trillion-Parameter AI Models
The exponential growth in large language model (LLM) size and the resulting need for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure is reshaping the AI landscape. Some of the newer GenAI models have grown to well over a billion parameters, with some approaching 2 trillion. Google Cloud announced that in anticipation of even larger models, it has upgraded…
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Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not Enough
Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.
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Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCE Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA…
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CEO of Salesforce AI Clara Shih has left
The CEO of Salesforce AI, Clara Shih, has left after just 20 months in the job. Neither Shih nor the company has made an official announcement, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CIO that Adam Evans, previously senior vice president of product for Salesforce AI Platform, has moved up to the newly…
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Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Every journalist has favorite topics. Regular Checkup readers might already know some of mine, which include the quest to delay or reverse human aging, and new technologies for…