Canva acquires Affinity in move to better target designers
Canva said it will acquire Affinity, a UK company with a design suite that competes with Adobe's Creative Cloud.
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Enterprise generative AI use cases, applications about to surge
If 2023 was the year of generative AI pilots, 2024 will be about moving to production and 2025 will likely be warp speed. Why? The generative AI building blocks are falling into place.
CFOs aren't allocating budgets toward generative AI yet, says Deloitte
Sixty-two percent of CFOs say their organizations are allocating less than 1% of corporate budgets to generative AI next year, according to Deloitte's CFO Signals survey for the first quarter.
Accenture: Enterprises focused on transformation, data foundation, genAI and punting on smaller projects
Enterprises are betting on generative AI and digital transformation at the expense of other IT projects, but scaling AI is difficult and more foundational work is needed, according to Accenture CEO Julie Sweet.
Micron Technology: More AI, more memory, more demand ahead
Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said artificial intelligence workloads are boosting demand for memory chips as AI-optimized systems with GPUs and upcoming AI PCs are faring well.
.Lumen outlines bringing computer vision headset to blind
During Nvidia GTC 2024, Cornel Amariei, CEO of .Lumen walked through a headset for the visually impaired that will scale better than a guide dog using sensors and AI technologies that are used in cars.
Microsoft names Suleyman head of consumer AI, Microsoft AI
Microsoft is shoring up its consumer Copilot efforts with the addition of Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan to lead a new group called Microsoft AI. Suleyman and Simonyan were two of three co-founders of Inflection.ai.
Nvidia today all about bigger GPUs; tomorrow it's software, NIM, AI Enterprise
Nvidia's business today is all about the bigger GPUs, liquid cooled systems and hyperscale cloud providers all lining up for generative AI services powered by Blackwell. Years from now, it's just as likely we're going to see Nvidia GTC 2024 as the beginning of the GPU leader's software strategy.
Dell Technologies preps new AI servers with Nvidia’s B100, B200, GB200 SuperChip
Dell Technologies said it will support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Nvidia systems as it rolled out a set of Dell PowerEdge servers with HGX H200, HGX B100, HGX B200 and GB200 SuperChip.
Nvidia Huang lays out big picture: Blackwell GPU platform, NVLink Switch Chip, software, genAI, simulation, ecosystem
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said "accelerated computing has reached the tipping point" across multiple industries as the company launched new GPUs including a new platform called Blackwell, NVLink Switch Chip, applications and a developer stack that blends virtual simulations, generative AI, robotics and multiple computing fronts.
ServiceNow adds more tuck-in acquisitions to build out industry, operational technology offerings
ServiceNow continues to go shopping. the company said it has acquired 4Industry, a Netherlands company and partner focused on manufacturing, and Smart Daily Management, a connected worker application from EY.
Cisco closes Splunk purchase, previews integrations ahead
With the Splunk deal closed, Cisco becomes one of the largest enterprise software companies. Here's how the product integrations will play out.
