Nat Rubio-Licht

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

If your C-Suite is confused about AI, so is your workforce. Jumping head first into AI isn’t always the right decision. Though it’s important to engage with the tech – especially given the rapid pace of AI’s progression – doing so without a plan will likely end up costing more money, resources and employee headaches than it’s worth, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, told CIO Upside. “To truly do right by AI, you have to start with some sort of strategy,” said Srivastava.

2 weeks ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

Big Tech can’t contain its enthusiasm about agentic AI’s potential — both  to simplify users’ lives and to speed up a return on developers’ massive investments. In the latest example of the increasing hype, both Microsoft and Google announced additions to their agentic line-ups during their respective conferences in the past week. At Google I/O, executives announced agents for both consumers and enterprises.

2 weeks ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

With cloud demand ramping up, keeping track of when things go awry is growing more critical. Microsoft is seeking a patent for a system to detect “anomalous behaviour in a cloud computing environment” that may help by making detection models more accurate, weeding out data deemed “noisy” that might contribute to false positives or negatives.

2 weeks ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

The AI gold rush is looking east, not west. Late last week, several tech powerhouses gathered to support the “UAE Stargate” project, an AI data center that will collaborate with the US Stargate project announced in January. The Abu Dhabi-based data center campus, backed by the likes of OpenAI, Nvidia, Cisco and Oracle, will span 10 square miles and boast 5 gigawatts of capacity.

2 weeks ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

You might need to watch your tone in the company group chat – or Slack might catch you slipping. Salesforce, which acquired Slack in 2021, is seeking to patent a system for “updating communications with machine learning and platform context.” The filing details a system for, likely for Slack, that leverages machine learning to understand the way users communicate in order to help them craft messages.