Mon.Mar 25, 2024

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Demystifying Multimodal LLMs

Dataiku

Picture this : You’re scrolling through your favorite social media platform, and you come across a stunning image of a picturesque landscape. Intrigued, you type in a question about the location, expecting a response from a fellow user. But instead, a machine seamlessly identifies the scene and its location, provides a detailed description, and even suggests nearby attractions.

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How to Implement Identity Verification using Amazon Rekognition

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, adhering to Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations is paramount for businesses operating within financial services, online marketplaces, and other sectors requiring user identification. Traditionally, KYC processes have relied on manual document verification, a time-consuming and error-prone approach. This guide delves into how Amazon Rekognition, a powerful cloud-based AI service by […] The post How to Implement Identity Verification using Am

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The Promise of Edge AI and Approaches for Effective Adoption

KDnuggets

Organizations are adopting edge AI for real-time decision-making using efficient and cost-effective methods such as model quantization, multimodal databases, and distributed inferencing.

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Microsoft Introduce AllHands: LLM Framework for Large-Scale Feedback Analysis

Analytics Vidhya

Traditionally, analyzing large volumes of user feedback, often presented as open-ended text (verbatim feedback), has been a cumbersome task. Existing methods rely heavily on human labeling of data to train machine learning models. This not only requires significant time and resources but also limits the model’s ability to adapt to new situations or handle complexities […] The post Microsoft Introduce AllHands: LLM Framework for Large-Scale Feedback Analysis appeared first on Analytic

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Become a Business Intelligence Analyst in Less Than 6 Months

KDnuggets

Ready to become a business intelligence analyst right here, right now?

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO Business Intelligence

Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. She considered her commitments to PMI as a way to give back to her professional community.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. Meanwhile, CIOs want certainty when it comes to funding. Continuous and dependable funding facilitates IT leaders’ ability to deliver leading-edge technology solutions while not increasing technical debt.

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Exploring real-time streaming for generative AI Applications

AWS Big Data

Foundation models (FMs) are large machine learning (ML) models trained on a broad spectrum of unlabeled and generalized datasets. FMs, as the name suggests, provide the foundation to build more specialized downstream applications, and are unique in their adaptability. They can perform a wide range of different tasks, such as natural language processing, classifying images, forecasting trends, analyzing sentiment, and answering questions.

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Government, Energy, and IT sectors identified as primary targets for cyber threat actors in the UAE

CIO Business Intelligence

Cybersecurity is established as one of the priorities of companies in the UAE, proof of this is the increase in investment and the participation of the CISO in the management committee. Cybersecurity in UAE’s companies is one of the top priorities; new work models and growing cyber threats have caused companies to dedicate more staff and capital to mitigating these types of risks.

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Introducing enhanced functionality for worker configuration management in Amazon MSK Connect

AWS Big Data

Amazon MSK Connect is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka Connect. With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to deploy connectors that move data between Apache Kafka and external systems. MSK Connect now supports the ability to delete MSK Connect worker configurations, tag resources, and manage worker configurations and custom plugins using AWS CloudFormation.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Stability AI CEO steps down ‘to fix concentration of power in AI’

CIO Business Intelligence

Emad Mostaque stepped down as CEO of Stability AI, the developer of the Stable Diffusion image generation tool, over the weekend, saying he wanted to “fix” the concentration of power in AI. The company said he had also quit its board of directors, which had appointed COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs while seeking a replacement for him.

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Ahead of the curve: How generative AI is revolutionizing the content supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

The global adoption of generative AI is upon us, and it’s essential for marketing organizations to understand and play in this space to stay competitive. With content demands expected to grow in the next few years, organizations need to create more content at a faster pace to meet customer expectations and business needs. Knowing how to manifest these improvements is not always clear: Enter generative AI and the content supply chain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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Celebrating the women of IBM AI Ethics

IBM Big Data Hub

For more than 100 years, IBM’s founding principles have inspired efforts to promote equality, fairness and inclusion in the workplace and society. The company has lived the value of “respect for the individual” by championing employment practices that reward ability over identity and that make work more attainable for all. In 1935, approximately twenty years after IBM was founded, it began hiring women into professional roles.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Jess Hohn-Cabana

Cloudera

Meet Cloudera’s new Senior Vice President of Global Communications, Jess Hohn-Cabana. In this Employee Spotlight, we’ll get to know more about Jess, her new role, and her recent award win at the 2024 Ragan Top Women in Communications Awards. Get to Know Jess: A Seasoned Leader in Tech Communications and Branding Coming to Cloudera with nearly three decades of experience in tech communications and branding, Jess is a leader and a visionary on all things storytelling.

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Mitigating the impact of climate change in insurance and other financial services  

IBM Big Data Hub

As the effects of climate change intensify, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The US experienced 25 extreme weather events in 2023, each causing losses of over USD 1 billion, with a total cost of USD 73.8 billion. These climate events have a huge potential impact on financial institutions. In 2021, large-scale floods affected the European countries of Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, causing USD 43 billion worth of damage in addition

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2024 CSO30 Middle East Awards: Nominations are now open

CIO Business Intelligence

Foundry and IDC Middle East are proud to launch the first edition of CSO30 Awards in the UAE, KSA and Qatar, recognising the top 30 senior security executives in each country with outstanding leadership in driving positive business outcomes through effective risk mitigation strategies Reflecting Foundry’s (formerly IDG Communications) and IDC’s increasing commitment to the region, CSO30 is aligned to a global awards program and viewed as a mark of excellence within the enterprise.

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Chart Snapshot: Variable Width Bar Charts

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Also known as a Bar Mekko Chart, Cascade Chart, Variwide Chart, Area Bar/Column Graph. A Variable Width Bar Chart is a type of graphical representation that differs from traditional Bar Charts in that the width of each bar carries significant meaning. Rather than all bars being of uniform width, as in conventional bar charts, the width of the bars in a Variable Width Bar Chart is determined by an additional dimension within the dataset.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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7 modi per rendere le IT operation più efficienti

CIO Business Intelligence

Nessun CIO vuole essere alla guida di un’organizzazione IT inefficiente: è un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, a causa della disattenzione o della conduzione di pratiche obsolete, l’IT può diventare progressivamente inefficiente e improduttivo. Il perseguimento dell’efficienza nell’IT dovrebbe essere un processo continuo, non un evento una tantum, afferma Robert Orshaw, global cloud operate leader di Deloitte Consulting.

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16 Top Hospital KPIs for 2024 Reporting

Jet Global

What is a Hospital KPI and Why is it Important? A hospital key performance indicator ( KPI ) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. Like many other service providers, hospitals depend on their customers (patients) to run their business. However, in order to thrive, they must also operate sustainably and mange costs.

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Insightsoftware Named Top AI-Powered Business Intelligence Provider

Jet Global

The results are in – Logi Symphony by insightsoftware has been named as a top business intelligence (BI) solution in Info-Tech’s latest Data Quadrant Report. The report names the top seven BI providers for midmarket and enterprise businesses. This year, Info-Tech has turned its focus to BI solutions that implement artificial intelligence (AI) to drive informed decision-making.