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The AI continuum

CIO Business Intelligence

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? Fortunately, most organizations can build on publicly available proprietary or open-source models. Here is some guidance.

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe. Hardware is hard. Hardware is hard,” Pichai says.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

CIO Business Intelligence

Cost-effective GenAI, on premises Of course, here’s something that may not be mysterious for IT leaders: building, training, and augmenting AI stacks can consume large chunks of budget. Because LLMs consume significant computational resources as model parameters expand, consideration of where to allocate GenAI workloads is paramount.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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Computing at the edge of space: HPE and Microsoft conduct International Space Station experiments

GeekWire

HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-2 uses off-the-shelf servers and components encased in hardware designed for harsh environments. They’re using standard and open-source tools such as Python and Linux containers to ensure that others can participate or build on their approaches in the future.

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- Microsoft vs Open Source

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. On the other hand, all governments have budget pains. Next, in an open source world, what do we do about application integration?

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Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

CIO Business Intelligence

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid.

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