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What’s the best way to bring generative AI to your products and services? If you’re lucky enough to have a few billion dollars lying around, your launch deadline is a handful of years away, and you have access to the world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) engineers, then you’re all good. You can create your own generative AI foundational model…

When I first tried an early generative AI tool back in 2019, I was amazed at what it could do. The prose it created was grammatically correct, fluent, and convincingly human. But I was more amazed by its potential, thinking, “If it’s this good now, how good will it be in a few year’s time?” Roll on to late 2022 and early 2023, and of course we all…

Earlier this week, Apple joined the likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Google on the list of board members at the FIDO alliance. An acronym for “Fast IDentity Online”, FIDO is committed to eliminating the need for passwords, strongly endorsing the adoption of trusted devices via standards like WebAuthn as a password alternative. But what could Apple’s…

Here’s our roundup of the week’s biggest cloud stories: Private Clouds Just Aren’t Worth the Trouble InformationWeek’s Jonathan Feldman wrote some spot-on analysis last weekend explaining why the private cloud is just not practical for most businesses. In Feldman’s view, implementation snags are the crux of the problem. He writes: “There's…

As (almost) always, it was a busy week in the cloud. Here’s our take on some of the week’s biggest news. SaaS: The Best Possible Model for SMBs & the Enterprise SearchCloudComputing.com ran a story on cloud computing’s trajectory from an IT outsourcing strategy to the full-blown platform that it is today (“The Reinvention of SaaS”). We…