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This Week in Tech News: 9 Stories You Need to See
Saturday, May 20, 2023
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy technology industry press releases from PR Newswire, including AI updates from SAS, IBM, and Autodesk.
NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the business technology industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
1. SAS commits $1B to AI-powered industry solutions"Through this investment,
SAS will continue to support companies using AI, machine learning and
advanced analytics to fight fraud, manage risk, better serve customers
and citizens, and much more," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight.
2. Jasper Announces Partnership with Google Cloud, Providing Millions of
Businesses a Personalized Experience Anywhere They CreateThe partnership
makes Jasper available to millions within the Google Cloud Marketplace,
adds yet another foundation model to Jasper's AI Engine with Google's
Vertex AI, and introduces new functionality to Jasper Everywhere.
3. Introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and the 2023
Work Trend Index To empower businesses in the AI era, Microsoft is
introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program with an
initial wave of 600 enterprise customers worldwide in an invitation-only
paid preview program.
4. IBM Unveils the Watsonx Platform to Power Next-Generation Foundation
Models for BusinessWith watsonx, IBM is offering an AI development studio
with access to IBM-curated and trained foundation models and open-source
models, access to a data store to enable the gathering and cleansing of
training and tuning data, and a toolkit for governance of AI into the
hands of businesses that will provide a seamless end-to-end AI workflow
that will make AI easier to adapt and scale.
5. Travelzoo META Opens for Founding Members Travelzoo META's experiences
are intended to allow its members to explore hard-to-reach corners of the
world, like summiting Mount Everest, or travel back in time--to Ancient
Rome, perhaps. They can also discover new spaces beyond imagination. All
this is possible using a mobile or desktop device and a simple browser.
6. Cognizant and Google Cloud Expand Alliance to Bring AI to Enterprise
ClientsThomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud, said, "Our partnership with
Cognizant will accelerate enterprises' application of generative AI with
more highly skilled AI experts, new solutions focused on creating
business value, and deep experience applying Google Cloud technologies to
industries like financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and
retail."
7. Autodesk Introduces Forma for Next-Generation Building Design in the
Cloud Forma's initial capabilities target the early-stage planning and
design process with automations and AI-powered insights that simplify
exploration of design concepts, offload repetitive tasks, and help
evaluate environmental qualities surrounding a building site, giving
architects time to focus on creative solutions.
8. New Poll Finds Parents Lag Behind Kids on AI and Want Rules and Reliable
Information to Help ThemCommon Sense Media commissioned the survey of
parents of students age 12-18, as well as students themselves, to better
understand how much both groups know about AI, how they are engaging with
it, and what they think are the promises and pitfalls of the emerging
technology.
9. GPTZero Raises 3.5M from AI Leaders, Aims to Preserve Human JournalismIn
the past month, GPTZero has entered partnerships with over 40 ed-tech
organizations to significantly improve AI detection accuracies on
educational data, and launched the first institutional-level AI
monitoring dashboard to help schools understand and craft AI policy.
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Can't-Miss Earnings
In addition to these popular releases, several must-read earnings reports crossed the wire this week, including the quarterly results for CEVA, Inc., LivePerson, and iRobot.
Catch up on all the latest earnings reports here.
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