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Accenture's full year generative AI revenues come in at $300 million out of a $64.1 billion total. There's a long way to go, says CEO Julie Sweet This article is sponsored by:

Gen AI revenue has doubled in the past quarter, but projects are typically experimental and there's a lot of caution alongside the curiosity.

Sitecore shifts to a composable architecture and focuses on AI innovation This article is sponsored by:

Dave O'Flanagan, Sitecore's Chief Product Officer, on how the vendor is approaching generative AI.

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Workday Rising '23 - bringing generative AI to heel in the service of enterprise productivity This article is sponsored by:

At Workday Rising, the vendor reveals how it's using domain-specific LLMs and an AI gateway to build trust among customers and developers for its implementation of generative AI.

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SAP adds generative AI assistant to enterprise software portfolio This article is sponsored by:

Joule copilot will answer questions based on data from customer, SAP and LLMs

Guru expands the reach of its AI-assisted, human-verified enterprise knowledge search app This article is sponsored by:

AI has the potential to give a welcome boost to the value of enterprise search, but knowledge management vendor Guru believes humans need to be in the loop.

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Generative AI - authors and artists declare war on AI vendors worldwide This article is sponsored by:

The fightback against ChatGPT and others starts here as online rebellions, US class actions, and an alliance of nearly a million professionals take the fight to AI’s creators – companies who have been careless at best.

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Confluent’s data streaming platform aims to make development easier for real-time AI applications This article is sponsored by:

Data streaming vendor Confluent has also revealed its cloud-native Flink service, with the aim of making it easier to build applications with stream processing.

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Cloud World 23 - Oracle addresses the hot questions on generative AI pricing, customer data, and where SIs fit in This article is sponsored by:

As Oracle CloudWorld 2023 kicked off, important questions about Oracle's generative AI strategy had not been publicly addressed. But via keynotes and sessions for media/analysts, that changed. Here's what I learned on crucial questions for AI customers, from data privacy to pricing.

Larry Ellison speaking at Oracle CloudWorld 23 © Oracle

Scoring Salesforce's latest Customer Success initiatives - "be Netflix in a sea of Blockbusters" This article is sponsored by:

The announcement of the Customer Success Score is the latest move by Salesforce to support customers move to AI.

Ensuring fair use of AI techniques and outputs by actuaries - questions to be answered This article is sponsored by:

Critiquing a new set of guidance around AI, aimed at actuaries

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What the UK must do to win on AI, according to techUK and the trades unions This article is sponsored by:

A team-up of industry and unions is urging government action on AI.

Enterprise hits and misses - Cisco splurges on Splunk, enterprise LLMs get a gut check, and Oracle doubles down on healthcare (and AI) This article is sponsored by:

This week - Cisco pays a premium for Splunk, but why? Enterprise LLMs get a debunking - and a progress report. Fall events roll on, with Oracle CloudWorld reviews and analysis to peruse.

Monday Morning Moan - why is the UK Government at war with its own beliefs regarding tech regulation? This article is sponsored by:

Do try to keep up now - a neo-liberal thinktank established by Margaret Thatcher is warning against deregulation!