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DSC Weekly 7 January 2025


Announcements

  • Ransomware remains an ongoing threat as it continues to evolve. Companies must be vigilant with the rapid expansion of AI and other emerging technology creating even more opportunities for cyber criminals. Tune into the upcoming Tackling Ransomware and Emerging Threats summit for advice to prevent and recover from the latest crop of ransomware attacks. Leading industry thought leaders will discuss innovative platforms, frameworks and employee training techniques as well as detail the AI and social engineering attacks to remain vigilant of in 2026.
  • The continued rise of generative AI is transforming industries across the globe, but staying abreast and ahead of this fast-evolving landscape can be a challenge. Join industry experts for Enterprise Strategy Group: GenAI Summit 2025 as they explore the latest trends, insights, and strategies for harnessing the power of generative AI. The GenAI Summit will uncover best practices and key use cases driving adoption, including buyer preferences and the impact of AI agents. Speakers will go deep into customer service, where generative AI is delivering tangible benefits through advanced automation and personalized interactions.

Top Stories

  • Envisioning the AI Value-creation Maturity Curve – Lessons from the Internet
    January 5, 2025
    by Bill Schmarzo
    2025 will be the year when Artificial Intelligence (AI) must prove itself beyond driving mundane, easily replicated productivity improvements. To be successful, AI must fuel organizations’ imagination and creativity in creating new sources of customer, product, service, operational, environmental, and societal value. I struggle to visualize how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the world.
  • LLM 2.0, RAG & Non-Standard Gen AI on GitHub
    December 26, 2024
    by Vincent Granville
    In this article, I share my latest Gen AI and LLM advances, featuring innovative approaches radically different from both standard AI and classical ML/NLP. The focus is on doing better with less, using efficient architectures, new algorithms and evaluation metrics. It originates from research that I started long ago.
  • Moveworks uses AI to grow its employee automation platform
    10 December 2024
    by Esther Ajao and Shaun Sutner
    In September, AI vendor Moveworks revealed that it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The AI application startup, which was founded in 2016 and was valued at more than $2.1 billion in 2021, uses a reasoning engine to help employees search for information across the enterprise. Since its inception, a key ingredient in the company’s success has been AI and generative AI technology.

In-Depth

  • Best practices for managing large content libraries
    January 6, 2025
    by Dan Wilson
    Learn practical tips to organize and manage your content library effectively. From content audits to CMS tools, discover strategies for optimizing, updating, and maintaining your content to improve performance and streamline your workflow.
  • Quantum computing’s status and near-term prospects
    January 2, 2025
    by Alan Morrison
    Part I: Background and some indicators of how AI is helping IBM’s Quantum System 2 on display at the Q2B 2024 Silicon Valley conference in December (author’s photo) I had the opportunity to attend the Quantum to Business (Q2B) 2024 Silicon Valley event in December 2024, courtesy of Allie Kuopus, one of the organizers.
  • Infrastructural necessities for building and deploying enterprise-scale AI
    December 30, 2024
    by Jelani Harper
    Whether rendering sensitive datasets anonymous with synthetic data or simply facilitating ad-hoc question answering on a corpus of domain-specific knowledge, enterprise applications of AI are more sophisticated than ever before. What hasn’t changed, however, is the infrastructural necessities upon which these applications are built.
  • Optimizing data center energy consumption with predictive analytics
    December 30, 2024
    by Zachary Amos
    Data centers are consuming a massive amount of power. The easiest solution is to raise temperatures, driving resource utilization down. However, that complicates hardware preservation and building upkeep. What if decision-makers could see into the future? Predictive analytics technology can help them find data-driven solutions among the noise, enabling energy consumption optimization.
  • The role of hypothesis-driven AI in medical research
    December 24, 2024
    by Zachary Amos
    The medical field has some of the greatest potential for artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. The right algorithms and data could identify hard-to-pin illnesses and create new recipes for lifesaving medicines. This urgency led the famous Mayo Clinic to devise a uniquely constructed AI for next-generation medical attention — hypothesis-driven AI.
  • NeuroAI: What would signal legacy, for the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative?
    December 23, 2024
    by David Stephen
    There is a recent article in STATResearchers are betting on cockroaches as the cure to elitism in neuroscience, stating that, “..how the brain uses chemical and electrical signals to process and respond to the world.” It also stated that “neurophysiologists work to understand how the nervous system uses chemical and electrical signals to respond to different situations or begin a certain behavior.”
  • Revolutionizing meetings with AI meeting assistants
    December 20, 2024
    by Edward Nick
    AI meeting assistant is an advanced software tool powered by artificial intelligence that streamlines various aspects of meeting management. These virtual helpers handle tasks such as scheduling meetings, taking notes, generating action items, and transcribing discussions in real time.
  • AI and IoT: Transforming how we live and work
    December 19, 2024
    by Pritesh Patel
    Even though IoT has been around for a while, adoption has accelerated thanks to recent technology advancements, including improved connections, cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and related analytics, and inexpensive sensors. However, as data increases, we are having trouble taking in, analyzing, and coming to wise conclusions.

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