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Veteran cloud executive joins Opti9 to accelerate public cloud growth, modernization, and customer outcomes Opti9, a leading hybrid cloud solutions provider, has recently announced that TJ Houske has joined the company as President & General Manager of Public Cloud. Houske brings more than 20 years ...

Support highlights focus on edge AI as an enabler for real-world AI adoption across numerous industries Latent AI, the global leader in edge AI solutions, announced today a new investment from AUM Ventures to accelerate the development and deployment of edge AI technologies across defense, industria...

Sangfor Technologies, a leading global vendor of IT infrastructure and Security solutions, is proud to announce a new Global Strategic Partnership with Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security. Under this new partnership, Sangfor has officially joined the Cohesity Aspire Managed Service Prov...

Trellix appoints industry veteran CPO to advance AI-powered innovation and customer-first execution Trellix, the company delivering the future of AI-powered cybersecurity, today announced the appointments of Alex Au Yeung as Chief Product Officer and Zach Nelson as Chief Human Resources Officer. The...

Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to efficiently fine-tune a large language model using Unsloth and QLoRA. We focus on building a stable, end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline that handles common Colab issues such as GPU detection failures, runtime crashes, and library incompatibilities. By ...

A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York's Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.

Anthropic is stepping up its game in the AI coding space with the rollout of Voice Mode in Claude Code.

Creators who break the rules will get a 3-month suspend, and if they continue to violate the policy, they'll be banned.

In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end, production-style analytics and modeling pipeline using Vaex to operate efficiently on millions of rows without materializing data in memory. We generate a realistic, large-scale dataset, engineer rich behavioral and city-level features using lazy expression...

The four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months, according to one Bloomberg source.

Following controversies surrounding ChatGPT, many users are ditching the AI chatbot for Claude instead. Here's how to make the switch.

NeuralTrust is the leading platform for securing AI Agents and LLM applications. It provides runtime protection, automated red teaming, evaluation, and observability to help enterprises deploy AI systems securely and at scale. NeuralTrust today announced it has been recognized as a Representative Ve...

14.ai also launched a consumer brand to understand how much AI can handle customer support tasks.

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the bot.

Pull the plug! Pull the plug! Stop the slop! Stop the slop! For a few hours this Saturday, February 28, I watched as a couple hundred anti-AI protesters marched through London’s King’s Cross tech hub, home to the UK headquarters of OpenAI, Meta and Google DeepMind, chanting slogans and waving signs....

High-Risk Vulnerabilities Spike 36% Year-Over-Year as Critical Security Debt Surges 20%, Signaling a Growing Crisis in Software Security Veracode, the global leader in application risk management, today released its 2026 State of Software Security Report, revealing the widening gap between how fast ...

Kioxia Holdings Corporation (TOKYO:285A), a world leader in memory solutions, today announced the appointment of Yoshihiko Kawamura as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 1, 2026. Mr. Kawamura brings extensive international experience to Kioxia, having held assignments at Mitsubishi Corpo...

Milliman MedInsight® (MedInsight), a leading healthcare data and analytics software provider and division of Milliman, has named Iyibo Jack as Chief Product Officer. Jack succeeds Rich Moyer, Principal and former Chief Product Officer, who played a pivotal role in the growth and success of MedInsigh...

MESCIUS USA Inc., a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the release of ActiveReports.NET v20. The first major release of 2026 is packed with features to help developers ship faster, modernize confidently, and maintain long-term stability wit...

Stephen Sweett and Sean Kirby will lead strategic initiatives across operations and technology as the company scales Buchanan Technologies, a managed IT services partner focused on helping enterprises modernize, secure, and scale their technology operations, today announced Stephen Sweett will expan...

Prioritizing systemic internet safety through collective action, infrastructure security, and practical tools for underserved communities. Brian, as Interim CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance, you lead an organization dedicated to strengthening trust and safety on the Internet. What initially drew you...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced explainable AI analysis pipeline using SHAP-IQ to understand both feature importance and interaction effects directly inside our Python environment. We load a real-world dataset, train a high-performance Random Forest model, and then apply the SHAP-IQ interacti...

The real AI performance gap isn’t technical—it’s organizational. Discover why the most successful companies treat upskilling as core infrastructure and learn the 7-step blueprint to aligning your workforce with your AI investment for maximum ROI.