Balancing Innovation and Risk: Current and Future Use of LLMs in the Financial Industry

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized how we interact with clients, partners, our teams, and technology within the finance industry. According to Gartner, the adoption of AI by finance functions has increased significantly in the past year, with 58 percent ….

Auquan Launches AI Agent for Financial Services Sustainability Teams

LONDON and NEW YORK — Feb. 6, 2025 — Auquan, a maker of generative AI solutions for deep work in financial services, today announced the launch of its Sustainability Agent, which Auquan said is the first AI agent purpose-built to liberate sustainability teams from tedious and time-consuming manual work. One-quarter of the top 25 global financial […]

Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference

Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second – 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions. Cerebras said this speed enables instant reasoning capabilities ….

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]

Brookhaven Researcher’s ‘Exocortex’ for AI (Artificial Imagination)

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize scientific research — in ways that can feel like science fiction but are within reach. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists are already using AI to automate experiments and discover new materials.

Bluwhale Secures $100M for Web3 Layer across L1 and L2 Blockchains 

SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 28, 2025 – Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, today announces that it has topped its funding to $100 million. This includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds. The investments will allow the company to expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple […]

Bodo.ai Open-Sources HPC Python Compute Engine

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2025 — Bodo.ai, an open source start-up focused on transformative Python, has released its high performance computing engine for Python under the Apache License. The need to process ever-larger amounts of data with higher precision, faster speeds, lower costs, and a smaller carbon footprint has grown exponentially. Bodo.ai addresses these […]

AI for IT Operations: Automating Troubleshooting and Optimization

By Ainsley Lawrence IT teams spend countless hours monitoring alerts, diagnosing system issues, and maintaining infrastructure performance. Thankfully, this is changing with the advent of AI – IT specialists should be leading the charge for innovation rather than shying away. The adoption of artificial intelligence is reshaping IT management by automating complex diagnostics and improving […]

Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI

Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here’s an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins The company said Mega is an omniverse framework for next-gen industrial AI and robot simulation through software-defined testing and optimization of factories and warehouses.

Outreach Redefines Sales Prospecting with Launch of AI Prospecting Agents

New AI product automates prospecting tasks, enabling sellers to focus on relationships, and revenue-generating activities Outreach, the Sales Execution Platform built for intelligent revenue workflows, announced the launch of Outreach AI Prospecting Agents, an autonomous AI solution that will transform the way revenue teams build new logo and expansion pipeline. AI Prospecting Agents are integrated […]