Targeting AI

In this special breaking news analysis edition of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, hosts Shaun Sutner and Esther Shittu dive into the latest developments in the AI industry with Torsten Volk, an analyst with Omdia. Both AI Business and Omdia are owned by Informa TechTarget. This episode covers AI cloud computing vendor CoreWeave's groundbreaking $14 billion AI compute deal with Meta Platforms, exploring its implications f...

As one of the biggest financial institutions in the U.S., Capital One isn’t running away from generative AI and agentic AI. Instead, the $490 billion company is using the technology to enhance both internal operations and customer experience. In this Targeting AI episode, the chief scientist and executive vice president at Capital One discusses some of the challenges and opportunities the financial giant is facing in customizing LL...

As a legacy organization, IBM has long been a champion for open source, especially in the age of GenAI. In this episode of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, Bruno Aziza, vice president of data, AI and analytics at IBM, discusses how the vendor has had to rebrand and shift in the age of GenAI and agentic AI. Aziza shares insights on talent challenges, IBM's data strategy with Watson X, and the significance of customer-centric AI...

When it comes to diversity, AI systems often fail. In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast, Christina Mancini, CEO of Black Girls Code, discusses the importance of inclusion in tech, the strategies Black Girls Code employs to empower girls of color, and the need for ethical considerations in AI education. Christina emphasizes the role of communities of color as creators in AI and the necessity for equitable development in techn...

In a market dominated by Nvidia H100 GPUs, Cerebras Systems seeks to develop the world's largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine. In this episode of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, James Wang, the vendor's director of product marketing, discusses the importance of the inference market for AI technology and how the company's strategic partnerships are essential for growth. He elaborates on the evolving landscape of AI, includi...

In this two-year anniversary episode of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, Michael Bennett discusses the rapid evolution of generative AI technology, and its implications for society, legal frameworks and creative industries. He highlights the public's growing awareness and understanding of AI, the legal challenges surrounding copyright and fair use, and the moral questions that arise from the use of AI in creative fields. 

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In this special news edition of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, government reporter Makenzie Holland discusses President Trump's AI action plan and executive orders aimed at promoting AI development and ensuring U.S. dominance in the AI race.

Featuring: Makenzie Holland, Informa TechTarget senior news writer

In today’s episode, senior new director Shaun Sutner and AI news writer Esther Shittu cover these topics:

• Presiden...

In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget, Ben Flast, of NoSQL database vendor MongoDB, discusses the company's rapid integration of generative AI technologies, including vector search and real-time updates through Atlas Stream Processing. He emphasizes the importance of community engagement and the role of agentic AI in enhancing developer productivity. The conversation also explores the differences betwe...

The lack of diversity in AI systems has been an issue since the birth of the technology. In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget, Karen Panetta discusses the importance of diversity in tech, and the ethical implications of AI. She emphasizes the need for inclusive design in engineering and AI systems, the role of digital twins in education, and the challenges of AI bias.

Featuring: Karen Panetta, an IEEE...

In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast, Shaun Sutner and Esther Ajao interview Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of Pegasystems, discussing the evolution of AI technology, particularly generative AI, and its integration into business processes. Trefler shares insights on the differences between design time and runtime applications of AI, the importance of workflow engines, and the challenges of AI safety and reliability. He emphas...

Nvidia's hardware strategies are powering AI technologies. Recently, networking has become the critical backbone of modern AI systems. In today’s episode, Kevin Deierling provides practical insights for enterprises looking to implement AI technologies effectively. Deierling contrasts traditional data centers with the emerging concept of AI factories, revealing how these specialized environments are reshaping enterprise computing.

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Generative AI has led to many fears about the workforce. However, for work management platform vendor Asana, GenAI and agentic AI can be effective tools in the workforce. Instead of replacing humans, AI technology can work alongside humans. Despite the potential for collaboration, not all tasks require the use of AI technology.

Featuring: Saket Srivastava, CIO of work management platform, Asana.

In today's episode, we cover:

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As an AI writing assistant, Grammarly has used AI technology from its inception. The popularity of large language models has led to a shift in which the writing assistant vendor moved from natural language processing to including large language models to help enterprise employees improve their writing as they work. This has led Grammarly to see a possibility in the part it can play in transforming the future of work.

Featuring: Luk...

A key truth about AI is that regulation has long lagged innovation. However, this has not removed the responsibility of enterprises to deploy AI systems responsibly or for AI vendors to create responsible systems. What are the key metrics to understanding a safe AI system?

Featuring: Stuart Battersby, CTO at Chatterbox Labs, vendor of a quantitative AI risk metrics platform, and Danny Coleman, CEO at Chatterbox.

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Industrial AI is less familiar than consumer AI, but represents a critical and growing sector within AI’s influence. What unique AI applications are surfacing in this area?

Featuring: Olympia Brikis, director of Industrial AI research at Siemens

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Understanding Industrial AI and its distinctions from consumer AI

Traditional, generative, agentic—in the past couple of decades, AI metamorphosed into an indisposable tool for enterprises wanting to streamline their processes and improve their impact. In this episode, we dive into the different types of AI, best practices for implementation, and the challenges faced in the industry.

Featuring: Deepak Singh, Vice President at AWS

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

In the couple of years since the popularization of ChatGPT, generative AI technology has quickly taken hold in the legal profession.

It has backfired in some cases, such as when an attorney filed a legal brief written with ChatGPT's help and the AI platform hallucinated some of the cases in the brief. That case and others have led some law firms to block general access to AI tools. Most recently, Hill Dickinson, a law firm in the U...

Without a good data strategy, generative AI becomes unusable technology for enterprises.

This was true when ChatGPT started becoming popular, and it is even more accurate years later.

The most recent example is the AI Chinese startup DeepSeek. While most AI cloud providers like Google, AWS and Microsoft now offer the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, many AI experts believe that enterprises might be hesitant to use it due to the data it...

While some vendors are working to ensure large language models become better at reasoning, other AI vendors are making them compatible in multiple languages.

Writer is a provider of a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises.

While the vendor provides a generative AI platform that enterprises can use to build generative AI capabilities into their workflows, it also offers a family of LLMs: Palmyra. The models support text ...