The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
What to know about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, reshaping business operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation across sectors globally and in Australasia. From the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity threats and the adoption of AI in cloud infrastructure to the integration of generative AI in customer service, marketing, and financial sectors, this dynamic field demands close attention.
Experts emphasise the critical role of robust data management and infrastructure in successfully leveraging AI technologies, while organisations face challenges including skill gaps, ethical considerations, and regulatory developments. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must balance innovation with security, sustainability, and human-centric strategies to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Readers exploring this tag will gain insights into the latest AI trends, practical applications, organisational strategies, technological advancements, and the collaborative efforts shaping the future of AI. Understanding these developments is essential for anyone interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on business, technology, and society.
American Artificial Intelligence News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Tamr raises USD $21 million to expand AI data tools
The funding will help Tamr speed up development of agentic features as enterprises struggle to make fragmented records usable for AI systems.
HG Insights launches contextual intelligence platform
Revenue teams using AI agents may get cleaner account data, as the new platform links fragmented buyer, spend and intent signals.
Retailers struggle to see fresh operations clearly
Visibility gaps are leaving most grocers unable to track day-to-day performance in fresh departments, despite broad confidence in results.
Farsight & Ornn bring AI compute in-house for banks
Banks worried about data security and rising AI costs can now run Farsight's platform on their own systems via Ornn's GPU capacity.
CHRO confidence eases as AI reshapes workforce planning
More than four in 10 US chief human resource officers now expect no workforce growth or cuts as AI complicates planning and retention eases.
US small businesses grapple with software fragmentation
Most owners are now juggling six or more platforms, turning basic bookkeeping into manual reconciling as adoption of digital tools accelerates.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Artificial Intelligence
Fortinet: The AI challenge is visibility and control, not permission
AI pricing puts software firms under margin pressure
Omnissa launches AI tools as endpoint use surges 1,000%
LogicMonitor launches AI-led IT model with governed action
Reco raises USD $55 million as AI agent security grows
Featured News
How Harvey AI's next generation deals with Canadian data
Canadian law firms can keep client files walled off, while choosing data storage and processing become key topic for AI in law.
TrendLife targets AI challenges with family-focused Kaleida
Parents and teachers may get more oversight of children's AI use as TrendLife rolls out Kaleida with Learning Buddy to curb answer-only shortcuts.
Interview: Cloudera says open-ended AI spending is over
Enterprises are now demanding proof of value and tighter controls as AI budgets face scrutiny over compute costs and deployment choices.
Zscaler takes zero trust beyond the corporate network
Critical infrastructure operators are using cellular links to secure distributed assets as outages and spoofing raise the stakes for resilience.
AI transforming B2B discovery - but human trust endures
AI is changing how B2B buyers make decisions - but an expert warns that it is not a substitute for effective human comms strategies.
Databricks AI helping telcos prevent churn, predict fraud
By linking customer, network and operational data, telcos can spot churn and fraud sooner, while also speeding service and support decisions.
Exclusive: ABBYY says AI build costs will drive buying
Enterprises could cut AI spend by up to 80% by shifting document workflows away from custom builds and into standard platforms.
Exclusive: ABBYY brings zero-shot document AI to Vantage
Enterprises can now extract data from unseen document types without templates, as ABBYY rolls out zero-shot capabilities in Vantage.
The internet times are a'changing Fastly
Bot traffic is forcing Fastly to adapt its edge cloud tools as publishers and AI firms battle over caching, access and data protection.
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Autonomous IT boom fuelling LogicMonitor's APAC growth
APAC customers are fuelling LogicMonitor's AI growth, with Australia among the earliest adopters of its Edwin AI platform.
CrowdStrike report: AI is rewriting rules of cybersecurity
Organisations now have just 48 hours to patch most flaws, as AI helps attackers weaponise vulnerabilities far faster than before.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Cohesity mitigating shadow AI by empowering staffers
Approved AI tools are cutting shadow use by staff, but Cohesity warns the bigger risk is corrupted enterprise knowledge and weak governance.
AI arms race forcing businesses to rethink cybersecurity
Security teams are racing to shrink exposure windows as AI makes newly disclosed vulnerabilities exploitable almost immediately.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
TrustedTech report warns of 'AI Skills Underclass' gap
Nearly half of U.S. workers lack AI training, widening a skills gap that leaves the most exposed employees to fend for themselves.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Reviews
Expert Columns
AI moves fast: are you training your people to use it wisely?
Small but mighty - micro data centres are the foundation of security and disaster recovery
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
Designing for data sovereignty: Building architectures that keep control where it belongs
AI in Retail is Only as Good as its Data Foundation
AI will cost some jobs. Poor change management will cost more
From Clean to Trusted: Rethinking Healthcare Data Quality
Seven Cyber Controls Businesses Can No Longer Afford to Overlook
SOCtoberfest Kickoff: The 7 Deadly Sins of Cybersecurity Meet CISA's Core Steps
Why AI-Written Phishing Is Outpacing the Native Filters Built to Stop It
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Artificial Intelligence News
Palo Alto Networks expands AI agent security project
Growing use of AI agents in corporate systems is creating a new internal risk category, prompting tighter real-time oversight from security teams.
Pax8 launches AI tools for small business partners
Small business channel partners can now govern unsanctioned AI use and offer a managed coworker service as adoption outpaces formal oversight.
GTIA launches managed intelligence alliance for SMB AI
SMBs could get more secure AI services as GTIA sets common standards to help channel partners turn demand into governed offerings.
IT leaders split over AI's role in production fixes
Most IT leaders trust AI to investigate incidents, but only half are willing to let it make production changes, a survey found.
Zendesk launches AI tools to automate employee support
Early users have already run 6 million workflows in five weeks, as the software group pushes deeper into employee support automation.
Developers say AI use is driven by management pressure
Management pressure is pushing many developers to use AI to signal compliance, with 52% saying they overuse it to meet company expectations.
Vercel AI spending soars as customers switch models
Costs per token have dropped 47% since December even as businesses route far more AI traffic through Vercel's gateway and switch providers more often.
Cloudflare & OpenAI pilot indexes millions of pages
The pilot could improve ChatGPT answers on niche queries by helping OpenAI discover and index hundreds of millions of previously unseen pages.
Exaba says MSPs lose storage margin to outside vendors
Many managed service providers are watching backup revenue slip as hidden cloud fees and vendor price changes squeeze storage margins.
Secure.com says ransomware budgets should fix basics first
Most attacks still start with weak credentials, unpatched systems or phishing, so the firm says budgets should shore up basics before AI fears.
Incorta launches governed data tools for analytics & AI
Businesses will be able to build data pipelines in a governed environment, as Incorta seeks to cut tool sprawl and reduce AI errors.
React warns AI must not replace management training
As employers roll out AI across the workplace, React says managers still need live practice to handle difficult conversations with judgement and empathy.
Kotter launches AI accelerator to boost business value
Many large firms are struggling to turn AI spending into measurable returns, leaving executives with fragmented projects and unclear priorities.
Gresham launches AI tool to speed up reconciliations
Banks could cut reconciliation setup time sharply as Gresham's new AI interface lets business users build controls without specialist support.
Ledger launches Atom security device for AI & crypto
It is aimed at people approving payments, identities and AI tasks on mobiles, with hardware controls designed to block spyware and mistakes.
Datadog launches Scout 1.0 for production issue checks
Lower inference costs could let engineers run automated incident checks more often, as Datadog tests Scout 1.0 on real production alerts.
Proofpoint to buy Varonis in USD $6.3 billion deal
Varonis shareholders will receive USD $49.75 a share in cash, valuing the data security group at a 52% premium and taking it private.
Mitsubishi Heavy & Ingeteam team up on US data centres
Rising AI electricity demand is pushing US data centre operators to seek more reliable power systems as the firms plan broader integration work.
Tanium joins Microsoft AI security preview for MDASH
The limited preview could help uncover more complex vulnerabilities in Tanium's code, as Microsoft tests MDASH with a small group of partners.
Adobe & NVIDIA boost creative software & media tools
Adobe and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to accelerate AI processing in creative software, cloud media workflows and customer engagement.
Job Moves
CloudBolt names Alexander Thomson Chief Executive Officer
ThetaRay appoints Laure Richmond as chief financial officer
Impala names Marisa Sires as Chief Executive Officer
CodeHunter appoints Tom Bevilacqua to board as it grows
Datasite appoints five executives to link AI & M&A
Litera promotes Singh & Ryan in leadership shake-up
PolyAI appoints Sunil Shah as Chief Financial Officer
Smartly names ex-Netflix executive Kelly Uphoff CTO
Vertex appoints DataRobot chief Debanjan Saha to board
