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Model routing has emerged as a way to keep AI inferencing costs down by examining prompts and directing them to the most appropriate model — for example, the cheapest one able to respond effectively. This means that requests can be handled more efficiently, giving more accurate results and lower runtime costs, a concern in an era of rising AI expenditure . Nvidia sees the potential for model routing and has just launched NeMo Switchyard , its take on the technology. Switchyard provides a library
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Records held in Salesforce and ServiceNow systems are under attack leaving user data exposed, according to researchers at Reco. The attack appears similar to those perpetrated by the extortion group ShinyHunters, Reco said. ShinyHunters has been particularly active this year, attacking dating sites in January and Oracle in June , and there are fears that they could have found a new target. Reco has named the latest campaign of attacks “City-Forum,” after a domain name associated with the attacke
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OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined the company, the Financial Times reported . Bakalar has maintained a silence and has yet to update her LinkedIn profile , but if her departure is confirmed then it will add to the list of OpenAI executives who have quit in recent months. Other departures include robotics chief Caitlin Kalinowski , who left the company over its deal with the US Department of Defense; researcher Zoe Hitzig, who quit in a very public way
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IBM will embed OpenAI frontier models and products such as Codex and ChatGPT embedded into IBM’s AI consulting services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, as well as expanding the companies’ existing collaboration in the cybersecurity realm, they announced Thursday. Joint initiatives will include the creation of industry-specific products for financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail, as well as serving key enterprise domains such as finance, procurement, customer operation
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At the turn of the decade, Gartner predicted that by 2030, 80% of all project management tasks would be automated . It’s still too early to know whether this will be the case, but the rise of AI in the years since Gartner made this projection gives CIOs and project managers adequate food for thought. For instance, will
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A CIO client of mine drove himself to the emergency room recently, convinced he was having a heart attack. After many hours of testing, the doctor diagnosed him with a panic attack. IT executives are burning out at alarming rates. Foundry’s 2025 State of the CIO research found that 15% of IT leaders describe themselves
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I spend most of my time inside other companies’ engineering teams, building systems to track and optimize AI spend. The conversation almost always starts the same way. Someone pulls up a dashboard, points at a number bigger than it should be, and says some version of “we know it went up; we just can’t tell you why.” I use an analogy for it: AI-era CIOs are like city planners optimizing a busy intersection. They can measure the volume and hear the pleas to fix congestion, but can’t tell whether a
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One of AI vendor DeepSeek’s biggest selling points has been its ultra-low price point, but that party’s about to end. The Chinese model provider is raising API pricing for its V4 model family by notable margins, in some cases by more than 1,100%. The increases may not be that dramatic for all, though; the company is encouraging “more flexible workload scheduling,” with peak rates and half-price off-peak rates. The news was tucked into the announcement of the general availability (GA) of DeepSeek