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Lawsuit claims IBM falsely used mainframe sales to boost AI, cloud businesses

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A lawsuit has been filed against 13 current and former IBM executives, including CEO and Chairman Arvind Krishna and former CEO Ginni Rometty, accusing the company of securities fraud — bundling mainframe sales together with those of poorly performing products in order to make them appear more profitable than they actually were.

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

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As part of the deal, Cognizant has acquired 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, and 500 each of Sales Copilot and Services Copilot, for use by its associates across the globe. The multinational IT services giant aims to leverage the tools internally to streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance customer experiences.

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

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Among their biggest concerns: exposing intellectual property through publicly available generative AI models, revealing the personal data of users to third-party vendors or service providers, and securing the AI itself from criminal hackers. Two-thirds of risk executives surveyed by Gartner consider gen AI a top emerging risk.

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What is Brand Protection?

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Brand protection encompasses a spectrum of strategies and actions to safeguard a company’s intellectual property, reputation , and consumer trust. From trademarks and copyrights to online presence management and counterfeit prevention, businesses must proactively defend their identity.

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Chief AI officers in demand as IT leaders expect gen AI productivity boost, survey finds

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Software vendors have been busy infusing generative AI into their products. They will be relieved to learn that 55% of respondents agree such products create better business outcomes but dismayed that only 44% say they will pay more for them.

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Generative AI: 5 enterprise predictions for AI and security — for 2023, 2024, and beyond

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As new AI use cases continue to emerge, it is likely that we will see enterprises adopt AI — not merely in leveraging generative AI chat tools, but as a core driver of business that can create competitive differentiation. Or a sales team member inputs the prompt, “Can you create sales trends based on the following Q2 pipeline data?”

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Consulting, software boost IBM revenue as it turns to AI

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The strong dollar had a negative effect on sales — in term of constant currency, taking out the effect of currency fluctuations, IBM revenue rose by 4%. year on year; within the Hybrid Infrastructure business, z Systems revenue was up 7%. 4%, to $14.3 This trend was further reflected in IBM’s infrastructure segment, which was down 3.7%