Hosts Shaun Sutner, TechTarget News senior news director, and AI news writer Esther Ajao interview AI experts from the tech vendor, analyst and consultant community, academia and the arts as well as AI technology users from enterprises and advocates for data privacy and responsible use of AI. Topics are related to news events in the AI world but the episodes are intended to have a longer, more ”evergreen” run and they are in-depth and somewhat long form, aiming for 45 minutes to an hour in d ...
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Each week, TechTarget’s news team provides candid insight and analysis of the biggest IT news headlines of the week.
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Modern HR explores how technology is helping to automate human resource departments and transforming HR into a collaborative process that touches every corner of the organization. TechTarget editors talk with HR executives, consultants and vendors about the latest developments in talent management, core HR, and the employee experience, as well as the innovative strategies driving 21st-century people management that prioritizes employee growth and development.
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Generative AI and agentic AI tools are only as good as the problem that they are used to solve. In some cases, using generic AI tools can help with non-specific issues. However, Raj Shukla, of enterprise AI platform vendor Symphony AI, says the future of AI technology will focus on vertical applications and open models. In this Targeting AI episode…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that looks to override AI state laws in favor of a national policy. Titled "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," it directs the Department of Justice to establish an AI Litigation Task Force and challenge "cumbersome" state laws. It also asks the Secretary of C…
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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, host Esther Shittu interviews Oren Michels, of 2024 startup Barndoor.ai, an AI data and access management vendor, about how to effectively secure enterprise agentic and generative AI systems. The approach is different from traditional cybersecurity paradigms designed to prevent outside i…
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In this special news analysis edition of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutter interview R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research, with Wang live from the AWS re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas. Wang says AWS's new frontier AI agents represent a major step in the development of agentic AI, and other AI vendors …
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It’s no secret that generative AI has led to exponential growth in AI technology. However, one area continues to seem to be lacking. Years ago, Asha Saxena, of the World Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA) organization, attempted to shift the landscape by creating an organization that emphasizes the importance of diversity in AI and the ethical challenge…
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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner interview Justin Liu of B2B platform Alibaba.com., discussing his extensive experience in e-commerce and the evolution of B2B sourcing in the age of AI. Liu shares insights on the complexities of B2B transactions, the innovative AI tools being implemented t…
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Some think AI is just a trend and that we are on the verge of a bubble. That is not the case for Arun Subramaniyan, of Articul8. This enterprise AI vendor offers customers a platform for developing and deploying customized generative AI applications. In this Targeting AI podcast, Subramaniyan discusses some of the misconceptions enterprises have ab…
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In this special news analysis edition of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss Nvidia's historic achievement on Oct. 29 of becoming the first company to reach a $5 trillion market valuation with R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research. The conversation explores the implications of this milestone for enterp…
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In this breaking news analysis episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget's AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the recent AWS outage that disrupted numerous websites and services, including AI applications such as widely used generative AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Tech analyst David Nicholson provides insi…
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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Shaun Sutner and Esther Shittu interview Sean Falconer of streaming data platform vendor Confluent. They discuss Confluent's AI strategy, the importance of real-time data management, and the integration of generative AI and multi-agent systems into business processes. Falconer emphasizes…
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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, hosts Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the role of AI in healthcare with Madhav Thattai of Salesforce and John Oberg of Precina Health. They explore the concept of being AI-first, the integration of AI in patient care, and the impact of agentic systems on healthcare outcomes. The c…
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In this breaking news analysis episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget's AI Business, hosts Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the latest innovations in agentic AI technology unveiled at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in October with guest Madhav Thattai of CRM and CX giant Salesforce. The conversation covers the new Age…
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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 groundb…
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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 som…
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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 chall…
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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 commun…
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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 partners…
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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…
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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 dir…
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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 e…
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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…
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Tech pioneer Alan Trefler of Pegasystems: GenAI added creativity, speed and scale to workflows
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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 impor…
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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 factorie…
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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 Sri…
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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 p…
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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 quantitativ…
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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 AI an…
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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…
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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…
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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, ma…
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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 int…
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The contact center world is a difficult place, packed with frustration and stress. Digital communications giant Cisco sees its mission as easing that experience for human contact center workers and the customers they deal with every day. For that undertaking, the vendor has seized on generative AI and agentic AI as the vehicles to both automate and…
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Box has been in the AI game for a long time. But when generative AI mushroomed into a transformative force in the tech world, the cloud content management vendor opted to turn to specialists in the new and fast-growing technology to power the arsenal of tools in its platform. "We've been doing AI for many years. But the really cool thing that happe…
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This is the year of AI agents. The last few months of 2024 brought much talk about and expectations for AI agents that can operate autonomously and semi-autonomously. Many vendors have capitalized on the enthusiasm to introduce new agentic products: Salesforce came out with Agentforce, and Microsoft introduced Copilot agents. With 2025 here, questi…
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The AI application startup, which was founded in 2016 and was valued at more than $2.1 billion in 2021, uses a reasoning engine to help employees search for information across the enterprise. Since its inception, a key ingredient in the company's success has been AI and generative AI technology. "We were the first company after Google to deploy BER…
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When generative AI became the next big thing in tech, enterprise software giant Oracle bet heavily on a startup to provide it with foundation and large language models rather than scramble to develop its own. That then-fledgling company was Cohere. Founded in 2019, the generative AI vendor raised $270 million in a Series C round, and its investors …
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At the beginning of the wave of generative AI hype, many feared that generative models would replace the jobs of creatives like artists and photographers. With generative AI models such as Dall-E and Midjourney seemingly creating unique works of art and images, some artists found themselves at a disadvantage. Some say the generative systems took th…
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President-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign offered clues about how his administration would handle the fast-growing AI sector. One thing is clear: AI, to the extent that it is regulated, is headed for deregulation. "It's likely going to mean less regulation for the AI industry," said Makenzie Holland, senior news writer at TechTarget…
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When Candace Mitchell was young, she discovered a love for computers and haircare. Her interest in technology led her to study coding in high school, leading her to build websites. Meanwhile, she also considered going to cosmetology school. She found a middle ground in beauty technology, later becoming co-founder and CEO of Myavana, a Black-owned b…
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Open source AI models are closing the gap in the debate between open and closed models. Since the introduction of Meta Llama generative AI models in February 2023, more enterprises have started to run their AI applications on open source models. Cloud providers like Google have also noticed this shift and have accommodated enterprises by introducin…
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Nearly two years after the mass consumerization of generative AI with the introduction of ChatGPT, the technology is now moving from experimentation to implementation. A recent survey by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group found that generative AI adoption is growing. The analyst firm surveyed 832 professionals worldwide and found that adoption …
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As one of the top cloud providers, Google Cloud also stands at the forefront of the generative AI market. Over the past two years, Google has been enmeshed in a push and pull with its chief competitors -- AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI -- in the race to dominate generative AI. Google has introduced a slate of new generative AI products in the past year,…
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The growth of generative AI has put diversity front and center. In the last year, there have been concerns that GenAI systems such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini are not trained with enough diverse data sets. For instance, the introduction of the Lensa app two years ago allowed people of color to generate avatars of themselves. Concerns were raised, …
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Artificial intelligence has long enabled advanced capabilities in HR, such as automated video interviews and predictive analytics for recruitment, learning and performance management. But AI adoption has accelerated rapidly in recent years, thanks to the rise of talent intelligence platforms that apply AI to every step in the talent management proc…
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Generative AI fuels growth of online deepfakes threatening organizations and election integrity
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The growth of deepfakes in the past few years is a threat to not only organizations but also the U.S. general election in November. Information security vendor Pindrop saw a sharp rise in deepfakes in the first few months of the year compared to the previous year. Deepfakes of Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, President J…
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1:05:36Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is a product of two decades of California politics who has longstanding ties to the tech and AI communities in her home state. But in her role as President Joe Biden's vice president during the past four years, Harris was tasked with overseeing Biden's executive order on AI, with its emphasis on gover…
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For the past year, the Targeting AI podcast has explored a broad range of AI topics, none more than the fast-evolving and sometimes startling world of generative AI technology. From the first guest, Michael Bennett, AI policy adviser at Northeastern University, the podcast has focused intently on the popularization of generative AI, while also touc…
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AWS is quietly building a generative AI ecosystem in which its customers can use many large language models from different vendors, or choose to employ the tech giant's own models, Q personal assistants, GenAI platforms and Trainium and Inferentia AI chips. AWS says it has more than130,000 partners, and hundreds of thousands of AWS customers use AW…
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The biggest global retailer sees itself as a tech giant. And with 25,000 engineers and its own software ecosystem, Walmart isn't waiting to see how GenAI technology will play out. The company is already providing its employees -- referred to by the retailer as associates -- with in-house GenAI tools such as the My Assistant conversational chatbot. …
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