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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

Meta has hired the former CEO of Salesforce AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new “Business AI” group. Shih is now a vice president at Meta and the head of a new business AI group, she said in a post there. Meta’s Llama models have over 600M downloads to date, and Meta AI has more than 500M monthly actives,” Shih said.

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Google, Microsoft could turn gatekeepers for advanced AI chips

Network World

The framework would allow the companies to offer AI capabilities via cloud services internationally without needing an export license, the report added. Meanwhile, companies without gatekeeper status would need to compete for licenses to import limited quantities of advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD in each country.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

While human-written code can also infringe on copyright or violate open-source licenses, the risk with AI-generated code is related to the data the AI is trained on, says Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, a travel technology company. You can maybe sense that there’s something going on there.”

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Arista adds intelligent switch stacking, management for campus networks

Network World

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. In a nutshell SWAG, which will be available in the second quarter of 2025, lets customers group together up to 48 switches under a single logical IP address cluster.

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Microsoft is set to hike its Power BI prices — will buyers jump ship or just take the hit?

CIO Business Intelligence

Info-Tech Research Group noted that most customers need a 30% to 35% discount on the E5 license to match the renewal pricing for M365 E3. Its also important to negotiate flexible licensing terms that include clearly defined usage metrics, renewal-term price protections, and contractual safeguards against future cost increases.

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SoftBank to buy Ampere for $6.5B, fueling Arm-based server market competition

Network World

SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 The future of Artificial Super Intelligence requires breakthrough computing power, Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group CEO and Chairman said in a statement. billion, significantly expanding its footprint in the rapidly evolving Arm-based server processor market.