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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Network World

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. With it customers can purchase our new unified licenses (Cisco Wireless Essentials or Advantage) in a Cisco Networking Subscription.

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Guidelines not policies: The University of Texas at San Antonio’s approach to gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

We immediately looked at tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot because we already had a Microsoft 365 license,” says Ketchum. “We We were happy to pay a little more for the licensing to use a tool we already knew how to support from an operational perspective, making it possible for faculty to test the waters rolling out small AI initiatives.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Keeping control However, anyone wanting to use the latest Llama 3.2

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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. “Is that getting all borrowed from one source; are there multiple sources?

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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

Network World

In technology licensing where an entity is both provider and competitor, boundaries are typically well-defined without special preferences beyond potential first-mover advantages, Kawoosa explained.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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