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Atos has opted for a rescue offer from Onepoint consortium that, together with offers from the French government and Alten to acquire parts of the business, lifts the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the ailing French IT services company. Onepoint’s proposal provides for a restructuring of Atos’ financial debt and the establishment of a sustainable capital structure, Atos said on Tuesday, the same day it announced that it had received a €270 million (about $290 million) offer from engineering consultant Alten to acquire Worldgrid, the part of Atos that provides consulting services to energy a...
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By Serdar Yegulalp What's new this (half-)month in Python and elsewhere? First up is Monkeytype, an Instagram-created library with a somewhat silly name. What's not silly is using it to add type hints automatically to untyped Python code. We also have five lesser-known tools for data science, a chance to go feet-first into Django 5 without getting swamped, and another look at Python 3.13, whose second beta has arrived. Sadly, you still gotta compile it from source to try out the bleeding-edge goodies. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorldAuto-generate Python type hints with MonkeytypeSick ...
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By Nick Hodges In a past column, I talked about how the fat cats of social media profit from all of the value that normal folks like you and I provide. Social media sites have complete control over the attention-creating value that we provide for them, and give us little to no say over how that content is managed. They can even take away access to our profiles. All the money generated by our work ends up in their coffers. I mentioned Substack as a place with low take rates, and how content producers there are able to benefit much more directly from the value that they create because they use a...
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By Matt Asay Everyone wants in on the AI boom. For now, however, you can probably count on one hand the number of vendors cashing in. The most obvious one is Nvidia, of course, Nvidia has earned nation-state levels of cash for its GPUs ($26 billion in the first quarter of 2024 alone). Beyond Nvidia are the big cloud vendors and OpenAI. Beyond that cast of five, however, it’s pretty hard to find many—yet. That “yet” is the key here. We are absolutely in a frothy period for AI, where vendors are selling “hopium” and enterprises are buying just enough to fuel proofs of concept, without much produ...
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By Serdar Yegulalp This month in Python (and elsewhere): Python 3.13's first beta has arrived, with new features you can try out now (yeah!) and others you'll need to compile from source to experiment with (yikes). Layoffs strike Google—yes, again—with internal Python devs among the affected. And, say hello to Streamlit, a library for those who are itching to write web-based Python apps but hate writing for the web. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorldThe best new features and fixes in Python 3.13New JIT compiler! "No-GIL" experiments! Better error messages! Dead batteries have been remov...
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By David Linthicum Guess what? 95% of IT decision-makers say their team has been negatively impacted by the cloud skills gap. If that’s not bad enough news, by 2030, more than 85 million roles could remain vacant because there aren’t enough skilled people to fill them. Of course, these are not new figures. We’ve been hemorrhaging skills for the past 15 years, and the advent of cloud computing—and now the resurgence of AI—has made things worse, thanks to several factors: Just give up?Although this is a challenge for many IT organizations, it’s not unsolvable. The trick is to begin planning well...
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Jan Leike, a prominent researcher — who recently resigned from OpenAI over safety and governance issues — has joined OpenAI competitor, Anthropic. Leike announced his move on X, stating his new focus will be on “scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.” Leike’s departure from OpenAI was one of several recent high-profile exits based on the premise that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat” at the ChatGPT creator. This follows reported disagreements with OpenAI’s leadership over its direction, particularly concerns that the organization...
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By David Linthicum The tech industry is buzzing with talk of cloud repatriation, partly due to some articles I have written here. What frustrates me about this industry is the lack of nuance. People make everything seem like drastic shifts. The last example of this was edge computing. Many articles I read claimed that “the shift is to the edge.” That caused a lot of confusion. Reporters, clients, and students all reached out to ask if the cloud was dead since edge computing now seemed like the way to go. Of course, that never came true, nor does any extreme shift that the analyst and tech pres...
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Back-office ERP systems are gaining strategic importance as organizations seek to digitize and automate business processes, modernize their application stack, migrate to the cloud, and accelerate the speed of business. In its latest MarketScape on worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled large enterprise ERP, IDC says, “The pace of innovation is increasing, and ERP vendors focused on AI, ML, natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, robotics process automation (RPA), and genAI are critical partners to consider for the digital future. This innovation will reset the use of ERP systems for years to co...
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By Peter Wang Since May 2023, the White House, in collaboration with leading AI companies, has been steering towards a comprehensive framework for responsible AI development. While the finalization of this framework is pending, the industry’s attempts at self-regulation are accelerating, primarily to address growing AI security concerns. The shift towards embedding trust and safety into AI tools and models is important progress. However, the real challenge lies in ensuring that these critical discussions don’t happen behind closed doors. For AI to evolve responsibly and inclusively, democratiz...
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