Thor Olavsrud is a Senior Writer at CIO.com, IDG Enterprise. He covers a range of topics including IT security, big data, and open source technologies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital transformation. Thor's insights and expertise have been featured in CIO Online.
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By: Thor Olavsrud, Grant Gross, Paul Gillin
Agentic AI is still in its deployment infancy, and while it is an area of high promise, it isn’t without its risks and concerns.
The modular platform for building and customizing gen AI models and AI agents is the foundation for the tech company’s data flywheel.
By: Dave Wright, Matt Egan, Thor Olavsrud
IBM is taking a ‘Client Zero’ approach to its AI agent business proposition, having rolled out its strategy to 270,000 employees around the world. IBM Korea CTO Lee Ji-eun shed light on the results.
엔비디아가 생성형AI 모델과 AI 에이전트를 구축·맞춤화할 수 있는 모듈형 플랫폼인 '네모(NeMo) 마이크로서비스'를 23일 공식 출시했다.
By: Ted Rogers, Frédéric Brunier, Maria Korolov, Jenica Mchugh
The Swedish industrial manufacturer is helping technicians troubleshoot equipment issues with its AI Factory Companion, powered by Microsoft Copilot.
By: Thor Olavsrud, Kurt Muehmel
As companies increasingly automate work processes using agents, traditional functions such as finance, marketing, and engineering may fall away, giving rise to an ‘agent boss’ era of delegation and orchestration of myriad bots.
Salesforce AI Research has unveiled a slate of new benchmarks, guardrails, and models to help customers develop agentic AI optimized for business applications.
By: Prasanth Aby Thomas, Denise Dubie, Lynn Greiner
At its Knowledge 2025 conference in Las Vegas, the information technology service management (ITSM) company debuted the AI Control Tower to manage, monitor, and optimize AI assets, and declared its AI Agent Fabric as the “communication backbone” of enterprise AI ecosystems.
At Knowledge 2025, ServiceNow debuted its Workflow Data Network ecosystem of partners to support workflow automation with AI. It also introduced a slate of new agents to assist autonomous IT.
By: Michael Curry, Nicholas D. Evans, Thor Olavsrud
In this interview with IDC's Marlanna Bozicevich, we learn about how organizations need to prioritize data management to take advantage of AI as a transformative platform. We also hit on how AI can support data management.
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