#ai-strategy

#ai-strategy

Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft's chief marketing officer, and his marketing team will join the newly created organization, with Takeshi reporting directly to Althoff as CMO; Numoto will still also report directly to Nadella on all-up business models, planning, consumer marketing, and corporate brand and communications.

"Humanity is investing enormous resources in the race to advance Artificial Intelligence," said Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. "Clay's years of experience leading Oracle's large, fast-growing Cloud Infrastructure business has demonstrated his readiness for a CEO role." "Mike has spent the last several years modernizing Oracle's Industry applications businesses - including Oracle Health - by completely rebuilding those applications using the latest AI technologies."

Coverage beats convenience. Zhu stressed that surveys and small samples don't tell the whole story. Without broad, representative data, decisions risk building bias into customer journeys. Recency can rival history. Khetan has seen strong outcomes from focusing on the correct recent data rather than hauling every data point into analysis. Data isn't the finish line. Franz reminded the audience that insights must be synthesized, socialized and operationalized to influence employee and customer experiences.

But despite its secrecy, "Project Maverick," as it is codenamed, isn't a revolutionary piece of hardware or groundbreaking new technology. It's Dell's plan to overhaul the company's operations and streamline all systems, data, and processes into a standardized platform. Dell sees this transformation as "critical" for its AI strategy and future success, and the company has brought on a team of Deloitte consultants to help guide the project, internal documents about the project obtained by Business Insider show.

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When you hear "governance," what pops to mind? We often picture limitations or roadblocks. Yet the opposite is true, particularly with artificial intelligence. AI governance is about discovering what your organization can do. Organizations implementing comprehensive AI governance experience measurable returns, including $840,000 in operational efficiency gains and 80% in productivity improvements. Building out your AI roadmap requires a mindset shift. These ideas will move you from limitation to acceleration.

AI has become the boardroom obsession of the decade. Yet despite billions in investment and relentless hype, recent independent studies show that most enterprises struggle to turn pilots into measurable business outcomes. Two recent studies put this problem into sharp focus: These studies deliver an important message that must echo across boardrooms: AI pilots aren't failing because the technology isn't powerful enough. They're failing because the strategy and expectations behind them are flawed.

"Every company can securely turn its enterprise data into AI apps and agents to grow revenue faster, operate more efficiently, and make smarter decisions with less risk," Ghodsi said.

Meta plans to restructure its AI division into four subdivisions to enhance its generative AI strategy, including an infrastructure team, product team, FAIR lab, and a TBDlab.

Ethics can connote a certain morality, a certain set of norms, and multinational companies are often dealing with many different cultures. Ethics can become a fraught term even within the same country where you have polarised views on what is right, what is fair.

Meta engineers have confirmed that the company has replaced Llama with Claude Sonnet for internal development tasks. This move comes after Llama 4 faced criticism since its launch, including negative reviews within the first 36 hours and controversies over model rankings.

We are focusing on accelerating our AI strategy-connecting teams and partners, prioritizing resources and expediting use cases across our businesses and functions.

"Our results this quarter and for the full fiscal year demonstrate the ongoing effectiveness of our 'user first, AI-driven' strategy, with core business growth continuing to accelerate."

Salesforce acquired Slack in 2020 after Microsoft allegedly engaged in anti-competitive behavior against it, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.