Imagine an isolated, childless world whose inhabitants aimlessly amuse themselves as they slowly age into oblivion. I’m talking about the movie Zardoz, although it could also be Facebook. Their latest nonsense is to claim that Canadian news “isn’t particularly valuable to us” yet fight fiercely to avoid sharing the revenue it generates.
Only half the CIOs who have adopted citizen development say it’s worked (14% of 27%), but nearly all the rest (70%) plan to adopt it, according to this Webcon survey. The study throws fuel on the build vs buy fire by reporting that low-code development is not only faster, cheaper and more flexible than custom development but also than buying packaged (“commercial off-the-shelf”) software. Or maybe not: the actual questions compare apps built with low-code platforms to “applications built with commercial-off-the-shelf products”, so respondents might have been thinking about packaged... Read More >
Xebia, a pioneering Software Engineering and IT consultancy company, today announced that the company will begin implementing Salesforce Net Zero Cloud to help businesses accelerate their sustainability goals. Xebia will help companies gain insights to help them achieve their climate goals and take action.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.