In this episode, we hear from Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President at AI and Data Analytics at Oracle. Aziza encourages his customers to think of the AI acronym not simply as artificial intelligence, but rather as an "applied and invisible" form of augmentation that allows organizations and individuals to get to their end goals faster. Data analysts spend about 80% of their time just preparing data before it can even be analyzed. By applying AI, that time can be cut to nearly nothing, errors can be reduced, and business analysts can reappropriate their time. This allows companies to analyze more efficiently and ask better questions to create a more productive organization. Listen in to hear Aziza share more, including specific examples of company successes. Aziza also encourages you to learn from customer stories and interviews in his web series, Destination:Insight, on The Oracle Analytics YouTube page. Richard Jacobs: Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the future tech podcast. I have Bruno Aziza, group vice president of AI data & analytics at Oracle and the website is oracle.com. Large corporations have been around a very long time. How are you doing today? Richard Jacobs: So what do you do as a new position that looks at AI at Oracle? What kind of projects are you working on? Bruno Aziza: Well, thank you and thanks for having me. Thanks for your listeners to take time for us.

Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Uber deployed an espionage team to plunder trade secrets from its rivals. That has triggered a delay in a high-profile trial over whether the beleaguered ride-hailing company stole self-driving car technology from Google spinoff Waymo. The criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. Justice Department centers on information contained in a 37-page letter that Uber's former manager of global intelligence sent in May to a company lawyer. The investigation wasn't publicly known until Tuesday, when it surfaced in a court hearing that was supposed to set the stage for a trial pitting Uber against Waymo, a self-driving car pioneer that started within Google eight years ago and is still a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. The hearing instead quickly turned into a forum raising more questions about the ethics and conduct of Uber.