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Friday June 20, 2025. 04:22 AM
Scale AI has been attempting to quell fears about its company sovereignty and data security after its ‘acqui-hiring’ by Meta, but customers appear to be defecting anyhow, and competitors are being rewarded with a slice of the limelight. Meta is investing $14.3 billion in ...
Thursday June 19, 2025. 03:15 PM
OpenAI has ended its long-standing partnership with Scale AI, the company that powered some of the most complex data-labeling tasks behind frontier models such as GPT-4. The split, confirmed by an OpenAI spokesperson to Bloomberg, comes on the heels of Meta’s $14.3 billion ...
Microsoft is set to cut thousands of jobs, mainly in sales, amid growing fears that AI advances are accelerating the replacement of human roles across the industry, Bloomberg reports. The cuts follow a previous round in May, which saw approximately 6,000 roles eliminated....
The “black screen” phenomenon in Windows 10 and Windows 11 shows poignantly how nothing sometimes matters quite a lot. Seeing nothing except a black screen where the desktop and its applications normally appear is disconcerting for users, because they literally can’t...
Wednesday June 18, 2025. 10:27 PM
After reports suggested Meta has tried to poach employees from OpenAI and Google Deepmind by offering huge compensation packages, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighed in, saying those reports are true. He confirmed them during a podcast with his brother Jack Altman. “There have...
Every Mac, iPhone, or iPad user should do everything they can to protect themselves against social engineering-based phishing attacks, a new report from Jamf warns. In a time of deep international tension, the digital threat environment reflects the zeitgeist, with hackers...
The ongoing protests in Los Angeles have pushed a national issue further into the spotlight: recent actions by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), including the detention of immigrants and, in some cases, the revocation of visas. Naturally, immigration...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has thrown down the gauntlet to established AI giants, releasing what it boldly claims is the world’s first open-source, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model that could fundamentally change the economics of advanced AI development....
There’s no denying it: When it comes to Windows and AI chatbots, ChatGPT leads the pack. Microsoft invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, after all. And while the company has pinned Copilot to the taskbar on Windows PCs and placed a Copilot key on new laptops, its...
Right now, Gemini’s getting a bit of a bad rap — at least, among certain circles of savvy users who are closely tuned into the technology. It’s easy to see why: Google rushed Gemini out of the gates way before it was ready. It increasingly crippled the perfectly fine...
Tuesday June 17, 2025. 03:24 PM
Look, it’s not just about Siri and ChatGPT; artificial intelligence will drive future tech experiences and should be seen as a utility. That’s the strategic imperative driving Apple’s WWDC introduction of the Foundation Models Framework for its operating systems. It...
Microsoft experienced a significant service disruption across its Microsoft 365 services on Monday, affecting core applications including Microsoft Teams and Exchange Online. The outage left users globally unable to access collaboration and communication tools critical to...
Grammarly is reinventing itself as a platform of generative AI (genAI) agents that go beyond grammar recommendations. The company is building always-on AI technologies that follow users across work applications and can coordinate projects, write documents and automate...
The relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft is under growing strain amid extended talks over OpenAI’s restructuring, with OpenAI reportedly considering antitrust action over Microsoft’s influence in the partnership. OpenAI leaders have considered alleging that...
Monday June 16, 2025. 09:23 PM
Generative AI (genAI) poses a classic IT dilemma. When it works well, it is amazingly versatile and useful, fueling dreams that it can do almost anything. The problem is that when it does not do well, it might deliver wrong answers, override its instructions, and pretty...
As companies move from testing out generative AI tools and models into real-world use — also known as inference— they’re having trouble predicting what that use will lead to in terms of cloud costs, according to a new report from analyst firm Canalys. “Unlike...
Apple stealthily introduced Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF), a new sparse disk image format for Apple Silicon, at WWDC; among other features, it might also help Macs remain the best PCs on which to run Windows. That somewhat counter-intuitive claim is because the new...
In a bid to deliver secure, compliant generative AI (genAI) to business teams without the need for a cloud service, Uptime Industries last week unveiled Lemony. It’s a turnkey stackable device that comes preloaded with multiple large language models (LLMs) and can serve ...
Despite sizeable tech layoffs over the past two years, a tech talent gap persists — especially for those trained on implementing and using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools. Consultancy McKinsey & Co. now projects that demand for AI-skilled workers will...
Navigating the AI talent shortage The IT layoffs we’ve seen in 2024 and early 2025 are set to continue as companies look to drive efficiencies with AI while bracing for a recession. This wee,k CIO.com reported on company boards pushing CEOs to replace IT workers with AI....
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