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Friday August 22, 2025. 10:46 AM
Apple devices support Apple Intelligence, the growing collection of artificial intelligence (AI) tools the company began to roll out in October 2024. These include both consumer-friendly tools such as automatic mixing in Apple Music alongside a growing selection of...
A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers make up close to 80% of the AI bot traffic observed. Meta generated more...
Pause to think about it: The PDF is more than 30 years old. Ubiquitous in enterprises, it’s estimated that upwards of 3 trillion are currently in circulation. But the three-decades-old file format, invented by Adobe in 1993, increasingly comes across as static or wonky,...
Thursday August 21, 2025. 07:02 PM
Google this week released significant AI-powered content generation and consumption updates to its Workspace productivity suite. The company said it has expanded the availability of its Whisk image-generation model to Google AI Ultra for Business customers in 77 countries. ...
Wednesday August 20, 2025. 08:44 PM
A recent survey by MIT found that 95% of generative AI (genAI) projects failed to have a meaningful financial impact. But for companies making productivity tools, adopting the technology has become a matter of survival. Everyone from big-name companies like Microsoft and...
Microsoft has issued fixes for a pair of troublesome bugs introduced with its August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative security updates. The updates — KB5063875, KB5063709, and KB5063877 — not only triggered installation errors that blocked some Windows 11 devices from...
In environments ranging from construction sites to university campuses to legal and retail operations, IT leaders are putting generative AI assistants to work — and discovering how to make them drive productivity. In this article, we focus on Microsoft 365 Copilot,...
Chinese startup DeepSeek has released its largest AI model to date, a 685-billion-parameter model that industry observers say could intensify competition with US players. The model, called DeepSeek V3.1, was made available on the open-source platform Hugging Face this week...
Google’s Pixel phones are taking center stage this week — today, in fact, as the company takes the wraps off its latest and greatest Googley gizmos. We’re expecting to see a focus on fancy new AI additions and some tantalizing hardware touches, including what could be...
Tuesday August 19, 2025. 07:07 PM
Will the use of generative AI (genAI) tools degrade human intelligence over the long term? That question — and lingering concerns about cheating and hallucinations — are among the issues US university professors are grappling with as a new academic year approaches. Even...
US companies have invested between $35 billion and $40 billion in generative AI (genAI) projects, but most efforts are stuck in the pilot stage, according to a report from MIT’s NANDA initiative. Only about 5% of the efforts lead to rapid revenue growth; the majority...
A new Copilot feature has been added to Excel for Windows and Mac, specifically the generative AI (genAI feature has been integrated into the engine used for calculations, according to the Microsoft 365 Insider blog. (The feature is not yet generally available — it’s...
The UK has agreed to drop its mandate that Apple install a backdoor into the encrypted data stored on its devices, though it isn’t clear whether this is an overall change or simply a tweak to protect US citizens. The landmark move would be a victory for digital privacy...
For a variety of reasons — hardware incompatibilities, legacy software, the feeling that Windows 10 works just fine, thanks — both consumers and businesses have for years resisted Microsoft’s not-so-subtle nudges to upgrade from Windows 10 to its successor, Windows 11. ...
Otter.ai and other call recording, note-taking apps like Read.ai and even Google Gemini have become handy tools for many enterprise users, automatically kicking off in the background and providing full transcripts of calls and key meeting takeaways. But some see the services ...
Monday August 18, 2025. 09:57 PM
Anthropic has introduced a new feature in its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models that allows the generative AI (genAI) tool to end a conversation on its own if a user repeatedly tries to push harmful or illegal content. The new behavior is supposed to only be used when all...
In its efforts to deploy AI tools, international services firm Wolters Kluwer has created frameworks to ensure responsible AI development with continuous human oversight. The Dutch company has woven AI into its core products for more than a decade, products that now drive...
If you use a Mac at work or elsewhere, then you inevitably use Spotlight, Apple’s helpful search tool that has been blessed with a variety of productivity-enhancing improvements in macOS 26 Tahoe. Apple calls this the “biggest Spotlight update ever,” so it’s time...
Google has agreed to pay $35.8 million (A$55 million) fine in Australia after admitting it made illegal deals that blocked rival search engines from Android phones. The company admitted wrongdoing and agreed to the penalty. It is now up to the court to determine whether the...
We live in a new age of artificial intelligence (AI), which is making everything better. And worse. AI is transforming everyday life by improving diagnostics, personalizing medicine and learning, detecting fraud, automating tasks, optimizing operations, supporting smarter...
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