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Wednesday August 20, 2025. 01:00 PM
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...
Agents, assemble! AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable. Indeed, coding agents are all around us, touching on every aspect of the software development life cycle, and recently InfoWorld outlined 12 of the best. This raised in the minds of our readers the...
In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met Chris Fuller. UK-born Chris now runs a startup in the US. Once a reluctant student with dyslexia, Chris was hand-picked to do a paid PHD and then worked in the UK intelligence community before emerging to work in cyber...
Friday August 15, 2025. 09:32 PM
A new study from AI security provider CalypsoAI reveals a “growing use and misuse of AI” within US organizations by employees at all levels, including C-suite executives. Of note, it said, “half (50%) of executives say they’d prefer AI managers over a human, although ...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday release offers a rather complex set of updates, with 111 fixes affecting Windows, Office, SQL Server and Exchange Server — and several “Patch Now” recommendations. Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Windows Kerberos...
For all the fuss over the App Store and how competitors have lobbied governments to force Apple to open up that side of its business, one question that never seems to get answered is what is a reasonable profit margin for a company to make from its enterprise? It is...
Nvidia has floated the idea of “Graphics 3.0” with the hope of making AI-generated graphics central to physical productivity, especially in factories and warehouses. The concept revolves around graphics generated by generative AI (genAI) tools as opposed to humans....
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