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Disclosure: Intel is a client of the author. At Intel’s Innovation conference this past week, the company highlighted the next generation of Windows PCs, clearly anticipating Microsoft’s genAI Copilot tool, which can write documents for…
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Generative AI and US copyright law are on a collision course
US copyright law has yet to catch up to the numerous challenges posed by the wildfire adoption of generative AI, and the first real movement on major legal questions is likely to come from upcoming…
Cisco: Macs in business boost productivity and security, cuts costs
Mac adoption in the enterprise isn’t just about giving employees hardware options, according to Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn. It’s a business imperative — and many companies agree. Previn spoke at this week’s Jamf Nation User Conference…
Google adds its Bard chatbot to Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other apps
Google today announced it is embedding its conversational,Bard chatbot into many of its most popular apps, allowing users to get human-like responses to questions, summarize Gmail messages, and search Google Docs and Youtube. Bard is in…
UK regulator outlines AI foundation model principles, warns of potential harm
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned about the potential risks of artificial intelligence in its newly published review into AI foundation models. Foundation models are AI systems that have been trained on…
Google US antitrust trial: A timeline
Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of…
Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs
Low-code software company Airtable announced its second round of job cuts in nine months, laying off around 237 people, or approximately 27% of the company. The cuts are part of a plan to focus the…
Critical updates for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio drive September’s Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released 59 updates in its September Patch Tuesday release, with critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, and continued the trend of including non-Microsoft applications in its update cycle. (Notepad++ is a notable…
Amazon deploys generative AI to write sales listings
Amazon has launched a new generative AI tool that creates copy listings for users selling items on the company’s e-commerce platform. Designed to simplify the selling process, the new tool reduces the need for sellers…
Microsoft Teams suffers another outage in the North America region
In yet another incident of an outage this year for Microsoft 365, enterprises using the company’s North American infrastructure for running Teams faced disruption on Wednesday evening, resulting in delay in sending or receiving messages…