3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (375+ words) All of these features must be consciously enabled by the user and are not on by default. What they have in common is use of artificial intelligence along with always-on microphones. While all four of these tools are being presented…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (711+ words) Qualcomm is taking an unusual approach to the launch of its next-generation premium Snapdragon mobile platform this year. Instead of holding everything for its annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui happening later this month, the company has been methodically disclosing the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (585+ words) Gartner on Wednesday said that it expects 30% of the positions eliminated by AI-related layoffs to be refilled by 2029, suggesting that the initial terminations were ill-advised and excessive. The Gartner report noted that it is finding that the cuts “deplete talent…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (898+ words) AI is evolving faster than most people, even those building it, could even fathom, and its impact on the workforce and the economy is, at this point, really anyone’s guess. Researchers from The Anthropic Institute are offering a few possibilities:…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (596+ words) Twenty-five years ago, I sat near the front of the room while then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs rolled out Apple’s digital hub strategy, a vision in which the Mac would become the central manager of all manner of portable digital devices....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (622+ words) Adobe on Wednesday unveiled a range of updates to Acrobat, including the ability to turn PDF documents into interactive visual reports and podcasts. And a new Knowledge Base feature connects Adobe’s Acrobat AI assistant to document sources such as Microsoft…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (470+ words) Computerworld Late-breaking reports suggest Apple has built a new Siri AI ‘Recaps’ feature that summarizes your day for you The idea sounds great until you recognize that this summary will also include overheard conversations Suspending the huge red flag…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (691+ words) By now, you probably know my stance on Gemini and other generative AI gobbledegook — right? In short: It’s an insanely powerful form of technology (obviously). But it’s also wildly inaccurate and ineffective as an all-purpose answer engine, and by cramming…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (203+ words) Swiss authorities have launched a pilot project to determine whether it is possible to replace Microsoft 365 with similar open-source services, RTS reports. This follows a proof-of-concept project in which 172 civil servants tested the German open-source platform openDesk. According to Matthias…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (589+ words) Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark? Beginning in the morning, Eastern time, several ChatGPT models went down over a roughly two hour period, Claude models over a…...