In todayβs 2-Minute Tech Briefing, enterprises run into AI challenges, Microsoft retires Mesh app and launches βimmersive spacesβ for Teams, and Cloudflareβs outage caused by an attempted security fix.
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Hello and welcome to 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host. Arnold Davick, reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT news stories you need to know for Wednesday, December 10th.
First up, from NetworkWorld, many enterprises are running into roadblocks with their AI deployments.
The new CompTIA study shows nearly 80% of companies have rolled back AI initiatives because they underperformed, couldn't scale, or were too hard to integrate, despite high expectations for productivity gains, organizations say AI failures often push them back to human centric workflows.
Leaders point to three major issues, models that don't perform well, processes that don't mesh with existing systems and rising implementation costs. The lesson is clear. Ai, success requires balancing people, processes and technology. It doesn't come from rushing to replace them.
Next, from ComputerWorld, Microsoft is shutting down its mesh 3d collaboration app launched during the pandemic. Mesh was meant to bring VR style, immersive meetings to the workplace, but adoption never took off.
Microsoft confirmed the standalone mesh app is officially retired, and the mesh website is being shut down as well its latest sign the company is stepping back from its Metaverse ambitions following the gradual decrease of HoloLens production last year.
And finally, from NetworkWorld, Cloudflare suffered a brief but widespread outage after a firewall update went wrong. The company pushed a fix to protect customers from a new "React Server Components" vulnerability, but the update caused Cloudflare's network to temporarily go offline.
The disruption rippled across major services including Shopify, zoom and AWS, Cloudflare says it resolved the issue within minutes, but it's a reminder that even defensive patches can introduce new risks. That's today's 2-Minute Tech Briefing. For more enterprise tech news.
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