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Global AI adoption is growing, and so is the digital divide

A Microsoft AI Economy Institute study shows stark differences between nations located in 'Global North' versus 'Global South'.

By Paul Barker

Jan 8, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

Apple has protected against seven zero-day attacks this year

Even Mac users need to be aware, keep your systems updated, and remain vigilant.

Aug 22, 2025 5 mins

Apple Endpoint Protection Mobile Security

FTC warns tech giants against foreign government pressure on privacy and censorship

FTC Chairman puts 13 major companies on notice that weakening US consumer protections could violate federal law.

Aug 22, 2025 5 mins

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Rise of AI crawlers and bots causing web traffic havoc

Findings from Fastly reveal one fetcher bot made 39,000 requests per minute to a single website at peak load.

Aug 21, 2025 6 mins

Generative AI Internet Machine Learning

Adobe Acrobat Studio brings genAI power to PDFs

PDFs have been around for 30 years but Adobe hopes to make them central to the AI-native workspace with new highly-interactive capabilities.

Aug 21, 2025 6 mins

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Google rolls out new AI content-generation and consumption tools in Workspace

One of the new features allows audio versions of documents in Google Docs to be created so users can listen to them in a podcast-like format.

Aug 21, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Google Office Suites

Productivity software firms pivot to genAI by leaning on legacy strengths

Though a lot of enterprises have rolled out genAI tools — without much to show for the effort — companies that develop productivity software had to embrace the technology to stay in business.

Aug 20, 2025 5 mins

Generative AI Google Technology Industry

Microsoft fixes the fixes that broke Windows tools

Microsoft has corrected two August 2025 Patch Tuesday bugs that blocked Windows 11 upgrades and broke reset and recovery tools across Windows 10 and 11.

Aug 20, 2025 1 min

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China’s DeepSeek launches V3.1, raising stakes for enterprise AI adoption

The release widens access to frontier AI and deepens scrutiny of China’s challenge to US tech leadership.

Aug 20, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

MIT study: 95% of corporate genAI projects fall short of success

The problem is not with the generative AI models, but with a lack of integration and learning.

Aug 19, 2025 1 min

Generative AI Technology Industry

Microsoft pushes Copilot directly into Excel cells

The generative AI tool has been integrated into the engine used for spreadsheet calculations.

Aug 19, 2025 1 min

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UK agrees to drop dangerous data encryption backdoor demands, says US

The decision represents a victory for common sense, digital privacy, and commerce.

Aug 19, 2025 6 mins

Encryption Government Laws and Regulations

Enterprise note-taking apps face legal scrutiny as Otter hit with privacy suit

The complaint filed in California district court says the popular transcription service records users and uses their voices and data to train its models without consent.

Aug 18, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Privacy

Anthropic’s Claude models can now shut down harmful conversations

The new feature is not designed to protect users, but the large language model itself.

Aug 18, 2025 1 min

Generative AI

Google to pay $36M fine in Australia over anticompetitive Android search deals

Google agrees to change business practices as the regulator says deals with Telstra and Optus restricted consumer choice.

Aug 18, 2025 5 mins

Productivity Software Technology Industry

Questionable AI work habits rampant among US firms

Findings from CalypsoAI’s Insider AI Threat Report indicate misuse even extends to the C-suite.

Aug 15, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Risk Management

Nvidia: ‘Graphics 3.0’ will drive physical AI productivity

The company is pushing the idea that AI-generated graphics will be a key to improved productivity in factories and warehouses and can help train robots.

Aug 15, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Nvidia Robotics

AI is creating new billionaires at record speed

There are now close to 500 AI 'unicorns' — private companies worth $1 billion or more — and 100 of them were established in just the past two years.

Aug 14, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft moves to recruit AI experts from Meta with big bucks

The company is offering salary packages worth several million dollars.

Aug 13, 2025 1 min

Generative AI IT Skills and Training Microsoft

Is Perplexity’s $34 billion offer to buy Chrome real or a marketing stunt?

Tuesday’s disclosure that Perplexity wants to buy Chrome may be intended to influence a federal judge more than Google/Alphabet. Either way, it’s getting a lot of attention, which might have been Perplexity’s primary goal.

Aug 13, 2025 6 mins

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Workday explores employee attitudes towards AI agents

New findings indicate most humans do not mind teaming up with them, assuming a machine doesn’t call the shots.

Aug 12, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Workday

AI agents make mistakes; Rubrik has figured out a way to reverse them

With Agent Rewind, users can pinpoint the exact moment an AI agent goofed and roll back its actions.

Aug 12, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Nvidia’s new genAI model helps robots think like humans

The company’s vision language model, Cosmos Reason, is designed to help robots make better decisions by evaluating their surroundings.

Aug 11, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Nvidia Robotics

GenAI tools are acting more ‘alive’ than ever; they blackmail people, replicate, and escape

In tests, generative AI systems showed signs of self-preservation that experts say could spiral out of control.

Aug 11, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Laws and Regulations

Another long week in Apple Intelligence

Apple deepens partnerships with ChatGPT and talks up new Apple Intelligence models while Tim Cook gets his checkbook out.

Aug 8, 2025 4 mins

Apple Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Stargate’s slow start reveals the real bottlenecks in scaling AI infrastructure

SoftBank’s CFO confirms delays in the Stargate AI initiative, exposing the critical role of land, energy, and stakeholder orchestration in scaling AI infrastructure.

Aug 8, 2025 1 min

Data Center Technology Industry

OpenAI drops GPT-5: smarter, sharper, and built for the real world

GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model, with stronger coding, reasoning, and multimodal features.

Aug 7, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

Hybrid Exchange environment vulnerability needs fast action

Microsoft and CISA urge admins to quickly plug a high-severity vulnerability.

Aug 7, 2025 1 min

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Trump’s semiconductor tariffs threaten CIO budgets with up to 80% cost surge

Analysts warn of multi-phase price hikes and vendor reshuffling, forcing CIOs to prioritize US manufacturing and implement aggressive cost mitigation strategies.

Aug 7, 2025 1 min

IT Strategy Technology Industry

OpenAI challenges rivals with Apache-licensed GPT-OSS models

The release marks a break from closed systems, offering enterprises customizable, high-performance AI without vendor lock-in.

Aug 6, 2025 6 mins

Generative AI

Intel’s chip yield woes threaten Panther Lake launch and PC supply chains

Subpar production rates could disrupt OEM timelines, inflate costs, and open doors for rivals in the high-end enterprise laptop segment.

Aug 6, 2025 5 mins

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Microsoft’s real AI challenge: Moving past the prototypes

The company often sees the future — but struggles to participate in it.

Aug 6, 2025 7 mins

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AI crawlers vs. web defenses: Cloudflare-Perplexity fight reveals cracks in internet trust

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers.

Aug 5, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Security Technology Industry

Tech employment holds steady as job growth slows and AI-driven roles surge

Though the unemployment rate for the tech industry was largely unchanged in July, demand is soaring for AI and data-focused roles such as database architects and data scientists.

Aug 5, 2025 4 mins

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Google touts new genAI features for its NotebookLM

NotebookLM can now generate AI video summaries from reference documents in the form of narrated slides.

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Google Productivity Software

Apple, Google, others join White House digital health data push

The new agreement means health data will become more interoperable than it is today.

Jul 31, 2025 5 mins

Apple Healthcare Industry iOS

Google backs EU’s AI code despite concerns over innovation risks

The move is expected to increase pressure on other providers, including Meta and Anthropic, to follow suit.

Jul 31, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Laws and Regulations Technology Industry

AI’s long-term impact on IT jobs still unclear, Microsoft study suggests

AI automation might transform the sector, changing job roles rather than destroying them.

Jul 30, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs

Meta is offering big-dollar salaries to some Thinking Machines Lab workers

The company has disputed the allegations; Wired reported that at least one employee received an offer worth more than $1 billion dollars over several years.

Jul 30, 2025 1 min

Generative AI IT Jobs Technology Industry

Copilot is getting a face, a room — and a place in your life

Microsoft wants to give your Copilot a "permanent identity" — like a Tamagotchi.

Jul 30, 2025 8 mins

Machine Learning Microsoft Windows 11

Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

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Microsoft is turning Edge into an AI browser

The company on Monday unveiled an AI extension called ‘Copilot Mode’ that can automate browsing and add context to internet content.

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins

Browsers Generative AI Microsoft Edge

Apple in India transforms the US smartphone industry

India now accounts for 44% of US smartphone imports.

Jul 29, 2025 4 mins

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Google makes an AI play with ChromeOS PCs

The company apparently wants to position its Gemini-infused Chromebooks as a viable alternative to Windows 11 AI PCs.

Jul 29, 2025 5 mins

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Zhipu launches GLM-4.5 model as China ramps up open-source AI race

It’s built with an “agent-native” design that integrates reasoning, perception, and action into its core architecture, the company said.

Jul 29, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Alibaba unveils AI-powered smart glasses

The launch will bring the company into competition with Meta and others when the glasses are released by year's end.

Jul 28, 2025 1 min

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Intel to lay off 22% of workforce as CEO Tan signals ‘no more blank checks’

The chipmaker plans to reduce headcount from 96,400 to 75,000 employees amid restructuring and steeper Q3 losses.

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

IT Jobs Intel Technology Industry

Leena AI unveils conversational AI ‘colleagues’ for the enterprise

Blending voice AI with mobile, desktop, and app integrations, Leena’s ‘extremely personified’ agents aim to bridge the gap between humans and fragmented workplace software.

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

More internet users in the US are ditching Google search for ChatGPT

One in four people surveyed by Adobe Express say OpenAI's ChatGPT is now their first choice for search.

Jul 24, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Internet Productivity Software

IT buyers are investing in AI PCs — with no clue how to use them

Companies looking to buy Windows 11 PCs designed for AI tools are doing so without really understanding what they can — and can't yet — do, analysts say.

Jul 24, 2025 5 mins

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