AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

Adobe’s GenStudio content supply chain platform is now generally available, with the ability to publish content directly to social media channels such as Instagram, Snap and TikTok coming soon. Adobe launched GenStudio for Performance Marketing — as the standalone GenStudio application is now called — in preview at Adobe MAX conference in 2023. At this year’s MAX…

Microsoft has outlined plans to secure its controversial Windows Recall feature ahead of launch.  Microsoft unveiled Recall in May, pitching it as an “explorable timeline of your PC’s past.” When enabled, Recall will record all user actions on Copilot Plus PCs, taking “snapshots” of the screen at 5-second intervals. Users can then access a searchable timeline of everything they’ve interacted with on their…

It took the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) less than a month to decide that there is no need to proceed further with a merger investigation after Google’s purchase of a $2 billion stake in Anthropic. In a statement released on Oct. 24, the CMA indicated that it had obtained “sufficient information” to launch…

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an urgent directive barring employees and contractors from using mobile phones for work-related calls, following a major breach in US telecommunications infrastructure attributed to Chinese-linked hackers. According to an internal memo, CFPB’s chief information officer advised staff to move sensitive discussions to secure platforms like Microsoft…

Microsoft’s Copilot is now available in OneDrive, part of a wider revamp of the company’s cloud storage platform.  Microsoft highlighted several ways to use the generative AI (genAI) assistant in OneDrive in a blog post Tuesday. Copilot can now summarize one or more files in OneDrive without needing to open them first; compare the content of…

After spending the past couple weeks living with Google’s new Pixel 9 Pro Fold — a.k.a. the second-gen Pixel Fold — I’ve got two big thoughts swimming around my murky man-noggin: Multitasking really is a whole new game on a device like this, and that opens the door to some incredibly interesting ways to get…