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Quick: What’s the most exciting app on your Android phone right now? Just a hunch here, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Google Contacts probably wasn’t your answer. And why would it be? Your phone’s virtual Rolodex is about as exhilarating as a trip to the endodontist. Plus, our mobile devices…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has released a new version of its GPT-4o large language model (LLM), designed to simplify the process of generating “well-defined” and “structured” outputs from AI models. “This feature is particularly valuable for developers who need to validate and format AI outputs into structures like JSON schemas. Developers often face challenges validating and formatting…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the business world by storm, with at least three in four organizations adopting the technology or piloting it to increase productivity. Over the next two years, generative AI (genAI) will force organizations to address a myriad of fast-evolving issues, from data security to tech review boards, new services, and —…
Enterprises are becoming increasingly impressed by the robust security of Macs, and Apple is locking its platform down even more firmly with macOS Sequoia and a couple of changes to improve defenses against malware and “camfecting.” This reflects the company’s continued mission to ensure platform security by design. Gatekeeper empowerment The first change is the biggest. Apple’s Gatekeeper protection is designed to…
Google reportedly plans to add new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to Chromebooks that can help people troubleshoot issues with connecting Bluetooth devices to their laptops, as part of its ongoing and fast-moving strategy to integrate AI into its products. According to a published report, the virtual assistant, “BlueBuddy”, will provide quick and easy answers to…
Announced in 2021, Microsoft Loop was officially rolled out to business customers in November 2023 and to individual users in June 2024. The new tool includes both text snippets that can be embedded in certain Microsoft 365 apps and a standalone app where employees can collaborate in shared workspaces. It’s a little hard to wrap…
Zoom has added a document creation tool that uses generative AI (genAI) to help create and manage information related to meetings. First announced last year, Zoom Docs is now generally available within Workplace, Zoom’s an all-in-one collaboration app, the company said in a blog post Monday. Docs is pitched as a word processor that can be used…
OpenAI has for more than a year had a tool to watermark text generated by the company’s AI assistant ChatGPT, according to information provided to The Wall Street Journal via The Verge. (OpenAI itself has confirmed that it’s been working on such a tool in a blog post.) According to Journal, the watermarking should not affect the quality…
Intel is making a strategic shift toward AI as it grapples with significant financial difficulties, including an 85% year-on-year drop in second-quarter profit. The company has also announced that it’ll slash over 15,000 jobs as part of its effort to reallocate resources toward AI technology. In light of ongoing financial struggles and escalating competition from…
These days, a relatively clean and uncomplicated Windows 10 or 11 system disk might be home to more than 250,000 files and 90,000 folders. A more complex, application-heavy system disk might contain between half a million and a million files. My Windows 10 production PC has over 2.9M files and 750K folders, for example. My…