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Intel’s foundry business has secured a significant deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for custom AI chip production, potentially bolstering confidence in the struggling chip giant. In a memo to employees, CEO Pat Gelsinger revealed that Intel Foundry Services will manufacture an AI fabric chip for AWS using its 18A process technology. “We will also…

Microsoft never sleeps. In addition to its steady releases of major and minor updates to the current version of Windows 10, the company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Windows Insiders can choose to receive…

Slack AI customers can now interact with AI “agents” in other apps, including Asana, Box and Anthropic’s Claude.  The AI agents, accessible via a new chatbot interface in Slack, let users perform a range of actions in the integrated app, Slack said Monday.  With the Asana agent, for instance, Slack users can “surface project insights…

Along with iOS 18, Apple today is releasing macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18, and the latest update to watchOS. (Apple Intelligence, which isn’t expected to begin to appear until next month, has gotten a lot of attention, but the pre-AI versions of these operating systems offer plenty of useful features and updates.) Focusing today on macOS Sequoia, should you upgrade…

Microsoft has added a new collaborative document tool to the Microsoft 365 Copilot chatbot that lets users store and share information created by the generative AI (genAI) assistant. It’s one of several M365 Copilot features announced Monday, including new Copilot features in apps such as Teams, Outlook, and Excel.  Microsoft describes Copilot Pages as a “dynamic, persistent canvas” accessible within Copilot’s Business Chat conversational interace. With Pages,…

Addressing four zero-days flaws (CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-43491 and CVE-2024-38217), this month’s Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft includes 79 updates to the Windows platform. There are no patches to Microsoft Exchange Server or the company’s development tools (Visual Studio or .NET). And Microsoft addressed a recently exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher with two critical updates and nine patches rated…

Apple didn’t make a song and dance about it during this week’s iPhone 16 launch, but one other thing that’s about to change (at least in Europe) is that it will support third-party app stores with the release of iPad OS 18. (It already supports this on iPhones in the EU. We knew this was coming.  European…

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. Capable of storing and processing data across 16,500 conductance states in a molecular film, this new platform represents a dramatic leap over traditional digital systems, which are limited to just two states (on and…

American companies have unwittingly hired hundreds — maybe thousands — of North Korean workers for remote IT positions, according to the US Department of Justice, the FBI, the US State Department, and cybersecurity companies. The sophisticated scheme, perpetrated by the North Korean government for years, partly funds that country’s weapons program in violation of US…

Here’s an exciting development that almost got missed during Apple’s heady week of iPhone news: Parallels has hit version 20 and now provides a series of powerful features designed to streamline artificial intelligence (AI) development.  If you run Windows on your Mac, you’re likely already familiar with Parallels Desktop. It is, after all, the only solution…