Adobe adds Workfront Planning tool with genAI assistant

Adobe adds Workfront Planning tool with genAI assistant

Adobe has introduced a new Workfront feature that it claims will ease marketing project planning and provide new ways to visualize ongoing work. Adobe brought project management capabilities to its Experience Cloud app suite with the acquisition of Workfront in 2020. The new Workfront Planning module, now available, provides a “single source of truth” for…

Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to other problems.  To be clear, there’s nothing bad about Agentic RAG…

MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI

MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI

A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks extracted from 43 taxonomies. According to an article in MIT Technology Review outlining the initiative, “adopting…

For IT, Jamf’s Microsoft Azure partnership means a lot

For IT, Jamf’s Microsoft Azure partnership means a lot

Jamf has removed yet another brick in the wall put up by Windows-centric IT staffers to fend off acceptance Macs in the enterprise, revealing a new partnership with Microsoft that simplifies management of both Windows and Apple devices using Microsoft Azure. The arrangement means Jamf device management solutions will be hosted on Microsoft Azure and made…

Google documents filed in antitrust case show efforts to push data collection limits

Google documents filed in antitrust case show efforts to push data collection limits

For almost as long as it has existed, Google has been at the center of controversies around its data strategy, ranging from privacy concerns, data retention with its related cybersecurity implications, and compliance, to the debate about what kind of limits there should be for leveraging data. A series of Google internal documents, which were…

Microsoft rolls out Face Check selfie verification system

Microsoft rolls out Face Check selfie verification system

Microsoft’s facial matching verification system, Face Check, is now available. The feature, part of Entra Verified ID, offers a new way to confirm a user’s identity and protect against unauthorized login attempts, Microsoft said.  Face Check works by comparing selfie footage taken on a user’s smartphone in real-time with a verified photo held on Microsoft’s servers —…

Hollywood unions OK AI-cloned voices in commercials

Hollywood unions OK AI-cloned voices in commercials

Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA said it has signed an agreement with talent marketplace Narrativ to let advertisers buy the rights from actors to recreate their voices using AI. According to Reuters, the agreement allows the actors themselves to set the price for the digital voice copy, provided that it is at least equivalent to SAG-AFTRA’s minimum wage…