May’s Patch Tuesday serves up 78 updates, including 5 zero-day fixes

May’s Patch Tuesday serves up 78 updates, including 5 zero-day fixes

This May Patch Tuesday release is very much a “back-to-basics” update with just 78 patches for Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and .NET. Notably, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Due to the concerns of publicly reported exploits for five Windows vulnerabilities, the Application Readiness team has…

Meta hits pause on ‘Llama 4 Behemoth’ AI model amid capability concerns

Meta hits pause on ‘Llama 4 Behemoth’ AI model amid capability concerns

Meta Platforms has decided to delay the public release of its most ambitious artificial intelligence model yet — Llama 4 Behemoth. Initially expected to debut at Meta’s first-ever AI developer conference in April, the model’s launch was pushed to June and is now delayed until fall or possibly even later. Engineers at Meta are grappling…

US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse

US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse

Saudi Arabia unveiled a series of blockbuster AI partnerships with US chip makers, cloud infrastructure providers, and software developers this week, signaling its ambition to become a global AI hub. Leveraging its $940 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) and strategic location, Saudi Arabia is forming partnerships to create sovereign AI infrastructure including advanced data centers…

Demand for freelancers explodes, thanks to agentic AI

Demand for freelancers explodes, thanks to agentic AI

insta_photos – Shutterstock.com As the spring 2025 edition of Fiverr’s “Business Trends Index” shows, companies are looking for specialists who can effectively implement AI agents. According to new data from the freelancer platform, search queries for this expertise have risen by 18,347% in the last six months. In Germany, inquiries increased by an even larger…

Beyond the office: Preparing for disasters in a remote work world

Beyond the office: Preparing for disasters in a remote work world

Despite high-profile return-to-office mandates from the likes of Amazon, AT&T, Dell, and even the US government, many organizations continue to support employees who work remotely. According to a November 2024 Gallup poll, 26% of US workers with remote-capable jobs work outside the office full-time. Embracing remote work opens the door to having employees located in…

CDAOs might be key to genAI success now — but that could change

CDAOs might be key to genAI success now — but that could change

Before organizations can effectively deploy generative AI tools, the data on which they must be trained has to be preprocessed to ensure it’s organized, standardized, and cleaned from outliers, duplication, and errors. Without that, attaining ROI from any genAI project is next to impossible. In fact, over the past couple of years, case studies have…

Apple’s Vision Pro can help optimize training budgets — study

Apple’s Vision Pro can help optimize training budgets — study

A report that crossed my desk today should be of interest to any enterprise seeking to get bigger benefits from their existing training budgets: it suggests that Apple’s soon-to-be growing family of visionOS devices really can boost training. Researchers evaluated a 12-week electrical contracting certification program delivered at a facility in New Jersey. During the course, instructors…

Congress proposes 10-year ban on state AI regulations

Congress proposes 10-year ban on state AI regulations

House Republicans have proposed banning states from regulating AI for the next ten years. The sweeping moratorium, quietly tucked into the Budget Reconciliation Bill last Sunday, would block most state and local governments from enforcing AI regulations until 2035 if passed. The proposed legislation stated that “no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any…