It comes as no surprise that online scraper bots are scouring the web looking for content to train generative AI (genAI) models, causing massive bandwidth charges to enterprises who told them not to crawl their sites. What is surprising is the world of large language model (LLM) makers’ use of unattributed browsers and other means of escaping…
A modern Windows PC works without much tweaking — mostly. But some settings out of the box are simply bad, undercutting your PC’s full performance or keeping you from getting the best picture from your monitor, for example. And somehow, File Explorer still doesn’t show file extensions by default in the year 2025. That’s just…
Generative AI (genAI) companies are adopting a larger assortment of open-source and smaller language models that excel at automating specific tasks. A number of genAI players, including HubSpot, Microsoft and ServiceNow, are hot on the trail of open-source models that can be easily customized to create AI agents that better meet customer needs. “Companies are…
Concurrent with the rise of artificial intelligence in recent years has been an uptick in fear of it. With every new use of artificial intelligence comes the fear that it will cost jobs. Now that fear has expanded to not only costing humans their jobs, but killing off software as a service (SaaS) applications as…
Google is expected to unveil a new AI agent aimed at helping software developers manage tasks across the coding lifecycle, including task execution and documentation. The tool has reportedly been demonstrated to employees and select external developers ahead of the company’s annual I/O conference, scheduled for May 20 in Mountain View, California, according to a…
Workday (Nasdaq:WDAY) won a contract to replace the HR systems at the US Office for Personnel Management (OPM) — and then a few days later it lost it, despite having no competition. Two words on the US government’s System for Award Management (SAM) website put an end to the short-lived single source contract: “canceled justification.”…
Microsoft and OpenAI are renegotiating their multibillion-dollar partnership deal to better align with each company’s evolving goals in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported. The talks center on a critical balancing act. OpenAI wants to set the stage for a potential IPO by restructuring into a more traditional for-profit entity. Microsoft aims to…
“Just Google it.” That’s how most people found information they were interested in for more than a quarter-century. All that is changing now. Today, the main reason fewer people are “Googling it” is that users are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, Chatsonic, HuggingChat, Socratic, Grok, DeepSeek, IBM watsonx Assistant, Pi, and Character…
In a stark warning to lawmakers, technology leaders from the nation’s biggest AI companies will testify Thursday that the US’ aging infrastructure is unprepared for the massive energy demands of AI, potentially jeopardizing US competitiveness in the rapidly evolving technology race. US Senator Ted Cruz, who will lead the hearing, in a statement, emphasized the strategic…
AI is everywhere right now — but let’s be honest: It’s easy to slap some sort of silly text generation button onto an app and call it “AI.” It’s much more difficult to come up with a truly compelling way this type of technology can actually be helpful. And once you move away from web-based…