Despite a mostly positive revenue report for the first quarter of its fiscal 2025, HPE executives detailed a number of challenges the company will face in the coming months, including layoffs, a court case over its proposed buy of Juniper Networks, and the U.S. government’s tariff plan. Revenues were up $7.9 billion, or 16% year-over-year,…
Slack is a powerful tool for collaborative chatting among co-workers, as well as brainstorming, task management, and more. By adding certain third-party apps to your Slack workspace, you can also collaborate on documents that are stored in your cloud accounts, such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or Box. You and your team members can share…
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters. According to a release from Alibaba, “the performance of QwQ-32B highlights the…
Google on Thursday unveiled new security controls for Chrome Enterprise, allowing IT departments to help employees better distinguish between work and personal browsing profiles. Employees using Google Workspace or Google Identity will see a new sign-in experience that shows what’s managed and shared with their organization when they create a separate work profile for bookmarks,…
I’m not gonna lie to you: Writing these Android Upgrade Report Cards isn’t always exhilarating. By and large, these reports tend to reinforce the same trends we see time and time again from the same small group of Android device-makers. Even when those trends are somewhat unpredictable in nature, that, too, often feels like a…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) spent a great deal of time deciding whether it should investigate Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI as a potential merger situation, but in the end, decided to open and close the investigation within 24 hours. In explaining why the the investigation was closed so quickly, Joel Bamford, CMA executive…
Microsoft is planning a string of new AI agents to automate mundane tasks and improve worker productivity. The company on Wednesday announced two AI-based sales agents that can autonomously follow up on sales leads. The company is also focusing on using agents to automate workflows across other sectors. The sales agents, which are available in Microsoft 365…
In his address to Congress last night, President Donald J. Trump called the CHIPS Act “horrible,” and said whatever money hasn’t been spent should now be used to reduce the national debt. The CHIPS Act, enacted into law in 2022 under then-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is aimed at increasing semiconductor manufacturing and development in…
Intel is creating a digital audit trail in its chip supply chain for customers to trace how a chip traveled through the development process before reaching a PC. The Assured Supply Chain program, which was announced on Wednesday, tracks and records the development of a chip through Intel’s production and distribution chain, which customers can…
Whether you believe AI will be the salvation of humankind or the death of it, whether you think it’s little more than a plaything to while away your time or the surest way to get onto the fast track at work, you’re going to use it someday. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe next week or…