Microsoft’s upcoming OneDrive sync change will give enterprise users an easy way to sync both their personal and corporate OneDrive accounts on business devices. But cybersecurity officials do not want to make syncing easier, as it can create lots of security and IT headaches. The rollout was originally scheduled for this weekend (May 11), but…
OpenAI was founded a decade ago with a focus on research, but it has since expanded into products and infrastructure. Now it is looking to again broaden its presence into user-facing apps. The company announced this week that Fidji Simo will join as CEO of applications, a newly-created position. Simo is the current CEO and…
Google’s recently released Agent2Agent protocol has emerged as a top contender to facilitate communication and collaboration between AI agents in models and enterprises. Microsoft this week adopted the A2A protocol in Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry for developers to build shared agents that can interact with each other. Introduced last month, Google’ open-source A2A…
Google could lose a third of its business if the courts force it to relinquish its default search deal for Apple’s Safari. It could lose the same thing if Apple voluntarily switches to AI-driven search services from other parties, including Apple itself. There is no doubt that Google will be the biggest casualty if US courts force…
OpenAI, acting as part of the US government-led Stargate AI project, on Wednesday rolled out a program called OpenAI for Countries. The idea is for Stargate to help other countries create their own genAI environments, including data centers and genAI models. But analysts argue that other countries might be hesitant to join a US government-led…
Should Apple have abandoned its lawsuit against Israeli mercenary spyware vendor NSO Group — the company it once described as, “21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.” Perhaps not, but it’s still heart-warming to learn NSO has been slammed with a huge $168 million fine for spying on WhatsApp. Mercenaries in…
At Meta’s first LlamaCon AI event last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI now writes up to 30% of the company’s code — and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his company is developing an AI model to create future programs for its AI systems. “Our bet is sort of that in the next…
The shift to AI is leading Asana to come up with innovative ways to present apps that can automate the most annoying chores in a business process. The Smart workflow gallery, part of the company’s AI Studio, includes AI-automated templates to handle corporate processes that typically require human involvement. It was announced by the company…
Only 1% of enterprise data has so far been accessed by generative AI (genAI) models because of a lack of integration and coordination between numerous data centers, cloud services and edge environments, according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. And for that to change, smaller, special-purpose genAI models tailored to specific domain tasks such as HR,…
Nvidia and ServiceNow have created an AI model that can help companies create learning AI agents to automate corporate workloads. The open-source Apriel model, available generally in the second quarter on HuggingFace, will help create AI agents that can make decisions around IT, human resources and customer-service functions. “If you look at the foundation models,…