Intel under Tan: What enterprise IT buyers need to know

US feds are reportedly investigating a $32 million deal inked by CrowdStrike with a government reseller to provide cybersecurity tools for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — products the agency never used and said it didn’t even purchase. On the last day of Q3 2023, the security giant signed a contract with top government software…

Monday.com has accelerated its push into artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement this week of its AI vision, which includes three areas of focus: AI Blocks, embedded Product Power-ups, and a forthcoming Digital Workforce of AI agents. The new features, the company said in its announcement, “will give SMBs and mid-market companies a competitive advantage…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said it was hit by a cyberattack, prompting the company to restrict user registrations and manage website outages as demand for its AI assistant soared. According to the company’s status page, DeepSeek has been investigating the issue since late evening Beijing time on Monday.

Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs. The Wan2.1 text-to-video model “excels at generating realistic visuals by accurately handling complex movements, enhancing pixel quality, adhering to physical principles, and optimizing the precision of instruction…

Proposed cuts at a key US government agency will likely mean the demise of CHIPS Act funding, which could effectively end the program and undermine efforts to reshore semiconductor manufacturing and research to the US. Axios and Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to cut 497 jobs…

Virtually every aspect of technology has been affected, and potentially improved, by artificial intelligence (AI). PCs are no exception. While the meaning of “AI PC” is still evolving, it generally refers to a computer specifically designed to excel at AI-powered tasks. These beefed-up computers typically feature:  High-end CPUs and GPUs to handle the demanding computational…