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…
For a format that’s been around for a solid few decades, the tried-and-true PDF sure can be a pain in the patootie. You know what I’m talkin’ about here, right? Practically every time I’m forced to deal with a PDF, I find myself muttering quiet obscenities in my head like an uncouth raccoon (or maybe…
An announcement from Intel boasting that it is the first semiconductor firm to achieve “full neural processing unit (NPU) support” in the MLPerf Client v0.6 benchmark released by ML Commons on April 25 generated very different reactions Tuesday from industry analysts. In a release issued on Monday, the company said that its results in the…
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. The verdict, reached Tuesday, comes as a major victory not just for Meta-owned WhatsApp but also for privacy- and security-rights advocates who…
In case you skipped the memo, India is engaged in a widespread digital transformation across the country and its economy — and Apple’s investments locally are examples of this broad change. It’s reasonably evident if you stop to consider what’s going on. Apple and its supply chain are investing billions in creating new manufacturing centers across India, and those investments…
As of an update released today, the iOS app still doesn’t allow books to be purchased directly in the app, but you can search Amazon’s virtual bookstore inside the app and tap a new “Get Book” button that automatically pops you over to Amazon.com in your phone or tablet’s default browser. This is not as…
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,…
Nvidia will release the GeForce RTX 5060 on May 19 starting at $299, the company announced via press release today. The new card, a successor to popular past GPUs like the GTX 1060 and RTX 3060, will bring Nvidia’s DLSS 4 and Multi Frame-Generation technology to budget-to-mainstream gaming builds—at least, it would if every single GPU…
The US data center industry has warned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on renewable energy could slow its growth and undermine Washington’s goal to win the global artificial intelligence race. Renewables have become a flashpoint since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, with his administration suspending clean energy developments on federal land, pausing federal loans,…