The Macy’s accounting disaster: CIOs, this could happen to you.

The Macy’s accounting disaster: CIOs, this could happen to you.

The Macy’s accounting nightmare is only getting worse, with the $24 billion retailer telling the SEC on Wednesday that both its annual report from last year and its auditor report “should no longer be relied on.” Although the amount “hidden” was only $151 million — at the high end of Macy’s original estimate of “$132 million to…

NotebookLM Plus is now available to Google Workspace customers

NotebookLM Plus is now available to Google Workspace customers

A new premium version of Google’s NotebookLM AI assistant is now available to Google Workspace customers. Google unveiled NotebookLM last year, initially under the name Project Tailwind, and began testing the AI-powered “notebook” with select users. NotebookLM lets users upload multiple documents and other sources — Google Docs, PDFs, audio files and web URLs, for instance — that…

Google’s Agentspace will put AI agents in the hands of workers

Google’s Agentspace will put AI agents in the hands of workers

Google has unveiled an AI agent builder tool designed to  automate repititive tasks and help workers find information held across their organization faster.  AI agents have become a major focus for software vendors in recent months, including Atlassian, Microsoft, Salesforce, and numerous others. The “agent” concept is used in different ways, but generally refers to software systems that are able to…

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at…