ChatGPT gave wildly inaccurate translations — to try and make users happy

ChatGPT gave wildly inaccurate translations — to try and make users happy

Enterprise IT leaders are becoming uncomfortably aware that generative AI (genAI) technology is still a work in progress and buying into it is like spending several billion dollars to participate in an alpha test— not even a beta test, but an early alpha, where coders can barely keep up with bug reports.  For people who remember the…

Amazon invents another robot — this time with feeling!

Amazon invents another robot — this time with feeling!

Amazon recently unveiled a new warehouse robot that can “feel,” according to the company.  Called the Vulcan robot, the two-armed beast is already working in Amazon fulfillment centers in Spokane, WA, and Hamburg, Germany, where it’s handled more than half a million orders. The Vulcan’s sense of touch comes from force-sensitive grippers and sensors on its joints,…

US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse

US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse

Saudi Arabia unveiled a series of blockbuster AI partnerships with US chip makers, cloud infrastructure providers, and software developers this week, signaling its ambition to become a global AI hub. Leveraging its $940 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) and strategic location, Saudi Arabia is forming partnerships to create sovereign AI infrastructure including advanced data centers…

Report: Microsoft’s experimental Laptop Studio is vanishing without a replacement

Report: Microsoft’s experimental Laptop Studio is vanishing without a replacement

Like the Surface Studio desktop, the Laptop Studio’s odd and innovative exterior was rendered less exciting by a high price and relatively underpowered interior. Before discounts, the Laptop Studio 2 starts at around $2,400 for a basic configuration with a 13th-generation Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage—integrated graphics and a fully…

Google patches Chrome vulnerability used for account takeover and MFA bypass

Google patches Chrome vulnerability used for account takeover and MFA bypass

Chrome users are advised to update their browser immediately to fix a critical vulnerability that is being exploited to launch account takeover attacks. In some environments, this could even give attackers the ability to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The recently-reported vulnerability, one of four fixed in a Wednesday update, is tracked as CVE-2025-4664 and affects…

Demand for freelancers explodes, thanks to agentic AI

Demand for freelancers explodes, thanks to agentic AI

insta_photos – Shutterstock.com As the spring 2025 edition of Fiverr’s “Business Trends Index” shows, companies are looking for specialists who can effectively implement AI agents. According to new data from the freelancer platform, search queries for this expertise have risen by 18,347% in the last six months. In Germany, inquiries increased by an even larger…

Zoho integrates payments into enterprise workflows with Zoho Payments

Zoho integrates payments into enterprise workflows with Zoho Payments

Zoho has announced Zoho Payments as a unified payment platform for US businesses, aimed at helping CIOs streamline financial operations with enterprise-grade security and scalability. Fully integrated with Zoho’s ecosystem — including Zoho Books and CRM — Zoho Payments supports card and ACH transactions across 135+ currencies, according to a company statement. “Businesses need a…