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Windows 11 upgrades stall amid ‘chipflation’ and ‘RAMageddon’
Microsoft ended mainstream Windows 10 support a year ago, but PC upgrades to Windows 11 have ground to a halt, analysts said. Relief may not come until 2028 or even 2029, as high CPU prices, which analysts call “chipflation,” and high memory prices, widely known as the…
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Smplify wants a human checkpoint between AI agents and your device fleet
One of the great things about Apple device management solutions is that the market for them is growing . Another is that because no two enterprises are alike, there is scope to bring different offerings to the market. I spoke with Ben Greiner, co-founder and COO of Smplify , a…
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Don’t trust AI to keep your secrets
We talk to chatbots as if those conversations are private. But are they? Most people are confused. A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo and published in August asked 1,944 American adults about chatbot privacy, and more than half (53%) did not know whether their conversations…
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Fake Anthropic AI previews lure in overeager employees
Everyone wants to know what Anthropic is up to, and hackers are gleefully exploiting the fact. New research from cybersecurity company Cofense describes a phishing campaign that hooks overeager enterprise users by making them think they are getting an invite to a private…
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Apple brings touch to the Mac with $2,899 OLED MacBook Pro
Following the release of the new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro earlier this week, Apple has bought the “touch experience” to its professional laptop series, introducing a $2,899 (and up) MacBook Pro you can use with touch. It’s very fast, very thin, very light, with an impressive…
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Anthropic and OpenAI diverge on who should pull the plug on risky AI
OpenAI and Anthropic agree that frontier AI systems need stronger oversight, but they are proposing sharply different approaches to stopping models that pose serious risks: Anthropic wants courts empowered to suspend dangerous systems, while OpenAI argues developers should be…
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Otter adds ‘Work’ mode to automate more meeting-related tasks
Otter has added a new Work mode to its AI Chat assistant, expanding the range of tasks it can carry out before and after meetings. It’s part of a wider drive by Otter — which received $320 million in funding last week — to move beyond meeting transcription and into automating…
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It costs a lot more to use AI models in some languages
A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research shows that AI models require significantly more tokens to process certain languages than others. These differences mean that users of underrepresented languages risk paying more for the same services, reports Rest…
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Trump says Microsoft abuses visa laws. Microsoft disagrees. Who’s telling the truth?
Decades ago, the United States established programs that allow businesses to hire highly skilled foreign workers — the H-1B visa program and a related green card program. They’re designed to make sure we lead the world in technology. Not uncommonly, H-1B workers and green card…
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Opera launches local browser AI, testing enterprise privacy and AI PC strategies
Opera has begun rolling out AI models that run locally in its browser, potentially allowing enterprises to perform certain AI tasks on existing PCs without sending the relevant data to cloud AI providers. The company said it has introduced support for WebAI, a proposed web…
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The case for a full-circle Googlebook future
Put on your finest propeller-packin’ thinking caps, my fellow Android-appreciating animals — ’cause I’ve got a brain-bending bit of big-picture thinking about the future of Android and everything around it. This pondering comes out of my ongoing time living with one of Google’s…
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Apple updates iMac, MacBook Pro, and Creator Studio
Apple’s second day of launches this week saw it follow its tempting iPad mini upgrade by pumping up the processor in two of its most popular Macs, even while it injected artificial intelligence into Creator Studio. 24 hours of portable pro performance: 14-in MacBook Pro Apple’s…
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Microsoft offers exits to thousands of employees, including staff on AI and Copilot teams
Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce, including staff on teams building Copilot and other AI products, as the company looks for ways to fund its AI investments. Amy Coleman, executive vice president and chief…
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OpenAI bets on AI economics with lower-cost GPT-6.1 Terra
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new reasoning model that it says delivers near-frontier performance on visual reasoning, professional task execution, and computer-use benchmarks without the premium price tag. Replacing GPT-5.6 Terra, the model is aimed at organizations…
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The right model at the right moment: Vendors push their agentic AI PC vision
AI is getting expensive, and companies are looking to cut token costs. The solution: move more AI work to PCs. The PC won’t replace the cloud. Preliminary AI work can be done on a PC, and tougher work — which today’s PCs can’t handle — can go to the cloud. “We’ll always need to…
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Apple confirms iPhone Duo problem. What will it do next?
Apple has responded to recent reports complaining that iPhone Duo displays have become damaged in normal use. The company is “aware” of the issue and suggests any of the “small number” of customers who encounter the problem contact AppleCare for a replacement. Apple acknowledges…
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No signal, no problem: Smaller models bring more AI capabilities on-device
When OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released in 2020, at 175 billion parameters, it was the largest language model the world had ever seen. In the years that followed, frontier AI systems exploded in size, with today’s largest models clocking in at well over a trillion parameters. But there…
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Microsoft Teams to get AI protection against phishing and fraud
Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analyzing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and files, the tool will be able to identify suspicious…
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Apple’s triple-whammy week begins with iPad mini
Apple watchers predicted something like this: The company is ending October with a triple-whammy of new products, starting with its newly introduced iPad mini with OLED display. The rest of the week is expected to feature new Macs, specifically an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac and…
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Technology has changed. So should the conversation.
I’ve spent more than 20 years talking about technology and how it can improve people’s lives. For most of that time, I was optimistic about the future. I still believe tech can make our lives better. But I’m increasingly concerned that companies building technology have stopped…