7+ hour, 21+ min ago  (220+ words) An IT executive changing jobs usually attracts little attention outside a narrow group of people, but Noam Shazeer's move from Google to Open AI is as momentous as any high-value soccer transfer. He announced the news in a post on…...

7+ hour, 37+ min ago  (320+ words) Maxwell began writing about technology in 1984, when mainframes ruled the world. Since then he has written for just about every business computing title in the UK, and for a few in the US, covering everything from Artificial intelligence to Zero-day…...

13+ hour ago  (187+ words) Microsoft Office users may find that some of their applications are failing to open when called on by third-party applications. It's an issue that has emerged after the latest round of Microsoft updates. The problem affects Word, Excel, and other…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (721+ words) As AI shifts from output-generating large language models (LLMs) to armies of agents taking actions on their own, there is a growing threat that failures could affect system reliability. The company was solving these kinds of distributed-systems problems long before…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (459+ words) Apple execs are now acknowledging the company is going to need to raises prices to cope with higher component costs, particularly memory. Apple has been'battling to avoid doing so, but warned this week that those efforts are "unsustainable." "We're doing…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1005+ words) Because generative AI (gen AI) tools and services have become so ubiquitous (and popular), the costs of using them are going through the roof " leading to an insatiable appetite for tokens. Tokens represent a common way to measure and price…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1639+ words) Keith Shaw: AI agents are quickly moving from assistants to decision-makers, but they're gaining access to our data, applications, and business processes. What happens when an agent does something nobody expected? Are we building systems we can control, or are…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (601+ words) For generations, technology export controls referred to the transfer of source code to other countries. But that no longer works, as the latest Anthropic fight with the US Commerce Department makes clear." Technically, the Commerce letter doesn't explicitly say that,…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (387+ words) Microsoft has introduced usage-based billing for Copilot Cowork, which is now generally available." Microsoft unveiled Copilot Cowork in March, pitching it as an AI agent that's capable of independently performing long-running, multi-step tasks " even when a user's computer is off....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (341+ words) There's no shortage of agentic AI tools out there that offer to perform online tasks on your behalf, if only you'll give them all your passwords and credit card details. The trouble starts when those agents don't know when to…...