At Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 event in February, the kingdom announced huge investment in artificial intelligence (AI), while the conference element of the show majored heavily in key questions about AI. These ranged from the next steps, such as getting business value from enterprise AI, to challenges in developing agentic AI, as well as the…
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If you thought Windows’ humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft’s never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months back, and now it’s prompting users to pay for a Microsoft 365 subscription to use AI features like Rewrite.For over four decades, Notepad has been…
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Microsoft followed up its massive January Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities with a more modest crop this month. This time, it released fixes for 57 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in its update, three of which are critical. Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative described one of the vulnerabilities as unprecedented in…
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Before the arrival of ChatGPT, I’ve had this running joke with friends that we actually don’t know how to do many trivial things, and we’re overly reliant on googling for information. Should the internet go down for extended periods, we’ll be in a world of trouble. The same thing still applies now that AI is…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…
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Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…
Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…
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The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…
The mounting environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems can be significantly reduced if businesses “choose the right model” for their use cases and implement sustainable practices throughout its lifecycle, according to Capgemini Research Institute.Capgemini’s Developing sustainable GenAI report noted that, for the latest generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models, the training alone is roughly…
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A day after software engineer Tibor Blaho shared evidence that ChatGPT’s Operator agent launch could come soon, The Information reports that this new AI tool will be released as soon as this week. Operator will be responsible for automating complex tasks typically done through the web browser, such as restaurant reservations or planning trips.The publication…
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