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The ROI in AI (and how to find it)
The number of companies experimenting with the automation capabilities of generative AI platforms is expected to double. But do the hoped-for financial returns justify the high costs of the technology?
What to do with your Vision Pro
If you’ve got one of Apple’s Vision Pro headsets, you should be exploring what feeds the emerging ecosystem rather than sitting back watching wall-sized TV.
AI chip sales are driving stock markets to new records
Nvidia's unprecedented leap in revenue from higher chip sales for AI and cloud use speaks volumes about the future of the technology and its impact on the economy.
The highest-paid IT skills — and why you need them on your resume
Not surprisingly, generative AI skills topped a list of capabilities companies are seeking in new hires.
Apple’s iMessage gains industry-leading quantum security
Apple, already preparing for the next generation of threats, is introducing upgraded encryption to protect iMessage against future attacks using quantum computers.
Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t a full-fledged Mac replacement — yet
Though Apple is touting its high-tech headset as the world’s first 'spatial computing' platform, for most people it’s more like a technologically advanced proof of concept.
OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool's impact will be ‘profound’
OpenAI is not the first to offer generative AI technology that can transform a text prompt into realistic video, but its tool appears to be among the most advanced to date.
How RAG makes generative AI tools even better
Retrieval augmented generation, or 'RAG' for short, creates a more customized and accurate generative AI model that can greatly reduce anomalies such as hallucinations.
Google turbocharges its genAI engine with Gemini 1.5
Only a week after releasing Gemini 1.0, Google has pushed out for testing its latest multimodal AI model; it offers long-context understanding through a context window that can accept more than one million context tokens.
Apple's Vision Pro and the coming healthcare revolution
Spatial computing will usher in 'transformative change' across multiple industries, with special implications for medical care and delivery.
Tech spending shifts to meet AI demand, forces a 'reshuffling of skills' for workers
With AI 'sucking the air out of almost non-AI investments in the whole tech world,' companies are cutting what they believe are unnecessary jobs — and replacing them with AI-skilled workers.
Digital work apps arrive for Apple’s Vision Pro
Though AR/VR devices have yet to catch on for general work tasks, several major office software vendors have already launched apps for Apple’s new Vision pro headset. Can Apple succeed where others have struggled?
Meetings are about to get weird
One by one, the co-workers and clients you meet with will be replaced by cartoon characters.
Google throws down the gauntlet with Gemini — its multimodal genAI engine
Google has introduced the market's first native multimodal generative AI model capable of ingesting and providing content based on text, audio, images, and video.
What are LLMs, and how are they used in generative AI?
Large language models are the algorithmic basis for chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. The technology is tied back to billions — even trillions — of parameters that can make them both inaccurate and non-specific for...
AI-enabled PCs and genAI smartphones set to take off
As hardware manufacturers move to take advantage of new genAI apps on their devices, PCs and smartphones will become home to processing, taking over for the cloud for several key reasons, analysts say.
Apple's Vision Pro is getting MDM support
People will soon realize that Apple’s Vision Pro is a well-equipped virtual office you can take anywhere — and now it's a managed device.
