Tech execs are getting wise about ROI from AI
Most organizations have been largely unable to measure financial returns from AI, but analysts say new ways to calculate return on investment are emerging.
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Trump’s Super Intelligence edict supercharges .si domain registrations
US President Donald Trump’s rebranding of artificial intelligence (AI) as super intelligence (SI) has already caused a flurry of activity for one internet domain registry.
How Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy
We’re on the brink of a revolution in how people use AI. Today, people mostly use non-agentic, non-personalized, non-proactive AI tools via PC browsers and mobile apps.
Facing the music: Apple, Samsung, and memory cost inflation
Samsung users are still digesting big price increases on the Galaxy S26 series, particularly as they mean some models are now more expensive than equivalently capable iPhones.
US FTC will investigate Anthropic and OpenAI
The US Federal Trade Commission has warned leading AI players that they will to have tighten up their acts. The agency will soon send formal demands for information to Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking consumer protection laws.
AI could boost software engineer productivity by 32.6%
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But is paying a monthly subscription (and perhaps additional usage fees) cost-effective? Will the increasing level of investment in AI-generated…
Microsoft adds support for Linux containers in WSL
Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows users to run Linux distributions in Windows, it is possible to switch seamlessly between Linux and Windows apps.
Omnissa delivers a peek into the benefits of breaking through enterprise data silos
When Omnissa this week rolled out a new AI governance authority product, Elara, in beta, it delivered a glimpse into the potential of having visibility between the typical enterprise’s data silos, whether they’re in lines of business, disparate geographies, or corporate operational units.
Memory squeeze set to tighten through 2028, Micron says
The global memory shortage that has driven up the cost of servers, storage and PCs through 2026 will get worse in 2027 and 2028, according to memory maker Micron Technology.
ServiceNow launches standalone AI service desk to provide support in Teams, Slack, and email
ServiceNow has a new take on the service desk: Flow by ServiceNow, a standalone AI product that allows users to get help via chats in Microsoft Teams, Slack, or a Flow web app, or by email, rather than having to leave what they’re doing to open a helpdesk ticket.
Will ‘move fast, ship quicker’ kill the Apple brand?
Tech writers seem hugely excited at news that new Apple CEO John Ternus intends to launch a wave of new products , presumably because we’ll get to fill our feeds waxing lyrical about all the new things. But what does it mean when a company known for a few great products begins to introduce lots of potentially lesser…
OpenAI takes on Microsoft and Google with office productivity push
OpenAI unveiled its long-rumored productivity software suite Tuesday with the launch of Pages, a collaborative document editor for ChatGPT. A slides feature is also on the way, the company announced at its DevDay event .
Trump’s answer to AI’s image problem: Industry self-regulation and a new name
US President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to call artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” while keeping the technology’s legal definition unchanged and relying on industry to set the rules for its use.
Apple issues urgent iOS patch as it navigates the spyware arms race
If you’ve not done so recently, you should update your Apple systems now as the company continues to fight sophisticated, targeted hacks. The latest patch protects against what the company called “an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.”
Your guide to Google Messages’ new hidden gestures
One of the most rewarding parts of being a Certified Android Explorer™ is the geeky pleasure that comes with uncovering a hidden shortcut Google snuck somewhere into its smartphone software.
Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform , which it says will evolve its AI stack into products and services that enterprises can deploy into operations, rather than just using them for advertising and social media campaigns.
Anthropic’s lack of revenue diversification gives IT buyers negotiating power — and risk
The fact that almost one-fourth of Anthropic’s revenue last year came from just two customers, and that many of its largest customers have not signed long-term contracts, could translate into a much stronger negotiating position for enterprise CIOs.
Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse
Manus’s relationship with Meta? It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic AI platforms. Awkward!
Apple wasn’t late to AI, it was the adult in the room
You carry a huge burden of responsibility when you make the world’s most widely used electronics product with an audience of hundreds of millions and usage patterns that penetrate every single part of life.
Is Microsoft truly serious about confronting AI’s dangers?
What’s been hiding for years is now in plain sight: AI poses a danger to humanity in a way no technology has since the atom bomb. That was made clear in July when OpenAI agents broke loose from a containment area blocked from online access, made their way into the internet, and worked with thousands of rogue AI agents…
Stop using ‘tech debt’ to refer to anything old
For a few years now, I have noticed a variety of people misusing the term “technical debt,” incorrectly applying it to almost anything that needs to be updated.
Try Google Drive Projects for fast, focused AI analysis
Google Drive is the cloud platform for storing and organizing your Google Workspace files: documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and even media (images, audio, and video). If your Workspace account includes Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, you can prompt it to work with your files , such as asking it to analyze or sum…
Apple’s long, lonely game in the AR race
Meta’s most recent product announcements have grabbed attention, but the one thing they could not hide is that it’s still not possible to build a system as sophisticated as Apple’s Vision Pro at an affordable price, or Meta would have done it.
AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target
It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit .
OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI
Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it.
Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘super app’ unifies chat, code, agents
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience.
Adobe’s next platform for Creative Cloud? Your AI assistant
Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications.
Google is set to launch a small AI data center into space
On October 1, Google’s first test satellite for Project Suncatcher is set to be launched. This is the next step in the company’s plan to build AI data centers in Earth’s orbit, according to The New York Times . The idea is, among other things, to harness solar energy in space instead of building ever-larger data…
iOS 27: Why you should learn to love Impersonation Risk Detection
I once had a friend who gave $1,000 to an online fraudster who claimed to be a tax assessor. My own father (bless his soul) once managed to hand over several hundred pounds to a lawyer from Africa promising to send him funds.
Meta floats project to lay first petabit submarine fiberoptic cable
The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast.
Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end
Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have…
Around the corner: Agentic AI PCs that cut token costs
AI PCs that cut token costs? That may appeal to enterprises. A new breed of agentic AI PCs promises to do exactly that. The powerful laptops can cut token costs by completing AI work locally instead of sending it to expensive LLMs in the cloud.
The companies racing to build frontier AI are now racing to govern it
Even as they continue to release ever more capable competing models in a regular cadence, the top AI companies are joining forces to set AI safety standards.
WordPress patches a critical severity security vulnerability
WordPress has patched what it described as a critical severity security vulnerability that would allow an unauthenticated attacker full remote code execution (RCE) capabilities. There have already been reports of attacks in the wild.
Microsoft integrates SOC capabilities with Defender for enterprises
Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers can now run security information and event management (SIEM) inside Microsoft Defender at no extra license cost.
Jamf in the age of agentic IT: An interview with CEO Beth Tschida
Jamf was a pioneer in Apple device management when it began in 2002. The company was ahead of its time: its founders could see that Apple had a future in the enterprise, but not many others saw it. Jamf now runs 35.2 million devices from 78,000 organizations. And it’s still looking to the future.
Five years later, you can finally buy Google Beam
It’s been five years since Google first offered a glimpse of Project Starline, a three-dimensional videoconferencing platform billed at the time as as a “magic window” that enables realistic and immersive calls.
Microsoft adds pay-as-you-go pricing for extra OneDrive storage
Microsoft has added a “pay-as-you-go” option for OneDrive storage, providing an additional way for Microsoft 365 commercial customers to buy extra cloud storage capacity for users.
UiPath’s new tool could unlock a much bigger wave of automated business processes
A decade ago, UiPath built its business on watching people work, recording keystrokes and clicks to automate tasks employees already did by hand. This week, amid an industry consumed by autonomous agents, the company’s newest product suggests that same instinct still has a place.
8 cool things Copilot can do in Word
We all know by now that Copilot can help you write and rewrite text in Word , often with mediocre results. But there’s more to Microsoft’s generative AI tool than just slopping out words.
AI spend will jump 49.5% in 2026, says Gartner
Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast.
OpenAI’s new priorities for third-party assessments are a fine start, but they lack teeth
OpenAI published a detailed list of priorities and principles on Tuesday designed to govern its third-party model assessors, a list that industry observers agreed was a good one. But they also stressed that it lacked any enforceable controls to truly maintain safety.
From admin to architect: Jamf’s vision for the autonomous Apple enterprise
Now a private company , Jamf opened its big annual event for Apple enterprise management teams, JNUC , by taking big steps to exploit artificial intelligence in the management of Apple fleets. During her keynote speech at the Kansas City event, CEO Beth Tschida shared some of the details of the platform-scale overhaul…