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AI agents are unlike any technology ever – Computerworld
What are AI agents? A great way to understand agents is to compare them with something we’ve all used before: AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Existing, popular LLM-based chatbots are designed around the assumption that the user wants, expects, and will receive text output—words and numbers. No matter what the user types into the prompt, the tool is ready to…
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Baidu releases new AI offerings on the way to broader commercialization of the technology – Computerworld
Indeed, like those of leading US companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, Baidu’s AI moves demonstrate its march toward the commercialization phase of the technology. The company, like others before it, has been adding AI to existing products or creating new ones that enterprise and other business users can integrate into their applications. Follow the leader Google, OpenAI, and…
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The demise of the floppy disk continues: Months after Japan ‘won the war’ on the legacy storage medium, San Francisco announces plans to spend millions overhauling its metro rail technology
Officials from the San Francisco transportation department have announced they will be replacing their floppy disk-based train control system, jumping on the bandwagon to do away with the legacy storage platform. The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which is responsible for overseeing San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail network, signed a new $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to overhaul its…
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Efficiency, productivity, and public sector technology
The UK has a productivity problem. In fact, labor productivity has been close to flat (0.4%) since the financial crisis of 2008. One of the first things the current government committed to, when it came into office, was to grow the UK’s economy, and that means tackling productivity. Ministers have also committed to addressing the productivity gap in the public…
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US finalizes curbs on investment in AI and critical technology in China – Computerworld
“Companies might also need to reassess their strategic priorities, which may lead to an unnecessary increase in innovation costs,” said Charlie Dai, VP and principal analyst at Forrester. “On the other hand, regulatory concerns will force enterprises outside the US to further prioritize localization strategies to achieve self-sufficiency in critical areas, potentially leading to increasingly isolated innovation ecosystems.” The new…
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Ethical hackers are flocking to AI tools, but the technology may be causing more problems than it solves
Ethical hackers and security researchers are getting much more enthusiastic about AI and are using the technology more widely, but are worried about the threat it represents. Last year, only 21% of hackers told Bugcrowd that AI technologies enhance the value of hacking – but that figure has rocketed to 71% this year. Meanwhile, three-quarters revealed they’re actively using generative…
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A time bomb for tech: The risks of legacy technology for your business
Legacy tech continues to plague businesses, with backlogs of outdated tech hindering business growth and hampering modernization goals. But the risks of legacy technology must also be at the top of the list for any IT leaders, as legacy stacks can obscure attack surfaces and open organizations up to attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities. In 2017, McKinsey spoke with over…
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Offline Home Assistants Might Be the Most Important Smart Home Technology Yet
Key Takeaways Most mainstream smart home tech relies on internet connection for functionality. Future smart home systems will feature local AI hardware for independent operations. Local AI offers endless benefits, from privacy to personalized problem-solving. So you have a “smart” home, but if the internet goes out it becomes as dumb as a sack of rocks. That’s because the “brains”…
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Google is spending big on carbon capture technology – here’s why
Google has signed a carbon removal deal with direct air capture provider, Holocene, at the bargain price of $100 per ton. The tech giant revealed this is the lowest price on record for this technology, signalling a huge shift in the potential of the process in helping support environmental targets. Currently, carbon removal prices tend to amount to many hundreds…
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How many jobs are available in technology in the US? – Computerworld
The unemployment rate for tech occupations inched up to 3.4% in August from 3.2% in July, according to analysis of today’s US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by tech industry group CompTIA. Overall, the US economy added 142,000 jobs in August, indicating a cooling of the job market, while the national unemployment rate changed slightly, ticking down from 4.3% in…
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