Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) to the tools in recent years has made them seem more natural in conversations, but they’re still just automated answer engines. Now as 2025 comes to

Once upon a time, Apple introduced a new iPhone every year. These days, in some years it introduces five of them. Have we reached saturation point? Possibly. Solution? Ship six iPhones a year. As expected, Apple is building a new market dynamic. Think of it this way. Until now, competitors knew the pace of Apple releases, a cadence that

Last week, Amazon and Perplexity had a major falling out when the e-commerce giant sent a sharply worded legal demand letter to the AI company, demanding changes in the way Perplexity’s shopping agent works. The background story is that Perplexity has a function in its Comet AI browser that allows an AI “agent” to shop

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Nvidia hopes that its new open-source AI model for physics, Apollo, will find application in a wide variety of high-tech scientific and industrial fields. It unveiled the new model family at SC25, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, just a month after unveiling four others: Nemotron for agentic AI, Clara

When reports came out on Monday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is pouring $6.2 billion into another AI startup, to be called Project Prometheus, analysts and practitioners disagreed about what the move means for the near term future of AI and IT. The company will initially focus on manufacturing systems and engineering, as well as,

It didn’t take long for some IT leaders who last month started paying to get Windows 10 security updates to face their first support problem. Microsoft said the update issued last week on November Patch Tuesday — KB5068781 for Windows 10 22H2 builds 19044.6575 and 19045.6575 —  might fail to install on some commercial Windows

Alibaba is updating its artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to catch up with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi version and became available on both major app stores on Friday, last week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “most powerful official AI assistant for its models”

New insight from the CQF Institute, a worldwide network for quantitative finance professionals (quants), reveals that fewer than one in ten specialists believe new graduates possess the AI and machine learning skills necessary to succeed in the industry. This highlights a growing issue in quantitative finance: a lack of human understanding and fluency in the

In its pursuit of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) first business model, Levi Strauss is weaving AI and cloud platforms into its core operations. The nearly 175-year-old apparel company is leveraging Microsoft technologies to modernise its consumer experiences and improve internal productivity. Levi Strauss’ approach provides a case study for other enterprises in using a unified technology