Over the course of several years designing and delivering enterprise data platforms for a global pharmaceutical leader, I witnessed firsthand how data had evolved from a backend enabler to a frontline business asset. The organization was no longer just looking to report historical performance; it needed to predict outcomes, personalize patient engagement, customer engagement, brand

After announcing support for Cosmos DB inside the Microsoft Fabric data platform at Build 2025, Microsoft recently opened a public preview of the new service. This release gives Cosmos DB a new role in the wider scope of Microsoft’s data estate, adding it to Fabric’s roster of operational data sources. Services like Microsoft Fabric have

In the big-spending history of technology, there’s never been a time like this, when so many companies are spending so many hundreds of billions of dollars on a still-to-be proven technology — generative AI. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google are expected to spend a combined $364 billion in their 2025 fiscal years alone. (Microsoft plans to spend $80

Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome extension for its Claude AI assistant with 1,000 paying subscribers, positioning it as a potential enterprise productivity tool but raising fresh concerns about security and control in the browser. The move brings Claude into direct competition with Microsoft’s Copilot in Edge and Google’s Gemini in Chrome, both of which

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

Apple’s most senior leaders so far seem to have failed to find consensus on how to move forward with Apple Intelligence. They recognize the company appears to be lagging in the generative AI (genAI) race, but management appears split between those who want to build it in Cupertino, and those who hope to buy their way to

Personal computers with AI embedded in the hardware components and software stack are set to hit 77.8 million units in 2025, making up 31% of the global PC market, according to a new study released today by Gartner Research. Despite some market hurdles that have tempered Gartner’s earlier forecasts, adoption is growing, with AI PCs

Over the past few years, actor, rapper, and slapper Will Smith has been the subject of a grotesque meme in AI is used to show him gobbling down on nightmarish squelching spaghetti. It now seems that the 56-year-old “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star’s team has used the tech to soup up concert footage from his would-be

For years, the concept of AI consciousness has remained on the fringes, with all but the most powerful proponents of the theory being laughed out of public life. In reality, opponents point out, the current generation of AI is nothing more than extremely complex statistics — detecting patterns in training data like written materials or

Even in the money-soaked world of AI, the hiring efforts of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg stood out this year as he enticed top machine learning researchers with payments reportedly reaching up to $1 billion to defect from their employers and come work for him instead. The overtures weren’t always successful; in one embarrassing case, an individual