Slack is turning its Slackbot helper into a more capable, personalized AI assistant that can perform actions such as drafting content and scheduling meetings. Users have long been able to interact with Slackbot from channels and direct messages, where it can be asked to send reminders or notifications, or provide a preset response to keyword

Every business, big or small, has a wealth of valuable data that can inform impactful decisions. But to extract insights, there’s usually a good deal of manual work that needs to be done on raw data, either by semitechnical users (such as founders and product leaders), or dedicated – and expensive – data specialists.  Either

Meta and Oracle are upgrading their AI data centres with NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X Ethernet networking switches — technology built to handle the growing demands of large-scale AI systems. Both companies are adopting Spectrum-X as part of an open networking framework designed to improve AI training efficiency and accelerate deployment across massive compute clusters. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s

Every few months, there’s a fresh wave of chatter about where chatbots are headed. Some folks want them polished, corporate, and squeaky clean. Others? They’re craving something raw, unfiltered, maybe even a little risqué. That’s where NSFW ChatGPT alternatives have started sneaking into the spotlight, and it’s raising a question a lot of people are

Python didn’t become the lingua franca of artificial intelligence by accident. I’ve argued that Python’s dominance in AI isn’t due to blazing performance or fancy features, but because it offers the shortest distance from idea to working code. It’s an accessible, general-purpose language that “everyone knows,” perhaps not as a first programming language but often

Codex CLI is an open-source coding agent from OpenAI, written primarily in Rust, that runs locally on your computer. Codex IDE extension is a coding agent that runs in Visual Studio Code and its forks, such as Cursor and Windsurf. Codex Web, which connects to Codex Cloud, can work on tasks in the background, in

In the beginning, there was devops: a new philosophy that aimed to break down the silos of software development and IT operations and combine both teams into a single group with shared responsibility. Devops practices borrowed from agile development methodologies, insisted on continuous integration and continuous delivery, and helped make the era of cloud development

The arrival of generative AI-enhanced business intelligence (GenBI) for enterprise data analytics has opened up access to insights, while also increasing the speed, relevance and accuracy of those insights. But that’s in best-case scenarios. Often, AI-powered analytics leads data teams to the same challenges: Hallucinations, security and governance snafus, outdated or incorrect answers, low familiarity

The acceleration of hybrid and mobile work models has revealed critical shortcomings in organisational device strategies. IT departments are contending with slow procurement cycles, mismatched hardware across teams, and compatibility issues when integrating new equipment into existing systems. “The key thing is that these gaps are not only an administrative nuisance, it’s the impact on

The Windows PC market appears to be in flux at the moment. With the end of support coming this month for Windows 10, companies are trying to decide whether to finally jump to Windows 11, move to another platform entirely, or maybe stick with Windows — but ditch Intel for Arm processors. What’s an IT