What causes AI pilots to fail in production   This week, an exercise in plotting truth from hype.   I am old enough to remember when generative AI was the best thing since sliced bread – destined to solve any and all problems. But CIO.com recently reported that inconsistent results, hallucinations, and a lack of use

In a recent episode of the First Person podcast, we met with Greg Finnigan. Greg is a company founder who has navigated a career through hardware distribution, to security software and on to the cloud, working in both large corporates and startups.   In a wide-ranging and fascinating chat Greg gave us the benefit of

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Google divest itself of the Chrome web browser and/or

The IT job market is cooling in the US, with new postings down 19% and open roles falling 7% month-over-month from July to August. Year-to-date, however, job openings are down just 2%, according to an analysis of a new jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While employers are still hiring, they’re

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to rights holders in settlement of a lawsuit regarding its training of generative AI models using copyright material without permission, raising concerns that this could increase the licensing costs enterprises pay for AI models. The class action lawsuit concerns authors’ claims in an August 2024 lawsuit

Uber just turned its transportation network into an AI training ground. The ride-hailing giant’s announcement that Indian drivers could earn some extra money by labeling data for AI systems represents a direct assault on the rapidly expanding data labeling industry. The move positioned Uber’s over one million Indian drivers as an instant workforce competing against

As we await Apple’s new range of iPhones, new iPads, a refreshed Apple Watch range and a compelling AirPods Pro upgrade, it’s worth noting that the new devices may hit a market eager to upgrade. SellCell claims almost 70% of iPhone owners might upgrade this year. I have to say that I find that percentage much too high,

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023. The survey, which

OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made largely with artificial intelligence. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the purported goal of using AI tech on the movie is to speed up production while also saving costs — and, presumably, serving as a giant

Artificial intelligence has notorious problems with accuracy — so maybe it’s not surprising that using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro found in new research, developers who used AI produce ten times more security problems than their counterparts who don’t use the technology. Looking at code from thousands of