You know the routine: The IT industry, driven as much by vendor ambition as by necessity, develops many competing standards to solve a simple problem. Today’s culprit: agent-to-agent communication in AI. The recent rise of so-called “standards” for how intelligent agents should communicate echoes past issues with service-oriented architecture, web services, and various messaging middleware

Benchmarks are often reduced to leaderboard standings in media coverage, but their role in AI development is far more critical. They are the backbone of model evaluation—guiding improvements, enabling reproducibility, and ensuring real-world applicability. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or business leader, understanding benchmarks is essential for navigating the AI landscape effectively. At their core, benchmarks are standardized evaluations designed to measure AI capabilities. Early

How much do cyberattacks cost? Recently we reported on Clorox suing Cognizant for $380M over alleged helpdesk failures during a cyberattack. We described how their complaint, filed in a California court, accuses Cognizant of gross negligence, citing transcripts where helpdesk agents gave away passwords and reset MFA without any identity checks. It was a popular

In the most recent episode of First Person, we met with Eamonn O’Neill – CTO and Founder of Lemongrass. Eamonn told us he is as excited about tech today as he was decades ago when he got his first Spectrum computer, and suggested that this is the key to his success. You can view our interview

In today’s fast-changing workplace, investing in employee development isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic necessity. But with hundreds of learning experience platforms (LXPs) on the market, each promising personalized journeys, AI-driven insights, and seamless integrations, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. The best LXP for your organization will do more than deliver

Autotrader has evolved from its roots as an automative magazine to become the UK’s largest automotive marketplace, a tech business that is now 100% using Apple products.  Autotrader isn’t the first to move to Mac; the opportunity to move from a Windows ecosystem to Macs is being seized by a rapidly growing number of enterprises in response

Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased, the Washington Post reports, in yet another example of how the tech is being used to automate even the most emotionally charged parts of the human experience. One bellwether of the AI’s rise in the death care

Employment seekers are getting frustrated when they finally lock down a much-sought-after job interview — only to realize when they log onto the meeting that the “interviewers” isn’t even human. As Fortune reports, professionals are starting to push back, noping out of interviews conducted by AI and reasoning that the company culture can’t be very

In case you missed it, OpenAI has responded to a recent “leak” of thousands of ChatGPT conversations by removing a sharing feature that led to its users unknowingly unleashing their private exchanges onto the world wide web. We enclose the term in quotation marks because the “leak” wasn’t the doing of some nefarious hackers, but

Ozzy Osbourne’s body is barely cold after his July 22 death, but he’s already being subjected to the off-putting AI resurrection trend by fellow musician and contemporary Rod Stewart. In a now-viral video taken at the Alpharetta, Georgia stop of Stewart’s “One Last Time” tour on August 1, Stewart rolled AI-generated “footage” of the late Black Sabbath