Amazon will reduce its overall workforce by 14,000, cutting layers of management across the company and hiring in some areas to support its “biggest bets”. Staff will hear from their managers later today about the cuts, and affected employees will have 90 days to look for a new role internally, the company said. “Some may

Apple will announce that its services business achieved over $100 billion in annual revenues in the last year, according to the Financial Times. If true, this would be a major achievement. Many might recall that eight years ago Apple CEO Tim Cook declared Apple’s intention to double the size of its services business by 2020, when

Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now direct the generative AI (genAI) assistant to build apps on their behalf that feature dashboards, charts, and other interactive elements.   It’s one of three new ways to automate work tasks with M365 Copilot unveiled Tuesday by the company. The other functionalities include a workflow automation builder agent and Copilot Studio “lite”

Nvidia, a major force behind the rise of generative AI (genAI) in recent years, now sees physical AI as the next step in the technology’s evolution. “The next wave is physical AI,” Kari Briski, vice president for generative AI software for enterprises at Nvidia, said during a briefing ahead of the company’s GTC trade show in Washington, DC. Today,

When Microsoft and OpenAI announced their revised AI deal on Thursday, it reduced Microsoft’s ownership share of OpenAI, but seemed to give it everything that it wanted in exchange, analysts said. Well, everything other than AGI, which Microsoft doesn’t really care about. The announcement of the revised details indicated a change in the nature of

Apple unveiled its M5-based iPad Pro earlier this month, hard on the heels of the introduction in September of the much more Mac-like iPadOS 26. It’s a powerful hardware/software combination that makes the popular tablet a primary device for many users.  For IT admins, it also raises a question: Is it finally time to consider

Computerworld and the larger tech journalism community lost an outstanding journalist and beloved colleague earlier this month with the unexpected passing of Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian. He passed away on Oct. 21 while recovering from heart surgery, leaving behind his wife Kim and their family. After a nearly 10-year stint in the US Marine Corps and an early

With AI workloads becoming more computationally demanding, organisations across the globe are fast realising that traditional centralised providers aren’t always the answer to their burgeoning needs. And while compute giants (like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure) continue to capture the limelight when it comes to AI processing, a quieter revolution has been brewing. Enter the

Open-source document database platform RavenDB has launched what it calls “the first fully integrated database-native AI Agent Creator,” a tool that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy AI agents. The platform tackles a common problem in enterprise AI – the difficulty of connecting models to a company’s own data systems and workflows

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and AMD are collaborating on two new AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as part of a larger AI strategy to advance research in science, energy, and national security — and strengthen the nation’s position in high-performance computing. The two machines represent about $1 billion in public