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I remember the name of that AI doco now – The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: “it’s gonna kill us all” versus “it’s gonna make us all rich”, and so on. But to some extent, I can understand the gap between opinions when we’re all just speculating about the future. I have much less understanding for why people infatuate with hyping AI as a data breach monster when the evidence…

For the better part of my 30-year career as an analyst, unified communications has been designed around the person at a desk, bouncing between meetings, chat and email. That made sense when the pandemic pushed everyone onto video. It makes far less sense when roughly 80% of the global workforce doesn’t sit at a desk at all. In fact, I’ve argued that front-line, non-deskbound workers have been forgotten by most of the UC industry, which is why so many nurses, warehouse workers and others rely on consumer devices and tools. That’s the gap Mitel Networks Corp. is targeting with Mitel…

The trade secrets case between Flexport and Freightmate centered on the use of shipping documents. (Unsplash Photo / Rinson Chory) Freightmate AI has settled a trade secrets lawsuit filed by San Francisco-based freight forwarder Flexport on terms that will keep the Bellevue, Wash.-based logistics software startup’s products on the market. “We’re glad to have this resolved,” said Bryan Lacaillade, Freightmate’s CEO and co-founder, in a statement. “I’m incredibly grateful to our team, customers, and partners for their support throughout this journey, and we’re excited about what’s ahead for Freightmate.” The case raised a question that could become more common as…

Google still holds 84.9% of B2B search. But the 15% is shifting way faster than anyone budgeted for- and it’s changing where B2B buyers start their research. Ask ten B2B marketers where their buyers start their research, and nine of them will say Google. And they’re mostly right. But “mostly right” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The B2B search engine market looks dramatically different today than it did 3 years ago. But a chunk of the change isn’t coming from a single challenger eating into Google’s share. We owe it to the expanding cluster of AI-powered…

When government officials craft policies, there is often a comment period for public feedback. Lawmakers have long had to sort through fake feedback that is mass-produced in an effort to sway policy, but they’ve generally gotten used to detecting it. With, artificial intelligence, however, people can submit realistic-seeming comments, which are harder to dismiss as being fabrications with no person behind them. That’s just one way AI can be used to generate text and statements, in civic conversations, for which no one can be found to be answerable.This issue, among others, has caught the attention of Deb Roy, professor of…

What good is a phone that can’t keep up with the average person’s day-to-day needs? Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock You don’t have to spend an arm and a leg on an Android phone, even if it’s brand-new. You can find plenty of great cheap Android phone options for $300 or less, if you know what to look for. And that’s the biggest thing to consider: knowing what features are crucial to have and where you can make concessions. Paying less for a phone that doesn’t have a sleek titanium frame, for example, is totally fine; you probably will (and…

A Meta spokesperson highlighted Muse’s system prompt, which guides the tool on how to answer questions from users, regarding the generation of explicit content. “Adults have autonomy over their sexuality, and sexual expression is an ordinary part of adult life. Adult sexual content is lawful expression and legitimate creative work,” reads part of Muse’s system prompt. This directive also tells the AI agent to preserve the “intensity” selected by the user.Consumer advocates who were already wary of Muse are even more alarmed by Meta’s decision to allow it to generate sexual content. “It reflects a carelessness with their signature product…

Not automatically.Agentless deception can be attractive where organizations want to limit additional endpoint software or where endpoints cannot support an agent. Agent deception or locally delivered artifacts can provide different capabilities depending on the architecture.The better evaluation is to determine exactly which components need to be deployed, what privileges and resources they require, how they are updated, and how much operational work they create.Fidelis, for example, supports passive discovery approaches that do not require endpoint modification for that discovery process, while its OT deception can use lightweight virtual images and containerized services deployed off-path. The exact architecture should still be…

Put a Pokemon character, especially Pikachu, on just about anything — including a $100 Polaroid camera — and fans will take notice. On Monday, Beats by Dre teased an upcoming collaboration where the colorful characters seem to be coming to decorate Beats Pill Bluetooth speakers. Beats by Dre didn’t share a lot of information, but the caption “Time to catch something new” plays off the classic Pokemon tagline, “Gotta catch ’em all!” The 6-second video shows electrical charges in yellow and purple flashing over a shadowed Beats Pill speaker. It ends with a screen showing the Pokemon Poke Ball logo…

Microsoft Corp. today pulled back the curtains on Maia 300, its newest internally developed artificial intelligence accelerator. The chip is optimized for inference. Microsoft estimates that it can process 40% more tokens per megawatt than “leading GPU-based systems,” which is likely a reference to Nvidia Corp. products. The company stated the Maia chip series will become its primary source of inference capacity over time. Maia 300 features four computing chiplets made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s latest two-nanometer node. The chiplets are flanked by eight HBM4 modules with 288 gigabytes of combined capacity, the same amount as Nvidia Corp.’s flagship…