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The invoice arrives from your cloud provider. You open the PDF and stare at the total. It is not just high. It is completely disconnected from the reality of your business metrics. You were promised that moving to the cloud would make your enterprise agile. You were told that integrating generative algorithms would flatten your operational costs and replace expensive human headcount with cheap machine logic. Instead, you have a financial disaster. The truth about enterprise technology in the current moment is brutal. The infrastructure that was supposed to save you money has become the single greatest vector for capital…

The closures come as receivers Kroll prepare Crystal Jade for sale Crystal Jade has closed another four outlets in Singapore, leaving nine restaurants in operation. No further closures are expected, Channel News Asia reported. Three of the four outlets were Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao locations, at Bugis Junction, Toa Payoh and i12 Katong. The fourth was a Crystal Jade GO at Punggol Oasis Terrace. All ceased operations on Tuesday, Oct 6. About 120 workers across the affected outlets and some corporate functions were issued termination notices. The closures are part of a reorganisation of Crystal Jade’s Singapore…

When it comes to deciding the fate of the planet, Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table. That was until one morning last September in London, when the climate researcher took part in the first in a series of war games. The goal: to prevent an uncontrolled global race to develop a technology aimed at cooling the planet but that comes with vast, unknown risks that could reshape life on Earth.“I thought that would be such an easy thing. Like, we can all agree to do ethical research and make sure it’s for…

Oren Etzioni, left, and Max Tegmark debated the risks of AI in a New York Post video. Etzioni actually considers himself a realist, not an optimist, as he notes in this piece. (New York Post via YouTube) Regular readers of this column may have wondered about the long gap since my Sept. 4 column, “What kids tell chatbots, but not you.” Well, it’s hard to write business-as-usual AI columns during the great AI freakout. I’ve realized that I won’t be able to do justice to this topic in one column, and that life goes on. As the economist Antoine Levy…

Legacy modernization requires understanding how an application’s code, data and business rules fit together before rebuilding it. BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application’s dependencies, business logic and data models in a knowledge graph. That context helps agents interpret the system they are rebuilding, according to Alejandro D’Andrea (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of BotMan. “Intelligence is not the problem anymore,” he said. “The problem is context. You have to explain to the agent everything it needs to understand [how] to do a particular task. What if you didn’t have to explain that? What if…

There’s a lot to consider before buying a new phone from abroad. Framesira/Shutterstock There are plenty of smartphone options to choose from in the US, from the iPhone to the Pixel. But there are also really interesting phones you’ll never find in an American store. Xiaomi’s foldables like the Mix Fold, Honor’s Magic series and OPPO’s Find X phones are a few examples that offer unique designs or features not generally seen in the US.  While phones like these are harder to find in the country, it’s possible to import them, but bringing a phone from…

There is a devastation happening right now in B2B marketing. It is quieter. It does not make headlines. It just slowly erodes your pipeline until nothing is left. It is the cost of zero-friction content. Your C-suite thought generative AI was a cheat code. Produce endless copy. Flood the zone. Win by sheer volume. They built a Shoggoth. A terrifying, faceless blob of synthetic text that consumes everything in its path and regurgitates perfect, grammatically flawless nothingness. And now the bill is coming due. When producing commodity content becomes virtually free, the cost of being average does not stay the…

The Apple smart home device that the company is expected to announce on Tuesday is called HomeView and will ship to consumers in November, according to a report Sunday by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The device, which will feature a display and be powered by an A18 chip, will act as a Siri command center for an Apple-powered smart home, Gurman reported. The HomeView will come in two versions: a countertop model with a metal speaker base and a wall-mounted version with a flat, square base. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. For more than a year, Apple has…

I had to iterate a bit to realize my vision, telling the AI not just to stick pig faces on the blocks but to have the blocks shaped like distorted pigs. “Each block is a pig,” I wrote, “contorted into the shape of the Tetris blocks. Make ’em look a little squished but still cute!” This resulted in a clean, playable version of Tetris, though the occasional block looked like a T-posed pig with its legs spread-eagle. The AI suggested the title Piggy Stacker, but I thought mine was better. (I’m right.)Dinner DarlingThe next game idea came courtesy of my…

Most traditional enterprise systems were built around three assumptions: Jobs finish quickly, retrying one is free and the same input always produces the same output. Agentic workloads break all three of these expectations, which is why pilots that perform well turn into operational problems once they run unattended. The difficulty is rarely the model; it’s the surrounding infrastructure and management practices that assume properties these workloads no longer have. What has changed Agents work by different rules than conventional software. Here are three significant differences: Work takes minutes, not milliseconds. An agentic task can run long enough to exceed timeout…