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Microsoft Copilot Pro review: Office joins the genAI revolution
Microsoft’s $20-per-month Copilot Pro subscription gives you access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant in Office. That means Copilot can help you write Word documents, work with Excel spreadsheets, create PowerPoint presentations, put together Outlook emails, lay out...
Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t a full-fledged Mac replacement — yet
“I haven’t upgraded the Mac (or PC) I use for work in a years. I was going to replace it this year, and I’m wondering if I could or should get an Apple Vision Pro instead. What do you think?”I’ve heard more variations of that question in the past two weeks than I...
OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool’s impact will be ‘profound’
OpenAI last week unveiled a new capability for its generative AI (genAI) platform that can use a text input to generate video — complete with life-like actors and other moving parts.The new genAI model, called Sora, has a text-to-video function that can create...
Air Canada chatbot error underscores AI’s enterprise liability danger
A civil tribunal in Canada has ordered Air Canada to pay for a mistake made by a customer-service chatbot, highlighting the need for companies to better train and monitor their artificial intelligence (AI) tools.British Columbia resident Jake Moffatt visited Air...
Adobe’s new Acrobat genAI assistant aims to streamline reading PDFs
Adobe is promising to make it easier to digest lengthy PDFs with a new generative AI (genAI) assistant coming to Acrobat.Currently in private beta, the AI Assistant will later be available within its paid Acrobat desktop and web apps, as well as the free-to-use...
EU begins formal investigation of TikTok over potential violations of Digital Services Act
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether TikTok may have breached the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in various ways associated with the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and...
Box CEO ‘insanely excited’ about future of Vision Pro, work, and AI
Enterprise content cloud and collaboration service Box was fast out the gate with its own feature-filled take on support for Apple’s Vision Pro. I spoke with Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, who described how the company sees spatial computing transforming the...
Miro boosts security for its visual collaboration app
Miro has unveiled a set of security tools designed to help businesses protect sensitive data shared on its digital whiteboard application. The new Miro Enterprise Guard includes features to automate detection and classification of sensitive data, manage content for...
How RAG makes generative AI tools even better
As more organizations turn to generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools to transform massive amounts of unstructured data and other assets into usable information, being able to find the most relevant content during the AI generation process is...
The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
We all know by now that many business leaders want their employees to work in the office instead of at home. But most don’t understand why.And we know that many employees want to work from home instead of the office. And most don’t understand why, either.As a result,...
Microsoft fixes two zero-days with Patch Tuesday release
Microsoft on Tuesday released 73 updates in its monthly Patch Tuesday release, addressing issues in Microsoft Exchange Server and Adobe and two zero-day flaws being actively exploited in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21410) and Microsoft Exchange...
Apple has an Xcode plan for genAI — and that’s just the beginning
In the wake of Microsoft's release of its GitHub Copilot tool, Apple could soon follow suit with a new version of Xcode that includes generative AI (genAI) capabilities designed to help developers write code.The feature is expected to be capable of generating code in...