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Pega Systems launches generative AI-based assistant for enterprises
US-based software company Pega Systems has announced the launch of Knowledge Buddy, a generative AI-based assistant to help organizations collate data spread across different sources.Typically, information is scattered across several locations in an organization and...
Pegasystems launches generative AI-based assistant for enterprises
US-based software company Pegasystems has announced the launch of Knowledge Buddy, a generative AI-based assistant to help organizations collate data spread across different sources.Typically, information is scattered across several locations in an organization and...
Microsoft Bing, Edge may be exempted from EU’s Digital Market Act: Report
Microsoft’s search engine Bing and its web browser Edge may be exempted from the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will force obligations on large digital platforms, dubbed gatekeepers, from March.The exemption is due to the non-dominant nature of the search engine...
How to access Google’s Circle to Search smartness on any Android phone today
Whoa. Is it just me, or is there a serious scent of déjà vu in the air right now?Google, if you haven't yet heard, is gearin' up to launch an ambitious new universal search system for Android devices. It's called Circle to Search, and it actually sounds pretty useful:...
7 ways to leverage genAI for a better career
IT workers the world over are standing at a career crossroads: one path means learning how to leverage a new set of tools many business leaders say is mandatory for success; the other means choosing to ignore the generative AI hype and doing what you’ve always...
Grape expectations: How genAI reshaped a wine company’s customer service team
New York-based Wine Enthusiast offers online customers what it calls everything they need to live the wine lifestyle — from the vino itself to corkscrews, glasses, wine cellars, furniture, and even two magazines on the topic. The company also receives 100,000 customer...
Apple’s second-user smartphone business is booming
The used smartphone market is booming, with around 309.4 million units sold in 2023, according to IDC. (That's up almost 10% on the preceding year.) While most of this market comprises consumers trying to get the best smartphone they can for the money they’ve got,...
Regulators probe Microsoft’s OpenAI ties — is it only smoke, or is there fire?
For years, Microsoft has managed to fly under the radar of government agencies looking at potential violations of antitrust laws, even though it’s the second largest company in the world by market valuation, just behind Apple and ahead of Google, Facebook, and Amazon....
AI still far more expensive than humans in most jobs: MIT study
Countering several recent reports that suggest AI will take away millions of jobs, researchers at MIT have found that it is still a lot cheaper to use humans for most jobs in the US.In a paper titled “Beyond AI Exposure,” MIT FutureTech, along with The Productivity...
Apple Vision Pro pre-sales run hot, but demand might be limited
Apple’s Vision Pro virtual and augmented reality headsets sold out quickly after online pre-sales began Friday morning, but stable delivery dates could indicate a limited amount of demand for the $3,500 device.Ming-Chi Kuo, a TF International Securities analyst who...
Vision Pro briefing: Apple’s new billion-dollar business
The magic money tree sometimes needs a little cultivation, which is precisely what Apple’s been doing for the last few years as it prepared for Vision Pro. Now, with Vision Pro pre-orders under way, it has built a billion-dollar business it didn’t have before.How many...
7 ways to use Microsoft Copilot right
Whether you believe AI will be the salvation of humankind or the death of it, whether you think it’s little more than a plaything to while away your time or the surest way to get onto the fast track at work, you’re going to use it someday. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow....