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Google faces $1.7 billion lawsuit over AI chips patent infringement
A computer scientist, Joseph Bates, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that the internet giant should pay $1.67 billion for using his innovations to develop processors for AI-related tasks.In response to the lawsuit, Google appeared before a federal jury in...
The question no one’s answering about AI on Android in 2024
I'm typically not one for sweeping tech predictions.This year, though, it seems safe to put one particularly bold premonition out into the virtual wild. It's less of a prediction, mind you, and more of a certainty we're already seeing play out:This year, we're gonna...
Will super chips disrupt the ‘everything to the cloud’ IT mentality?
Enterprise IT for the last couple of years has grown disappointed in the economics — not to mention the cybersecurity and compliance impact — of corporate clouds. In general, with a few exceptions, enterprises have done little about it; most saw the scalability and...
The best places to find Windows ISOs
Installing and repairing Windows operating systems requires access to known, good, working, and virus-free installation, image, and supporting files. Typically, such collections can run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of items, all organized within a...
EU to review Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI
The European Union is investigating whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI amounts to a concealed merger amid efforts to regulate the rapidly advancing generative AI (genAI) sector.The European Commission, serving as the EU's executive branch, said Tuesday it is...
How to think about Apple and spatial computing
It might not yet be clear where Apple’s visionOS (and Vision Pro headset) aims to go. But for enterprise technology decision makers, one way to understand it all is to study what the company itself says. First, where isn’t it going?According to Apple, it isn’t trying...
New York Times’ blockbuster suit could decide the fate of genAI
Here come the lawyers.Last week, the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, in which Microsoft has invested $13 billion and counting, for copyright violations. The Times claims Microsoft’s genAI-based Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which powers Copilot, were trained...
OpenAI claims NYT is not telling the full story in its copyright lawsuit
OpenAI on Monday said that The New York Times (NYT) is not telling the full story about the lawsuit it filed against the Sam Altman-led company and Microsoft on December 27.“Interestingly, the regurgitations The New York Times induced appear to be from years-old...
OpenAI: GenAI tools can’t be made without copyrighted materials
In response to gathering legal efforts to rein in its data collection, OpenAI is arguing that the creation of advanced generative AI (genAI) tools is unfeasible without the use of copyrighted content to train them.In a report to the UK’s House of Lords Communications...
Apple Vision Pro on sale Feb. 2 in US, pre-orders soon
As CES opens its doors, Apple has started the conversation by announcing its $3,499 Vision Pro headset will on sale in the US on Feb. 2. Pre-orders begin Jan. 19.Apple has always promised to ship the product “early” in 2024, and in the last week speculation of a...
Microsoft bids adieu to WordPad
Technology giant Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, which had been part of every Windows operating system for the last 28 years.“Starting with this build, the WordPad and People apps will no longer be installed after doing a clean install of the OS. In a future...
Startup firm Patronus creates diagnostic tool to catch genAI mistakes
As generative AI (genAI) platforms such as ChatGPT, Dall-E2, and AlphaCode barrel ahead at a breakneck pace, keeping the tools from hallucinating and spewing erroneous or offensive responses is nearly impossible.To date, there have been few methods to ensure accurate...