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CIOs should prepare for a 76.4% rise in global generative AI (genAI) spending this year, driven by improved foundational models and growing demand, according to a Gartner research report released today. Organizations are expected to spend $644 billion worldwide on genAI projects despite high failure rates among early projects, the lion’s share of which will be on services. GenAI services are expected to grow 162% this year after jumping 177% last year. GenAI software, which grew 255% in 2024, will only grow by 93% this year. Perhaps the biggest shift, however, is in genAI devices, which are predicted to rise [...]
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers offering advice on how IT security certifications help career advancement; how can companies overcome the complexity of S/4HANA migration projects; and why are cloud credentials so easily compromised in cyberattacks? Certification for CISO Success Cybersecurity certifications are known to support lucrative career advancement. Hoping to help our IT professional readers improve their careers, this week we reported on the certs providing the largest pay boosts right now. But – hard as this is to believe – money isn’t everything. Readers [...]
How many group chats are you involved in? For me, it varies. Right now, there are only two — and both are of a more private nature. Group chats are something that’s not really discussed much; they represent a newer technical form of communication that perhaps is better understood as a way of organizing oneself socially. As such, it has emerged sort of organically. It has never been a “trend” to start group chats and there is really no major innovation behind it. Despite that, almost everyone now participates in various forms of group chats. It can be with family [...]
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little documentation [...]
What if you could build a business-specific generative AI (genAI) solution that was hosted in the cloud? What if that cloud used the most energy-efficient systems in the world? And what if those services were also all running on the world’s most secure computing platform, the Mac? Wonder no more, because MacStadium and webAI just made this real. We’ve talked about both companies before. MacStadium is a force to be reckoned with and offered the first major deployment of hosted Apple-as-a-service cloud solutions; webAI, meanwhile, has created quite a stir with its offering, which runs quite happily on a MacBook Air – and runs [...]
New generative AI (genAI) models introduced this week by Google and OpenAI have put the companies’ data centers under stress — and both companies are trying to catch up to demand. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman on Thursday tweeted that his company was temporarily restricting the use of GPUs after overwhelming demand for its image generation service on ChatGPT. The move came one day after OpenAI introduced the 4o image-generation tool. “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT. But our GPUs are melting,” Altman wrote in a post on X. OpenAI primarily relies on Nvidia GPUs to power its ChatGPT service, [...]
Generative AI (genAI) companies are starting to do real damage to the internet. One of the internet’s main purposes is to serve as a global network for free and open communication and information exchange between scientists, academics, and the public and to be an uncensorable place for the expression of free speech. (One of the most dangerous threats to the internet is recent bipartisan support for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which, if actually repealed, would seriously harm free speech online. That’s an issue you can read about on the EFF website.) The purest expression of the internet’s [...]
QWERTY, QWERTY, QWERTY. QWERTY. Oh — hi there! Sorry for the slightly nonsensical greeting. I’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards this week, y’see, and how that trusty ol’ QWERTY surface has evolved in our lives. Also, saying “QWERTY” over and over again is surprisingly fun to do. Go ahead and try it. I’ll wait. Back? Cool. So, about that QWERTY contemplation: ‘Twas a time not so long ago that our QWERTY interactions on the mobile-tech front revolved almost entirely around actual physical keys. (Drooooooid, anyone?) Then, even when we started relying on on-screen QWERTY surfaces, we were hunting and [...]
A team that included researchers at a US bank says it has created a protocol that can generate certified truly random numbers, opening the possibility that current generation quantum computers can be used for secure applications in finance, cryptography, cybersecurity, and privacy. However, an industry analyst is cautious. “The JPMorgan team’s findings are interesting, but won’t be applicable in the near term for most CSOs, unless they are responsible for high security environments,” said Sandy Carielli, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. “Quantum random number generation has been around for a while,” she pointed out, “and some CSOs may already [...]
Apple’s Safari browser has a really useful password management feature, which is now also available as a standalone app called Passwords. If you’ve ever taken a look at it, you may have seen a section called Security Recommendations where you’ll find a collection of all the accounts and passwords that might have been compromised. If you haven’t already, it’s time to take those collections seriously, because generative AI (genAI) adoption means the scale and nature of the threats posed by purloined passwords and broken IDs is about to grow far greater. That’s because, armed with stolen emails and passwords, criminals will find [...]