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Quick: How many tabs do you have open in Chrome on your Android phone right now? If the answer is zero, you’re an animal. Seek immediate psychiatric help. If the answer is one to two, you’re obsessively organized and a model Android device owner. Go get yourself a cookie as a reward (browser-based or snickerdoodle — your choice)! If the answer is three to seven, sorry, pal — but you’ve got a minor problem. And if the answer is eight or more, you’re an animal. Seek immediate psychiatric help. Personally, I tend to fall in either the first or the [...]
Microsoft has ridden its multibillion-dollar investments in generative AI (genAI) to become the world’s second-most valuable company, with a valuation of roughly $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. This year, it plans to invest $80 billion on data center costs alone, and that doesn’t count how much it’s spending to build its in-house AI team. At some point, though, Microsoft needs to start getting serious revenue from its genAI investments. It’s been almost three years since Microsoft-funded OpenAI released ChatGPT, on which Microsoft’s Copilot AI line is based, and more than 14 months since Microsoft 365 Copilot made its debut. The time [...]
It’s no big revelation that project management can be a chore. Enterprise teams need to be able to easily collaborate, track progress, and gain important insights from data, but they often don’t have a cohesive platform on which to do so, creating fragmentation, administrative burdens, and ultimately slowing project momentum. Zoho Corporation is aiming to take the headaches out of this process with its release Tuesday of Projects Plus. The data-driven project management (DDPM) platform pulls together disparate data so that internal and external teams can collaborate, communicate, and get projects done more quickly and easily. DDPM “takes guesswork out [...]
Google is jazzing up videoconferencing and chat features in its Workspace suite with new generative AI (genAI) features, including image and background enhancements for Google Meet and built-in translation for Google Chat, the company said on its Workspace update page. The latest features rely on Google’s Gemini AI model, which the company is integrating into its Workspace Business and Enterprise plans. The company started the integration earlier this year without the need for customers to buy an add-on plan for Gemini. The Gemini model used for Google Meet can generate or improvise custom backgrounds, touch up the looks of a participant in a meeting [...]
Ever since OpenAI made ChatGPT available to the public in late 2022, the large language model (LLM)-based generative AI (genAI) revolution has advanced at an astonishing pace. Two years and four months ago, we had only ChatGPT. Now, we have GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.0 Pro, Llama 3.1, PaLM 2, Perplexity AI, Grok-3, DeepSeek R1, LLaMA-13B, and dozens of other tools, ranging from free to $20,000 per month for the top tier of OpenAI’s Operator system. The consensus is that they’re advancing quickly. But they all seem stuck on three fundamental problems that prevent their full use by business users: Their [...]
Soon after the non-appearance of the most important Apple Intelligence feature, Apple now finds itself in danger of digging an even deeper hole by promising iOS 19 will be the most significant upgrade in years. The problem: it again runs the risk of promising too much and not delivering enough. It’s a dangerous approach. If the world’s most prolific source of spookily accurate speculation is correct, Apple plans “one of the most dramatic” upgrades to its operating systems yet. The report is short on detail, but it does reveal changes that appear to be focused on the user interface. Apple apparently wants to [...]
The new OpenAI challenger Manus is designed to create personalized solutions and provide detailed evaluations without any human intervention.shutterstock – QINQIE99 The next would-be “OpenAI killer” is coming from China, after DeepSeek set out to dethrone the industry leader in 2024. The new artificial intelligence goes by the name of Manus and was developed by the startup Butterfly Effect. According to the company, its product is a “general agent” designed to improve the tools offered by Western companies. Manus is best compared to OpenAI’s Deep Research, a service that searches online services to find information. What is found is then [...]
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), backed by Elon Musk, has expanded the deployment of its custom AI-powered chatbot, GSAi, to approximately 1,500 government workers at the General Services Administration. The move signals a push for AI-driven efficiencies amid widespread layoffs, raising concerns over the use of automation to justify job cuts. Following a February pilot program that granted access to about 150 GSA employees, the department has rapidly expanded the chatbot’s availability, reported Wired. Quoting sources, Wired reported that while the AI tool has been in development for months, DOGE has significantly accelerated its deployment timeline and been fine-tuned [...]
Word has always been the workhorse app of the Microsoft Office suite. Nearly everyone who uses Office ends up using Word at some point, whether it be for writing memos, typing up agendas, creating reports, crafting business correspondence or any of a thousand other uses. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the software license up front and own it forever (what the company calls the “perpetual” version of the suite), or they can purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription, which means they have access to the software for only as long as they keep paying [...]
Need to get up to speed on the latest features in Excel? Wrestling with an old version of Word? Finding your way around Windows 11 or looking to get more out of Windows 10? Computerworld’s cheat sheets are easy-to-use guides to help you navigate Microsoft’s core productivity software. Here’s a one-stop resource where you can find in-depth stories on several generations of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Windows, focusing on what’s new in each major release. We’ve also got guides for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Loop, Whiteboard, Forms, Visio, Planner, and Windows itself. Microsoft’s subscription-based office suite, called [...]
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