Dell and HP executives have acknowledged a delay in the anticipated commercial PC refresh cycle. Michael Dell, speaking at the Citi 2024 Global TMT conference, stated that the refresh cycle “has been delayed for sure.” Without offering any reasons for postponement — and not being pressed for one by the Read more…
Can AI kill the enterprise software app industry that’s led by companies such as Salesforce and Workday? That’s the trillion-dollar question at the heart of recent comments from the CEO of Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who’s made a name for himself — and drawn some skepticism too — as a chief Read more…
The FDA on Thursday approved the first hearing aid software for Apple’s latest AirPods Pro earbuds. According to Apple, the feature will be pushed to eligible devices through a software update in the coming weeks. The move, which comes two years after the FDA first approved over-the-counter hearing aids, could Read more…
Mistral AI has launched Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model with language and vision processing capabilities, positioning it to compete with AI leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. You can download its source code from Hugging Face, GitHub, or via a torrent link. While the official details of the new model, Read more…
A new survey released on Tuesday found that Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year — a 36% increase from the previous year and the largest single-year increase in the history of wireless data consumption. The increase — 26 trillion MBs over 2022 — comes as Read more…
Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in Windows and Linux. The library, started in 2006, provides operations and algorithms developers Read more…
OpenAI has launched a new AI model, named “o1”, designed for improved reasoning and problem-solving skills. o1, part of a new series of models and available in ChatGPT and the API, can tackle complex tasks in science, coding, and math more effectively than their predecessors. Notably, o1 models have shown Read more…