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Adobe’s Firefly Graph is now available to Creative Cloud customers, offering a node-based workflow tool designed to help business create content at scale with generative AI (genAI). With Firefly Graph, users can connect multiple tools in visual workflow, with each “node” performing a specific task before passing its output to the next node. This gives creative professionals more control over generated outputs, according to Adobe, and makes it easier to try out ideas by swapping, adjusting or adding components. For example, a user could start with a text prompt box that connects to a node that generates an image using [...]
Beth Tschida, who became Jamf CEO in May after serving as CTO and as interim CEO, is the first woman to lead the company in its near 25-year history. I spoke with her this week at the London Jamf Nation event, where the company introduced its new AI Governance solution. How the transition to CEO is going “It’s been a great privilege and an adjustment,” she said. “Jamf has always been a company deeply focused on culture, which is exactly why I love being here. Having the ability to influence and improve that culture from this role is something I [...]
There’s no shortage of agentic AI tools out there that offer to perform online tasks on your behalf, if only you’ll give them all your passwords and credit card details. The trouble starts when those agents don’t know when to stop — or when others don’t know to stop them. In Estonia, the country’s AI Council has plans to change that, proposing to issue government-backed digital identities for AI agents that spell out what powers a person or company is willing to delegate to them. “In the future, AI will increasingly perform digital operations on behalf of a person, company, [...]
Microsoft has introduced usage-based billing for Copilot Cowork, which is now generally available. Microsoft unveiled Copilot Cowork in March, pitching it as an AI agent that’s capable of independently performing long-running, multi-step tasks — even when a user’s computer is off. It’s built on the same technology that underpins Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. Unlike Claude Cowork, which can interact directly with files and applications on a user’s computer, Copilot Cowork runs in Microsoft’s cloud environment and acts on documents held in a customer’s Microsoft 365 tenant. Copilot Cowork now comes with usage-based billing. Microsoft On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled pricing details for [...]
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, an MIT-licensed open-source AI model designed for long-running software engineering tasks, as the Chinese company seeks to challenge proprietary coding models on cost and performance. The company said GLM-5.2 ranked just behind Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 on FrontierSWE, a long-horizon coding benchmark, trailing it by 1%. Z.ai said the model also edged out OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 by 1%. Z.ai said GLM-5.2 supports a one-million-token context window with up to 131,072 output tokens, positioning it for agentic coding workflows that require reasoning across large codebases. The company is also making an efficiency argument. It said GLM-5.2 uses a [...]
Well, hey, how ’bout that? Here we are, on a random quiet-seeming week in June, and a new Android version is officially making its way into the wild and onto our favorite Googley gizmos. Yes, indeed: Google announced the launch of Android 17 this week, and the rollout is getting underway as we speak. As usual, the software will show up for current, still-supported Pixel devices right away, over the next few to several days. (As for everyone else — well, you know the drill by now, right? It’s up to each individual Android device-maker to process and send out [...]
Despite best efforts by defenders, malicious emails continue to slip through the cybersecurity cracks, leading some enterprises to implement a layered “defense in depth” strategy that incorporates multiple tools. Microsoft seems to be challenging this idea, revealing that there are only nominal returns from adding integrated pre- and post-send partners to Defender for Office 365’s protections. According to its new quarterly benchmarking data, the tech giant catches the vast majority of malicious and spam emails before delivery, misses the fewest compared to competitors by a wide margin, and removes nearly 100% of dangerous emails that do reach the inbox. Collectively, [...]
OpenAI has signed a partnership agreement with Visa that allows the company’s AI agents to use the payment card for e-commerce transactions. The agreements lets users shop for everything from groceries and diapers to airline tickets without having to manually enter a lot of information. “As AI agents become active participants in the economy, Visa’s focus is on ensuring that transactions are reliable, secure, and seamless,” Visa Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell said in a statement, according to AP. The pact means AI agents can complete purchases on a user’s behalf at virtually any merchant that accepts Visa. [...]
Anthropic’s apparent inability to identify which of its users are foreign nationals has led to some collateral damage from a US export ban on its most powerful AI models — but there is a way around it, at least for some. On Friday, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to Fable and Mythos, the new AI models it had introduced just a few days earlier, to all foreign nationals, citing national security reasons. While the drafters of the US order may have had sovereignty in mind, they ended up making it an identity management problem. “The net effect of [...]
Hot AI companies can’t stop talking about forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), which are now very much in vogue. FDEs, in case you haven’t heard, are hired by companies looking (hoping?) to successfully deploy AI tools and services. It’s one of the hotter professions in a world still trying to understand the impact of AI on careers. So, what exactly are FDEs — are they techy lone rangers like the ones OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are hiring? Turns out it’s not so much about individual engineers who swoop in to design and roll out AI deployments; it’s more about a team of [...]