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Robots are cool, but real productivity from physical AI isn’t as close as boosters are making it out to be, said IT leaders at Nvidia’s GTC developer show last month. “There’s a huge potential, a huge promise, but there’s also a lot of categories where that promise is a decade out,” said Mark Hindsbo, head of operations software at Siemens Digital Industries, during a panel discussion at the show. Physical AI implementation has a high cost and a steep learning curve. It also requires a lot of planning, and that involves figuring out devices, value, roadmap, and practicality, panelists said. [...]
As AI agents become more embedded in workplace tools, Asana is positioning its approach around collaboration rather than individual productivity. “We believe in AI being ‘multiplayer’ by design,” said chief product officer Arnab Bose. “The future of the agentic enterprise will only be realized if agents can work independently and with multiple people, versus just a copilot.” Asana made its AI Teammates feature generally available this month; it’s a paid add-on that provides customers with AI agents that are capable of completing tasks autonomously within Asana’s work management platform. Users can build their own AI teammate agents or use one [...]
IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results. Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead. [...]
The regulatory body which last year accused Microsoft of inflating its office software’s license prices when it was run on rival cloud platforms to make those platforms less appealing, said Tuesday it will conduct a further investigation into the company’s entire business software ecosystem. The probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), scheduled to begin in May, follows an earlier investigation into the UK cloud services marketed by Microsoft and Amazon in which it determined that their dominance had stifled competition and inflated prices. The strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, the CMA’s release [...]
A group of European technology firms has launched a new open-source office suite aimed at offering a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Euro-Office consists of four core applications — a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and PDF editor — and is built on the open-source OnlyOffice suite. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX, PPTX and XLSX, as well as Open Document Format (ODF) files such as ODS, ODT and ODP. Those involved include open-source productivity software vendor Nextcloud, cloud hosting provider Ionos, and Proton, a Swiss software-as-a-service provider that sells privacy-focused email and other productivity tools. The Euro-Office [...]
It’s no big deal, you’d think, that researchers have found a way to reduce the computing requirements for one of the many steps involved in training an AI model to help robots manipulate simple geometric objects. Yet such is the concern about the rising cost of powering data centers for AI applications that this one small and largely unremarkable finding prompted breathless news headlines such as “100x Less Power: The Breakthrough That Could Solve AI’s Massive Energy Crisis.” Don’t believe the hype No-one’s disputing the researchers’ findings, but reports about them may be somewhat exaggerated: “The leap from the research [...]
Windows 11 25H2 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 help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest 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 [...]
The recent supply-chain attack against axios, a widely used open-source HTTP client, highlights a strategic weakness in the global technology stack: critical digital infrastructure is increasingly maintained by under‑resourced individuals, and its failure has systemic economic and national security consequences — even for tech giants like Apple. At the center of your code Axios is a programming library that helps JavaScript code communicate with websites and is heavily used by Mac, Linux, and Windows developers to do that task within their applications. There’s a good explanation of what that means here. The well-executed attack used stolen credentials to distribute malware capable of exfiltrating data from impacted [...]
AI vendors selling to the California state government must prove they have safeguards against algorithmic bias, civil rights violations, and illegal content, or risk being barred from state contracts, under an executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The order directs the Department of General Services and the California Department of Technology to develop new vendor certifications within 120 days. Companies seeking state contracts would be required to attest to safeguards covering the “exploitation or distribution of illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate imagery,” the “utilization of models that display harmful bias or lack governance [...]
The US-Iran war has delivered a critical lesson for IT leaders. Enterprises have always had to deal with bad data in their environments, whether from someone cutting corners, an ancient database that everyone is scared to delete, or conflicting systems digested during one of the dozens of acquisitions over the last decade. But AI is going to supercharge those data problems, and ignoring them is no longer a viable choice. Consider the US military’s bombing of an Iranian girls’ school on Feb. 28, which killed at least 165 people, most of them children. According to The New York Times, military [...]