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One of the great things about Apple device management solutions is that the market for them is growing. Another is that because no two enterprises are alike, there is scope to bring different offerings to the market. I spoke with Ben Greiner, co-founder and COO of Smplify, a new-to-market device management vendor, to find out what his company provides to IT. Smplify, which just announced $1m in pre-seed funding, offers what could be described as a headless management tool: everything it does is available through the API and CLI. In use, that means you can build it and wield it from within the tools you [...]
We talk to chatbots as if those conversations are private. But are they? Most people are confused. A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo and published in August asked 1,944 American adults about chatbot privacy, and more than half (53%) did not know whether their conversations were being used to train the bots. (They are.) Only a quarter of respondents knew that chatbot conversations can be subpoenaed. (They can.) Among self-described AI enthusiasts, 56% said they had confided to a chatbot something they had never told a close friend, parent, colleague, doctor, or therapist. That’s especially true on Character.AI, a chatbot service [...]
Everyone wants to know what Anthropic is up to, and hackers are gleefully exploiting the fact. New research from cybersecurity company Cofense describes a phishing campaign that hooks overeager enterprise users by making them think they are getting an invite to a private invite-only Anthropic preview. In reality, adversarial actors are trying to steal Google and Microsoft login credentials, exploiting video teleconferencing software GoTo Webinar branding to do so. “It sells exclusivity,” said Frank Dickson of Dickson Research. “Fear of missing out is the oldest lure in the book.” Every organization is trying to figure out where AI fits, he [...]
Following the release of the new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro earlier this week, Apple has bought the “touch experience” to its professional laptop series, introducing a $2,899 (and up) MacBook Pro you can use with touch. It’s very fast, very thin, very light, with an impressive PROLED XDR display and up to 24 hours battery life. A brief tour through the key specs Very fast: Available in 14- and 16-inch models, the new MacBook Pro uses Apple’s powerful M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. They support up to 64GB of unified memory (128GB on M5 Max) and up to 16TB of [...]
OpenAI and Anthropic agree that frontier AI systems need stronger oversight, but they are proposing sharply different approaches to stopping models that pose serious risks: Anthropic wants courts empowered to suspend dangerous systems, while OpenAI argues developers should be required to maintain and use effective shutdown controls. The proposals appear in separate submissions to California Governor Gavin Newsom following his September 18 executive order directing state officials to consider additional safeguards for frontier AI systems. Both companies support independent safety assessments and expanded reporting of incidents involving AI systems that act beyond their intended permissions. “If the AG concludes, informed [...]
Otter has added a new Work mode to its AI Chat assistant, expanding the range of tasks it can carry out before and after meetings. It’s part of a wider drive by Otter — which received $320 million in funding last week — to move beyond meeting transcription and into automating tasks and workflows. The Work interface, announced Tuesday, is accessible in the AI Chat prompt box, alongside the Chat option. While Chat allows users to ask questions, generate content, and retrieve information, Work is aimed at multi-step actions, Otter said. It’s a similar approach to other AI assistants, such [...]
A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research shows that AI models require significantly more tokens to process certain languages than others. These differences mean that users of underrepresented languages risk paying more for the same services, reports Rest of World. An LLM’s tokenizer breaks text down into blocks, or tokens, but it does so much more optimally for languages with abundant digitized data, the researchers explain. They found that among the 20 languages with the largest web presence, less common languages used from 1.5 to 5 times as many tokens as the same prompt in [...]
Decades ago, the United States established programs that allow businesses to hire highly skilled foreign workers — the H-1B visa program and a related green card program. They’re designed to make sure we lead the world in technology. Not uncommonly, H-1B workers and green card holders eventually become American citizens. One of the best-known examples is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He came to the US from India on the green card program, then switched to the H-1B visa program in the early to mid-1990s when working for Microsoft. He ended up becoming a US citizen. In 2014, he was appointed [...]
Opera has begun rolling out AI models that run locally in its browser, potentially allowing enterprises to perform certain AI tasks on existing PCs without sending the relevant data to cloud AI providers. The company said it has introduced support for WebAI, a proposed web standard, through an opt-in early preview in Opera One. The technology allows websites and browser extensions to access AI models running locally in the browser for tasks such as generating text and classifying content. The WebAI preview supports 64-bit Windows PCs running Intel or AMD processors and Macs powered by Apple silicon. Opera does not [...]
Put on your finest propeller-packin’ thinking caps, my fellow Android-appreciating animals — ’cause I’ve got a brain-bending bit of big-picture thinking about the future of Android and everything around it. This pondering comes out of my ongoing time living with one of Google’s new Googlebook laptops — the beautifully built Lenovo Googlebook (provided to me as a short-term loaner for editorial assessment). Right now, the Googlebook experience itself is best summed up as an awkward start with plenty of potential. Android in a laptop environment just comes with an awful lot of asterisks, especially when you’re trying to use such [...]