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17 Sep

Can’t Get Power for AI? Bring Your Own | TechRepublic

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An increasing number of power utilities are unable to meet current data center power demands. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and generative AI is compounding the issue. Power availability could thwart AI’s potential. Drew Robb, writing for TechRepublic Premium, looks at how onsite power is growing in popularity as a way to address this issue. Featured text from the download: Modern processors require far more power than ever. The hardware they run on and the software they operate on are designed to utilize enormous amounts of energy. On top of that foundation, the LLMs that are the basis of…

17 Sep

Australian IT Spending to Surge in 2025: Cybersecurity & AI Focus

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New Gartner forecasting suggests that IT spending in Australia will surge 8.7% to AU$147 billion in 2025. This boost in spending is projected to be driven by a “perfect storm” of interest in AI, ongoing requirements around cyber security, and the need to refresh hardware as Windows 10 goes out of service, Gartner representatives say. Strategic investments in cyber security and AI In an interview with TechRepublic, Andy Rowsell-Jones, Gartner distinguished VP analyst, said that while AI investments are often seen as progressive efforts toward innovation, many enterprises are actually investing for different reasons — including as a defensive measure…

16 Sep

Microsoft Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Adds Online Canvas Feature

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Microsoft will expand its AI offerings in 365 Copilot Wave 2 throughout the fall, the company announced during demonstrations held on Sept. 16. Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI at Work, declared that “Copilot is the new UI for AI.” The presentation emphasized the ability to use the natural language to command an application from anywhere on the page rather than simply focusing on any single new capability. Copilot now uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o large language model. Microsoft plans to add the new OpenAI o1 model in the future, said Spataro. Microsoft said 400 million people use Copilot today…

16 Sep

Slack Expands AI Summarization and Other Tools

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Slack announced on Sept. 16 the rollout of several new AI features, productivity tools, and ways to connect to Salesforce CRM. These updates reflect Slack’s ongoing rapid pace in introducing AI-driven features, most of which focus on text summarization. AI search and summarization first appeared in the messaging and productivity platform in February, followed by automated workflow builders in August. Slack AI is available now, at an additional cost of $10 per user, per month in addition to Slack Pro and Business+ plans, or priced depending on Slack Enterprise contracts. The beta release of Salesforce’s Agentforce — formerly Einstein Copilot…

16 Sep

DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity

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Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic, screenshot of Duck.ai DuckDuckGo, a search company, launched a free and anonymous AI Chat service in June 2024. AI Chat joins DuckAssist, which generates answers based on Wikipedia, as a way to explore topics with AI. AI Chat operates with the widely used prompt-and-response process popularized by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. But DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat seeks to minimize potential privacy concerns by design. AI Chat offers anonymous access: No account, username, email address, or password needed. DuckDuckGo promises that your prompts and information will not be used to train any of the AI models. This means…

16 Sep

Get Hands-On AI Learning for Life with This $40 Bundle

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to AI Mastery Labs for just $39.99 (reg. $1,440) for a limited time. Artificial intelligence is seemingly evolving every week, and staying current is key to success. But learning AI isn’t just about reading textbooks or watching videos — it’s about getting hands-on, practical experience that translates into real-world skills. That’s why AI Mastery Labs can come in very handy for professionals and businesses alike. For just $39.99 (reg. $1,440), you can gain lifetime access to a comprehensive suite of AI labs that bring you the tools, knowledge, and practical experience you need to excel in…

13 Sep

AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses

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Businesses using artificial intelligence to generate code are experiencing downtime and security issues. The team at Sonar, a provider of code quality and security products, has heard first-hand stories of consistent outages at even major financial institutions where the developers responsible for the code blame the AI. Amongst many other imperfections, AI tools are not perfect at generating code. Bilkent University researchers found that the latest versions of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon CodeWhisperer generated correct code just 65.2%, 46.3%, and 31.1% of the time, respectively. Part of the problem is that AI is notoriously bad at maths because it…

13 Sep

Salesforce Reveals AI Agents for Customer Service

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Salesforce has made its latest push into the AI space with Agentforce — a platform for deploying generative AI in areas such as customer support, service, sales, or marketing. It will be available on Oct. 25. At a press briefing on Sep. 12, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff emphasized that Agentforce customers won’t need to build their own AI models or even manually choose between models and that the AI will not be a “bolt-on copilot” that adds bloat to existing services. The services previously referred to as Einstein Copilot, including Einstein Copilot in Slack, will now fall under the Agentforce…

13 Sep

Generative AI Causes Costly Mistakes for Enterprise Buyers

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Gartner’s head of AI research, Erick Brethenoux, was in a prime position to witness the explosion in generative AI interest from enterprises worldwide since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. In fact, he said now, for the first time, even his 83-year-old mother finally understands what he does for a living. “She’s been very creative, actually, in the way that she’s been using [generative AI],” he said. Enterprises, though, do not always start with a full understanding of generative AI. Speaking with TechRepublic at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Australia in September, Brethenoux said there is confusion in the market…

13 Sep

Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI

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Take, for example, the other recently solved internet mystery: The source of the song that became known as “Everyone Knows That.” After nearly three years of online investigative work, a pair of Redditors found the song—titled “Ulterior Motives”—after hearing a similar song in an adult movie clip on YouTube and watching literal hours of porn that had possibly been scored by the songwriters credited on that clip.During the hunt there had been speculation that the song was AI-generated or part of some stunt. If the detectives had gotten too distracted by that, or if someone had tried to use AI…