How Businesses Are Accelerating Time to Agentic AI Value
Agentic AI can deliver big benefits, but business leaders must consider how to deal with this complex range of factors. A recent survey of 1,050 CIOs revealed that 93% of IT leaders will implement AI agents in the next two years, with IT leaders working to implement the technology by focusing on removing data silos. The average number of […]
Learn to Code from Scratch and Get Microsoft Visual Studio for $56
Even if you have no tech experience, you can learn how to code from courses that are designed specifically for beginners. In addition to this bundle, you get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional included in the price. TL;DR: Business owners and freelancers can all profit from coding and data visualization. Microsoft Visual Studi o Prof essional 2022 […]
Enterprise Mobility 2025: How AI and Automation Are Evolving
Generative AI is beginning to crop up in mobility mana gement software, but intelligent automation is the killer feature. Enterprise mobility today is basically synonymous with unified endpoint management (UEM) software, which unifies and centralizes the management of phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices. UEM grew out of earlier mobile management tools in the late teens and […]
Tech Layoffs 2025: COVID Boom Ends as Companies Cut Jobs
UPDATED 3/1/2025 — As COVID drove everyone online, tech companies hired like crazy. Now we are hitting the COVID tech bust as tech giants shed jobs by the thousands. Check back regularly for updates to our tech layoffs tracker. When much of human activity moved online during the height of the pandemic, tech companies were […]
DeepSeek Slashes AI Prices, Intensifying Global Competition
Chinese DeepSeek AI firm DeepSeek has unveiled a significant price reduction for developers using its AI models, a move that could intensify competition among both domestic and global rivals. On its website, the Hangzhou-based startup said that from 16:30 UTC to 00:30 UTC (11.30am-7.30pm EST) developers accessing its API — used to integrate DeepSeek’s AI […]
Microsoft Completes E.U. Data Boundary for Cloud Customers
After two years, Microsoft has finally completed its E.U. Data Boundary, a solution for commercial and public sector cloud customers that lets them store and process their data within the E.U. and European Free Trade Association, which is the intergovernmental organisation of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This can be applied to Microsoft 365, Dynamics […]
SOCi Genius AI on AWS: Scaling Local Marketing Efforts
Discover how multi-location businesses can leverage SOCi Genius AI through AWS Marketplace to automate local marketing efforts across search, social, and reputation management—saving time while maintaining brand consistency at scale. Multi-location businesses’ marketing efforts are extensive — which makes them both expensive for their organizations, and time consuming for their teams. Managing local search, social, […]
Slack Outage Disrupts Messaging and Custom Apps
Slack reported an outage on February 26 and 27, with most features back up by Thursday but some issues with messaging still persisting; in particular, some custom apps and bots did not work as expected. In addition, a pr oblem with Slack Connect meant coworkers might not get notified if someone pinged them with the […]
You.com Launches ARI, a Professional-Grade AI Research Agent
OpenAI, Google, and others have already released AI research agents. Now, You.com hopes to raise the ante with what the company calls “the world’s first professional-grade research agent for business.” Advanced Research & Insights agent On Thursday, You.com launched its Advanced Research & Insights (ARI) agent, which can simultaneously analyze up to 400 sources and output […]
Amazon Unveils Alexa+ AI Upgrade with Advanced Automation
Amazon Amazon.com Inc. today debuted Alexa+, a major upgrade of its voice assistant that uses artificial intelligence large language models to automate complex tasks. Executives demonstrated the service’s capabilities at an event in New York. They showcased dozens of features that span tasks such as finding songs and ordering takeout from Uber Eats. According to […]
Microsoft Launches Phi-4 AI Models for Faster Processing
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency. The first addition is the text-only Phi-4-mini. The second new model, Phi-4-multimodal, is an upgraded version of Phi-4-mini that can also process visual and audio input. Microsoft says that both models significantly outperform […]
Salesforce Reports Strong AI Growth but Misses 2026 Forecast | IT New
Shares in Salesforce Inc. fell more than 3% in late trading today after the cloud-based software company fell short of expectations on revenue in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and issued disappointing first -quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 outlooks. Fo r the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Salesforce reported adjusted earnings per share of […]