Latest articles by Kevin Okemwa
Opera says the EU Commission's DMA regulation grip should extend to Microsoft Edge’s 'privileged' position on Windows devices to foster fair competition
DESIGNATED GATEKEEPER Opera recently requested the EU General Court to annul the European Commission’s decision not to designate Microsoft Edge as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.
Microsoft's staff in China will only be allowed to use iPhones at work after September for security reasons
GET AN IPHONE Microsoft staffers in China will soon be forced to ditch their Android phones for iPhones in September 2024 to help "prepare for the increasing scale and high stakes of cyberattacks."
A former OpenAI employee left after claiming it felt like the 'Titanic of AI' with top execs prioritizing shiny products over safety
TITANIC OF AI William Saunders, a former OpenAI safety employee says he resigned after realizing the company was prioritizing 'shiny products' while safety processes took a back seat.
Asking an AI-powered version of my future self if Windows 12 is any good with an unusual chatbot developed by MIT research
FUTURE SELF Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently leveraged AI capabilities to develop a chatbot that lets you chat with a future version of yourself.
Apple will reportedly bring ChatGPT and Google Gemini under its Apple Intelligence and iOS 18 umbrella this fall — potentially prompting more iPhone sales
THREEFOLD ChatGPT isn't the only advanced model on Apple's alley. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Google's Gemini might also make its way to Apple Intelligence.
NVIDIA CEO might be right about coding being dead because of AI — OpenAI's new CriticGPT model identifies ChatGPT's programming mistakes better than AI trainers
CRITICGPT OpenAI recently launched CriticGPT powered by GPT-4. As the name suggests, the model "writes critiques of ChatGPT responses to help human trainers spot mistakes" in ChatGPT's code output.
Windows 11 finally gets some love, but it feels more like a 'necessary evil' than a voluntary upgrade with Windows 10's death on the horizon
BIG W FOR 11 Statcounter's latest report suggests a slight upward trajectory for Windows 11 — with 29.7% of the market share. Windows 10 continues to dominate the category with 66.1%.
Microsoft finally lets Windows 10 users with multi-monitor configuration use Copilot after 7-month compatibility hold
PATCHED Microsoft issues fix for the bug affecting the Copilot experience in Windows 10 when using a multi-monitor configuration. The bug caused desktop icons to move sporadically and icon alignment issues.
NVIDIA’s CEO envisions a future where “multi-shot” agentic AIs — armed with reasoning superpowers outperform humans in the job market
AGENTIC AIS NVIDIA CEO predicts a future with 'multi-shot' agentic AIs with reasoning capabilities that will claim even more jobs from people.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's tech museum shut down with vintage computing collection slated for auction
TECH MUSEUM The Living Computers Museum, founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has shut its doors and will auction vintage technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates GPT-5 as a “significant leap forward” over GPT-4, which occasionally “goes off the rails” with mistakes even a six-year-old wouldn’t make
GPT-5 OpenAI's new GPT-5 AI model promises better capabilities and performance, but we'll have to wait a tad longer for it to ship to general availability.
Will AI end humanity? The p(doom) scales of an OpenAI insider and AI researcher are alarmingly high, peaking at a 99.9% probability
AI DOOM AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy appeared on Fridman's podcast to discuss the potential risk AI poses to humanity in a broad interview.
A concoction of Windows 10's imminent death and AI PC hype is expected to grow US PC shipments by 5% in 2024 and an ambitious 8% next year
MORE GROWTH Canalys says PC shipments in the US are expected to grow by 5% throughout 2024. The growth translates to approximately 69 million devices.
YouTube reportedly offering "lumps of cash" to major recording labels to train its AI models with huge libraries of music
Google cash YouTube is reportedly in the middle of striking a deal with major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records, to use their tracks to train AI.
Oxford researchers seemingly found a 'semantic entropy cure' for AI hallucination episodes: "Getting answers from LLMs is cheap, but reliability is the biggest bottleneck."
hallucinations at bay Semantic entropy will help users determine the quality of AI-generated responses and hallucinations.
As the AI 'grim reaper' haunts more creative jobs, OpenAI's CTO says, "maybe they shouldn't have existed in the first place..if it is not very high quality"
AI CLAIMS JOBS OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says AI will reshape the job market by creating new opportunities and killing some creative jobs that "maybe shouldn't have existed in the first place."
Microsoft's new iOS widget brings recently accessed Office 365 files directly to your home screen
OFFICE 365 Microsoft will let you access recently used files directly from the home screen via the new Recent Files widgets for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS.
HONOR’s new cutting-edge AI tools battle a 3000% surge in deepfake scams, all while saving your eyes from digital strain
NO DEEPFAKES HONOR IS bolstering its AI efforts with new features designed to help identify deep fakes and minimize eye straining when glacing at a screen for long hours.
Jack Dorsey says we won't know what is real anymore in the next 5-10 years with the prevalence of AI-generated content and deep fakes: "It will feel like you're in a simulation."
world simulation It'll be extremely hard to demystify deep fakes from reality in the future, according to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
ChatGPT claims more jobs, but writers are getting callbacks to polish 'shoddy' AI-generated content and add a human touch for less pay
STILL NEEDS HUMAN TOUCH A new report indicates that employees are being hired back after AI claimed their jobs to add a human touch to generated content.
Edward Snowden labels OpenAI's new board appointment a "willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth"
Is the mask off? OpenAI appointed Paul Nakasone, a retired US Army General and former National Security Administration (NSA), to its board.
Anthropic rivals OpenAI's 'magical' GPT-4o with impressive vision (and a great sense of humor)
CLAUDE AI GPT-4o and Gemini have a new competitor with a better sense of humor.
Despite claims of generative AI being a fad, it could automate 54% of banking jobs — OpenAI's GPT-4 already outperformed seasoned analysts in predicting financial trends
MORE JOB LOSS 54% of jobs in the banking sector could be automated using AI, according to a new study.
