Anthropic, the AI firm behind "Claude", released an even better model called "Fable" in June. However, this was a blink-and-you-miss-it event, as the US government had effectively banned its use 3 days later. Is this the best way to regulate AI?
Anthropic, the AI firm behind "Claude", released an even better model called "Fable" in June. However, this was a blink-and-you-miss-it event, as the US government had effectively banned its use 3 days later. Is this the best way to regulate AI?
You may have caught rumblings that following the recent attempt by the UK government to prevent children from accessing adult content, they are now looking at ways of extending this further. Is this going to extend to banning VPNs?
So, the future is here. We now have access to a magic box that can do all sorts of tricks. However, the question we're now being asked increasingly often (and also ask ourselves) is "Now what"? How exactly do I use this thing to help me with my work? As you can probably imagine, there's not a one-size-fits-all answer.
Fed up with endless unskippable Windows updates? Microsoft has heard you. Changes are coming to the update process that will allow you to defer them for a few weeks at a time. Ironically, it's possible this couldn't be happening at a worse time...
You may have seen in the news recently that a new AI tool called "Mythos" has been made available to various large organsations following the revelation that it had found hundreds of critical security issues in every single one of the systems we use every day (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Chrome and everything else besides). What are the implications of this?
We have mentioned either directly or in passing in previous analysis blogs that we're always on the lookout for opportunities to harness the latest AI tools within our systems and see how they shape up. We've made a big change to our own internal CRM along these lines. Here's what we've learnt so far.
A couple of months ago, we highlighted that we're but a few months away from Microsoft ramping up their push towards switching everyone from Outlook "Classic" to the new version they have been increasingly insistently nudging everyone towards for a few months now. While this isn't exactly changing, The full blown "You will be switched unless you actively opt out" point has been pushed back.
With Windows 10 recently being consigned to the digital antique shelf, rumours of Windows 11's inevitable replacement are beginning to swirl. That operating system is itself already 5 years old, so are we likely to see its replacement soon, and what might it look like when it arrives?
Anyone that has used a mobile in the last few years (which we'd assume is pretty much everyone reading this) will have seen an increase in being asked to allow specific permissions to each app you use as you open it for the first time. For better or worse, Microsoft is looking to introduce this approach to Windows shortly.
Enough work to pay the bills, hopefully! But beyond that, if you have been paying attention to previous blogs or IT news in general, you can't have missed that AI is massively changing how one of the core services we provide clients works. Anyone can code now, right? Well, sort of...