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• Asana adds news AI capabilities, outlines company’s product principles

  01-06-2023 22:16
  
  Work management platform Asana has announced a new set of AI-based product capabilities designed to accelerate decision-making and improve productivity.The new capabilities are underpinned by the company’s new AI offering, Asana Intelligence, and come three months after the company added prediction-based AI tools to its platform. The latest host of features combine Asana’s underlying Work Graph data model with large language model (LLM) capabilities offered by OpenAI’s API to
  
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• Microsoft launches Apple community for IT admins

  01-06-2023 15:11
  
  Apple founder Steve Jobs loved Bob Dylan, who sang, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Microsoft seems to have listened to Dylan’s advice and has launched an Apple tech community for IT professionals.Welcome to Microsoft Mac Admins
  The move reflects the steady growth of Macs across the enterprise, particularly in the US. Apple has done what everyone once saw as impossible, and its platforms now account for as much as 40% of enterprise PC depl
  
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• Who wants a regular laptop with a 100-in. screen?

  01-06-2023 12:00
  
  Here comes an entirely new kind of computer.Events like this don’t happen often. So, we should all stop and marvel at the emergence of what I call the ARPC — the “augmented reality PC.”The “form factor” solves the decades-old desire to maximize screen size while minimizing hardware size.And it’s ideal for the age of remote work, digital nomad living, workcations, bleisure travel, staybaticals, hot-desking, hoteling, and every other future-of-work neolog
  
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• Q&A: Experts say stopping AI is not possible — or desirable

  01-06-2023 12:00
  
  As generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard continue to evolve at a breakneck pace, raising questions around trustworthiness and even human rights, experts are weighing if or how the technology can be slowed and made more safe.In March, the nonprofit Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of ChatGPT, the AI-based chatbot created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The letter, now signed by more than 31,000 peo
  
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• US working on new laws to ban investments in Chinese tech firms

  01-06-2023 11:56
  
  The US is working on drafting new regulations that would prohibit investments and transfer of technology to Chinese firms working on developing advanced semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing, a US Treasury official said Wednesday.The new regulations will not only focus on Chinese firms but also its military organizations, Paul Rosen, US Treasury’s investment security chief, said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing focusing on countering China and advancing US na
  
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• Ex-Infosys executive Nitesh Bansal appointed as CEO of IT company R Systems - Business Today

  01-06-2023 09:51 via news.google.com
  Ex-Infosys executive Nitesh Bansal appointed as CEO of IT company R Systems  Business Today
  
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