Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

A strong credential solution that promises cost savings for enterprises and better privacy for users was announced Monday by AU10TIX, an Israeli identity verification and management company The firm stated it's working with Microsoft on Reusable ID, a technology that uses verifiable credentials to enable enterprises to simplify and accelerate ongoi...

Google opened up its ChatGPT competitor Bard to the public in the United States and the United Kingdom Tuesday, although access will require getting on a waitlist "Today we're starting to open access to Bard, an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI," Google Vice President for Product Sissie Hsiao and Vice President for Rese...

The large multimodal language model, GPT-4, is ready for prime time, although, contrary to reports circulating since Friday, it doesn't support the ability to produce videos from text GPT-4 can, however, accept image and text input and produce text output. Over a range of domains -- including documents with text and photographs, diagrams, or screen...

Apple may be considering expanding the repertoire of its popular AirPods line beyond entertainment and into the realm of health Speculation about giving AirPods health chops was fueled over the weekend by Mark Gurman, who predicted in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg that Apple would be upgrading the product in the next year or two to make it ...

CRM powerhouse Salesforce joined the ranks of Google and Microsoft Tuesday when it announced its own generative AI technology to deliver personalized content across every sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT interaction in every Salesforce cloud Called Einstein GPT, the technology integrates with OpenAI and provides Salesforce customers with...

The global rising tide of cyber threats from nation-states should be a red flag for private sector security leaders in all industries to prepare for more frequent and brazen attacks in the future, according to Forrester Research To help companies prepare for the changing nation-state attack landscape, Forrester unveiled on March 2 a new model to de...

Elon Musk reportedly has been approaching artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks with an eye toward setting up a research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT The move stems from Musk's dissatisfaction with the safeguards OpenAI has included in ChatGPT to prevent it from producing text that might offend users, according to...

Less than a week after it imposed search limits on the AI version of its Bing search engine, Microsoft is raising those limits In the wake of some embarrassing reports of erratic behavior by the new Bing, Microsoft decided last Friday to limit a user's daily usage to five chat "turns" per session and 50 turns per day....

Vint Cerf, known as the father of the internet, raised a few eyebrows Monday when he urged investors to be cautious when investing in businesses built around conversational chatbots The bots still make too many mistakes, asserted Cerf, who is a vice president at Google, which has an AI chatbot called Bard in development....

Tech layoffs have been grabbing headlines recently, for good reason Google's parent company, Alphabet, has laid off 12,000, about 12% of its workforce. Facebook's parent Meta has chopped 11,000 workers from the rolls, and IBM slashed 3,900 employees, 1.5% of its global workforce....

Microsoft may have ushered in a paradigm shift Tuesday with the release of new versions of its search engine, Bing, and web browser, Edge -- both now powered by artificial intelligence The new offerings, available in preview at Bing.com, combine browsing and chat into a unified experience that improves both tasks. When searching, for example, more ...

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati stoked the controversy over government oversight of artificial intelligence Sunday when she conceded in an interview with Time magazine that the technology needed to be regulated "It's important for OpenAI and companies like ours to bring this into the public consciousness in a way that's controlled and responsible," Murati t...

China's Science Ministry on Monday announced that the country's first practical quantum computer was delivered to a user, which the agency didn't identify, a year ago The 24-qubit Wuyan system based on superconducting technology was built by Origin Quantum Computing Technology, a company founded in 2017 by two of the country's leading quantum physi...

The most popular search engine on the internet may be headed for some rough sailing in the next one or two years, according to the creator of Gmail During that time frame, artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money, and even if the search giant deploys AI to catch up...

Aptera, a developer of a futuristic-looking, solar-powered passenger car, has pulled the wraps off its first production vehicle, which it says will be rolling off the assembly line this year According to the company, the all-wheel-drive, three-wheeled, two-passenger vehicle will have a range of 400 miles, can sprint to 60 mph in four seconds, and h...

A gang of big banks, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, are reportedly preparing to launch a digital wallet product to compete with those offered by tech heavyweights Apple, Google, and PayPal The bank wallet -- which is being developed by Early Warning Services (EWS), a bank-owned enterprise that operates the money transfe...

New models of the Mac mini desktop and MacBook Pro laptop with an upgrade to Apple's M2, M2 Pro, and M2 Max chips were announced by the company Tuesday In addition, Apple has lowered the price of an entry-level mini with an M2 processor to US$599, $499 for the education market....

Meta is taking to court a law enforcement intelligence company for gathering data about users of its Facebook and Instagram properties The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, alleges that Voyager Labs, an international scraping and surveillance service, improperly collected data from those properties through fake accounts, which is a v...

Microsoft researchers have announced a new application that uses artificial intelligence to ape a person's voice with just seconds of training. The model of the voice can then be used for text-to-speech applications The application called VALL-E can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a three-second enrollment recording...

Many workers and managers in the United States and the United Kingdom place a higher value on trust in the workplace over financial compensation, according to new research released Tuesday A survey of 500 workers and managers in the U.S. and U.K. conducted by Osterman Research for cybersecurity firm Cerby found that nearly half of the participants ...