Latest articles by Kevin Okemwa
Microsoft's aggressive ad strategy, Windows 10's death, and Copilot+ PCs have FINALLY pushed Windows 11's market share to an all-time high since launch
FINALLY According to Statcounter, Windows 11 now holds 30.83% of the market share — the highest bar none since its launch.
Microsoft dev says Steve Ballmer didn't write the text for the Blue Screen of Death: "There are three different blue-colored screens, and each has a different author"
BSOD? Microsoft Developer Raymond Chen explains how the Blue Screen of Death error came to be by highlighting the three types written by different authors.
Delta CEO says Microsoft is "probably the most fragile platform" after it lost "half a billion dollars in five days" during the CrowdStrike outage
FORTIFY? Ed Bastian has "tremendous respect for Microsoft and (CEO) Satya," but the lack of fortification might force Delta Air Lines to look elsewhere.
Sam Altman re-prioritizes safety processes at OpenAI after it seemingly took a backseat for 'shiny products'
SAFER? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlighted new updates regarding the company's safety policies, including allocating 20% of its computing resources to safety processes across its tech stack.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's digital AI assistants prediction might have just manifested through ChatGPT's new Advanced Voice Mode feature
JUST THE BEGINNING OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode feature is finally available to select ChatGPT Plus users for now.
NVIDIA CEO and Mark Zuckerberg exchange jackets and visions of a future where every business has an AI assistant
AI ASSISTANTS NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg touched base at SIGGRAPH 2024 to discuss a future featuring AI assistance and open-source models.
Delta's new attorney seeks over $350 million from Microsoft and CrowdStrike after the global outage — a $10 gift card won't cut it
PAY UP! Delta Air Lines has hired prominent attorney David Boies to seek damages from Microsoft and CrowdStrike.
Microsoft removes ads from Skype but leaves them in Windows 11's Start menu
Ad-free Windows?🫠 The new update also brings OneAuth integration to Skype for iOS and revamps the AI image creator experience on Skype Desktop.
Microsoft wants Congress to pass "a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute" to prevent AI-generated scams and abuse
DEEPFAKE FRAUD STATUTE Microsoft calls on the US Congress to pass a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute to prevent cybercriminals from leveraging AI capabilities to cause harm.
Google CEO says the “risk of under-investing in AI is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing,” as investors mount pressure on Microsoft for its extravagant spending on AI projects
HIGH RISK, HIGH REWARD Investors question Microsoft's heavy investment in AI projects, primarily due to the slow payoff.
Is GenAI a dying fad? A new study predicts 30% of investors will jump ship by 2025 after proof of concept
what next? A new Gartner report suggests that "at least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025."
This breakthrough tech could solve Microsoft's AI power consumption woes and is 1,000x more energy-efficient
energy efficient A new prototype chip could help address the rising concern over AI's excessive power consumption.
ChatGPT gets a voice, but only a 'small group of users' will get to hear it at launch for a $20 monthly subscription
VOICE MODE OpenAI will ship Voice Mode to ChatGPT later this week to ChatGPT Plus users, meaning you'll need to pay a $20 monthly subscription for access.
Despite bankruptcy scares, OpenAI enters the search engine fold to rival Google and Microsoft with Sam Altman indicating that "there is room to make search much better than it is today."
SEARCHGPT OpenAI debuts SearchGPT to take on Google with "fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources."
Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
DO BETTER X (formerly Twitter) quietly rolled out a new data-sharing experience that is enabled by default and uses your data to train Grok.
OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses
MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS OpenAI might be on the brink of bankruptcy. Projections indicate it could run out of cash in the next 12 months, with losses amounting to $5 billion.
Microsoft's 'strategic mistake' killed the Windows 11 mobile dream, but a daring developer is running it on an iPhone 15 Pro
W11 IPHONE A developer recently experimented with running Windows 11 on the iPhone 15 Pro using Tiny11 Core and a PC emulator but reported lengthy boot time, degraded user experience, and bad resolution.
Meta's new open-source 'state of the art' AI model already outperforms OpenAI and Google on certain benchmarks
LLAMA 3.1 Meta unveils Llama 3.1 to compete with Google and OpenAI.
Elon Musk flaunts 'the most powerful training cluster in the world' that will transform Grok into the 'most powerful AI' by December to take on Microsoft and OpenAI
GROK 3 Elon Musk recently announced that his xAI company has officially begun training its LLM, Grok, using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world,” dubbed Memphis Supercluster.
A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors
CROWDSTUCK? Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.
Firefox and Meta develop a mechanism that promises to keep the user's data private in an unyielding ad world
GUARANTEED PRIVACY Firefox might have found the perfect balance between aggressive advertising and maintaining the user's privacy.
Google reverses its stance on deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, but users get an option to disable the 'crumbs'
MORE COOKIES Google has changed its mind about its privacy sandbox on Chrome, and will keep supporting cookies.
Hi Alexa, Amazon's Echo device team isn't convinced a new subscription service and refreshed personal assistant will save the company from the billion in losses
PROFIT MARGIN Amazon lost over $25 billion in its device business between 2017 and 2021. The losses cut across its Echo devices and other products, including Kindles, Fire TV Sticks, and video doorbells.
Elon Musk blames diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike digital pandemic that stunted Microsoft services
DIVERSITY TURMOIL While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to attack the latter's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
