Microsoft is expanding its ambitions for workplace AI with the general availability of Copilot Cowork, an agentic system designed to handle complex tasks from start to finish rather than simply offering suggestions. After spending three months in Microsoft’s Frontier preview program, the company says Copilot Cowork is already used by more than half of the…
Social media is the world’s leading news source across all groups, overtaking conventional news sources for the first time, according to a sweeping report from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Digital News Report, published Tuesday, asks 100,000 news consumers in 48 countries about where they get their information and while social…
AI represents one of the biggest inflection points of our time – a moment of profound change for business. It promises productivity and efficiency gains, lower costs, better decision-making through data and revenue growth. The promises roll off the tongue with ease, but the integration of AI has the potential to disrupt businesses in ways…
New York, NY, June 17th, 2026, FinanceWire New York, NY, June 17th, 2026, NewsDirect Yandex has open-sourced YaFF (Yet Another Flat Format), a new technology for efficient data transmission and processing in high-load services. YaFF allows applications to access data without deserialization, helping reduce server CPU usage by up to 20%. For large-scale digital platforms,…
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Safari Technology Preview 246 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, Canvas, Editing,…
Cascade Studio has announced the Open Beta launch of Cascade, an AI-native production platform that says it is “built to bring Hollywood-grade storytelling infrastructure to creators of any size”. Founded by film and virtual production veterans behind global blockbusters including Avengers: Endgame, No Time To Die, Wicked, Masters of the Air and Pinocchio, Cascade seeks to…
OpenSpace has built one of the most widely deployed visual intelligence platforms in construction, with its 360-degree reality capture technology now active across more than 95,000 projects globally and more than 1,000 data centre builds alone. Its system uses hardhat-mounted cameras to capture continuous site footage, which is then processed by AI to track progress,…
JAKARTA: South-East Asia’s booming digital economy will translate into lasting economic power only if countries can retain more of the value created by digital platforms and artificial intelligence, Indonesian Communications and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said. Speaking at the Asia Economic Summit in Jakarta on Wednesday (June 17), Meutya said rapid growth alone was…
Joshua George is the founder of ClickSlice, an e-commerce search-first agency and the UK Agency Awards’ 2025 small SEO agency of the year. Search has shifted more in the last 12 months than it has in the previous five years combined. The May 2026 Google core update is the clearest signal yet of what’s actually…
AsiaOne’s online reach and brand trust has improved over the past year, with weekly online reach by the news site almost doubling to 18 per cent in 2026, while trust rose to 63 per cent, according to a respected annual report. The Digital News Report 2026 was published on Tuesday (Jun 16) by the Reuters…
