“There’s no connection or correlation between people who are achieving ROI and layoffs,” said Helen Poitevin, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner, adding that labor reduction is “not the best” ROI metric. Other factors such as revenue, growth, and time to market are more effective in achieving a strong ROI. “Those who only look to…
Microsoft has reportedly had a hard time convincing corporate customers to pay premium prices for its enterprise AI products, particularly as their employees prefer ChatGPT or Gemini. The Information reported in December that Microsoft quietly slashed sales targets for some of those products — a report that Microsoft denied. Nevertheless, by Microsoft’s own admission, just 3.3% of…
Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, claiming the generative AI (genAI) firm used their encyclopedia and dictionary texts to train AI models such as ChatGPT without permission, according to Reuters. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles from Britannica’s material and claims ChatGPT can reproduce content almost verbatim, which risks reducing…
Where is AI booming? That deep-dive report offers plenty of good news for AI boosters. It found that AI spending in 2025 was $13.8 billion — more than six times the $2.3 billion spent on it in 2023. The report calls that “a clear signal that enterprises are shifting from experimentation to execution, embedding AI…
Specifically, Panther Lake has 12 GPU tiles, which will bring faster AI processing capability to PCs. The older Intel PC chip, Lunar Lake, had only 4 GPU tiles. (GPUs are also used in the cloud to run OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Azure AI and other critical cloud services.) Intel has redesigned its chip to run AI…
“So, you go back and, say, ‘Our manufacturing plant was okay and there was nothing wrong with the torque.’ Then, when was this bumper manufactured and by which supplier? We can trace it back to the supply chain, all the way through.” And once the visibility is in place, the entire AI-powered manufacturing system can…
