Latest articles by Kevin Okemwa
"Microsoft has a knack for overcomplicating tech into a convoluted mess": We had ChatGPT roast Microsoft as 300,000 Instagram users feel the same heat
BRUTAL! We hopped onto the ChatGPT roast train and asked the ChatGPT what it thinks about Microsoft. Here's what we learned.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's words haunt Claude AI: "Anthropic’s model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works"
COPYRIGHT STRIKE A group of authors has filed a class-action suit against Anthropic's Claude AI for copyright infringement.
AI for Mayor? A Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to use a ChatGPT-powered bot to run the city, but OpenAI blocked his account
AI MAYOR Cheyenne, Wyoming's decisions could be made by a ChatGPT-powered bot soon, but voters aren't happy.
Even Microsoft doesn't think AI is 'designed or intended' to substitute professionals and should only be treated as a guide
AI Microsoft recently released an updated Service Agreement indicating that artificial intelligence should be considered more of a guide than a replacement for professional advice.
Microsoft seals a TPM 2.0 loophole, once again preventing users from installing Windows 11 on unsupported devices
TPM 2.0 Microsoft doesn't want users to run Windows 11 on unsupported devices for "security reasons."
Do you hate the new Outlook for Windows? An annoying bug causes the classic version to crash at launch, but Microsoft has issued a workaround
circumvent An annoying issue affecting Microsoft 365 users is causing the classic Outlook to crash at launch.
Former Google boss bets on NVIDIA in the AI race: "When Microsoft did the OpenAI deal, it was the stupidest idea I’d ever heard"
NVIDIA winning Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt says NVIDIA will win the AI race against Microsoft and OpenAI because the latter relies on NVIDIA's AI chips.
Google might be cutting support for 'the world's most popular ad-blocker,' but this Windows Registry trick will help Chrome and Edge users keep intrusive ads at bay for a year longer
REGISTRY WORKAROUND Google is cutting support for uBlock Origin in Chrome, but you can extend its support for one year using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy in the Windows Registry.
Elon Musk says 'Grok is the most fun AI in the world': "It's the most based and uncensored model of its class yet"
CENSORSHIP X users say Grok is "the most based and uncensored model of its class yet." They also praised Elon Musk for "ensuring freedom of speech for humans and machines alike with @x + @xai."
Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users
goodbye to ads Microsoft has announced its plan to pump the brakes on featuring ads and popups in the Windows 10 operating system to get users to upgrade to Windows 11.
Former Google CEO says, "working from home was more important than winning," leaving it with a competitive disadvantage in the race for AI domination
WFH Google's former CEO says the company is at a competitive disadvantage in AI because of its work-from-home policy.
Elon Musk's Grok 2 might not be "the most powerful AI," but it outperforms Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and even GPT-4-Turbo
GROK-2 X announced the release of an early preview of Grok-2 with state-of-the-art reasoning and image generation capabilities.
Google Gemini Live is the stepping stone to NVIDIA and Meta CEOs AI assistants prediction: "It’s like having a sidekick in your pocket"
GEMINI LIVE Google just announced Gemini Live at its Made by Google 2024 event. A new mobile conversational experience that lets users have "free-flowing conversations with Gemini."
OpenAI's immense success in AI and new "temporary prototype" search tool prompts Microsoft to officially list the ChatGPT maker as a competitor
RIVALRY Following Microsoft's FY24 Q4 earnings report, the company listed OpenAI as a competitor in search and AI.
HONOR's new AI intent-based eye-tracking technology will revolutionize how users interact with smartphones (and maybe your PC)
EYE TRACKING HONOR announced the broad availability of its intent-based eye-tracking technology. The feature allows users to interact with smartphone devices using their eyes only.
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
MORE ADS Google recently changed Chrome's extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3, killing uBlock Origin.
Forget Windows 10's death: Microsoft will automatically archive unlicensed OneDrive Business accounts effective January 2025 and charge a 'small' reactivation fee
REACTIVATION Microsoft will start archiving unlicensed OneDrive accounts from January 2025. This will apply to accounts that have remained unlicensed for over 90 days.
A former security architect demonstrates 15 different ways to break Copilot: "Microsoft is trying, but if we are honest here, we don't know how to build secure AI applications"
Busted-pilot Former Microsoft security architect Michael Bargury showcased multiple exploits that bad actors can leverage to breach Copilot's security guardrails and misuse its capabilities to cause harm.
Elon Musk’s X could lose 4% of its global annual turnover for "quietly" training Grok using data from 60 million users in the EU without consent
more carnage X's quest to make Grok "the most powerful AI by every metric by December this year" might be more costly than anticipated.
Gmail creator says Google missed its opportunity with AI to maintain search dominance — which is barely clinging on after the antitrust monopolist ruling
missed opportunity Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit recently shed more light on the company's founding mission and missed opportunities in the AI landscape despite its vast resources.
A former Google engineer says the company has bigger fish to fry with OpenAI's "temporary prototype" search tool than its antitrust monopolist ruling and pending regulation
MORE ON YOUR PLATE Experts say Google's blind-sightedness to the rapid growth in AI could give OpenAI's SearchGPT the upper hand in search.
OpenAI's GPT-4o model emulates the user’s voice in a noisy background because it gets confused, but the issue has been mitigated at a "system level"
OpenAI recently highlighted safety challenges facing its Advanced Voice Mode and the measures it's taking to mitigate the issues.
The generative AI bubble might burst, sending the tech to an early deathbed before its prime: “Don’t believe the hype”
END IS NIGH Recent developments in the tech industry show the AI bubble is about to burst. With OpenAI on the brink of bankruptcy and NVIDIA's sinking value, the end is nigh.
