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Google Reportedly Looking at Smart Glasses — Again
Julie Geller, Principal Research Director, comments on Google's renewed interest in smart glasses, noting that the company's previous attempts, such as Google Glass and Project Iris, faced challenges leading to their discontinuation. She observes that Google's current collaboration with Samsung ...
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ServiceNow’s Yokohama Platform Release Focuses on Agentic AI
Advisory Fellow Scott Bickley comments on ServiceNow's Yokohama platform release, emphasizing its focus on agentic AI. He notes that this development represents a significant advancement in intelligent automation, enabling systems to operate with greater autonomy and efficiency. Bickley highligh...
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How Tariffs Could Hurt Your IT Budget
Manish Jain, Principal Research Director, discusses the impact of recent U.S. tariffs on IT budgets. He notes that the 25% levies on goods from Canada and Mexico, along with additional 10% duties on China, could significantly affect U.S. enterprise IT firms by increasing hardware and software co...
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Microsoft Reportedly Struggling to Build Its Own Reasoning Models to Rival OpenAI
Technical Counselor Justin St-Maurice comments on Microsoft's ongoing efforts to develop proprietary reasoning models to compete with OpenAI. He notes that Microsoft's reported completion of training a new family of generative AI models, known as MAI, which performed "nearly as well" as those fr...
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Luxury shoppers embrace AI, but remain wary of sharing personal information
Julie Geller, Principal Research Director, comments on the hesitancy of luxury shoppers to share personal images for virtual try-ons. She attributes this reluctance to concerns over potential data breaches and misuse of personal images, which could be exploited for scams or unauthorized marketin...
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Alibaba Says Its New AI Model Rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s O1
Technical Counselor Justin St-Maurice comments on Alibaba's recent unveiling of its AI model, QwQ-32B. He notes that this model demonstrates strong capabilities in mathematical reasoning, coding, and problem-solving, comparable to DeepSeek's R1 and OpenAI's latest technologies. St-Maurice highlig...
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Apple Appeals UK Encryption Backdoor Demand
Fred Chagnon, Principal Research Director, comments on Apple's legal challenge against the UK government's demand for a backdoor to its encrypted iCloud services. He emphasizes that complying with such a request would undermine user trust and set a concerning precedent for privacy rights globall...
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Microsoft-OpenAI Investigation Closed by UK Regulators
Executive Counselor Phil Brunkard comments on the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision to close its investigation into Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI. He notes that the CMA concluded Microsoft did not have de facto control over OpenAI, thus not warranting further investigat...
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Microsoft EU Data Boundary Initiative Now Complete, but How Ironclad Is It?
Executive Counselor Phil Brunkard comments on Microsoft's completion of the EU Data Boundary for its cloud services. He acknowledges this as a step towards improved data residency in Europe but cautions that it doesn't guarantee true data sovereignty. Brunkard points out that U.S. laws like the ...
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