ServiceNow acquires 4Industry and Smart Daily Management app
ServiceNow, which specializes in workflow automation, has acquired Netherlands-based 4Industry. This company offers a suite of digital tools to optimize work processes in the manufacturing industry. In addition, ServiceNow has acquired the Smart Daily Management app, an employee application develop... Read more
Microsoft announces 2024 version of its permanent Office LTSC
Microsoft is introducing a new permanent standalone version of Office LTSC this year. This version is a slightly simpler version of the cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications.
Microsoft has been providing a so-called Office Long-Term Service Channel (LTSC) license version o... Read more
xAI open sources details and architecture of their Grok-1 LLM
Elon Musk's AI developer xAI has finally made the basic model, underlying parameters and architecture of the Grok-1 LLM open source. This was previously announced.
In a short blog post, Elon Musk's AI development startup provides more details on the part of the network architecture of the Grok-... Read more
‘Apple plans to use Google Gemini for AI features iPhone’
Apple is planning to add AI features to new iPhones. However, it does not appear to be able to implement the technology on its own, instead relying on Google's Gemini models.
This is what Bloomberg has learned based on speaking to sources with knowledge of the matter. Apple is also said to have ... Read more
Dutch TheyDo raises €31 million to grow
The money will be invested in AI research and development as well as quantitative and qualitative data. The company also plans to expand in the U.S.
Founded in 2019, TheyDo offers a platform for "journey management". This includes mapping customer activities, such as a customer's concerns about ... Read more
Oracle adds more than 50 GenAI features to Fusion Cloud Apps Suite
Across the Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, GenAI capabilities are becoming available to users. In addition, customers will get more capabilities in Fusion Data Intelligence. These developments should give ERP, SCM, HCM and CX a good kick up the AI behind.
During Oracle CloudWorld in London, Ora... Read more
Salesforce Pro Suite targets ‘intermediate segment’ of growing SMBs
To further penetrate the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, Salesforce is launching a 'Pro Suite' as an affordable alternative to its more comprehensive packages. According to Salesforce, the package offers more features than the starter package released last year, but maintains the same... Read more
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla launch speed test for browsers
Speedometer, a benchmarking tool browsers, has been updated to version 3.0. Remarkably, the companies behind the four most-used browsers are joining forces for the new release.
The first version of Speedometer dates back to 2014 and was developed by Apple's WebKit team. Version 2.0 subsequently ... Read more
Developers allowed to sell iPhone apps through their own websites
Starting this spring, Apple allows developers of iPhone apps to offer their apps directly to users through their own websites. This development follows a previous announcement that developers could offer apps on the Apple platform through self-developed alternative app stores. To take advantage of ... Read more
Microsoft makes Copilot GPT Builder available: personalize chatbots
Microsoft is launching the Copilot GPT Builder. The feature requires no programming knowledge and lets users personalize a chatbot.
Microsoft's Copilot GPT Builder should allow anyone in an enterprise to build their own AI assistant. In fact, the feature works with instructions in written text.... Read more