Microsoft will end support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps and servers on October 14, 2025. Anyone who continues to work with these versions of Office after this date risks security breaches, compliance issues and, as Microsoft states in a blog post, even reduced productivity. However, the ... Read more
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Process mining is taking on an increasingly important role within Appian's automation and orchestration platform. It should provide both more insights into organizations' processes, but also into the underlying Data Fabric. Of course, there is also the necessary space and focus on AI in version 24.... Read more
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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's AI subsidiary Deepmind, estimates that the company will spend more than $100 billion on AI, given enough time. He was responding to questions from the audience at a TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. Someone asked about Google Deepmind's response to the announce... Read more
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The market for business tools such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, as well as Teams, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox and Webex has been booming over the past few years. With the introduction of all kinds of GenAI tools, there is going to be another shift in this area. The only question is in whose favour ... Read more
4 days ago
Adobe will expand its video editor Premiere Pro with plugins that allow users to deploy AI video generators such as Sora, Pika and Runway directly from within the program. This integration will make it possible to blend 'traditionally' shot footage with AI-generated content. Adobe has not yet annou... Read more
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Microsoft Exchange Online will support a maximum of 2,000 recipients per 24 hours starting in 2025. This limit should significantly reduce the number of spam messages. Until now, Exchange Online has not had a similar limitation. The upper limit consists of 10,000 recipients; this will remain unc... Read more
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Combination of Appian's services and technologies with Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker from AWS should make Private AI more widely available. Last year at Appian World, Appian unfolded its vision for AI. CEO Matt Calkins made no bones about it and wanted nothing to do with Public AI. That kind of A... Read more
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WordPress owner Automattic has acquired the all-in-one chat platform Beeper. Beeper allows users to chat across networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Slack, Instagram, LinkedIn, and more from one app. It is not Automattic's first acquisition of a messaging service. Last October, the company acqui... Read more
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An incompatibility between Windows 11 and Intel Smart Sound Technology audio drivers has finally been resolved. The bug had long been fixed by Intel, but now Microsoft is finally lifting the block for affected systems. The Intel Smart Sound Technology drivers on 11th generation Intel processors ... Read more
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xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, recently previewed its new multimodal LLM Grok Vision (Grokv) 1.5. This LLM is more powerful than the original recently launched Grok-1.5 LLM and should compete with equivalent LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The preview of Grokv 1.5 presented by... Read more
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