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The top 10 tech stories of 2023
The top technology stories of 2023 highlight fundamental changes in culture and geopolitics as well as tech itself: It’s clear that generative AI will affect all aspects of technology and society, while geopolitical tensions are sparking cybersecurity attacks globally. General unease about the dominance of big tech, meanwhile, is pushing regulators to get tougher on…
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Office apps come to Meta’s Quest devices, but real-world use will take time
Microsoft’s office productivity apps can now be accessed on Meta’s Quest headsets, offering access to Word, Excel and PowerPoint in mixed and virtual reality spaces. Though office workers are unlikely to swap laptops for mixed-reality devices until the hardware improves, analysts see potential being able to access productivity tools on multiple virtual screens. At Meta…
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Q&A: Sedgwick exec lays out ‘the baby steps to genAI adoption’
Sedgwick, a third-party insurance claims management provider operating in 80 countries, receives about 1.7 million pages of digital claims-related documents a day. The documents then go through an arduous vetting process by examiners who must decide whether they’re valid and how they should be handled. One claim can take weeks to adjudicate. In April, Sedgwick…
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Salesforce and Apple are ready for enterprise AR
Salesforce has introduced support for two key Apple solutions in a move that highlights the future of Apple’s augmented reality (AR) headset, the Vision Pro, in the enterprise. What is Salesforce offering? Available now, Salesforce has integrated Apple Business Messaging in Service Cloud so Salesforce customers can offer AI-assisted support, appointments, and purchasing. Salesforce also…
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Microsoft unveils Phi-2, the next of its smaller, more nimble genAI models
Microsoft has announced the next of its suite of smaller, more nimble artificial intelligence (AI) models targeted at more specific use cases. Earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled Phi-1, the first of what it calls small language models (SLMs); they have far fewer parameters than their large language model (LLM) predecessor. For example, the GPT-3 LLM —…