
Nicole Kobie
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more.
Nicole the author of a book about the history of technology, The Long History of the Future.
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Everything you need to know about GitLab Duo Enterprise
News GitLab wants to drive developer productivity with its Duo Enterprise AI coding tool
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OpenAI pledges support for AI watermarking rules
News The legislation will require AI-generated content to be watermarked and comes amid a fierce debate over the scope of regulation facing the sector
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Why big tech is investing heavily in geothermal energy
News Meta’s partnership with Sage Geosystems comes amid a sharpened focus on alternative data center energy sources
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Australia and Google turn to AI to protect critical infrastructure
News Australia's CSIRO partners with Google to develop homegrown AI security tools for infrastructure
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Microsoft changes financial reporting to highlight AI, cloud successes
News The move comes as investors want more evidence that Microsoft’s AI investment will pay off
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DARPA wants to accelerate translation of C code to Rust – and it’s relying on AI to do it
News The TRACTOR program from DARPA will help ditch legacy code and accelerate the translation to memory-safe languages such as Rust
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MIT just launched a new database tracking the biggest AI risks
News The newly-launched AI Risk Repository from MIT aims to track the technology's most glaring issues
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Cisco layoffs cut deeper than expected as firm ramps up AI focus
News The move marks the second round of Cisco layoffs so far this year, with 7% of its global headcount expected to be cut
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We asked IT leaders if generative AI delivers results – their feedback gave a mixed picture
Analysis Firms embracing generative AI could be waiting some time for a return on investment, but IT leaders are seeing some tangible improvements to productivity
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Google Meet can now take notes so you don’t have to
News The new Google Meet features will begin rolling out immediately
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Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s GPT-4o updates
News OpenAI has announced a raft of new features for GPT-4o as part of a sweeping update
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American tech workers want AI regulation – but they might have to wait a while
News AI regulation is critical to ensure the technology is safe and accountable, American tech workers believe
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Zoom wants to take on Google and Microsoft with its own Docs
News Zoom Docs arrives loaded with generative AI – and the company hopes to mount a serious challenge against industry heavyweights
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Google has a monopoly over the online search market, US court rules
News Google violated antitrust law by paying to be default search engine, US court says
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Hyperscaler AI spending is getting out of control
News Tech giants' results show billions being poured into AI infrastructure, but big leaps in revenue remain elusive
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CrowdStrike faces shareholder lawsuit after global IT failure
News Investors are lining up a class action lawsuit amid allegations CrowdStrike misled them
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Apple: Our AI data was gathered responsibly
News Apple is keen to quell concerns over the source of the data used to build its AI models
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Open source AI just got a major seal of approval from US regulators
Analysis Regulators in the US appear very keen on supporting open source AI developers
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Google DeepMind's chief scientist says AI energy use not as bad as it looks
News Jeff Dean admits energy use is rising, but says AI still makes up a small portion of data center use
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OpenAI dropped from AI copyright lawsuit
News Developers still targeting Microsoft and GitHub in case now focused on open-source licensing agreements
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Why generative AI is becoming a "tax" on enterprises
The generative AI gold rush is driving IT spending, but not everyone is benefiting equally from the investment
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Meta won't release multimodal AI models in Europe due to "unpredictable" privacy regulations
News The "unpredictable nature" of EU regulations have prompted Meta to scrap plans to release its models across the region
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AI could be the key to solving the UK’s productivity problem
News The UK's stagnant productivity could get a kickstart from AI, according to Workday
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Kaspersky to shut down US division ahead of sales ban
News The Russian security company will exit the US and cut staff ahead of a government-imposed sales ban
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