AI companies keep forgetting to put the ‘smart’ into smart apps
AI firms believe that no matter how much ultra-sensitive data enterprises share with them, everything would be so much better if they simply shared more. The idea of “too much data” is as anathema to most AI vendors as profitability is to OpenAI. OpenAI itself is pushing one of the more audacious plans to collect virtually all of […] more…Cleanlab CEO: Agentic AI won’t really gel until 2027
Tech execs pushing to get agentic AI projects into production will have to surmount complicated challenges to prevent their efforts from failing, according to the CEO of a San Francisco-based AI startup. Companies need to establish a roadmap, outline deliverables, and experiment to achieve successful project execution, Curtis Northcutt, Co-founder and CEO of Cleanlab, said in an […] more…Q&A: Andela CEO talks about the need for ‘borderless talent’ amid work visa limitations
Editor’s note: This Q&A was conducted by Computerworld Senior Writer Lucas Mearian shortly before his unexpected passing on Oct. 21, 2025. Contributing writer Agam Shah helped complete this story for publication. On Sept. 19, the US government announced plans to raise the one-time fee of an H-1B visa to employ foreign workers from $65,000 to $100,000. […] more…The power of low-tech in a high-tech world
We’re all living in a cyberpunk novel now. Unconstrained billionaires have space programs and robot armies. People are falling in love with and marrying AI chatbots. You can make movies where you’re the star by typing a few sentences. Companies offer designer babies as a service. We’ve got brain implants for controlling computers, flying cars, […] more…Reversing at Scale: AI-Powered Malware Detection for Apple’s Binaries
TL;DR: We ran our new AI-based Mach-O analysis pipeline in production, no metadata, no prior detections, just raw Apple binaries. On Oct 18, 2025, out of 9,981 first-seen samples, VT Code Insight surfaced multiple real Mac and iOS malware cases that had 0 antivirus detections at submission time, including a multi-stage AppleScript infostealer and an […] more…Apple’s war in Europe
Some say good government is less government. Others have a different point of view. But the least you should be able to expect from any kind of governance is that following one law doesn’t force you to break another. That is, unless you’re Apple and the laws are made in Europe. In a letter seen by Computerworld, […] more…Apple, Private Cloud Compute, and trusted AI
The growing desire for sovereign cloud is transitioning to become a need for sovereign AI. Companies and individuals want the benefits of artificial intelligence, but don’t want to risk their data by sharing it with third-party firms without clear security and privacy mandates. Many users want or need to keep their data protected by national […] more…What are ‘Background Security Improvements’ on Apple devices?
Apple has a great reputation for platform security, one it has earned through consistent focus on keeping its operating systems secure. However, as the number of threats against its platform grows, it needs to find ways to stay ahead. That’s why Apple’s latest iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates enable a new security feature, Background Security Improvements. What […] more…The AWS outage post-mortem is more revealing in what it doesn’t say
When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to prove the point, Microsoft suffered a similar collapse a few days later.) The incident also shed an uncomfortable light on how fragile these massive environments have become. […] more…Tim Cook on Apple Intelligence: ‘We’re making good progress….’
Apple Intelligence? We still don’t really understand the full extent of Apple’s intentions in AI, and we’re not really going to gain a better glimpse of them until some point in 2026, promised Apple CEO Tim Cook during Thursday’s financial results call. If you follow Apple’s business news, you’ll already know Apple delivered yet another record-setting […] more…Breaking the humanoid robot delusion
A Silicon Valley company called 1X this week announced a humanoid robot that does all your housework. The robot is called NEO. The company says NEO is the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot for the home. It is designed to automate routine chores and offer personal help so you can spend time on other things. The company’s odd, 70’s style demonstration […] more…In Memoriam: Lucas Mearian, 1962-2025
Computerworld and the larger tech journalism community lost an outstanding journalist and beloved colleague earlier this month with the unexpected passing of Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian. He passed away on Oct. 21 while recovering from heart surgery, leaving behind his wife Kim and their family. After a nearly 10-year stint in the US Marine Corps and an early […] more…The revised Microsoft-OpenAI deal teases far more than it delivers
When Microsoft and OpenAI announced their revised AI deal on Thursday, it reduced Microsoft’s ownership share of OpenAI, but seemed to give it everything that it wanted in exchange, analysts said. Well, everything other than AGI, which Microsoft doesn’t really care about. The announcement of the revised details indicated a change in the nature of […] more…Windows 10 continues to help boost Mac sales
You can’t ignore the trend. Apple continues to be one of the big beneficiaries of the Windows 10 support shut down, with research from Counterpoint, IDC, Gartner, and others confirming Mac sales are increasing faster than the rate of PC industry growth. It means the switch is on. Take the evidence, just in the last few […] more…Apple may turn off key privacy tool in Europe
In a victory for surveillance capitalism, Apple may be forced to leave its users in Europe vulnerable to rapacious ad data collection in response to “intense lobbying” by politicians in the region. Apple warns these lobbying efforts mean the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature, which helps prevent apps from tracking what you do across services and websites for advertising purposes, […] more…OpenAI seeks to automate ‘computer use’ for Macs in the enterprise
While AI bots have begun mastering tasks in browsers and on Windows, Mac-using enterprises have largely been overlooked, until now. OpenAI aims to change that with its acquisition of generative AI interface maker Software Applications Incorporated. The base of this integration is Sky, a generative AI-based, natural language-input compatible assistant for macOS that the San […] more…More information
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