TechSpective’s Artificial Intelligence section covers AI the way people actually working with it need it covered — not as a trend to celebrate or fear, but as a set of real developments with real implications for how we work, what we build, and how we stay secure.
The emphasis here is on what things mean, not just what happened. When a new model drops or a major platform ships an agentic capability, the coverage examines what it actually changes and for whom. When research surfaces about enterprise AI adoption rates or AI security risks, the analysis connects those findings to decisions that organizations and practitioners have to make. Topics include large language models and generative AI, agentic systems and autonomous agent risk, AI PCs and on-device inference, AI infrastructure and data readiness, and the security implications of deploying AI in production environments.
The AI content space is saturated with hype and hot takes. This section is built around a different standard — contributors with enough technical grounding and enough industry experience to tell the difference between a genuine inflection point and a well-funded press tour.
The archive spans 28 pages of AI coverage developed during the period when enterprise AI moved from theoretical to operational. If you want signal rather than noise, this is a good place to start.
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into mission-critical industries is reshaping the way we approach essential services and emergency response. A 2023 survey of first responders found that a majority (65%) of public safety agencies are adopting AI, which 77% […]
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There is a phrase often falsely attributed to Winston Churchill (it came from George Santayana’s book, The Life of Reason) that goes: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It came to mind while attending Intel
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For decades, science fiction has painted artificial intelligence (AI) as a dystopian force threatening to usurp humanity. The “Terminator” series, with its self-aware Skynet launching a nuclear war, exemplifies this fear. However, the reality is far more nuanced. As with
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When ChatGPT was launched at the end of 2022, many had their first direct encounter with AI. But for those of us with an AdTech background, it was just the latest iteration of a technology we’ve been relying on for
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There has been a joke going around my community that goes something like this: “OMG, AI is taking our jobs. All users will need to be able to do is describe what they want an app to do, and AIs
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TechSpective Podcast Episode 129 You may not have noticed, but the tech and cybersecurity job market has sort of sucked the past few years. Maybe it’s just me. My friend Richard Stiennon, research analyst with IT-Harvest and author of Security
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Twenty years ago, NVIDIA and Microsoft were nowhere with AI, while IBM’s Watson was winning Jeopardy! and later taking on professional debaters. Conventional knowledge was that IBM was going to own AI, but no one seemed to care since projections
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I’m at HP Amplify this week where HP prepares its partner sales channel for the coming year. I’ve long known that HP was ahead of its peers in enterprise-grade and printer security and in its partner program, but this was
HP and NVIDIA: Building the Missing Link in AI Solutions Read More »
TechSpective Podcast Episode 127 Artificial intelligence is not new–and yet we are also still at the very early stages of what it can do. Generative AI has sparked a massive revolution and mainstream adoption of AI. It has tremendous
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There are several efforts underway by the U.S. government, corporations, and standards bodies to create the guardrails for responsible AI. However, this legislation can only go so far. We are all part of the global community feeding the need for
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