Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google has dominated the search engine market for decades. However, the rise of generative AI has presented a new form of competition — AI search engines. With its AI Mode, Google provides users with exactly that: an AI chatbot that understands and outputs conversational search queries.  As you might have expected, it looks a lot less like a traditional Google search and a lot more like ChatGPT Search….

Moor Studio/Getty Images Popularity in the tech world is hard to measure. I’ve talked at length about this in my discussions of programming language popularity. It really comes down to what you use to measure popularity — and how available those metrics are to those doing the analysis. It’s difficult to generically define popularity, especially when you’re including tools that do wildly different things. For example, is a general-purpose text-to-image generator like Midjourney inherently more popular…

Built in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), AI commentary runs on Amazon Bedrock and uses the Claude and Anthropic models and will be part of every PGA Tour event moving forward. The goal is to ensure every player gets meaningful coverage, something that would be impossible to do manually. There have been many comparisons between AI and the Internet and the impact to society. The Internet democratized access to information and now AI can…

Nord Quantique plans to use the money to expand its team, says Julien Camirand Lemyre, the company’s president, CTO and co-founder. That’s an opportunity to accelerate the development of the technology, he says. “By extension, what this will mean for enterprise users is that quantum solutions to real-world business problems will be available sooner, due to that acceleration,” he says. “And so enterprise customers need to also accelerate how they are thinking about adoption because…

“NetBox is intent,” Beevers explained. “This is where network teams are documenting ‘Here is what the network and the infrastructure should look like.’ Think of intent as what is in NetBox.” With the general availability of NetBox Assurance announced this week, the platform now extends beyond documentation to address the persistent challenge of configuration drift–when live network states deviate from documented intentions. “The problem we’re tackling is operational drift,” Beevers elaborated. “Drift is when the…