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.
Latest articles by Nicole Kobie

Australia and Google turn to AI to protect critical infrastructure
By Nicole Kobie published
News Australia's CSIRO partners with Google to develop homegrown AI security tools for infrastructure

Microsoft changes financial reporting to highlight AI, cloud successes
By Nicole Kobie published
News The move comes as investors want more evidence that Microsoft’s AI investment will pay off

DARPA wants to accelerate translation of C code to Rust – and it’s relying on AI to do it
By Nicole Kobie published
News The TRACTOR program from DARPA will help ditch legacy code and accelerate the translation to memory-safe languages such as Rust

MIT just launched a new database tracking the biggest AI risks
By Nicole Kobie published
News The newly-launched AI Risk Repository from MIT aims to track the technology's most glaring issues

Cisco layoffs cut deeper than expected as firm ramps up AI focus
By Nicole Kobie published
News The move marks the second round of Cisco layoffs so far this year, with 7% of its global headcount expected to be cut

We asked IT leaders if generative AI delivers results – their feedback gave a mixed picture
By Nicole Kobie published
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

Google Meet can now take notes so you don’t have to
By Nicole Kobie published
News The new Google Meet features will begin rolling out immediately

Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s GPT-4o updates
By Nicole Kobie published
News OpenAI has announced a raft of new features for GPT-4o as part of a sweeping update

American tech workers want AI regulation – but they might have to wait a while
By Nicole Kobie published
News AI regulation is critical to ensure the technology is safe and accountable, American tech workers believe

Zoom wants to take on Google and Microsoft with its own Docs
By Nicole Kobie published
News Zoom Docs arrives loaded with generative AI – and the company hopes to mount a serious challenge against industry heavyweights

Google has a monopoly over the online search market, US court rules
By Nicole Kobie published
News Google violated antitrust law by paying to be default search engine, US court says

Hyperscaler AI spending is getting out of control
By Nicole Kobie published
News Tech giants' results show billions being poured into AI infrastructure, but big leaps in revenue remain elusive

CrowdStrike faces shareholder lawsuit after global IT failure
By Nicole Kobie published
News Investors are lining up a class action lawsuit amid allegations CrowdStrike misled them

Apple: Our AI data was gathered responsibly
By Nicole Kobie published
News Apple is keen to quell concerns over the source of the data used to build its AI models

Open source AI just got a major seal of approval from US regulators
By Nicole Kobie last updated
Analysis Regulators in the US appear very keen on supporting open source AI developers

Google DeepMind's chief scientist says AI energy use not as bad as it looks
By Nicole Kobie published
News Jeff Dean admits energy use is rising, but says AI still makes up a small portion of data center use

OpenAI dropped from AI copyright lawsuit
By Nicole Kobie published
News Developers still targeting Microsoft and GitHub in case now focused on open-source licensing agreements

Why generative AI is becoming a "tax" on enterprises
By Nicole Kobie published
The generative AI gold rush is driving IT spending, but not everyone is benefiting equally from the investment

Meta won't release multimodal AI models in Europe due to "unpredictable" privacy regulations
By Nicole Kobie published
News The "unpredictable nature" of EU regulations have prompted Meta to scrap plans to release its models across the region

AI could be the key to solving the UK’s productivity problem
By Nicole Kobie published
News The UK's stagnant productivity could get a kickstart from AI, according to Workday

Kaspersky to shut down US division ahead of sales ban
By Nicole Kobie published
News The Russian security company will exit the US and cut staff ahead of a government-imposed sales ban

Intuit joins the ranks of companies cutting jobs to invest in AI
By Nicole Kobie published
News 1,800 jobs are set to be cut at Intuit, but all will be replaced over next year as part of an AI-fueled hiring spree

Microsoft has settled its European cloud complaint — but rivals are calling it a "pay off"
By Nicole Kobie published
News CISPE has accepted a $22 million settlement over Microsoft cloud licensing practices, but industry rivals aren't pleased at the announcement
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