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The free ride is over – Microsoft announces the price hikes for AI integration, Tesla directors were overpaid and forced to return over 700 million dollars of their compensation, Microsoft still isn’t saying how hackers got the key to compromise the US government emails and a chatbot so good that it’s the death of human customer service?

Meta is being fined $100,000 per day for privacy violations in Norway, Reddit does it again – another new policy that’s annoying the moderators, the great Linux debate continues and Google tightens up on PlayStore policies.

Threads see a drop in engagement but still remains a big threat to Twitter, the dark web has its own version of GPT – without any controls and Reddit phases out coins and awards.

Even with the tech layoffs in IT, there are still critical resource scarcities in all areas of technology: cybersecurity, analytics, cloud architectures, and a whole list of others. And with the recent developments in AI you can add one whole new set of skills that are going to be in big demand and short supply. Tony Holmes from Pluralsight, a company that offers a wide selection of education opportunities for members of the IT industry joins us to talk about how upskilling and re-skilling can help companies through this shortage.

Tech layoffs impact Indian outsourcers and what does that mean for North America outsourcers and MSPs. A new approach to the “eye-watering” cost of AI processing and the right to be forgotten – how does that apply to AI.

OpenAI's GPT-4 AI Model shows signs of being lazier and less intelligent, KPMG and Microsoft collaborate to accelerate adoption of AI in audit and tax services, China-based espionage group  compromises U.S. government emails.

Microsoft has more layoffs, a new law to ban sale of cell phone location data and a security company demonstrates in real time how easy it is to poison a Large Language model. 

Companies are drowning in AI, Meta's Threads App is a
new playground for cyber attackers, and Oracle emerges
as a champion of Open-Source.

ChatGPT releases a new plug in that could change data analysis, Threads continues to grow to almost 100 million users and Robots hold a press conference to tell us that they are not after our jobs. 

Host Jim Love speaks with Ted Maulucci, President of SmartONE Solutions, about some highlights of his career, beginning in high school where he wrote software programs for teaching mentally challenged children.