Comfortable second full week of 2023. Whereas our poor colleagues in California noticed rain, extra rain, and prolonged energy outages, the information from CES in Las Vegas was sizzling, sizzling, sizzling.

However first, senior author/editor Sharon Goldman broke the information that ChatGPT could be coming to Microsoft Workplace as quickly as March this 12 months. Will or not it’s extra useful than the much-aligned Clippy? Keep tuned.

Our second and third prime tales are wrap-ups from CES. Within the first, our intrepid (and really drained) lead author Dean Takahashi critiques the highest 18 issues he noticed from the three,000 exhibitors on the occasion. Within the second CES story, Goldman highlights the AI and ML information from CES, and what it means for enterprises.

Our fourth story of the week can be from the AI beat. This one, although, is rather less optimistic, because it reveals that AI firms aren’t resistant to the results of the present financial downturn.

Lastly, our fifth story is from our safety beat. Author/editor Taryn Plumb interviewed safety leaders from AWS to get their predictions for 2023. Spoiler alert: Zero belief could be talked about.

Listed below are the highest 5 tales for the week of January ninth.

Over the weekend, The Data reported that Microsoft is wanting so as to add OpenAI’s chatbot expertise — at the moment ChatGPT, quickly to be GPT-4 — to its Workplace suite of productiveness applied sciences, together with Phrase, Outlook and PowerPoint. And late as we speak, Semafor reported that Microsoft, which invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, is in talks to speculate one other $10 billion within the firm.

The stream of Microsoft information made me marvel: How would these apps-on-steroids, utilized by billions of firms globally, change how we work? Particularly as soon as Google will get absolutely within the recreation, integrating its personal generative AI capabilities into Google Workspace? Will AI grow to be as mundane in our day-to-day work lives as the standard spreadsheet?

The CES 2023 tech commerce present was in full gear in Las Vegas final weekend, drawing a number of crowds again to the largest North American tech commerce fest.

At or forward of CES 2023, I recorded round 80 press occasions, interviews, and periods. I walked 87,447 steps over 5 days — or greater than 38.81 miles. I wrote 43 tales. I gave two interviews. And moderated one panel. My toes damage.

This 12 months featured practically 3,000 exhibitors, up from 1,900 in 2021 and down from 4,000 (in-person) in 2020. Listed below are the 18 issues that caught my eye.

Since CES is owned and produced by the Client Know-how Affiliation, it makes excellent sense that it’s centered on shopper tech. However that doesn’t imply there aren’t vital enterprise enterprise takeaways, significantly round synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML).

That’s significantly true in a 12 months when few applied sciences are garnering as a lot hype as AI and ML — significantly on the subject of generative AI, together with DALL-E and ChatGPT.

We requested for suggestions from vendor consultants about a very powerful AI and ML takeaways they noticed popping out of CES 2023.

In April 2021, knowledge labeling service Scale AI had a $7 billion valuation and a CEO, Alexandr Wang, who was identified in Silicon Valley as “the subsequent Zuckerberg.”

However final night time, Insider’s report that the unicorn firm had laid off 20% of its 700-person workers despatched shivers down the spines of those that thought AI was usually resistant to the present wave of tech layoffs. Particularly at this red-hot AI second when Microsoft is reportedly in talks to speculate $10 billion in OpenAI, and buzzy generative AI startups like Jasper and Stability AI are boasting about raises over $100 million.

Final 12 months (2022) was an unprecedented one for cybersecurity, in each good and dangerous methods. On the optimistic facet, we noticed elevated use of passwordless and multifactor authentication (MFA) and zero-trust strategies. On the unfavorable, the price of knowledge breaches reached an all-time excessive and we noticed the rise of commoditized cybercrime (ransomware-as-a-service) and large breaches of Twitter, WhatsApp, Rockstar and Uber.

What may we see in 2023? VentureBeat posed this query to a number of AWS safety leaders. Listed below are their prime cybersecurity predictions for 2023.