PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Realistic-looking videos that are the most-often recommended by the popular TikTok social media app regarding health care contain no real people 40 percent of the time, a new analysis of the site’s mini-movies has found. Many of TikTok’s top-rated videos on every topic are AI-generated but look exactly like actual […]

The latest in AI wars has to do with AI being used by attackers. There is a recent case in which a company that used to provide a chatbot app for teenagers pivoted to being a platform for machine learning. The firm is called Hugging Face. To me, that’s a non-serious company name. But what […]

I often see voice recognition software being touted as a way around keyboard issues. But the brick wall I see is spreadsheets.  Telling Excel what do to versus DOING it, it’s just something I can’t see being efficient. Recently on a list I saw someone tout this tool called Wispr flow. For the record it […]

COMMENTARY By Will Fastie AI could ruin YouTube, not only for viewers but also for creators. YouTube has been a tremendously useful resource over the years, for both entertainment and education. Want to learn how to hammer a nail into a board? Tens of thousands of videos. Want to learn how to use Blackmagic Design’s […]

Back when I started accounting, the electronic spreadsheet, while not new, was not as entrenched as it is now. Over time, the spreadsheet has become so much part of the business day to day needs that it’s inconceivable that we can live without it. Initially it had its faults and bugs. But now, it’s just […]

ISSUE 23.26 • 2026-06-29 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Give AI a chance to help you with any Excel or spreadsheet app. AI can greatly speed up your time spent working on a workbook — rom explaining functions and improving formulas to making a full sheet from your description. Any version of Excel, including perpetual […]

AI By Matthew S. Smith This might be hard to believe, but we’re now at least four years into the era of AI large language models — and perhaps up to nine, depending on your definition. OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released in 2022, GPT-3 was released in 2020, and the paper that defined the transformer architecture […]

SILICON By Matthew S. Smith After more than a year of rumors and, if those rumors are believed, some delays, NVIDIA’s new system on a chip for Windows PCs was revealed at Computex 2026. It’s called RTX Spark, and it’s coming to Windows PCs this fall. RTX Spark will launch with a single chip in […]

On Monday, NVIDIA shook up the processor market with its introduction of the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip at the opening of the COMPUTEX trade show in Taiwan. The stock market reacted quickly; NVIDIA up seven percent, Intel down two percent. This coming Monday, the newsletter will feature an article by our own Matthew S. Smith […]

LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. We seem to have entered a new era in machine learning. In addition to generative AI offering suggestions, it is now capable of carrying out those suggestions. It can write your emails, college-entrance personal essays, term papers, and legal briefs. (One would hope that you would at least […]

In my profession we have to attend continuing education and the topics can range from accounting to technology. Today was tech day, where Roman Kepczyk was discussing tech trends and planning. A couple of his comments made me go, “Hmmm, interesting.”  He indicated that he has seen several firms actually budget for, pay, and install […]

As I mentioned on Wednesday, today I attended a seminar about creating a local AI solution for business. The main reason? Besides data privacy, small businesses may want to turn to local AI for lower cost. Right now, cloud AI is heavily funded by investors. When they pivot to IPOs and go public, those investors […]

Way back in 2025, Microsoft announced that it would no longer sell a standalone subscription to Copilot pro. It would respect your yearly subscription if you had one, but come effective November 1, 2026 if you want AI in your Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, you’ll need to switch to Microsoft 365 premium. Today I […]

Google has announced a new AI-powered search tool. I’ve seen many reactions, ranging from questioning how is this better to how will this drive revenue for Google. But I also know that many of us had turned to tools like perplexity.ai as their new go-to search tool. Rather than curating your own topics, we are […]

Microsoft has a post geared towards businesses setting the expectations regarding an expected bumper crop of vulnerability disclosures that are expected as a result of AI tools. We’ve already seen the impact on Apple. We will see more CVE’s (or vulnerability counts) per month, but I don’t foresee that we will get more patches. Mind […]

As PK noted on the bottom of her Apple post, Apple released Safari 26.5 for Sonoma and Sequoia. It appears we may be seeing some impact from AI bug finders, as this is finding a ton of WebKit bugs. One group in particular, DarkNavy, is advertising its use of AI in finding and targeting various […]

LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. To err is no longer the exclusive province of humans. Apologies to Alexander Pope. Artificial intelligence has progressed from hallucinating to enticing humans to join in the hallucination. We need a new term for hybrid human-AI errors caused by reliance on AI hallucinations. I propose “mistaiks.” Read the […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley One thing the World Wide Web has done in recent years is introduce new ways to scam, trick, entice, and generally be a drag on our time — and potentially a hit to our pocketbooks. Here are some threats I’ve seen in recent months. Read the full story in our […]