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Emerging AI News Roundup for July–August 2025 Part 1: Big Money, Mergers, and New Releases

If you invested $3,000 in Nvidia in 2015, it would be worth around $1,049,880 today (based on the August 26 stock price). As Yahoo Finance reported, the company has enjoyed a +34,896% gain in value over the decade, on pace to become the world’s first ever $4 trillion company. The AI chips superpower released their […]

IT contractor or full-time employee

IT Employee or Contractor? Ask Yourself These Questions to Find Your Path

Introduction In such an unpredictable hiring market—where power shifts back and forth between employers and professionals (and… robots?)—the tech job search continues to evolve in out-of-the-box ways. One of these areas in which tech hiring is currently shifting is in how hires are classified. According to Robert Half’s 2025 Tech and IT Salaries and Hiring […]

Workday data breach

The Workday Data Breach: How This Latest Attack in the Salesforce Campaign Impacts You

Workday was breached by hackers in early August. We dig into the details below, but the short form is this: intruders accessed their “third-party CRM platform” and stole “primarily commonly available” business contact information before the connection was cut off (quotes are from their press release). Workday has acknowledged this is part of a larger […]

Cyber threat collaboration

Defending Together: Essential Collaboration in Cybersecurity

From last week’s cybersecurity news: The breach of the US federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system discovered on July 4 is still a problem, and a mysterious one. Though initial reports blamed Russia, it’s still not entirely clear who is behind the hack or what exactly happened. We do know software vulnerabilities were exploited that […]

AI agent implementation

Onboarding AI: Custom Benchmarking and Tactics for Adding New AI Agents

AI is not plug-and-play for businesses. Most don’t try out options in a review period, settle on a favorite, purchase it, set up AI security and access control, serve it, and call it done. If you do, you may quickly find your solution lagging behind the competition. Increasingly, that could mean your version hallucinates more, reasons […]

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