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Apple will split its app store in two for the EU.  Wells Fargo leaps ahead in conversational AI. The International Monetary Fund is projecting huge losses in jobs to AI.  Researchers discover that AI models can be trained to deceive you.   All this and more on the “oh what a tangled web we weave”

Microsoft users hit a rough patch – literally.  The EU is challenging Apple to allow third party app stores on its devices, eBay is fined 3 million dollars for harassing a blogger who posted an unfavourable review and surprise, surprise, AI girlfriend apps are sneaking into the GPT store.   I’m your host Jim Love,

SHOWNOTES:  Hi.  And welcome to Hashtag Trending – the weekend edition.  I’m your host Jim Love. My guest for this week and I probably have met professionally, but I don’t think I really got to know him until we got on a call – arranged by our associate producer who sets this stuff up. I

Microsoft overtakes Apple as the most valuable company. Broadcom stirs up a hornets nest when it dumps VMWare partners. The U.S. government demands that hospitals improve cybersecurity if they want government funding and Google is not only axing people, it’s dropping services as well.    These and more top tech stories on this edition of

It’s here – OpenAI has launched the GPT store and I have more questions than answers at this point. AI and disinformation make it to the top of the World Economic Forum’s list of global risks, ahead of climate change and researchers publish a paper on how they have linked brain cells to a computer

Only 700 net new jobs were added in the U.S. in 2023, an “intelligent wrench” has vulnerabilities that would permit hackers to breach a network, AI solves an innovation dilemma, more from the X files and – they might call it the “smellphone”    These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending I’m your

A tale of two strategies – Apple’s stealth approach to AI and Microsoft’s move to upskill India’s developers to use AI. If you thought ransomware attacks on hospitals and ambulance dispatch was as low as it can get – the latest strategies sink even lower.   These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending

2024 promises to have more cybersecurity challenges including a continued shortage of cybersecurity workers.  Are tech companies quietly continuing to cut back. OpenAI is sued for copyright infringement – again.    I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and Tech News Day in the US. As we dive into 2024, cybersecurity experts