Posts by Mike Knight
36 Cents per Chat Query Prompts $30 Microsoft Fee
Microsoft’s announcement of pricing for its AI productivity suite 365 Copilot shows its intent to monetise its AI, ending any expectations of free AI provision. Furthering Its (Monetising) Ambitions – Microsoft 365 Copilot & Bing Chat Enterprise Announced under the heading “furthering our ambitions”, Microsoft has released details of both Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot…
Read MoreSnooper’s Charter Updated. (Poorly)
Amendments to the UK Online Safety Bill mean a report must be written before powers can be used by the regulator to force tech firms to scan encrypted messages for child abuse images. What Is The Online Safety Bill? The Online Safety Bill is the way the UK government plans to establish a new regulatory…
Read MoreExplicit Promises in Marketing for Managed Service Providers
Some recent research between LinkedIn’s B2B Institute and Warc has brought to light a crucial insight that can help transform the marketing of managed service providers. (Source) Here’s an outline of the study and I quote : “Drawing on WARC’s extensive database of B2B and B2C effectiveness case studies, over 2,000 award entrants and winning…
Read MoreWhat Are ‘Zero-Day’ Attacks?
In this tech insight, we look at what ‘zero-day’ attacks are, then look at some recent high-profile examples and ultimately at what businesses can do to protect themselves from zero-day attacks. Sophisticated Attacks That Highlight Vulnerabilities In the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats and cyber warfare, one term often sends chills down the spines of…
Read MoreAI Fears Prompt Hollywood Actors To Strike
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the US actors’ union with 160,000 members has gone on strike mainly over fears that AI will reduce earnings and damage their profession. New Agreement Needed One of the Union’s main roles is negotiating terms between actors and the studios, and the last agreement…
Read MoreMusk’s New AI Company’s Mission To “Understand The Universe”
There’s nothing like setting the bar high and Elon Musk recently announced in a Twitter Spaces audio chat that the purpose of his new AI company, xAI, will be to “understand the universe”. What Is xAI? xAI is Elon Musk’s new startup that aims to build a kind of ‘good’ AI system that will lead to…
Read MoreNew Sketch-To-Image AI Tool Launched
London and San Francisco–based startup Stability AI has announced the launch of ‘Stable Doodle’, a sketch-to-image AI-based tool that converts a simple drawing into a dynamic image. Creates An Image From A Simple Doodle and Text Description The new tool from Clipdrop by Stability AI, creates images from a simple doodle (sketched with a mouse)…
Read MoreAvoiding Enemy Aircraft … Or The Car in Front!
In July 1940, a Bristol Blenheim like this one was the first aircraft to successfully use radar to detect enemy aircraft, proving that radar could help provide an effective electronic defence whilst being deployed in the air. It’s often been said that Britain would have lost the Battle of Britain had it not been for…
Read MoreMSPs – Looking Over Your Staff’s Shoulders?
Given the importance to MSPs of recruiting and retaining excellent staff, it’s more important than ever to maximise the value they get from their relationship with the business. To this end, it may be worth reviewing a precis about a recent academic study. A recent 2023 article entitled “Is someone looking over my shoulder? An…
Read MoreTime Presentation For MSPs
For More of MKLINK’s MSP MBA Marketing & IT Training Resources, Make Sure You’ve Registered your account for free now at www. MKLINK.org Time Presentation For MSPs Some interesting results came back from an academic paper in 2022 by 3 researchers Jeong Hwang and Suk. Their research studied 2129 participants which showed how the presentation of…
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