Jim Love

Toronto

Author and Podcaster at Tech News Day

CIO and Chief Content Officer at IT World Canada (ITWC) Author, Consultant and even Songwriter - Still want to change the world. What else do you need to know?

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Innovating AI: Canada's Vision for a Collaborative Future with Maple

6 days ago | player.fm | James Love |Jim Love

JOIN OUR DISCORD CHANNEL https://discord.gg/4uwxk6TN6r Support us at: buymeacoffee.com/techpodcastIn this episode of Project Synapse, John Pinard, Marcel Gagne, and host Jim Love discuss the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry. The conversation highlights Google's strides with their Gemini AI, the enhancement of AI models with large context windows, and the importance of user-defined system prompts for better AI interaction.
Microsoft Azure Closes Cloud Gap with AWS as AI and Enterprise Migrations Fuel Growth

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

Microsoft is gaining ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the cloud race. Currently AWS is the market share leader with AWS 29% market share versus Azures 22% and Google Cloud’s 12%. But Microsoft and Google both posted stronger growth than AWS with Microsoft taking the lead wit 33% year-over-year growth in Azure revenue for the first quarter of 2025.
Alphabet Shares Plunge as Apple Eyes AI Search Alternatives for Safari

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, experienced a significant stock decline of over 9% on Wednesday following revelations that Apple is exploring AI-powered search alternatives to Google’s search engine for its Safari browser. This development emerged during a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust trial against Google, where Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, Eddy Cue, testified about the company’s considerations.
Generative AI Tops IT Spending in Canada, but Talent Gap Slows Adoption

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

Nearly nine out of ten Canadian organizations have adopted generative AI tools, making it the top IT spending priority for 2025, according to a new report by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Access Partnership. But while interest is high, a lack of skilled professionals is slowing the move from pilot projects to full-scale deployment.
Former Palantir Employees Condemn Work with Trump Administration in Public Letter

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

Thirteen former employees of Palantir, a company about which little is known, but which has become a huge part of the US technology toolset, are speaking out against the company’s growing role in U.S. immigration enforcement, accusing the firm of abandoning ethical principles in its partnership with the Trump administration.
Sleeper Supply Chain Attack Activates After 6 Years

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

A coordinated supply chain attack has compromised between 500 and 1,000 e-commerce websites by exploiting vulnerabilities in 21 Magento extensions from vendors Tigren, Meetanshi, and Magesolution (MGS). Security firm Sansec discovered that attackers had injected backdoors into these extensions as early as 2019, with the malicious code remaining dormant until activated in April 2025.
Russian-Controlled Open Source Tool Raises Alarms Over U.S. Cybersecurity

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

A widely used open-source Go library, easyjson, used in healthcare, finance and even defence has come under scrutiny after cybersecurity firm Hunted Labs revealed its deep ties to a sanctioned Russian company, the VK Group. The tool, integral to numerous U.S. government and enterprise systems, is maintained by developers based in Moscow, raising concerns about potential exploitation by Russian state actors.
Signal Archiving Tool Used By Trump Admin Is Breached, Raising Alarms Over Messaging Security (EDITORIAL)

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

(EDITORIAL) A messaging tool used by Trump administration officials to archive encrypted Signal messages has been hacked — twice — forcing its suspension and raising new concerns over how high-level U.S. communications are being protected. TeleMessage, an Israel-based tool used by government agencies to archive encrypted messages from platforms like Signal, Telegram, and WeChat, has shut down its services after two hackers separately claimed to have breached the system.
OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Model, Reaffirms Nonprofit Control

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

OpenAI has decided to maintain its nonprofit structure, shelving plans to transition its for-profit subsidiary into an independent Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This move comes after discussions with civic leaders and the Attorneys General of California and Delaware, as well as legal challenges from co-founder Elon Musk, who alleged the nonprofit had deviated from its founding principles.
Jensen Huang Sounds Alarm - Supply Crunch For AI Chips Is Imminent

1 week ago | technewsday.com | Jim Love

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is sounding the alarm over a looming supply crunch for AI chips, as demand for the company’s latest Blackwell GPUs far outpaces production capacity. In a recent interview, Huang emphasized that while demand is “insane,” supply remains constrained, highlighting the challenges Nvidia faces in meeting the surging needs of the AI industry. The Blackwell architecture, unveiled in March 2024, represents Nvidia’s most advanced AI chip design to date.