Peter Sayer

France, Paris

Executive Editor, News, for B2B media sites at CIO U.S.

Senior Editor at https://t.co/EoJB04Os4Q Also at https://t.co/ZNckCntLPf

Articles

Huawei au coeur d'une enquête de corruption au Parlement européen

1 month ago | lemondeinformatique.fr | Peter Sayer

Après les Etats-Unis, Huawei va-t-il devenir persona non grata au sein de l’Union européenne ? En effet, le spécialiste chinois des réseaux télécoms est sous le coup d’une enquête pour corruption auprès du Parlement européen. Plusieurs médias ont rapporté qu’en fin de semaine dernière, la police fédérale belge a perquisitionné 21 sites en Belgique et au Portugal. Des arrestations ont par ailleurs eu lieu en Belgique et en France dans le cadre de cette enquête.
Huawei, en el punto de mira de una investigación por soborno en el Parlamento Europeo

1 month ago | computerworld.es | Peter Sayer

Créditos: Irene Iglesias Álvarez Huawei está en el foco de una investigación sobre presuntos sobornos y corrupción en el Parlamento Europeo.
Tech layoffs this year: A timeline – Computerworld - Business And America

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Peter Sayer

As it moves to invest more in AI and international growth, Workday is laying off 8.5% of its workforce and disposing of unused office space. Some analysts fear the cutbacks will affect the company’s customer service — unless AI can pick up the slack. At the same time as it’s hiring sales staff for its new artificial intelligence products, Salesforce is laying off over 1,000 workers across the company, according to Bloomberg.
Estados Unidos y Reino Unido se niegan a firmar la declaración europea por una IA inclusiva y sostenible

2 months ago | computerworld.es | Peter Sayer

La coordinación en la gobernanza de la IA también será un punto de discordia. Incluso cuando las disposiciones de la ley europea comienzan a entrar en vigor, Vance advirtió a los asistentes de la cumbre que “la regulación excesiva podría acabar con una industria transformadora justo cuando está despegando.
Paris AI Action Summit: US and UK refuse to sign accord

2 months ago | computerworld.com | Peter Sayer

Signatories of the Paris summit statement agreed on six priorities: • Ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all • Making innovation in AI thrive by enabling conditions for its development and avoiding market concentration driving industrial recovery and development • Encouraging AI deployment that positively shapes the future of work and labor markets and delivers opportunity for sustainable growth...
Google opens door to AI-powered weapons, surveillance

2 months ago | computerworld.com | Peter Sayer

The company that once opened its code of conduct with the words “Don’t be evil” is now opening the door to assisting in the creation of AI-powered weapons and surveillance systems. Changes in the company’s statement of AI principles introduced in a blog post on Tuesday remove the company’s earlier prohibition on engaging in such activities, leaving it much more wiggle room in an ethical area that has often brought it into conflict with its own staff.
Tech layoffs this year: A timeline

2 months ago | computerworld.com | Peter Sayer |Jon Gold

2025 began in turmoil, with layoffs at some of the largest tech companies despite the support shown by the new US administration. 2024 had been a year of recovery, with the pace of layoffs slowing and IT employment the highest for years following two years of massive IT layoff in 2022 and 2023.
IT budgets unlikely to suffer full effect of Trump’s 10% tariff on Chinese goods

2 months ago | computerworld.com | Peter Sayer

US President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made computing equipment are slated to go into effect tonight — but at a much lower rate than he initially threatened. The 10% tariff will do much less damage than the 100% version that had been touted — and there are other factors that will mitigate its impact on enterprise IT budgets. Ranjit Atwal , Gartner senior director analyst, has been modelling the likely evolution of PC prices this year.
Trump charges DOGE with modernizing federal technology and software

Jan 21, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Peter Sayer

Share In a sleight of hand, Trump is renaming the existing US Digital Service as the US DOGE Service. DOGE, the whimsically named Department of Government Efficiency proposed by Elon Musk as a way to save $2 trillion in US federal government spending, is now a reality. Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order bringing the DOGE into being by the simple expedient fo renaming the ten-year-old US Digital Service as the US DOGE Service.
OpenAI chce být veřejně prospěšnou společností

Jan 8, 2025 | computertrends.cz | Peter Sayer

Společnost OpenAI chce přeměnit svou stávající ziskovou část na veřejně prospěšnou společnost a zároveň omezit kontrolu, kterou její správní rada vykonává nad provozem. Společnost OpenAI se domnívá, že našla způsob, jak se transformovat z neziskové na ziskovou společnost o něco přijatelněji: udělat ze ziskové části veřejně prospěšnou společnost (tzv. Delaware PBC) a zároveň v tichosti omezit možnost neziskové správní rady dohlížet na komerční operace.