Rory Bathgate

United Kingdom

Features and Multimedia Editor at IT Pro

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Google Gemini AI for Workspace is a flawed but fast enterprise AI – here's what we found with each Google app

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

Google Gemini for Workspace is the latest, most comprehensive iteration of the cloud giant's generative AI assistant, now available to business and enterprise users across the full gamut of Google Workspace apps. The AI productivity assistant is accessible in all apps via a diamond-shaped logo in the top right, next to the user's profile picture.
OpenAI just made its first hardware acquisition with a deal for Jony Ive’s startup - but Altman's $6.4 billion moonshot is a huge risk

2 weeks ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

OpenAI has announced it will acquire Io Products, a hardware company founded by former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive. The deal, reportedly worth $6.4 billion, will see io brought under OpenAI’s roof as the company pursues what CEO Sam Altman described as “a new generation of AI-powered computers” in a post on X. Io was founded in 2024 by Ive, as well as former Apple design workers Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan as a subset of Ive’s firm, LoveFrom.
Why DragonForce is growing in prominence - with retailer attacks boosting its reputation

2 weeks ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

The criminal group DragonForce has exploded onto the cybersecurity scene in recent weeks, taking credit for the recent ransomware attacks on UK retail giants M&S and the Co-op. DragonForce is a ransomware as a service platform which provides malware and attack infrastructure to affiliate groups that are unable to launch large-scale attacks on their own.
Spain hit by mobile network outage nearly one month on from power blackout

2 weeks ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

Spain has been hit with a widespread mobile network blackout, with all major providers including Vodafone, O2, Orange, and Movistar affected. The outage began around 5am local time, per the website Downdetector, with customers across the entirety of Spain unable to make phone calls, access mobile data, or send SMS.
SAS rejects generative AI hype in favor of data fundamentals at Innovate 2025

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS Innovate 2025 is over and with it, three days of keynotes, hands-on sessions, and roundtable discussions focused primarily on data and AI have come to an end. Mood on the ground throughout the conference was high, with customers and partners alike paying testament to the analytics veteran’s nuts-and-bolts announcements and realistic outlook on how businesses can benefit from technology such as AI.
SAS Innovate 2025: Pursuing pragmatic AI

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

What do you do when you want to get your enterprise data into a usable format? And how can you make better use of the data you already use, through the likes of analytics, AI, and even quantum computing? All these questions and more have been front and center at SAS Innovate 2025, the data and analytics veteran’s annual conference held in Orlando, Florida. As the week has pressed on, what have we learned about SAS’ view of its place in the rapidly changing world of business technology?
“Public trust has become the new currency for AI innovation”: Why SAS is ringing the alarm bell on AI governance for enterprises

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

Leaders looking to implement AI should make AI governance and risk management their primary focus if they are to succeed in their adoption plans, according to a SAS executive. Reggie Townsend, VP, Data Ethics at SAS, told assembled media at SAS Innovate 2025 that tech leaders need to consider the risks AI brings now, whether they’re ready for it or not.
SAS thinks quantum AI has huge enterprise potential - here's why

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS has emphasized the importance of its ongoing investment in quantum AI companies as it looks to master the technology for enterprises ahead of its competitors. The analytics veteran used its annual conference SAS Innovate 2025 to push quantum AI as a major technological breakthrough in the tech sector. To date, SAS has used ‘quantum AI’ to refer primarily to the optimization method ‘quantum annealing’, used to find the most efficient solution to certain mathematical problems.
SAS leans on synthetic data and digital twins to support business data demand

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS has announced new synthetic data capabilities and support for digital twins in a push to equip enterprises with concrete platforms for data-driven decision making. Synthetic data is artificial data generated to resemble real datasets in every way that’s meaningful. These datasets are typically used to train AI and machine learning models without exposing sensitive data. While generating synthetic data has benefits, obtaining it can be difficult, research shows.
SAS wants its AI agents to supercharge workers, not replace them

1 month ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS has announced a new offering to help organizations design and deploy AI agents alongside domain-specific AI models. Intended to streamline the path to AI adoption across protected industries, SAS Intelligent Decisioning will be made available through the firm’s cloud-based AI and analytics platform SAS Viya. The announcement was made at SAS Innovate 2025, its annual conference held at the Hilton Orlando in Florida.