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Intel will collaborate with Nvidia to design CPUs with Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed chip interconnect, it said Thursday — just months after committing to co-develop a competing interconnect, UALink, with AMD, Broadcom, and other tech companies.

The two have also agreed to “jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products,” they said in a joint statement.

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Monday is set to launch an AI agent builder tool that can automate a range of work management tasks, the company announced at its Elevate conference on Wednesday.

The agents don’t just answer questions, they “execute tasks, connect systems, and learn from context,” said Daniel Lereya, chief product and technology officer at Monday, in an email conversation with Computerworld. “This frees teams and individuals from repetitive execution, allowing them to focus on creativity, strategy, and human judgment.”

Monday’s agents can take action across different teams and app integrations he said, as well as interact via multiple communication channels, including email, SMS and phone calls,

One example is an AI phone agent that can be set up to autonomously make calls when triggered. This could be used in event planning projects, for instance. Here, said Lereya, a Monday agent can be directed to call prospective meeting attendees on their phones to confirm attendance. The results — including how many people an attendee plans to bring with them — are then uploaded to a Monday board, potentially saving significant time compared with manual calls and data entry.

Natural language agent creation

Custom agents are created via natural language prompts in Monday’s agent builder tool. A breakdown of the agent’s logic is then presented. In the case of the RSVP phone agent, this would include its purpose, capabilities (for example, to engage attendees in a friendly and professional manner, confirm attendance, record and summarize response, and deal with objections with patience), and the conversational style of the AI voice bot. It’s then possible to tweak settings, including the ability to edit the text script, or speech speed, for instance.

Another example is a service agent that answers customer inquiries, tapping into a company’s knowledge base.  

Customers can build their own agents using a natural language interface or select from prebuilt agents created by Monday. One agent that’s ready out of the box is a digital sales development agent, with the ability to qualify leads, schedule meetings, and ensure CRM data is accurate. “It extends the reach of a sales team without requiring additional headcount,” Lereya said. More prebuilt agents will follow in future, he added.

Pay as you go pricing

Monday expects to make its agent builder tools generally available to customers in October, it said. To access the agents, customers will pay a monthly fee that includes a pool of credits. These credits are consumed based on agent activity. It’s unclear is how much the agents will cost however: Monday didn’t respond to Computerworld’s request for full pricing details.

Monday agents rely on multiple AI models, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and text-generation models from vendors including OpenAI and Anthropic.

Given the propensity for generative AI models to hallucinate and produce inaccurate outputs, autonomous agents could be a concern for those using Monday’s application for important tasks. Lereya said that Monday applies “multiple prompt- and context-engineering techniques, as well as grounding strategies,” to minimize the occurrence of hallucinations. “We also invest heavily in internal evaluations to continuously optimize quality,” he said.

But you still need a human to take the blame

Monday’s agents are “designed to execute within guardrails” with humans retaining control, and the ability to “review, monitor, or intervene before critical actions are taken,” he said.

The launch of Monday’s agents is the latest stage in the company’s plans to embed artificial intelligence across its work management software products. As well as the Monday Sidekick chatbot assistant – which is generally available from today –the company also launched AI Blocks earlier this year, automating individual tasks such as transcribing a call.

Monday Agents are similar in some respects to the AI Blocks but serve different purposes. “Think of it this way: AI Blocks are the building blocks of intelligence; Agents assemble and coordinate them into autonomous teammates,” said Lereya.

At its Elevate user conference, Monday also announced that its Marketplace for third-party app integrations will include agents and skills that users can browse and access. Monday also introduced a new Campaigns, an email marketing feature within its CRM product, which automates functions such as copy generation and audience segment recommendation. Both features are now generally available.

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Zoom is implementing new collaboration features so users spend less time planning and more time getting work done.

Zoom’s new AI Companion 3.0 will introduce new features over the next year, providing enhanced ways to manage time and collaboration. One such feature will recommend meetings that users can skip.

“We want you to be able to focus on work that’s energizing, that’s engaging. A lot of it comes when the work is taken care of, when you’re actually engaging in things which are really valuable,” said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom.

Skipping meetings

The ability to skip meetings is just one of many new features in AI Companion 3.0, which Zoom says will prevent digital overload on workers.

Workers spend a lot of time chasing work rather than making progress, and AI agents can automate many tasks, Hashim said.

The feature to skip meetings will help workers overcome meeting fatigue, Hashim said.

“It can look at your context and participation. Based on that… it can recommend you skip and you can ask the host to send you a summary,” Hashim said.

Another new AI Companion 3.0 feature helps prepare workers for meetings. Users can request the agenda, action items, and key insights. That feature will come out in October this year.

“It’s more about the right conversations at the right time with the right preparation and the right follow-ups. So those conversations turn into outcomes,” Hashim said.

Zoom is also adding a deep research capability where it can retrieve information from previous meetings and platforms such as Microsoft and Slack. Other new AI Companion 3.0 features include note-taking and key takeaways from meetings.

A push toward agentic AI

The new productivity features are part of Zoom’s push to agentic AI, which is built around a federated approach. Customers can connect to many models.

“We have OpenAI models, we have Anthropic models, we have GPT-5 models, we have small language models which we develop, which are specialized to the task,” Hashim said.

Zoom is also adding a new Custom AI Agent capability for IT admins to test out external AI connections into Zoom. Initially, the Zoom platform will be adding SharePoint and ServiceNow connectors.

Zoom is adding new features to its videoconferencing interface. Users will be able to conference via photorealistic avatars, whose cameras will track user movement. Real-time voice translation features and better audio and video at 60 frames per second will improve the quality of conversations.

Zoom is also plugging in cellular connection capabilities via T-Mobile, allowing users to make cellular phone calls through smartphones.

In 2026, Zoom will add support for HP Dimension with Google Beam for Zoom, which provides a more realistic 3D conversation experience. Google Beam uses multiple cameras and AI technology to provide realistic experiences. HP’s Dimension hardware has a price tag of $25,000, with the Google Beam license sold separately. Google Meet will also support Beam, which was researched for years under the codename “Project Starline.”

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While you may have been distracted by Apple’s new product releases and interesting operating system enhancements, the company also quietly a powerful new security feature this week: Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE).

The tech, which is built into Apple’s latest iPhones, combines always-on protections at a chip level with software defenses against the most commonly exploited software vulnerabilities. In a blog post, the company said it believes MIE will “completely redefine the landscape of memory safety for Apple products.”

The idea is that it protects computer memory safety, ensuring that small coding mistakes that can be exploited to access data held in your computer memory can’t be used to breach system security. In simple terms, it prevents hackers from exploiting software flaws that give access to memory. 

This isn’t the only way attackers launch attacks, of course, but it is a frequently used approach that has now been secured on the iPhone.

A significant upgrade to memory safety

In a LinkedIn post, Apple’s genius Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, Ivan Krstić wrote that MIE represents the culmination of half a decade of design and engineering effort in which Apple has combined Apple Silicon hardware design with operating system security. The result is an industry-first, always-on memory safety protection that does not compromise device performance.

“Because of how dramatically it reduces an attacker’s ability to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities on our devices, we believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems,” he wrote

Apple has tested the new tech against “exceptionally sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks from the last three years,” he wrote. As a result, Apple believes the protection will make it far, far more expensive and difficult to develop and maintain such attacks.

It’s a protection that disrupts many of the most effective exploitation techniques from the last 25 years, wrote Krstić. These are huge, huge claims. 

Will MIE come to the Mac?

As the protection only appears in the latest iPhones, it seems reasonable to think it will also be introduced across Macs and other Apple devices in future as new processors are introduced.

I make that assumption because MIE quite evidently relies on both hardware (the processor), as well as software – and the new iPhones introduce new chips which, logically, will eventually in some form extend to Apple’s PCs and tablets.

How does MIE work?

In brief, the protection relies on both hardware and software with key components including secure typed memory allocators, Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) in synchronous mode, and Tag Confidentiality Enforcement. What are these?

Secure typed memory allocators are Apple’s new system for memory management that secures memory handling at the hardware/software level.

Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension is Apple’s strengthened version of ARM’s Memory Tagging Extension (MTE). It assigns tags to chunks of memory and to every pointer to that memory so that when an app accesses memory the processor can check all the tags line up. If they don’t, access is blocked.

Tag Confidentiality Enforcement: This keeps those randomized tag values secret and ensures leaked data doesn’t include the values assigned to those tags.

These three technologies work together to block common memory attacks such as buffer overflows and use-after-free memory exploits, even at kernel level. This means that if malware tries to use a block of freed memory or tries a brute force attack or attempts to leak tag values, the tech prevents it. For a deeper dive into how the technology operates I urge you to look at Apple’s own guidance.

What this means to you

It’s important not to draw too many conclusions, but what is interesting here is that by managing both the hardware and the software Apple can now promise robust and resilient security protection for even its most high value iPhone customers. 

If, as I expect, the company extends this protection to its other hardware products in the future, then it will be challenging to identify any good reason any enterprise professional handling confidential or regulated data would want to use any other platform, given how insecure those have proved themselves to be.

This protection should help protect against some of the world’s most frequently used attacks.

And this is a very, very good thing.

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WalkMe, the digital adoption platform (DAP) vendor that SAP bought last year for $1.5 billion in cash, on Tuesday launched what it described as a “new digital learning solution”, an AI-based offering it says embeds training directly into the software tools employees use daily.

Most enterprise training, the company said, “still happens too early, too far removed from both where work happens and the moment of need. This approach clashes with a fundamental reality of human memory: cognitive science shows up to 90% of information is forgotten within a week.”

The result, WalkMe stated in a blog, is that when employees cannot recall their training, “they are forced to search for answers …  This new offering reinforces key skills by embedding training directly into the applications employees use every day, even when workflows extend across multiple applications.”

The new solution is now in beta, with general availability (GA) scheduled for December, according to Hila Sigal, senior vice president of product marketing at WalkMe. Pricing will be announced at GA. The product can “deliver content on any application, whether it’s SAP or non-SAP applications,” she said. “You are not limited, and you can bring in that learning to wherever it needs to be.”

She added, “we have the guidance product [WalkMe DAP], and now we are introducing the learning product, and both of these together help people navigate technology and change in general.”

Scott Bickley, an advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, described the offering as one that “essentially seeks to tackle two primary use cases: new employee onboarding and training, and customer guidance on public-facing websites. This works via workflow step-by-step training, pop-ups, tool tips, and real-time prompts. “

Traditional training can be error-laden

There are, he said, “few events in a professional employee’s life that are more daunting than learning how to perform one’s job on an SAP ERP system. It can be excruciatingly painful, complex, and overwhelming in terms of sheer scale. Now, take an employee from a legacy SAP ECC system and ask them to re-learn their job under a completely new UX.”

Under these circumstances, he said, “[it is] not uncommon for employee morale to tank, process efficiencies to stall out, and overall enterprise throughput to take a step back … until the workforce can master the new solution capabilities, workflows, and ways of doing their job to eventually surpass the previous status quo.”

Traditional training “is comprised of copious and unwieldy documentation sets, incomplete documentation, laborious training sessions, and constant system issues in the event of a system launch or even routine bug fixes,” he said. “This process is time-consuming, error-laden, and the information can be out of date as soon as it is internalized.”

Now, said Bickley, “imagine today’s alternative: a system that sees you perform a task correctly the first time, learns from it, and memorializes those sequenced steps, mouse clicks, and keystrokes, such that when the employee gets stuck, the system can pull them through to task completion. With many end users accessing dozens or hundreds of system transactions as part of their job, this functionality is invaluable — a real efficiency driver, and also a means to reduce risk via the built-in guardrails and guidance ensuring accurate data is entered into the system.”

He said, “WalkMe tracks users’ usage of their systems — where they stop, what they do, and where they run into problems. This existing baseline of ‘user context’ is a natural jumping-off point for an AI-assisted evolution of the product. The Visual No Code Editor is where the employee guidance flows are built, and the no-code, visual point and click nature of this tool enables business teams to build the training tools and not be dependent on developers.”

‘I see this as much more than Clippy for SAP’

“[The ability] to build highly granular workflows that can discern across user group segments (for example, role, device type, geography, behavior), coupled with already existing automation for things like auto-completion of form fields as an example, provides a meaningful nudge when an employee gets stuck on a process step,” said Bickley.

“Considering that WalkMe can also avail itself of non-SAP data sources, it is likely that complex, multi-app business workflows can be extended to this solution as well. I see this as much more than Clippy for SAP,” he added. “The ability to have tailored, contextual, and personalized guidance through systems of record, in real time, is compelling.”

However, Bickley noted that it is not clear why SAP has created two SKUs for the product: the WalkMe Digital Adoption for “doing” the work, and WalkMe digital learning for “learning” and training the system. “The inherent purpose of one necessitates the other, so this may rightfully be viewed by many as a money grab on the part of SAP,” he pointed out. “I would have preferred to see this new functionality incorporated into the existing product, perhaps with functionality tiers and associated pricing.”

He said, “as the backdrop for WalkMe pricing is historically opaque, with no public pricelist available and pricing dependent on a multitude of factors such as company size, internal/external use or both, number of users, and deployment type, this seems like a lost opportunity for SAP to simplify this part of the [learning and development] track to create a more universal appeal for this add-on capability.”

“With SAP attracting many net new S/4 HANA customers in the SMB space, simplifying the commercial structure could go a long way towards driving mass adoption of this critical tool,” he said.

More SAP news:

SAP change management still challenges enterprises

SAP data sovereignty service lets customers run cloud workloads inside their data centers

SAP to acquire SmartRecruiters to enhance its SuccessFactors HCM suite

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With a Liquid Glass user interface design across all its products, Apple is shipping its new operating systems today, and while there are plenty of improvements across all its platforms (Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, TV), the iPad brings in a new set of features that realize the original promises of the device and makes it even more ‘Mac-like’. 

Can you remember Apple’s iPad ad in which a young child asked: “What’s a computer?” Cast your mind back to those ‘Post-PC’ olden days and think about what’s happening with iPadOS 26, which takes several huge steps to realizing that promise. Does making the tablet more Mac-like make it a better PC replacement? Perhaps. It is at least a good alternative for any Windows 10 user seeking a new system.

Window management at last!

The first thing you’ll notice when you use iPadOS 26 for the first time will be the new windowing system, which gives you complete control over up to 12 windows, including how big they are, tiling and Mac-like traffic light controls. (Use these to close, minimize, and maximize windows and to access additional options on a long press of the light). 

Such window management tools are a long-requested improvement that should transform iPads into being much more intuitive working spaces – particularly if you’re using an external display for a real ‘Mac-like’ vibe. 

Helping you do what you want to do

It’s all very well having more control over the windows you are looking at, but what can you do with what you see there? A lot more in this release, it seems.

The revamped Files app lets you pin files to your dock. You can, for example, pin your iCloud folder to your iPad’s dock, which makes getting to the content you are working on far easier. Don’t worry if you or your company uses another cloud storage service, as this support extends to them too. You can also pop your most important folders in the Dock for quick access.

If you’ve not used an iPad before, the Dock is a strip of app and file icons that appears at the bottom of the iPad display to help you quickly and easily get to what you need.

Apple has at last also introduced an iPad version of the Mac’s Preview app. Preview lets you look at, edit, and mark up images and PDFs on your iPad using the same tools you use on your Mac. It’s a welcome introduction, particularly if you want to avoid coughing up cash to PDF app publishers for the ‘luxury’ of signing your name on digital contracts.

For me, the quietly stalking beast in this release is the improved automation, including Apple Intelligence tools, but also intelligent actions in Shortcuts, which lets you create your own custom workflows. We’ll have to wait to see if people do begin using these tools, but those who do should find it even easier to get things done on an iPad.

An amazing communication tool

For many of us, one of the best uses of the iPad is as a communication tool, particularly for video conferencing. This is about to become even more powerful, thanks to Apple’s Call Translation API and Live Translation, which means you can engage in constructive meetings with people despite any language barrier by delivering almost instant translation of what is being said. (And all on the device). 

When making a call, using Messages, or in FaceTime, Live Translation will provide real-time translation captions in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. When making a call using the Phone app, your words can be translated on screen in real time and then said in the language of the person you are speaking with. When they speak back, you’ll see their words translated on your screen and also hear a synthetic voice speaking to you in your own language. Even better, the other caller doesn’t need to be using an iPhone or iPad. 

I really think Live Translation will be of huge use to international enterprise professionals. The API builds on this, making it possible to build translation into internal and externally-facing company apps. Messages (which can also translate Italian, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese, as well as the above) will also translate messages between languages for you.  

There are several more features I think help make iPads more useful, including.

External audio. When you connect an external microphone (physically or wirelessly) you can now make sure it is your default input method, which wasn’t possible before. You can also capture high-quality audio and video during conference calls.

iPhone on iPad. The Phone app is also now available on iPad, which means you can use your iPhone to make calls directly from your iPad.

On background. Another improvement I think will be of benefit to knowledge workers, is the ability to have large file downloads and other computationally demanding processes run in the background while you continue to work.

Will you be downloading iPadOS 26 to your Apple tablet? Please let me know how you get on. I’m particularly interested to learn of the extent to which Live Translation may break down language barriers for business users.

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Nearly half of full-time US workers (45%) are staying in their current roles because switching jobs right now feels too risky, according to a new report.

Among these “job huggers,” 95% cite concerns about the job market as the main reason for staying put, according to a new survey by online resume creation site Resume Builder.

Resume Builder surveyed 2,221 full-time US workers in August 2025 and found that nearly half (48%) describe the job market as not very good, and 19% believe it’s terrible. About 34% believe it’s just okay, and less than 1% think it’s good.

An evaluation of a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report also showed a significant cooling in technology worker hiring and other jobs. While employers are still hiring, they’re doing so more selectively, focusing on key areas amid uncertainty, BLS data revealed.

The ‘wait and see’ approach in past months has shifted to targeted growth: invest where it counts and hold elsewhere, according to Ger Doyle, North American regional president at global staffing firm ManpowerGroup.

“Still, the broader labor market is cooling. Fewer job openings, softer wage growth, and longer job searches are signs of a slowdown,” he said. “The hiring momentum that kicked off the year has been tempered by uncertainty.”

In August, 247,000 new tech jobs were added across industries, but sector-specific tech firms cut 2,311 roles. The tech unemployment rate nudged up from 2.9% in July to 3%, with 6.9 million employed in core tech roles, according to the nonprofit trade association CompTIA.

One problem with BLS data is that the federal agency has made significant downward revisions to its unemployment data over the past year. Last week, the BLS revealed it overstated hiring by 911,000 jobs for the year ending in March — the biggest preliminary revision since 2000.

Victor Janulaitis, CEO of IT management consulting firm Janco Associates, called into question the validity of BLS data, saying it is “suspect.”

“Adjustments at those levels of magnitude are not acceptable from any organization. It can only be due to poor data capture, poor infrastructure, incompetence, or political gerrymandering,” he said.

Slow hiring and and fear of AI fuel job hugging

A fear of AI is also influencing workers’ decisions to stay put, according to Resume Builder’s study. Seventy-seven percent of job huggers are either very (30%) or somewhat concerned (47%) that AI will make it harder to get a job in the future.

“The combination of a soft job market, economic uncertainty, and the impact of tariffs has slowed hiring, leaving many workers reluctant to make a move,” said Resume Builder’s Chief Career Advisor Stacie Haller. “Added to this is the growing fear that AI could displace jobs.”

Online job search platform Indeed performed its own survey of job seekers and found that 52% indicated tech talent had been reassigned due to AI adoption and only 17% are actively looking for work, down 17% from last year.

Indeed’s survey also found:

26% report tech talent was let go or laid off because of AI.

33% feel they’re not receiving enough training on AI.

35% are concerned that AI may be able to take over their role (that jumps to 38% among Gen Z respondents).

28% believe AI will increase workplace stress.

“Hiring has largely stalled as the labor market remains stagnant. The quits rate — often a signal of workers’ confidence in finding new jobs—has been flat for months. Together, these trends point to a sluggish market despite low unemployment. Employers appear to be holding onto current staff amid uncertainty, but they are not adding new positions. In turn, employees have taken the hint, staying put rather than seeking new opportunities,” said Indeed economist Allison Shrivastava.

Still, it’s hard to pin the slowdown directly on AI, but its impact is clear: coding jobs are shrinking while demand grows for engineers focused on advanced tech and AI innovation, according to Shrivastava. Fading confidence is slowing the labor market: fewer workers are switching jobs, wage growth is weaker, and the post-pandemic boost in worker power has mostly disappeared, according to Shrivastava.

“For most other industries, however, AI has yet to make a significant impact. Fears of replacement are real, but the quits rate was already falling before ChatGPT’s release, and job growth has been weak across most sectors outside healthcare,” Shrivastava said. “In short, even if workers wanted to move, there are fewer opportunities to move to.”

Chris Graham, executive vice president of Workforce and Community Education at National University in San Diego, agreed that AI isn’t eliminating most jobs—”it’s transforming them. While some roles may disappear, many will evolve or emerge. Success depends on how AI is implemented and how well workers adapt through upskilling and continuous learning, he said.

Employees are embracing job security and predictability in light of the current economic uncertainty. Many are asking themselves, “why change the course if everything is okay right now?” Graham said.

“Job hugging is reducing career mobility in the labor market and is encouraging companies to focus on internal development and retention strategies,” Graham said. “As organizations experience higher retention numbers, they are seeing greater value in investing in upskilling and employee engagement to keep their existing employees satisfied.

If conditions were to improve, many would seek out better opportunities, Haller said. More than eight in 10 (84%) of those surveyed said they’d look for better pay, 60% better benefits, and 57% growth opportunities. Additionally, 47% would seek out remote or flexible work, 38% better management, and 23% an improved office culture.

But “in this environment, the need for stability outweighs the desire for higher pay, better benefits, or long-term growth,” Haller said. “For many, it has become less about pursuing opportunities and more about protecting the job they have.”

Despite this caution, over half of workers still browse job listings, and some are applying or interviewing. But most won’t feel ready to switch jobs for at least a year — often longer, according to the survey data.

Korn Ferry, a global firm that helps companies find and recruit top-level executives, also said “job hugging” has increased at “an alarming rate.”

Most employees plan to stay in their jobs for the next six months, according to the Eagle Hill Retention Index, and perceive the job market as treacherous. Their sense of outside opportunities available to them has plummeted to its lowest level since the index began in 2023, according to Korn Ferry. And employees staying put is not necessarily good news.

“Firms run the risk of becoming comfortable perches from which workers can jump when the time’s right,” Matt Bohn, senior client partner at Korn Ferry, said in a blog post.

However, experts say employees staying put isn’t all bad — it can actually help the bottom line. Less pressure to raise salaries and lower turnover means big savings on hiring and training, according to Korn Ferry senior client partner Tom McMullen.

With fewer people jumping ship, companies can invest in growing talent from within and can have a long-tenured workforce and build capacities within it, Korn Ferry said.

 “It’s great to have a long-tenured workforce and build capacities within it,” Korn Ferry said.

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