https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20085
SUSE has announced SUSE Linux Enterprise, which is schedule for release on November 4th, will be the first enterprise-focused Linux distribution to include agentic AI.
"SLES 16 introduces agentic AI, with an implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard. The SUSE Linux agentic AI implementation gives enterprises a secure, extensible way to connect AI models with external tools and data sources, while preserving freedom to choose and extend their preferred AI providers without lock-in. It provides a resilient and secure foundation, combining long-term lifecycle guarantees and enterprise-grade automation."
SUSE has also stated SLE 16 will receive up to 16 years of support. Further details are provided in the company's announcement.
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Microsoft has just announced a whole slew of new "AI" features for Windows, and this time, they'll be living in your taskbar.
Microsoft is trying to transform Windows into a "canvas for AI," with new AI agents integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar. These new taskbar capabilities are designed to make AI agents feel like an assistant in Windows that can go off and control your PC and do tasks for you at the click of a button. It's part of a broader overhaul of Windows to turn the operating system into an "agentic OS."
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Microsoft is integrating a variety of AI agents directly into the Windows 11 taskbar, including its own Microsoft 365 Copilot and third-party options. "This integration isn't just about adding agents; it's about making them part of the OS experience," says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri.
↫ Tom Warren at The VergeThese "AI" agents will control your computer, applications, and files for you, which may make some of you a little apprehensive, and for good reason. "AI" tools don't have a great track record when it comes to privacy – Windows Recall comes to mind – and as such, Microsoft claims this time, it'll be different. These new "AI" agents will run in what are essentially dedicated Windows accounts acting as sandboxes, to ensure they can only access certain resources.
While I find the addition of these "AI" tools to Windows insufferable and dumb, I'm at least glad Microsoft is taking privacy and security seriously this time, and I doubt Microsoft would repeat the same mistakes they made with the entirely botched rollout of Windows Recall. in addition, after the Cloudstrike fiasco, Microsoft made clear commitments to improve its security practices, which further adds to the confidence we should all have these new "AI" tools are safe, secure, and private.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday November 05, @06:09AM (3 children)
'nough said.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Wednesday November 05, @06:54AM (1 child)
Yeah so secure…. Security isn’t something associated with AI. Not sure about the branding/argument here.
In a way I’m not surprised. There’s a bandwagon leaving town, better get on it, even if you’re a Linux distro.
When I try to bend my brain to see that it might be useful, I suppose I’d rather use a Linux implementation than Copilot.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday November 05, @11:11PM
There is local only AI which is secure, provided you can prevent somebody from physically accessing the computer. One of the big issues is that anybody that doesn't use the AI tools effectively gets no say in what goes on in the future with respect to AI tools that may impact their ability to get and keep jobs.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday November 05, @08:21AM
I think you are bashing a strawman here. AI aka LLMs have gotten broader applications in science and industry than just producing shitty code or marketing blurps (like probably the one we are looking at). What I can say is that text mining tools are rapidly supplanted by LLMs in science and probably in industry too. Likewise image classification and ROI detection uses deep learning nowadays. Naturally APIs will develop around such applications. I couldn't quite get through the marketing thicket in the TFS/TFA; my guess is that it is an authenticated API (probably with adapters for the large vendors), such as you can get for the individual LLMs at the moment.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 05, @07:04AM (1 child)
I'll wait for angelic AI
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday November 05, @03:17PM
Be careful what you wish for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_of_the_Archons [wikipedia.org]
Especially Authadia Kakia is not to be triffled with.
For while Ogdoadic 7th supercelestial sphere is still greatly lesser than the supreme Chinese 9th heaven level, for mere mortals a differentiation is not applicable.
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday November 05, @04:41PM
Throw that on the pile of technical terms of art that the tech industry ruins by turning into marketing horse shit.
Agents are supposed to be robots that can model the world and their own capabilities and infer ways to use those capabilities to modify their environment and enact a desired outcome
Now it just means "we'll dump the outputs of the humanlike bullshit generator to an http POST message"