Hello. Welcome to Computerworld's 2-minute technical briefing. I'm your host. Arnold Davis reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT stories you need to know on Tuesday, December 23rd.
From ComputerWorld, Google is testing an AI productivity agent that resides in your inbox. This experimental tool is called CC. It provides daily briefings and lets you draft emails, pulling information from Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive and suggesting next actions.
While Google is rolling this out as a consumer-focused experiment, guardrails will be important if businesses adopt something like this, as automated summaries and actions create a permanent record, potentially increasing legal and compliance exposure.
A new report from InfoWorld suggests that there are still problems to be solved with AI-assisted coding. In a pull request analysis of 470 GitHub pull requests, AI-assisted code showed approximately 1.7 times more problems, according to a report from code Rabbit.
AI-assisted code had an average of about 11 issues, compared to about 6 issues for human-only code, and in the worst case scenario, AIP was the slowest to review, with logic and correctness being the biggest issues. And finally, Merriam-Webster has chosen the word of the year for 2025. Yes, that's AI-related “slop.”
Merriam-Webster defines slop as low-quality digital content, typically produced in large quantities by artificial intelligence. They say the flood included absurd videos, bizarre advertising images, propaganda, fake news that looked real, junk books written by AI, “off-the-shelf” reports, and lots of talking cats.
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