It’s Super Bowl LVII time! Super Bowl #57 pits the AFC’s Kansas City Chiefs against the NFC’s Philadelphia Eagles, and there’s no avoiding it, football fan or not. If you don’t like football but love money, over $16 billion in wagers should juice the action for you. Enjoy the game, or better yet, tighten your ransomware security for all the click-bait malware that will flood inboxes Monday morning. Read these championship newsbits during the game, because you don’t want to miss the commercials

ChatGPT gets all the headlines, but every company has been chasing artificial narrow intelligence (ANI). The next-gen OpenAI large language model powering the forthcoming Bing search engine upgrade and new Microsoft Edge browser promises to raise the hair on the back of your neck, too

Since Microsoft’s AI tools will weave themselves through multiple products, it’s nice that the Office 365 Government Secret cloud reached general availability. Be safe, bureaucrats

Microsoft Teams Premium, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model, will cut costs and add AI-powered productivity with more than 400 new Teams features

Released last October, Microsoft Viva Sales now gets a boost with Azure OpenAI Service and GPT, including tools to generate sales memos and emails to keep feeding that sales funnel

How do you track sustainability goals? Cisco announced that its Webex Control Hub now includes Carbon Emissions Insights to give a good starting point. CEOs added environmental sustainability as one of their top 10 priorities this year

Cisco made its Risk-Based Authentication generally available now, introduced its Business Risk Observability enhancement for its Full-Stack Observability security solution, and used its Cybersecurity Readiness Index to reveal more progress is needed

For IoT and cloud management fans, Cisco introduced updates to its IoT Operations Dashboard for increased asset visibility and security, ThousandEyes now supports OpenTelemetry, and Cisco+Secure Connect wove Viptela technology into its SD-WAN fabrics.

IoT OEMs have a new option for getting products to market now that the first release of Avnet’s IoT Connection platform on AWS includes preconfigured AWS IoT services to smooth the way for secure IoT products and implementations

The Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners in Georgia is a three-mile smart city corridor and IoT technology proving grounds, and gives a good overview in their blog, “What Is a Smart City?

Warehouses now need to be responsive, flexible, and well-managed to support the modern supply chain and consumer business, and they’re doing it with 14% growth in the global warehouse automation market

Hello to the now-available eViewIoT Pro from Engenuity Systems that provides IoT data management and data collection

Remote patient monitoring company Telli Health teamed with Senet to introduce what they call the first remote patient monitoring hardware company connected by a LoRaWAN IoT network.