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UWCISA maintains an official blog about technology, security, analytics and innovation in the world of audit and business.

2024

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UWCISA's 5 Tech Takeaways: AI Agents, Digital Poetry, and the Creative Rebellion

 November 16, 2024

UWCISA's 5 Tech Takeaways: How AI is Shaping Investments, Policies, Legal Battles, and the Future of Work

 November 8, 2024
From Audio Summaries to AI Leadership Exits: Key AI Updates October 4, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: AI to Reshape 92% of IT Jobs, Canadian AI Startup Raises $19M, GenAI's Teaching Dilemma, and More!  August 27, 2024 
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Waymo’s 100,000 Weekly Rides, Grok 2 Hits the Streets, Don’t Trust Dr. GPT, and More  August 21, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: More OpenAI Drama, AI Ascends in Consulting, Google Splinters, and Apple's AI Goes Premium at $20  August 14, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: OpenAI Takes On Search, Canva's GenAI Acquisition, EU AI Act Becomes Law, and More  August 2, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Nvidia's Plunge, Claude 3.5, Napster-esque Legal Battles and McDonald's Ends AI Experiment  June 25, 2024 
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Apple Unveils AI at WWDC, OpenAI Pays VOX/Atlantic a Cut, Claude Comes to Canada and more!  June 10, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Microsoft Unveil AI PCs, Google's $125B Cloud Glitch, Battle of the Bots, Glue Pizza, and GPT4 Outshines in Financial Forecasting  June 3, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: OpenAI and Google's AI Rivalry Heats Up with Dueling Announcements  May 24, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: A Deep Dive into Disruption, From AI Hardware to GenAI-Powered Services  May 10, 2024 
Five Top Tech Takeaways: AI Rapping Mona Lisa, Calls for AI Oversight, AI in the Banks, AI Art Receives Limited Copyright and Meta Competes with ChatGPT  April 25, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Canada's $2.4B AI bet, Adobe Goes Open, Training Data Shortage, Cdn SMBs Go Big on AI and Turnitin's Take on AI & Plagiarism  April 16, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: SBF Gets 25, Getting "Glassdoored", Microsoft AI Expansion, $9 for AI Nurses, and Florida's Teen Social Media Ban  April 3, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: AI Agents take on Software Engineering, Grok Open-Sourced, Figure's OpenAI Assisted Robot, TikTok Ban, and EU's AI Legislation  March 18, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Google Faces an Unexpected AI Competitor, AI Overreach at Work, Sam's Back, SEC's Climate Disclosure Rules, and Apple $2 billion Fine  March 11, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Claude3 is Live in Canada, Elon Sues OpenAI, OpenAI Responds, NVIDIA hits $2 Trillion & IEEE on Prompt Engineering  March 6, 2024 
Five Top Tech Takeaways: OpenAI's Text to Video Breakthrough, Nvidia faces competition, Apple Trashes its Car, Google inks a deal with Reddit and unveils Gemini 1.5  February 28, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Apple Vision Pro Review, Bitcoin's Transparent Reality, Bard get a Makeover, €2 Billion Bitcoin Seized and Robots Need Humans After All  February 6, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Apple's AI Gambit, Meta's Forays into AI, Canada Deals with LegalGPT, and Moody's Take on Shell Companies  January 26, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Bitcoin ETFs, Open AI SOC2 Compliant Offering, GPT Store is Ready, SEC gets Hacked, and AI-Laptops invade CES  January 12, 2024
Five Top Tech Takeaways: AI's 24 Billion Benchmark, OpenAI Revenue Prediction, Google's DuetAI, AI Makes Music and Microsoft's Mobile AI   January 2, 2024

2023

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Five Top Tech Takeaways: UWCISA Launches Coffee Break PD, OpenAI Drama Continues, News from Google and DeFi gets Hacked!  December 8, 2023 
A Black Friday Reflection: The Art of Want and Apple's Marketing Mastery  November 23, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: OpenAI's Sam Altman FIRED on Friday, hired at MICROSOFT on Monday + Hackers Take Advantage of SEC Rule + 3 other stories November 20, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: SBF Gets Convicted, Elon Releases Grok, OpenAI's AppStore, Samsung's AI Plunge and Neuralink's Human Trials  November 9, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Google's $18B Anti-Trust Woes, Hidden AI Workers, AI Beats Going to Uni, AI Executive Order and Can AI Pass Accounting?  October 31, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Lawyer/GenAI Trouble (Again), FTX Insider on the Stand, Coffee Badging Explored, Adobe Strikes Back, and Quantum Computing in Canada  October 19, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Writers Get Concessions on AI, FTX's Auditor Sued by the SEC, Windows 11 goes AI, and Dalhousie's Battery Discovery  October 2, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: MBAs vs AI, Bitfinex Hacker Comes Clean, and Big Open AI and Google Bard Updates  September 26, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Apple's Carbon Neutrality Questioned, Fairphone 5 Launches, Binance US's CEO Leaves and a Privacy Nightmare on Wheels  September 18, 2023
From iPhone Chargers to Carbon Footprints: Apple's ESG Messaging Unpacked  September 13, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: GenAI and CFOs + Impact on Jobs, Gartner's Take on AI & the Hype Cycle, and how Anguilla is Cashing In on AI  September 5, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Nvidia's Billions, UN on AI & Jobs, Smucker's Approach to Hybrid, RoboTaxis Put on Pause and more  August 28, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: SBF Gets Locked Up, Coinbase's Canadian Foray, AI Startups vie with Giants, LK-99 Update, and a Mind-Reading Breakthrough  August 21, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: AI Bans at Work, Disney Hiring AI to Cut Costs, RoboTaxis are Here, Anxiety over Voyager 2 and ChatGPT can't add?  August 11, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Netflix's Sea of Cash, Superconductivity breakthrough, Farmers Gets Emojied, and Tech Bets Big on AI  August 4, 2023
Five Top Tech Takeaways: Twitter $20 Billion Brand Bonfire, No Bard for Canada, Apple's GPT and AI Regulations  July 26, 2023
Top Five Tech Takeaways: Llama2 joins the GenAI Fray, XRP Mixed Judgment, Co-pilot Pricing Announced, Tech Reacts to Bill C-18, and Code Interpreter Debuts  July 20, 2023
Beyond the Writer's Strike: Will AI Lead to a Renaissance of Artist Driven Content?  July 13, 2023 
Furious Five: Meta Launches Twitter Rival, AI at the Big 4, FTX relaunch & lawsuit, and Open-AI shuts off Browse-with-Bing  July 11, 2023
The Furious Five (July 4th): Two Approaches to Voice-Enabled-AI, N. Arica's First Hydrogen Train, and Is GenAI about Amplification, not Abdication?  July 4, 2023
The Furious Five (June 27):Adobe/Meta AI Moves, Netflix's Anti-Sharing Economy, and the Titan Tragedy  June 27, 2023
The Furious Five for June 20: AI, Tech, and Business Stories You May Have Missed  June 20, 2023
The Furious Five for June 13: Tech and Business Stories You May Have Missed  June 13, 2023 
Tech, AI, Auditing & Beyond: 5 Stories from Last Week  June 6, 2023
In the Midst of the Writer's Strike, Is AI Set to Take Centre Stage in Hollywood?  May 27, 2023
Is the SVB Collapse the Start of Another Financial Meltdown? A look at what went down!  March 16, 2023
The Battle for AI Search Heats Up: Latest Developments from Microsoft and Google  February 12, 2023
The Terminator in the Kitchen: How Robots are Changing the World of Fast Food  January 16, 2023
Welcome to 2023! What are five key tech trends that CPAs should be aware of?  January 3, 2023

2022

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AI and the CPA: OpenAI's ChatGPT will Blow Your Mind! Try it Now!  December 21, 2022
Figuring out FTX (Part 3): 5 Videos You Must Watch on SBF’s Arrest!  December 14, 2022
Figuring out FTX (Part 2): The Ten Days In November that Brought FTX Down  December 8, 2022
Figuring out FTX and SBF (Part 1): The Epic Rise in 5 videos  November 24, 2022
Lessons Learned: Flashback to Summer’s Great Rogers Outage (Part 2)  November 1, 2022
Fiona’s Fury: Flashback to Summer’s Great Rogers Outage (Part 1)  October 4, 2022
Time to Upgrade the Internet? A look at the hope and hype around Web3  August 5, 2022
The #CryptoWinter Cometh? Some thoughts to consider  July 19, 2022
NFTs: Heading for the Trough of Disillusionment?  May 5, 2022

2021

Blog Title Date Published
AI and the CPA: What should CPAs know about GPT3?  March 1, 2021
What the Tech? A look at GameStop, Algorithmic Trading and Beyond  January 31, 2021
Stablecoins are now approved! But will they be used against China, Russia and beyond?  January 19, 2021
Data Tsunami: How big is the Data Deluge? (Part 1)  January 10, 2021

2020

Blog Title Date Published
CPAs to the Future: Why Data Governance?   August 7, 2020
'The Algorithm Made Me Do It': How Racist-Tech led an African-American man sleeping in a filthy cell  July 16, 2020
Are we ready? COVID-19 Reopening woes and the new realities it brings   June 30, 2020
COVID-19 & Accounting firms: Will only the agile survive?   April 30, 2020
Have you heard of Zoom Fatigue? Killing the commute is not all it's cracked up to be  April 24, 2020
How can blockchain help us deal with the COVID-19 pandemic?   April 20, 2020
What do the Sony Car and the Visa acquisition of Plaid have in common?   February 9, 2020
Are we too confident in Artificial Intelligence? A look at AI's "stupid problem"  January 6, 2020