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OpenAI relaunches robotics unit four years after shutting it down

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:44:39 +0000

OpenAI has formed a team to train artificial intelligence models for robots. The ChatGPT developer confirmed Forbes’ Thursday report in a statement. The news comes about four years after OpenAI disbanded a team that researched ways of using AI to teach robots new tasks. Forbes reported that several former members of the team still work […]

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Look out below: AI’s double-edged sword slashes Dell, MongoDB, Salesforce and more

Robert Hof — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:05:00 +0000

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the artificial intelligence boom was never going to be unalloyed good for every enterprise technology provider looking to leverage AI. But this week, investors got a taste of the downside and they didn’t like it, sending stocks of Dell Technologies, MongoDB, Salesforce, UiPath Nutanix, Workday and more […]

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Google details AI Overviews changes designed to tackle inaccurate content

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 31 May 2024 18:41:24 +0000

Google LLC has updated its recently launched AI Overviews feature to reduce the likelihood that it will display inaccurate information in search results. Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, detailed the changes in a Thursday blog post. The update follows a series of highly publicized user reports about nonsensical results in AI Overviews. Introduced […]

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AI integration at the forefront of Dell’s on-premises strategy

Sead Fadilpasic — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:12:59 +0000

The technology industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rapid pace of innovation, particularly in AI integration. Companies are increasingly focusing on self-disruption to stay ahead, with a renewed emphasis on integrating AI into on-premises infrastructure, according to Sam Grocott (pictured), senior vice president of product marketing at Dell Technologies Inc. “We still […]

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How data governance is shaping AI security: Insights from Securiti’s Chief Data Officer Jack Berkowitz

Sead Fadilpasic — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:49:32 +0000

Data governance using Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly critical as companies navigate the complexities of managing and securing their information. A key player in this arena, Securiti Inc., has introduced the Data Command Center, a centralized platform that ensures the secure utilization of data and generative AI. This platform employs a data command graph to […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Informatica World

Ryan Stevens — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:12:15 +0000

The battle for enterprise AI dominance is heating up, and companies such as Informatica Inc. have been seeking to capitalize. At this year’s Informatica World, executives, companies and partners weighed in on how best to stand out with data platform services. Planned announcements from Informatica were a key area of interest. The event was a […]

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What to expect at Cisco Live 2024 edition

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:14:24 +0000

The annual Cisco Live 2024, to be held June 2-6 in Las Vegas, will boast Elton John as the music artist performing at the Wednesday night celebration event, as well as seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri as special guests. However, while those names create exciting entertainment, the more than […]

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Pega CEO explores game-changing AI use cases ahead of PegaWorld

Devony Hof — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:14:04 +0000

It’s now widely accepted that artificial intelligence will transform the tech industry, but which AI use cases will prove the most innovative and impactful remain to be seen. Generative AI’s potential to completely transform how companies operate at a base level is the core of the AI revolution, according to Alan Trefler (pictured), founder and […]

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OpenAI disrupts international influence operations using its AI tools

Duncan Riley — Fri, 31 May 2024 00:49:58 +0000

OpenAI revealed in a blog post today that it identified and disrupted five covert influence operations in the last three months that were attempting to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes. The influence campaigns disrupted by OpenAI are claimed to have come from Russia, China, Iran and, surprisingly, Israel, although the Israeli campaign was […]

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Intel, Google and other tech giants team up to develop UALink AI chip interconnect

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:43:33 +0000

Eight of the tech industry’s largest players are teaming up to launch the UALink Promoter Group, a new artificial intelligence hardware initiative detailed today. The project focuses on developing an industry-standard method of linking together AI chips such as graphics processing units. The goal, the initiative’s backers detailed, is to ease the task of assembling […]

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What to expect during the Databricks Data + AI Summit: Join theCUBE June 11-12

Ryan Stevens — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:25:08 +0000

The hype around artificial intelligence focuses on infrastructure, but real progress is in data-oriented, application-driven retrieval. Once the infrastructure is established, the next innovation layer will be in data, according to theCUBE Research executive analyst John Furrier. “Databricks has their event coming up. If you look at the data layer, I see AI in three […]

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Fortifying data fortresses: Minimizing the AI blast radius using Varonis’ policy-based automation engine

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:46:23 +0000

Even though artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm through innovations, such as ChatGPT, limiting the AI blast radius is of the essence as bad actors continue to wreak havoc. To tame AI from exposing data, Varonis Systems Inc. deploys a policy-based automation engine that eradicates ghost users, misconfigurations and risky permissions, according to […]

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OpenAI tightens its grip on news media with Vox Media and Atlantic partnerships

James Farrell — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:46:18 +0000

If you can’t beat them, join them: That might be the right sentiment in light of today’s news that OpenAI has just signed licensing deals with two of the U.S.’s biggest media companies, Vox Media Inc. and The Atlantic. Vox is the parent company of a number of popular media outlets, including the tech website […]

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UiPath’s stock plummets as CEO Rob Enslin abruptly resigns and guidance disappoints

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:07:24 +0000

Updated with Thursday stock price: Shares of the automation software company UiPath Inc. were battered in after-hours trading today and were falling more than 35% Thursday after it shocked investors with a surprise leadership change and followed up with poor guidance. The company said Chief Executive Rob Enslin (pictured) will resign, effective June 1. He will be replaced […]

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Mistral AI open-sources new Codestral large language model for developers

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:37:06 +0000

Artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today debuted Codestral, a large language model optimized for software development tasks. The launch comes amid reports that the company is in the process of raising a sizable new funding round. Earlier this month, sources told Wall Street Journal that Mistral is seeking $600 million from investors at a $6 […]

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Enhancing business efficiency and innovation with Dell’s advanced AI infrastructure

Sead Fadilpasic — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:40:13 +0000

From healthcare to education, the impact of artificial intelligence is profound and far-reaching, with businesses leveraging robust AI infrastructure to enhance efficiency. The integration of AI into professional services is particularly noteworthy as companies strive to harness its potential for strategic advantage. Key to this transformation is the development of a strong AI infrastructure and […]

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Driving AI innovation: IBM’s strategic investments and startup collaborations

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:17:22 +0000

From established global giants and hyperscalers to nimble startups, accelerators and incubators, artificial intelligence innovation is flowing in from multiple channels. It’s imperative to give nascent AI innovators the needed support and collaboration to scale operational hurdles and concretize ideas. That’s the ethos behind IBM Corp.’s strategy. “We launched the AI fund to invest in […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World

Mark Albertson — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:51:01 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. devoted much of its annual conference in Las Vegas this month to defining its artificial intelligence strategy. Through announcements and various executive presentations, the company highlighted a set of networking and infrastructure solutions designed to capitalize on the technology tsunami that has become AI. What that picture looks like now and how […]

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Gen AI for coding: The expanding use cases for assisted software development

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:30:51 +0000

Barring the growing pains of hallucination and bias, generative artificial intelligence excels at repetitive, information-based tasks. With products such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer generally available, its capabilities are changing how developers code. How is IBM Corp. expanding the AI for coding idea from simple assistants to covering numerous facets of the software development […]

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How IBM’s watsonx BI assistant simplifies the decision-making process

Devony Hof — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:34:16 +0000

Artificial intelligence should be a huge boon to the business intelligence software market, but according to IBM Corp., companies are struggling to use decision-making tools because they are too complex. IBM recently previewed its watsonx BI Assistant, which employs AI to help users make decisions about their business and simplifies the process of analyzing data […]

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Maven AGI unveils AI platform after securing $20M for global expansion

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:30:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence startup Maven AGI Inc. today launched with $20 million in funding to expand its engineering, marketing and partnership teams. Founded in 2023, Maven AGI debuts with a platform that is designed to transform enterprise customer support through generative AI. The company’s platform is said to reimagine customer service from the ground up by […]

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Five takeaways from IBM Think 2024

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:02:11 +0000

IBM Corp.‘s annual Think event in Boston showed how the company has had a complete facelift in the era of Chief Executive Arvind Krishna. Krishna (pictured) has used the boom in artificial intelligence to reposition the company around Watson and make that the focal point of IBM’s next platform. I left Think 2024 more positive about […]

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Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:00:16 +0000

Artificial intelligence training data provider Scale AI Inc., which serves the likes of OpenAI and Nvidia Corp., today published the results of its first-ever SEAL Leaderboards. It’s a new ranking system for frontier large language models based on private, curated and unexploitable datasets that attempts to rate their capabilities in common use cases, such as […]

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Aporia introduces real-time guardrails for multimodal AI applications

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:00:59 +0000

Machine learning observability startup Aporia Technologies Ltd. today launched Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications, a new service that extends its existing artificial intelligence guardrails solution to include guardrails for vision and audio. Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind solution, Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications is designed to mitigate issues in video and audio-based AI applications, such as hallucinations, […]

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PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:00:48 +0000

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and OpenAI today signed an agreement making the PwC the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing generative AI deeper into the enterprise for customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise provides unlimited access to the latest and greatest models that OpenAI has to provide, including GPT-4 […]

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Elon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online

James Farrell — Wed, 29 May 2024 04:45:41 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun spent some time on the X platform over Memorial Day weekend dueling with its owner, the billionaire and devoted contrarian Elon Musk. The spat was centered around Musk’s (pictured) $24 billion venture, xAI, his generative artificial intelligence startup that he hopes will get ahead of the likes […]

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IBM looks to save budgets with automation platform

Devony Hof — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:00:39 +0000

With groundbreaking technology such as artificial intelligence and quantum emerging over the past couple years, one recurring question is how to afford it. IBM Corp. is addressing that issue head on with a new product lineup that keeps costs low. The company’s recent announcements include IBM Concert, an automation platform that helps users manage their […]

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Hybrid AI: The convergence of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:17:10 +0000

As artificial intelligence expands to cover an increasing number of industries, an emerging topic is hybrid AI — which combines the hybrid cloud model with AI’s data processing capabilities. What constitutes hybrid AI practically and how (if at all) is it poised to add concrete value to the existing AI transformation wave? “The first fundamental […]

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OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 28 May 2024 18:39:54 +0000

OpenAI today announced the formation of a committee that will be tasked with ensuring its machine learning research is carried out safely. The Safety and Security Committee, as the panel is called, comprises nine members. It will be led by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and three other directors, including board Chair Bret Taylor. […]

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GaiaNet raises $10M for its decentralized AI agent project

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:05:51 +0000

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project GaiaNet today announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding to provide access to edge nodes where developers can deploy artificial intelligence agents and other generative AI tools. The company’s funding round attracted key advisors bringing additional resources including Generative Ventures’ Lex Sokolin, Republic Capital’s Brian Johnson, 7RIDGE’s Shawn […]

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