Why Microsoft’s security initiative and Apple’s cloud privacy matter to enterprises now
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC)’s goals are to harden cloud security and privacy at scale.Read More
The Titan Submersible Hearings End With Few Solid Answers. Here’s What Comes Next
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
As LLMs grow bigger, they’re more likely to give wrong answers than admit ignorance
A team of AI researchers at Universitat Politècnica de València, in Spain, has found that as popular LLMs (Large Language Models) grow larger and more sophisticated, they become less likely to admit to a user that they do not know an answer.
Computing scheme accelerates machine learning while improving energy efficiency of traditional data operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT run on algorithms and have great appetites for data, which they process through machine learning, but what about the limits of their data-processing abilities? Researchers led by Professor Sun Zhong from Peking University’s School of Integrated Circuits and Institute for Artificial Intelligence set out to solve the von Neumann …
Ai2’s new Molmo open source AI models beat GPT-4o, Claude on some benchmarks
The models are not only high-performing but also entirely open, allowing researchers and developers to access and build upon them.Read More
Titan Submersible Hearings Spotlight Multiple Issues With Its Carbon Fiber Hull
Testimony identifies manufacturing defects and problems following an earlier dive and reveals that OceanGate conducted no testing or remedial work despite concerns with the hull.
ChatGPT’s rise linked to decline in public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
A new study published in PNAS Nexus reveals that the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, has led to a significant decline in public knowledge sharing on platforms like Stack Overflow. The study highlights a 25% reduction in user activity on the popular programming Q&A site within six months of ChatGPT’s …
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Google supercharges enterprise contact centers with Gemini 1.5 Flash
The company is rebranding its six-year-old Contact Center AI offering as Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI.Read More
Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable
The current version of Google’s smartwatch isn’t repairable, but for the first time the company is figuring out how to fix that.
AI model beats CAPTCHA every time
A trio of AI researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has modified an AI-based, picture-processing model to solve Google’s reCAPTCHAv2 human-testing system.