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Former White House advisors and tech researchers co-sign new statement against AI harms

June 15, 2023
Two former White House AI policy advisors, along with over 150 AI academics, researchers and policy practitioners, have signed a new “Statement on AI Harms and Policy” published by ACM FaaCT (the Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) which is currently holding its annual conference in Chicago. Alondra Nelson, former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting…
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Trend Micro brings generative AI to Vision One cybersecurity platform

June 15, 2023
Cybersecurity provider Trend Micro Incorporated has been integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its technologies for a decade, but it hasn’t had the power of generative AI, until now. Today Trend Micro announced its new Vision One platform, bringing together a series of different cybersecurity capabilities including extended detection and response (XDR), attack surface risk management…
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OctoML debuts self-optimizing compute services for generative AI

June 14, 2023
Seattle based startup OctoML today released its new OctoAI self optimizing infrastructure service to help organizations build and deploy generative AI applications. OctoML got its start in 2019 as a spinout from the University of Washington with the foundation of the company’s technology stack relying on the open source Apache TVM machine learning (ML) compiler framework. Its original focus was…
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This week in data: Don’t be an AI tourist

June 14, 2023
“Don’t be an AI tourist” is excellent advice from a post on The World Economic Forum. The post includes a fascinating survey: The AI Readiness Report which demonstrates that 81% of companies are now working with generative AI and how the focus on models is changing.
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison confirms new gen AI service with Cohere during earnings call

June 13, 2023
Oracle Corp., the software giant known for its database technology, is joining the chorus of enterprise cloud vendors betting big on generative AI services. On Monday, the company revealed that it was developing a new cloud service with Cohere, a Toronto-based startup that specializes in building and training large language models (LLMs). Oracle’s founder and chief technology officer, Larry…
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