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Ai2’s MolmoAct model ‘thinks in 3D’ to challenge Nvidia and Google in robotics AI

Physical AI, where robotics and foundation models come together, is fast becoming a growing space with companies like Nvidia, Google and Meta releasing research and experimenting in melding large language models (LLMs) with robots.  New research from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) aims to challenge Nvidia and Google in physical AI with the release of MolmoAct 7B, a new open-source model that…
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The end of perimeter defense: When your own AI tools become the threat actor

Russia’s APT28 is actively deploying LLM-powered malware against Ukraine, while underground platforms are selling the same capabilities to anyone for $250 per month. Last month, Ukraine’s CERT-UA documented LAMEHUG, the first confirmed deployment of LLM-powered malware in the wild. The malware, attributed to APT28, utilizes stolen Hugging Face API tokens to query AI models, enabling real-time…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for selected users, admitting the GPT-5 launch was “more bumpy than we hoped…
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OpenAI returns old models to ChatGPT as Sam Altman admits ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is publicly acknowledging major hiccups in yesterday’s rollout of GPT-5, the company’s new, flagship large language model (LLM) — advertised as its most powerful and capable yet. Answering user questions in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread and in a post on X this afternoon, Altman admitted to a range of issues that have disrupted the launch of…
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From terabytes to insights: Real-world AI obervability architecture

Consider maintaining and developing an e-commerce platform that processes millions of transactions every minute, generating large amounts of telemetry data, including metrics, logs and traces across multiple microservices. When critical incidents occur, on-call engineers face the daunting task of sifting through an ocean of data to unravel relevant signals and insights. This is equivalent to…
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