Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce and the current chairman of OpenAI’s board, just made his play in the rapidly growing conversational AI space with the launch of Sierra, an AI agent startup for businesses.
Founded with Google’s former head of VR Clay Bavor, Sierra aims to empower enterprises with their own AI agents. This will enable them to take their digital operations to a…
How AI is strengthening XDR to consolidate tech stacks
February 14, 2024
Deciphering weak telemetry signals by using AI to analyze behaviors and detect threats in real time is the future of extended detection and response (XDR).
VentureBeat continues to see CISOs and their security teams migrate from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to XDR…
AppLovin today released its second yearly report on Performance-Driven Ad Trends, in which it illuminates some of the most successful ad strategies and trends in 2023. According to the report, generative AI shows promise as a creative tool, while effective ad trends include…
Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age
February 12, 2024
If you were hoping that the world would get over AI fever in 2024, you are going to be sadly mistaken. Advancements in hardware and software (everywhere) are opening up the floodgates to dynamic applications of generative AI that suggest that 2023 was the year where we only really began to scratch the surface.
This year — the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac — will see a…
Accenture has more than 743,000 people serving up consulting expertise on technology to clients in more than 120 countries. I met with one of them at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, and had a conversation about semiconductor chips, the foundation of our tech…
Will AI improve our understanding of human history, or will it be a tool that will end our history? Right now, there is evidence to support both perspectives.
This week, a major prize was awarded to three computer science students who used AI, specifically machine learning…
Brilliant Labs Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
February 9, 2024
Brilliant Labs, the developer of AI glasses, has launched Frame, the world’s first glasses featuring an integrated multimodal AI assistant.
This leap in wearable technology is coupled with significant support from AR pioneer and Niantic CEO, John Hanke, whose company made Pokémon Go. Brilliant Labs has raised $6 million to date.
Those riches from Pokémon Go are coming back to help the AI…
White House touts new AI safety consortium: Over 200 leading firms to test and evaluate models
February 9, 2024
One day after appointing a top White House aide as director of the new US AI Safety Institute (USAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Biden Administration announced the creation of the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which it…
Acceldata supercharges data observability with new AI copilot
February 9, 2024
As the demand for generative AI assistants continues to grow, vendors across the data ecosystem are moving to implement them front and center into their products. Big names like Snowflake and Informatica were the first to make a move, and now, Acceldata, the known player in…
Google Deepmind proposes ‘self-discover’ framework for LLMs, improves GPT-4 performance
February 8, 2024
In a bid to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), researchers from Google Deepmind and University of Southern California have proposed a new ‘self-discover’ prompting framework.
Published on arXiV and Hugging Face this morning, the approach goes beyond existing prompting techniques used by LLMs and has been found capable of improving the performance of known…
