One of the least-discussed topics of the information age is the real-world cost of all the data we generate and consume. Our nomenclature for storing data doesn’t help — the “cloud” sounds wispy and ethereal, and the average user’s interactions with it are designed to be fast, easy, seamless and almost insubstantial.
Our mental picture is often that of a bunch of zeroes and ones…
Anthropic, the “Constitutional AI” foundation model startup from San Francisco that is perhaps the foremost rival to OpenAI, made a big move this week, bringing its Claude 2 large language model (LLM) chatbot to 95 countries total, including:
“We’re rolling out…
Securing generative AI starts with sustainable data centers
October 20, 2023
Enterprises are increasingly experiencing attacks on their artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with 41% having experienced an AI privacy breach, according to an August 2022 Gartner report. Twenty-five percent have experienced malicious, intentional attacks on…
Nation-state attackers are fine-tuning their tradecraft to take advantage of unprotected IoT sensors essential to infrastructure and manufacturing and increasing their attacks against U.S. and European targets. Once-sporadic attacks have given way to an all-out assault on infrastructure and production plants.
IoT attacks seek to take advantage of infrastructure and manufacturing organizations…
Gartner: Generative AI will be everywhere, so strategize now
October 19, 2023
The human-machine relationship is dynamic and evolving. Generative AI, in particular, is set to completely transform enterprise processes, decision-making, strategy and other elements that have yet to be considered.
For this reason, AI adoption should no longer be…
North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
October 19, 2023
In a rare public acknowledgment, Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger revealed on Wednesday that North Korea is escalating its cyber capabilities by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), posing a significant risk for enterprises worldwide.
This…
Midjourney’s first mobile app is here…sort of
October 19, 2023
Bootstrapped startup Midjourney offers a popular text-to-image AI generator from its own foundation model. Since its beta launch in the summer of 2022, it has built a thriving community of users on its official server within the separate messaging app Discord — exceeding 16 million at the time of this article’s publication, including VentureBeat (we use it and other AI art generators to…
Following layoffs earlier this year, marketing software platform Jasper is recalibrating.
Today, the company announced its new “end-to-end AI copilot for better marketing outcomes,” according to Timothy Young, the new CEO of Jasper as of two weeks ago, in an exclusive…
IBM Consulting, the professional services arm of IBM, today announced the plan to expand its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and re-engineer their joint solutions for enterprise clients with generative AI, targeting three areas to start: contact centers, cloud…
Nvidia teams with Foxconn to boost electric vehicle AI
October 19, 2023
Foxconn, the world’s biggest electronics manufacturer, announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia to accelerate the development of electric vehicles and the AI that drives them.
The collaboration, unveiled at Hon Hai Tech Day in Taiwan, marks a significant step towards realizing Foxconn’s vision for the future of EVs. Hon Hai is the parent firm for Foxconn.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined…
