Middleware, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify and enhance cloud observability, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by 8VC. The company plans to use the new funds to grow its team, develop new features and acquire more customers. The company also intends to create an advanced AI advisor that uses generative AI to improve the cloud…
Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models
August 11, 2023
At the 31st annual DEF CON this weekend, thousands of hackers will join the AI Village to attack some of the world’s top large language models — in the largest red-teaming exercise ever for any group of AI models: the Generative Red Team (GRT) Challenge.
According to…
David Shrier is making a number of predictions about AI, some encouraging and some scary. And they’re worth paying attention to, like one about how AI innovation will drive 10 times greater growth for enterprises.
Shrier, who did a fireside chat with me at an AI event in…
Boston-based DataRobot, a unicorn startup that offers a platform for enterprise AI development, is going all in on generative AI support. The company today said it is updating its offering with new generative AI-specific capabilities and applied services to give teams an open and end-to-end solution for experimenting with, building, deploying and monitoring enterprise-grade AI assistants.
The…
Got vulns? vuln_GPT debuts as AI-powered approach to find and remediate software vulnerabilities
August 10, 2023
A primary security challenge for organizations of all sizes is the ability to detect, then fix, potential software vulnerabilities.
According to New York based cybersecurity startup Vicarius, the solution to patching vulnerabilities quickly could well rely on the use of…
I’ve been on the AI beat for a year and a half, but my colleague Dean Takahashi, who leads our GamesBeat publication, has been covering the gaming industry for 27 years — 15 of those years right here at VentureBeat. And he doesn’t just cover games, mind you — he…
At the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas today — the nation’s largest hacking conference — the Biden-Harris administration announced the launch of a two-year open competition to explore how AI can be used to protect and defend the U.S.’s most vital software, including computer code that keeps the internet and critical infrastructure running.
The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) is led…
Microsoft unveils next-gen AI solutions to boost frontline productivity amid labor challenges
August 10, 2023
Microsoft today unveiled a suite of tools and integrations designed to empower frontline workers across the globe. Central to this release is an innovative Copilot offering, which harnesses the capabilities of generative AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of…
Weights and Biases is looking to grow its generative AI and LLMops efforts with a new $50 million funding raise announced today.
The round was led by Daniel Gross and the former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Coatue, Insight Partners…
OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
August 10, 2023
Without fanfare or an official announcement, ChatGPT maker OpenAI launched a new website crawling bot this week for scanning website content to train its large language models (LLMs). But after news of the bot broke, a revolt ensued, as website owners and creators quickly traded tips on how to block GPTBot from scraping their sites’ data.
When OpenAI added the GPTBot support page, it also…
