Toronto-based Secoda, an AI-powered platform for data search, cataloging, lineage and documentation, today announced $14 million in a Series A round of funding. The company plans to use the capital to further develop its AI solutions and allow any enterprise user, regardless of their technical background, to search, understand and use company data — in an experience as easy as searching on…
Anthropic’s new policy takes aim at ‘catastrophic’ AI risks
September 22, 2023
Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the popular Claude chatbot, has released a new policy detailing its commitment to responsibly scaling AI systems.
The policy, referred to as the Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), is designed specifically to mitigate…
AMD takes AI inferencing to space with Versal chip
September 22, 2023
You can get further out on the edge than space. And that’s where the AMD Versal AI Edge chip is headed, said Advanced Micro Devices.
The new adaptive computing chip — the Versal™ AI Edge XQRVE2302 — is a radiation-tolerant, space-grade technology built as a complete…
CrowdStrike defines a strong vision for generative AI at Fal.Con 2023
September 22, 2023
Cyberattacks are entering a new phase in which identities are the weapon of choice and the cloud is the new battleground. Attackers are turning speed, stealth and weaponized AI into a devastating advantage. The weaponization of AI for everything from social engineering to ransomware attacks launched with Living-off-the-land (LoTL) techniques that rely on Powershell, PsExec, Windows Management…
Phrasee appoints new CEO to head into the future of AI-based marketing
September 21, 2023
Phrasee, a digital marketing firm in London, said it has appointed Dan Head as CEO as it helps guide content marketers through the AI revolution.
Head was formerly chief revenue officer at Braze, including during its growth from series-B funding to its IPO in November 2021.
Former Google AI researcher Jakob Uszkoreit was one of the eight co-authors of the seminal 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformers architecture that went on to underpin ChatGPT and most other large language models (LLMs). The fact that…
Lenovo launches new TruScale edge service to bring AI and ML to brick-and-mortar businesses
September 21, 2023
PC giant Lenovo isn’t content with just selling you or your company laptops — it also wants to the be provider-of-choice for enterprises looking to run machine learning (ML) and AI models right out in the field where they are already doing business, such as at grocery and retail self-checkout kiosks, or even out on fishing trawlers in the ocean.
That’s why today the company is announcing its…
Even OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever calls deep learning ‘alchemy’
September 21, 2023
A VentureBeat conversation with machine ethicist Thomas Krendl Gilbert, in which he called today’s AI a form of ‘alchemy,’ not science, raised many eyebrows in this week’s AI Beat.
“The people building it actually think that what they’re doing is magical,” he…
Intel CTO highlights open and secure advances for AI deployment
September 21, 2023
On the second day of the Intel Innovation 2023 event, Intel CTO Greg Lavender detailed how Intel’s developer-first, open ecosystem philosophy is enabling widespread accessibility to artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities.
Lavender said Intel wants to address…
The latest hype cycle around artificial intelligence (AI) is still going strong. From human resources to finance, the benefits of AI seem to have surpassed concerns over the potential risks of extinction some suggest. With the role of AI becoming more prominent, billion-dollar builder Brook Taube encourages everyone to learn AI fundamentals.
The importance of AI can’t be overstated, with models…
