If you’re tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk’s xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War…
As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure. The US Department of the Interior (DoI) announced on Monday two “historic” agreements under which the firms behind the Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind projects will…
Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That’s because the ransomware Vect uses isn’t actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB. Vect’s leak site…
OpenAI’s top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock managed inference and agent platform. The collaboration, announced at an AWS event in San Francisco on Tuesday, provides an alternative avenue for accessing Altman and company’s growing library of GPTs without having to expose your data to OpenAI’s APIs. Amazon contends that enterprises want…
In the days since this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, but the way they’re spreading…
Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and…
The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. The DoJ announced Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit…
Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert. It seems like founder and chairman Larry Ellison is less concerned about…
More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era. They convened under the auspices of AI Dev 26 x SF, a conference organized by Andrew Ng’s DeepLearning.AI. Jonathan Heyne, COO of DeepLearning.AI, set the scene by framing…
The US Department of Justice has once again indicted James Comey — this time, for an alleged threat the former FBI director made toward President Donald Trump on Instagram, as reported earlier by CNN. In its indictment, filed in a North Carolina federal court on Tuesday, the DOJ cites the now-deleted image Comey posted to…