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Lenovo is going much deeper outlining its strategy to build out hybrid foundation models that make use of public large language models (LLMs)Read More

Source: Lenovo details hybrid enterprise AI strategy including Nvidia partnership and AI for PCs

Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, two of the so-called AI godfathers, have joined with 22 other leading AI academics and experts to propose a framework for policy and governance that aims to address the growing risks associated with artificial intelligence.  The paper said companies and governments should devote a third of their AI research a…Read More

Source: AI Godfathers Bengio and Hinton: Major tech companies should devote a third of AI budget to managing AI risk

San Jose-based edge computing startup SiMa.ai has made waves recently with the release of Palette Edgematic, its no-code, drag-and-drop system for deploying AI on low-power edge computing devices, for which it also designs its own chips (fabricated by TSMC). Now, the company is pushing further ahead to bring its devices and software to market, anno…Read More

Source: Edge compute maker SIMA.ai hires former AWS exec as new CBO. Read our exclusive interview

Treeverse, creators of the open-source lakeFS data version control system, today announced the release of lakeFS 1.0.Read More

Source: Open Source lakeFS data version control levels up to 1.0

Brilliant Labs has raised $3 million in funding for its AI-powered augmented reality glasses.Read More

Source: Brilliant Labs raises $3M for generative AI-based AR glasses

With just five simple prompts, ChatGPT built a convincing phishing email in minutes that got nearly as many clicks as a human-generated one.Read More

Source: IBM finds that ChatGPT can generate phishing emails nearly as convincing as a human

MonsterAPI has unveiled a groundbreaking platform that permits the fine-tuning of open-source large language models (LLMs) without writing a single line of code.Read More

Source: MonsterAPI leads the charge in democratizing AI with no-code fine-tuning

Nightshade was developed by University of Chicago researchers under computer science professor Ben Zhao and will be added as an option to...Read More

Source: Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data

Twenty-one AI leaders, including VC Marc Andreessen, will appear tomorrow at the second Senate AI Insight Forum.Read More

Source: Over 20 AI leaders, including Marc Andreessen, will appear at 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum tomorrow

Bard won't respond to user queries or prompts about the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine over the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.Read More

Source: Google Bard AI appears to be censoring Israel-Palestine prompt responses