Open source LLMs gains popularity
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming popular, and open source LLMs are at the forefront of this trend. Meta’s Llama-2, a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters, has been downloaded over 30 million times in the last month. Other open source LLMs such […]
Pope Francis endorses global coding project for children
Pope Francis has endorsed a global project aimed at getting more children into computer programming. The initiative, called “Code with Pope,” is the brainchild of Miron Mironiuk, a Polish tech entrepreneur and founder of artificial intelligence company Cosmose AI. Mironiuk was inspired to start the project after his own experience of coding transforming his life. […]
Tech giants race to bring generative AI to smartphones
Tech giants are racing to bring generative AI to smartphones, as the technology has the potential to revolutionize the way we use our devices. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, such as text, code, images, and music. It is already being used in a variety of applications, such […]
Researchers launch Nightshade to protect artists’ copyright
A new tool called Nightshade, developed by a team led by Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, is set to revolutionize the way artists protect their copyright in the age of AI. Nightshade allows artists to inject invisible alterations into their artwork’s pixels before uploading them online. This poisons the training data […]
Anthropic seeks public help to govern AI models
Anthropic, an Amazon-backed AI startup is seeking public input as part of its efforts to create guidelines for governing its AI models. Anthropic commissioned a poll of 1,000 Americans to ask them what values and guardrails they wanted powerful AI models to reflect. The results were then compared to an existing set of principles that […]
Monday.com builds own database to handle flexibility
Monday.com, a work operating system (Work OS) where organizations of any size can create the tools and processes they need to manage every aspect of their work, is building its own database, called MondayDB. MondayDB is a schemaless and distributed database that is designed to offer flexibility, scalability, and performance for Monday.com and its customers. […]
AI improves Wikipedia citations by 70%
A team of researchers has developed a new AI system that can help improve the credibility of Wikipedia citations by 70%. The system, called SIDE (Semantic Inference for Document Evaluation), works by rigorously checking the accuracy of primary sources and proposing new sources to back up the information presented. In a recent study, participants preferred […]
IBM and AWS expand generative AI partnership
IBM Consulting and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have expanded their partnership to bring new generative AI solutions to contact centers and supply chains. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, such as text, code, and images. The expanded partnership will focus on contact center modernization with Amazon Connect, which […]
Apple MacBook shipments expected to decline 30% in 2023
Apple MacBook shipments are expected to decline by approximately 30% year-over-year in 2023 to about 17 million units, according to a report from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo said demand for the new 15-inch MacBook Air has dropped significantly following the back-to-school shopping period, and that MacBook shipments during Apple’s fourth quarter will […]
ECB launches two-year preparation phase for digital Euro
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced a two-year “preparation phase” that will begin on November 1. During this phase, the ECB will finalize rules, choose its private-sector partners, and conduct testing and experimentation. The digital euro is a digital form of the euro that would be issued by the ECB and available to all […]
