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LLM developer Cohere reportedly raises $450M at $5B valuation
OpenAI rival Cohere Inc. has secured $450 million in fresh funding at a $5 billion valuation, Reuters reported today. It’s believed the round included the participation of multiple existing investors in the startup including Nvidia Corp. and Salesforce Ventures. It’s unclear if other returning backers contributed as well. Alongside Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, Cohere’s investor ...
In public letter, former OpenAI researchers urge increased transparency on AI risks
A group of machine learning researchers today released a public letter urging the tech industry to develop advanced artificial intelligence models in a more transparent manner. The letter, titled “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” has 13 signatories. The group includes current and former researchers from OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind research group ...
Intel debuts AI-optimized Lunar Lake laptop processor and Xeon 6 server chip series
Intel Corp. today introduced two new chip lines designed for laptops and servers that both promise to significantly outperform the company’s previous-generation silicon. The Lunar Lake series of laptops systems-on-chip will be made at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. fabs. It features two types of central processing unit cores optimized for performance and for power ...
Cloudera acquires AI tooling startup Verta
Cloudera Inc. today announced that it has acquired Verta Inc., a venture-backed developer of tools for building artificial intelligence applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition comes about three years after Cloudera, a major provider of data management and analysis software, was itself bought by two private equity firms for $5.3 ...
Microsoft details $3.2B plan to expand its data center capacity in Sweden
Microsoft Corp. will spend 33.7 billion Swedish crowns, or $3.2 billion, to expand its data center capacity in Sweden. The company will make the investment over two years as part of an initiative detailed this morning. The move comes three years after the company inaugurated its first Azure region, or data center cluster, in Sweden. The ...
AMD debuts ‘world’s fastest’ consumer desktop processor and AI-optimized server chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today detailed the Ryzen 9 9950X, a central processing unit for consumer-grade desktops that the company touts as the fastest chip in its category. The processor debuted early today at the Computex hardware event taking place in Taiwan. Alongside the Ryzen 9 9950X, AMD debuted two laptop chips optimized for artificial intelligence ...
HPE’s Aruba unit debuts platform for building private 5G networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba unit today debuted a new hardware and software bundle, HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, that companies can use to build their own 5G networks. Organizations rely on Wi-Fi routers to provide wireless connectivity at their offices. Larger corporate locations such as factories, in turn, increasingly use on-site 5G networks ...
OpenAI relaunches robotics unit four years after shutting it down
OpenAI has formed a team to train artificial intelligence models for robots. The ChatGPT developer confirmed Forbes’ Thursday report in a statement. The news comes about four years after OpenAI disbanded a team that researched ways of using AI to teach robots new tasks. Forbes reported that several former members of the team still work ...
Google details AI Overviews changes designed to tackle inaccurate content
Google LLC has updated its recently launched AI Overviews feature to reduce the likelihood that it will display inaccurate information in search results. Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, detailed the changes in a Thursday blog post. The update follows a series of highly publicized user reports about nonsensical results in AI Overviews. Introduced ...
Law enforcement task force shuts down six malware droppers
An international law enforcement task force has disrupted the infrastructure behind six malware droppers, malicious programs that play a key role in hacking campaigns. Europol, which led the task force, announced the development today. The effort included hundreds of law enforcement officials from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. Europol described ...