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Slack is updating its collaboration platform with a set of artificial intelligence features designed to save time for knowledge workers. The Salesforce.com Inc. unit detailed the enhancements today ahead of its parent company’s Dreamforce 2024 product event, which will kick off on …
Meta to resume training AI models on UK users’ Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to resume its use of U.K. adults’ Facebook and Instagram posts in artificial intelligence training projects. The company disclosed the decision today. The move comes about three months after Meta paused the practice over privacy concerns. Meta develops …
Google debuts new accuracy-optimized DataGemma LLM series
Google LLC has developed a series of language models that can answer questions about numerical facts more accurately than earlier algorithms. The DataGemma series, as the model lineup is called, debuted on Thursday. Google has made the source code for the algorithms …
CoreWeave reportedly planning secondary sale at $23B valuation
CoreWeave Inc. is negotiating a secondary sale will that enable investors to offload $400 million to $500 million worth of shares, Bloomberg reported today. The paper’s sources said that the deal is set to value CoreWeave, which operates a cloud platform optimized …
Ireland opens privacy probe into Google’s PaLM 2 language model
Ireland’s privacy regulator has opened a probe into Google LLC over its PaLM 2 large language model. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, announced the move today. Officials will review whether PaLM 2 was built in a manner compliant with the European …
OpenAI’s new o1 large language model can decode scrambled text and ace math exams
OpenAI today launched a new large language model series, o1, that can decode scrambled text, answer science questions with better accuracy than PhD holders and perform other complex tasks. The LLM series better-known by it code name Strawberry, comprises two models on …
Mastercard acquires threat intelligence provider Recorded Future for $2.65B
Mastercard Inc. today announced plans to acquire Recorded Future Inc., the world’s largest provider of information about hacker activities. The $2.65 billion deal likely represents a sizable return for Insight Partners, which spent $780 million five years ago to buy a controlling interest …
OpenAI reportedly seeking $6.5B investment at $150B valuation
OpenAI is seeking to raise $6.5 billion from investors at a $150 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported today. The report comes about two weeks after rumors first emerged that the ChatGPT developer is in talks for a new multibillion-dollar funding round. At …
Meta confirms it scrapes Australian users’ posts for AI training without opt-out option
Meta Platforms Inc. is scraping Australian users’ Facebook and Instagram posts without providing an opt-out option, the company acknowledged today. Melinda Claybaugh, Meta’s global privacy director, detailed the practice during a hearing before the Australian Senate. The executive stated that the company …
Oracle to offer ‘world’s first’ zettascale AI cluster via its public cloud
Oracle Corp. plans to equip its public cloud with what it describes as the world’s first zettascale computing cluster. The cluster, which the company previewed today at its Oracle CloudWorld conference, will provide up to 2.4 zettaflops of performance for artificial intelligence …