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Dell discloses breach affecting customer purchase database
A hacker has breached a database that Dell Technologies Inc. uses to store information about customer purchases. BleepingComputer and TechCrunch reported the cyberattack today, citing a notification that the hardware giant sent to affect customers on Wednesday. The alert was preceded by an April 28 post on a hacker forum that solicited bids for a dataset ...
Mistral AI reportedly seeking to raise $600M at $6B valuation
Mistral AI is holding talks to raise about $600 million from investors at a $6 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The news comes less than a month after sources told The Information that the artificial intelligence model company is seeking new funding at a $5 billion valuation. The disparity between the two ...
Google DeepMind debuts AlphaFold 3 model for predicting the structure of biomolecules
Google DeepMind, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit, today detailed a new version of its AlphaFold neural network for biologists. One of the factors that influence the behavior of a biomolecule such a protein is its physical shape. Historically, mapping out molecules’ shape required years of highly complicated research. Google’s AlphaFold family of artificial intelligence ...
Boomi upgrades its integration platform as a service with new AI agents, acquisitions
Boomi LP has acquired software assets from two companies, APIIDA GmbH and Cloud Software Group Inc., to enhance its flagship integration-platform-as-a-service product. The iPaaS provider announced the deals today at its Boomi World 2024 conference in Denver. Alongside the features gained through the two acquisitions, Boomi detailed several new platform capabilities that it developed in-house. ...
US revokes export licenses that allowed Intel and Qualcomm to sell chips to Huawei
The U.S. Commerce Department has reportedly revoked export licenses that allowed Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. to sell chips to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The Financial Times and Bloomberg reported the development today, citing sources familiar with the move. The Commerce Department confirmed in a statement that it has revoked certain licenses for chip sales ...
Oracle introduces Code Assist to speed up enterprise software projects
Oracle Corp. today previewed the Oracle Code Assist, a new artificial intelligence productivity tool for software teams. The offering is powered by large language models deployed on OCI, the company’s public cloud platform. Oracle says that it trained the large language models on a software repository containing years’ worth of data. For added measure, the ...
Wiz closes mammoth $1B round at $12B valuation to grow its cloud security platform
Fast-growing cloud security startup Wiz Inc. today disclosed that it has raised a $1 billion funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital. The investment, which also included contributions from more than a half-dozen other investors, brings Wiz’s total outside funding to $1.9 billion. The company says that it’s now worth ...
Meta debuts new AI advertising tools, expands Meta Verified availability
Meta Platforms Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence tools that will make it easier for brands to run ad campaigns across its platforms. The features are rolling out for Meta Ad Manager, the company’s campaign management portal. Marketers can use the latter application to run ads across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and third-party websites. ...
Microsoft reportedly developing MAI-1 AI model with 500B parameters
Microsoft Corp. is developing a large language model with about 500 billion parameters, The Information reported today. The LLM, which is said to be known as MAI-1 internally, is expected to make its debut as early as this month. When OpenAI introduced GPT-3 in mid-2020, it detailed that the initial version of the model had ...
Stack Overflow to provide coding knowledge for OpenAI models
Stack Exchange Inc., the operator of the popular Stack Overflow coding forum, today announced a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. Under the deal, the large language model developer will gain access to posts from Stack Overflow. When a ChatGPT user asks a coding question that has been answered on Stack Exchange’s forum, the chatbot will ...