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Now a Microsoft partner, Mistral AI challenges OpenAI with three new LLMs
Mistral AI, the well-funded artificial intelligence startup, today introduced three large language models and a chatbot service designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company also detailed a new partnership with Microsoft Corp., OpenAI’s top investor. The alliance will give Mistral’s engineers access to supercomputing infrastructure in Azure. Additionally, Microsoft is making the startup’s models available ...
Qualcomm debuts new wireless networking chips and AI model bundle
Qualcomm Inc. today detailed its newest 5G and Wi-Fi networking chips, which will start shipping with smartphones in the second half of the year. The modules debuted at the MWC mobile industry event taking place in Barcelona this week. They employ hardware features not available in Qualcomm’s earlier silicon, notably satellite communications support, as well ...
Google apologizes over Gemini image generation inaccuracies
Google LLC has apologized after its Gemini chatbot generated images that incorrectly depicted racially diverse characters in historical contexts. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s senior vice president of knowledge and information, acknowledged the bug in a blog post published today. He wrote that “we’re grateful for users’ feedback and are sorry the feature didn’t work well.” ...
AWS brings Mistral AI’s open-source LLMs to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced plans to make two artificial intelligence models from Mistral AI, a high-profile machine learning startup, available through its Amazon Bedrock service. Introduced last April, Bedrock provides access to managed foundation models via an application programming interface. Developers can use the API to test which of the available neural networks is ...
Microsoft releases automated PyRIT red teaming tool for finding AI model risks
Members of a Microsoft Corp. team tasked with using hacker tactics to find cybersecurity issues have open-sourced an internal tool, PyRIT, that can help developers find risks in their artificial intelligence models. The researchers released the code for the framework on Thursday. According to Microsoft, PyRIT can automatically generate thousands of adversarial AI prompts to ...
Reddit files for IPO after annual revenue tops $800M
Confirming recent reports, Reddit Inc. today submitted paperwork for a public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company didn’t disclose its fundraising and valuation targets in the regulatory filing. Last Friday, sources told Bloomberg that Reddit’s financial advisers have recommended a valuation of at least $5 billion. The report added that the company ...
AT&T restores network following large-scale cellular outage
AT&T Inc.’s network has returned to normal operations following an outage earlier today that left a large number of users without reliable cellular reception. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched an investigation into the service disruption shortly after it began. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in turn, is reportedly working with AT&T to ...
Data leak reveals inner workings of Chinese state-linked hacking group
A trove of documents leaked to GitHub last week has revealed that I-Soon, a Shanghai-based cybersecurity training company, is in fact a hacking group. Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported the leak today. The data trove posted to GitHub, which appear to have originated from I-Soon’s network, includes thousands of internal chat messages, marketing materials, screenshots and ...
Apple introduces post-quantum cryptography protocol for iMessage
Apple Inc. plans to update iMessage with a new encryption component, dubbed PQ3, that can block cyberattacks launched by quantum computers. Members of the company’s cybersecurity research team detailed the technology in a blog post published today. They describe it as the most significant cryptography-related update to iMessage since launch. At the time of its ...
Network chip supplier Astera Labs to go public amid rapid sales growth
Astera Labs Inc., a startup that supplies networking chips to cloud operators, today filed for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The news comes about a year after the company closed a $150 million funding round backed by Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm. The investment valued Astera at $3.15 billion. Earlier this month, ...