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OpenAI’s ChatGPT and APIs affected by ‘periodic outages’ after DDoS attack
OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT chatbot and application programming interfaces are experiencing periodic outages because of a distributed denial-of-service attack. OpenAI disclosed the issue late Wednesday in a note posted to its service status page. “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to ...
Google Cloud is making GKE Enterprise generally available
Google LLC’s cloud unit will make GKE Enterprise, its managed Kubernetes service for large organizations, generally available next Wednesday. The company announced the move at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference taking place today in Chicago. GKE Enterprise’s rollout comes about two months after it was first previewed by Google. Customers of the service ...
Google expands Anthropic partnership after Microsoft and Oracle detail AI collaboration
Google LLC today announced an expansion of its partnership with Anthropic PBC, a generative artificial intelligence startup in which it recently agreed to invest up to $2 billion. The news comes a day after Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., two of Google’s top rivals in the cloud market, detailed an AI alliance of their own. ...
Meta introduces disclosure requirement for AI-generated political ads
Meta Platforms Inc. will require organizations to disclose if they use Facebook and Instagram to distribute ads that were created with the help of artificial intelligence. Meta announced the new policy in a blog post published today. The disclosure requirement will apply to social issue, election and political ads that contain photorealistic images, videos or ...
Amazon reportedly building ‘Olympus’ language model with 2 trillion parameters
Amazon.com Inc. engineers are developing a large language model with 2 trillion parameters, Reuters reported this morning. The model is believed to be known as Olympus internally. Amazon is reportedly spending “millions” of dollars on the project. OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 model, which is estimated to have a similar parameter count as Olympus, cost more than ...
IBM launches $500M fund to invest in enterprise AI startups
IBM Corp. today debuted a new corporate investment vehicle, the Enterprise AI Venture Fund, through which it plans to back startups building enterprise-focused artificial intelligence products. The move comes as other tech giants also ramp up their investments in the AI startup ecosystem. A few weeks ago, large language model developer Anthropic PBC secured funding rounds ...
Shares of GlobalFoundries and NXP rise on better-than-expected quarterly profits
Shares of chipmakers GlobalFoundries Inc. and NXP Semiconductors NV rose today after they posted third-quarter profit numbers that topped analyst expectations. Both companies generate the bulk of their revenue by supplying processors for three industries: the automobile, mobile device and internet of things segments. However, their business models diverge significantly. GlobalFoundries makes chips based on ...
Datadog shares jump 29% on strong quarterly results and upgraded guidance
Shares of Datadog Inc. jumped more than 29% today after it posted third-quarter results that handily topped the consensus analyst estimate. The company also raised its full-year guidance, which was likely another contributor to its stock market gains. Datadog now expects to close fiscal 2023 with revenues of between $2.103 billion and $2.107 billion, up ...
HPE, SAP back $500M+ funding round for language model developer Aleph Alpha
Aleph Alpha GmbH, a German startup focused on developing large language models, today announced that it has closed a Series B funding round worth more than $500 million. Bosch Ventures jointly led the investment with Ipai and Schwarz Group. Ipai operates an artificial intelligence-focused business park in the German city of Heilbronn, while the Schwartz ...
OpenAI debuts AI customization features and GPT-4 Turbo
OpenAI LP is rolling out a new tool that will enable users to customize ChatGPT for specific tasks without writing any code. The tool made its debut at the company’s first annual DevDay developer conference, which took place today in San Francisco. At the event, OpenAI also introduced an enhanced version of the GPT-4 language ...