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Pure Storage’s AIRI reference architecture nabs Nvidia BasePOD certification
Pure Storage Inc. today announced that it has become the first data center storage supplier to receive Nvidia Corp.’s BasePOD technical certification. The company nabbed the certification for its AIRI offering. It’s reference architecture, or a blueprint that combines several different technology products into a single system. AIRI integrates Pure Storage flash appliances, Nvidia chips ...
Qualcomm scraps Android satellite communications deal with Iridium
Qualcomm Inc. has ended its collaboration with Iridium Communications Inc. to provide satellite connectivity for Android devices. The chipmaker disclosed its intent to scrap the deal last week, Iridium announced on Thursday. The agreement will officially end on Dec. 3. Shares of Iridium, a McLean, Virginia-based satellite operator that trades on the Nasdaq, dropped more ...
OpenAI launches partner initiative focused on creating AI training datasets
OpenAI LP today announced a new initiative, OpenAI Data Partnerships, through which it will collect records from other organizations to create artificial intelligence training datasets. The quality of training files directly influences the reliability of the neural network they’re used to build. The more relevant the dataset, the more accurately the neural network can answer ...
Mandiant: Russian hackers caused a power outage in Ukraine with 2022 cyberattack
Google LLC’s Mandiant unit today revealed that a Russian hacking group caused a power outage in Ukraine late last year. The hacking group, which is tracked as Sandworm, is believed to be a unit of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. According to Mandiant, Sandworm caused the power outage by planting malicious code on the infrastructure ...
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 ...