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OpenAI introduces new multimodal processing, AI fine-tuning tools at DevDay
OpenAI introduced a set of new developer tools today at its DevDay product event in San Francisco. The additions are headlined by Realtime API, a cloud service that enables software teams to equip their applications with multimodal processing capabilities. The service powers those capabilities using OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models. On launch, Realtime API supports one ...
Microsoft enhances Copilot and Bing with new generative AI features
Microsoft Corp. today introduced a set of new artificial intelligence features for its Copilot chatbot and Bing search engine. Most of the capabilities are rolling out to Copilot. The Bing enhancements, in turn, will enable the service to deliver more detailed answers to user queries. Both updates began rolling out to users this morning. One ...
Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems files to go public
Cerebras Systems Inc., a startup that sells a wafer-sized chip for artificial intelligence applications, today filed to go public. The move is not unexpected. Cerebras submitted a confidential draft version of the filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission in July. Last week, Bloomberg reported that the company hopes to raise between $750 million and $1 ...
SoftBank expected to invest $500M in OpenAI as Apple exits funding round
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest $500 million in OpenAI as part of a forthcoming funding round, The Information reported today. A source told the publication that the cash infusion will give the ChatGPT developer a pre-money valuation of $150 million. That’s up from the $86 billion OpenAI was reportedly worth following a tender offer ...
Epic Games sues Google, Samsung over ‘Auto Block’ mobile cybersecurity feature
Epic Games Inc. today sued Google LLC and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. over the Auto Block feature in Samsung’s Android devices. The complaint is the second that the video game maker has brought against Google in recent years. The previous lawsuit, which dates back to 2020, ended last year with a jury verdict against the ...
Google will invest $3.3B to increase its data center capacity in South Carolina
Google LLC will spend $3.3 billion to build two new data centers in South Carolina and expand an existing cloud campus. The Alphabet Inc. detailed the project on Thursday. It’s the latest in a string of 10-figure data center investments that the company has announced since the start of the year. In the same time ...
Report: Intel could finalize $8.5B CHIPS Act direct funding agreement by year’s end
Intel Corp. and the U.S. government will likely finalize a deal to provide the company with $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding by year’s end, the Financial Times reported today. Plans for the cash infusion were first announced in March as part of a broader financing deal. Alongside the direct funding, the Commerce Department intends ...
Ireland fines Meta €91M over plaintext user passwords
Ireland’s privacy regulator today fined Meta Platforms Inc. €91 million over a cybersecurity flaw in its internal systems that came to light five years ago. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, also issued the company a reprimand over the matter. In January 2019, Meta discovered that it had stored several hundred million account passwords in an ...
Privacy-focused Tails operating system merges with the Tor Project
The organizations behind two popular privacy technologies are merging to advance their product development efforts. The Tails Project and the Tor Project announced the move today. According to Ars Technica, the merger follows a years-long collaboration between the groups. The Tor Project is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that develops Tor, a network privacy technology. The software ...
Supermicro shares drop on reported Justice Department probe
Shares of Super Micro Computer Inc. dropped more than 12% today after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is facing a probe from the U.S. Justice Department. The report didn’t specify the nature of the investigation. However, the Journal’s sources did detail that a prosecutor has asked for information seemingly “connected to a ...