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Full-service Flutter consulting firm Very Good Ventures today announced the release of Dart Frog 1.0, a fully stable open-source backend framework for Dart designed to make sharing tooling, models and more across the entire stack a reality for developers. Dart itself is …
Five big tech companies form alliance around OpenUSD for 3D metaverse graphics standard
Nvidia Corp., Apple Inc., Adobe Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar Animation Studios today announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD, which will promote the joint development of open 3D standards for computer graphics for the metaverse and large-scale 3D …
Decentralized Ethereum protocol Curve Finance exploited for more than $50M
Curve Finance, a decentralized finance protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that is part of trading stablecoin cryptocurrency and other tokens, was exploited for more than $50 million on Sunday after vulnerabilities were found in a programming language used by its software. Decentralized …
Francisco Partners and TPG to buy New Relic in $6.5 billion deal
Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG today agreed to purchase cloud-observability platform New Relic Inc. and take the company private in a deal worth about $6.5 billion. The firms have offered New Relic shareholders $87 per share in cash, representing a 26% …
Google unveils RT-2, an AI language model for telling robots what to do
Google LLC today unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that will allow humans to speak to robots and tell them what to do by transforming words into action. The new model, called Robotics Transformer 2, or RT-2, is capable of learning from …
AWS expands Bedrock with new AI models and complex task automation
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today during AWS Summit New York that it’s expanding its fully managed artificial intelligence foundational model service Bedrock to include a variety of new models from Cohere, Anthropic and Stability AI, as well as the capacity for …
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic join forces to promote safe AI development
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., ChatGPT developer OpenAI LP and artificial intelligence research startup Anthropic today announced the formation of a new industry body that’s intended to ensure the development of safe and responsible AI models. In a joint announcement published today on …
Niantic 8th Wall introduces web AR features to track hands, fingers and wrists
Augmented reality developer Niantic Inc.’s platform for web-based AR development, 8th Wall, today introduced hand tracking with all-new features that will allow developers to create apps that can add virtual objects to human hands, fingers and wrists. Using the new Hand Tracking, developers …
New AMD ‘Zenbleed’ exploit can steal passwords and encryption keys from CPUs
A new security vulnerability has been discovered affecting Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Zen 2 processors that can be exploited to steal passwords and other sensitive data such as encryption keys. Google security researcher Travis Ormandy revealed the bug on his blog Monday, …
Everlaw integrates generative AI features to help legal teams to build their cases
Cloud-native legal investigation and litigation platform Everlaw Inc. today announced that it has added new generative artificial intelligence features to its portfolio of tools in a beta program to assist legal teams when writing and reviewing cases. Litigation is a competitive and …