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Simplr adds comprehensive safeguards for ChatGPT to be used safely in customer interactions
Simplr Inc., a chatbot-powered customer experience technology provider, said today it’s integrating generative artificial intelligence that’s guided by “comprehensive safeguards” into its platform. The new offering, called Cognitive Paths, is designed to prevent AI-powered chatbots from making false or misleading statements. Cognitive Paths was created through an integration with OpenAI LP’s large language model GPT-4, the ...
Google Cloud and SAP partner on data cloud to fuel AI
Google LLC’s cloud computing unit and German software maker SAP SE said today they’re collaborating to make it easier for customers to unite enterprise data from disparate sources so they can discover new insights and use the information to power artificial intelligence. The two companies are longstanding technology partners, with Google Cloud playing a key ...
Cisco integrates AppDynamics with ThousandEyes to enhance application and network observability
Cisco Systems Inc. is enhancing its observability capabilities with the launch of a new service called Customer Digital Experience Monitoring. Announced today, the new service is an OpenTelemetry-based bidirectional integration of its application monitoring tool Cisco AppDynamics and network intelligence offering ThousandEyes. Because it’s bidirectional, it can exchange data between those platforms simultaneously and in ...
YouTube, Waze, Zoom and other apps are coming to Android-powered cars
Cars that have Google LLC’s Android Automotive operating system built-in will soon be able to access apps such as YouTube, Waze and Zoom through their in-car infotainment systems. The first cars to get access to YouTube and other applications will be the latest models from Polestar Performance AB, an electronic vehicle manufacturer whose cars were ...
Google Search adds tools to help spot AI-generated images, and more
Google LLC said today it’s bringing greater transparency to image search so people can see at a glance if a JPEG is a genuine photo or generated by artificial intelligence. The new capabilities in Google Image Search were announced at Google I/O today, and include an “About this image” feature plus a file markup that ...
Google boosts AI training with A3 virtual machines powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs
Google Cloud is expanding its portfolio of virtual machines for training and running artificial intelligence and machine learning models with the launch of its A3 supercomputers. Announced at Google I/O today, the Google Compute Engine A3 supercomputers are purpose-built VMs equipped to train and serve the most advanced AI models, including those that advance progress ...
AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it’s open-sourcing two new projects, including a new fuzzing tool for finding vulnerabilities in software and an authorization policy language for controlling application access. The new tools were announced at the Linux Foundation’s annual Open Source Summit and they both have a security focus. In the case of SnapChange, ...
OpenAI is using GPT-4 to explain the behavior of large language models
ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP is working on the development of a tool that it says will eventually help it understand which parts of a large language model are responsible for its behavior. The tool is far from a finished article, but the company has open-sourced the code and made it available on GitHub for others ...
Rackspace beats expectations after restructuring its business
Cloud services provider Rackspace Technology Inc. delivered to expectations as it posted its first-quarter financial results today, but lower guidance sent its stock down 2% in after-hours trading. The results were notable because it was the first time Rackspace has reported since undergoing a business unit realignment, prompted by a pedestrian level of growth that ...
Nutanix consolidates application management across environments and announces vision for true portability
Data center infrastructure supplier Nutanix Inc. today announced that it’s giving administrators an easier way to consolidate infrastructure management across public clouds, on-premises data centers, hosted and edge environments. It’s doing so through a new, cloud-delivered interface called Nutanix Central, which it says will dramatically simplify the process of managing applications, infrastructure and data from ...