cybersecurity
CVSS 10 bug in LLM-to-SQL library highlights prompt injection risks
"When we stumbled upon this library we immediately thought that connecting an LLM to SQL query execution could result in a disastrous SQL injection..."
AI
The AI elephant in the room: CIOs are not as keen on production deployments as they seem
"One multinational bank we spoke to received nearly 1,000 ideas from employees about how to leverage AI in their business over a year ago; zero are in production today..."
Accenture
Accenture boasts of $900m in quarterly genAI bookings - but CEO warns that...
"Nearly all clients are finding it difficult to scale GenAI projects" says CEO Julie Sweet. Here's why.
AI
AI will impact more than half of finance jobs -- banks to spend $40 billion: Citi
"This process requires an ability to efficiently validate, understand, and store content of documents to correctly implement client instructions"
cybersecurity
"Fighting AI with AI": Zscaler leaders on new threats and how to defeat them
Threat actors are already using large language models to enhance their attack capabilities - but it's not just the bad guys that can deploy Generative AI to their advantage.
open source
AI-powered code copilots are threatening to shoot down security systems
Adoption of artificial intelligence tools in highly regulated industries is much faster than expected, Chainguard boss warns
AI
From digital candidates to broken Russian bots: How AI is impacting elections in 2024
Record-breaking numbers of people are casting ballots this year, and the agents of digital disinformation are out in full force to influence their decisions.
AI
Meta’s new “CRAG” benchmark exposes depth of RAG challenge
Tests highlight stubborn hallucination and latency issues
LLMs
LLMs’ “Bullsh*t” problem, DARPA, and testing for nonsense
Defence research agency looks to challenge the "fundamental gaps between state-of-the-art AI systems and national security applications"
Databricks
"GenAI has fallen short": Can Databricks' compound models perform better?
LLMs “tend to fail” when faced with the “messy data, ambiguous language, and nuanced complexities of actual data analysis."
AI
Apple’s AI approach: More model, security details pending says Cupertino, as Musk stirs the pot
From a home-grown, 3b parameter on-device model to the use of its "Talaria" tool, Apple is innovating quietly on AI. Details? Well...
Microsoft
Don't worry software engineers: Bill Gates says your job is safe
Microsoft's engineers won't need to retrain just yet, although Gates does believe that AI will generate "so much extra productivity" that it will "surprise people and require us to rethink.”