AI
Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show AI rewriting cloud businesses
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
News
A local, free, open source, generative AI stack for developers? Docker and friends aim to cover all the bases
Package includes Ollama, which lets you download a range of open source LLM model packages, bundling weights, configuration and data into a single portable file
AI
ICO slaps Snap over AI chat
ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...
MongoDB
A flurry of welcome new MongoDB tools show how powerful AI can be for developer productivity
“One of the most precious things that any organisation has is the time of their developers"
AI
OpenAI faces novel jailbreak risks with GPT-4v image service
“Given the model’s imperfect but increased proficiency for such tasks, it could appear to be useful for certain dangerous tasks...such as synthesis of certain illicit chemicals”
Citi
Job of the Week: Head of Generative AI Security, Citi
"Ideate and leverage Gen AI to solve cybersecurity problems at scale for Citi..."
NVIDIA
OVHcloud gets its happy mitts on NVIDIA GPUs, touts new AI instances
NVIDIA A100 80GB powered GPU instances are “immediately available" and a range more coming very soon.
AWS
Amazon swoops on AI hotshot Anthropic with $4 billion
AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock
storage
AI data storage strategies: A planetary and CTO challenge
The latest GPU servers consume 6-10kW each, and most existing datacentres are not designed to deliver more than 15kW per rack. With energy and water demand...
Microsoft
Microsoft exposed 38TB of private AI data, including passwords and secret keys
Microsoft itself warns that it is "not possible to audit the generation of SAS tokens"
DataStax
Taking generative AI to production: What CTOs need to consider
A groundswell of work on production generative AI applications powered by first-party data is happening, says DataStax CPO Ed Anuff. Change is coming and it is going to put pressure on enterprise data architectures.
NVIDIA
New open source NVIDIA toolkit aims to boost inference speed
The chipmaker says it can double the speed of inference on its H100 GPUs