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.”
Oracle
Oracle declares itself a "high-growth cloud business" after record-breaking Q4
"I started talking about this tipping point four years ago, and you've seen it continue to play out in our results since then.”
AI
Teenage founder's AI startup valued at $13.7 billion in $1 billion funding round
"We must build frontier data which is always pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities towards complex reasoning, agents, multimodality, and more."
slack
Slack privacy furore: Company updates legals, says no customer data used to train genAI.
Communicating RAG/ML is hard. Engineering, legal and communications need to sit down and thrash this out in a growing number of companies.
slack
Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default
"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack..."
AI
“Barfing” code, RAG stacks and other AI lessons from LinkedIn
"For product experiences that tolerate such a level of errors, building with generative AI is refreshingly straightforward. But it also creates unattainable expectations..."
OpenAI
OpenAI will pay to scrape Stack Overflow data; surface it with links
That's the sound of a lifeline being thrown...
LLMs
Adobe’s new generative AI model won’t give you an image of Donald Trump or Taylor Swift
Adobe uses a "multi-layered, continuous review and moderation approach to block and remove content that violates Adobe’s policies"
AI
AI is helping hyperscalers “burn” customer money: In the real world, CIOs, spies fret
Alphabet CEO: We see "clear paths to AI monetization". GCHQ Chief Data Scientist: Beware "automation bias"
LLMs
No LLMs aren’t about to “autonomously” hack your company
Welcome to your latest episode of “is this exciting or is this mild AI exaggeration™"
News
Meta launches Llama 3: Puts its GPUs to work on Llama 4
The LLM arms race continues: Don't bet against the company spending $33 billion per year on GPUs.