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Meta wants to sell its AI products and services to other companies. Chesnot/Getty Images In case there was any doubt, Meta no longer wants its business to rely solely on advertising. Meta is officially starting a new enterprise business to sell its AI products and services to other companies.
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In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian’s Door. Vivian’s Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies’ financial data, which was stored
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As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security
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India's cloud market is entering a more complicated phase. Enterprises are no longer deciding only whether to move workloads to the cloud. They are asking where their data resides, how much control they retain over infrastructure, what AI workloads will cost at scale, and whether relying heavily on
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OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and tool-enabled inference involving its most capable models after an internal research agent found a way around internet restrictions and reached an external chatbot through the Domain Name System (DNS). The incident happened on September 20 during a search-based training task. The agent was supposed
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In Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, a clash over the expansion of AI data centers has taken an extraordinary turn. When NorthPoint Development proposed a 1,300-acre project in the Pocono foothills designed to host 15 data center buildings, it was met with fierce local resistance to the construction, but NorthPoint had
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Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks of open-weight AI models. Anyone can download, modify and run the trained parameters of such models. The two released the report on Monday, Chong Ming Lee reported for the South China
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China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Government agencies have started telling affected people about the wider restrictions,
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late
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Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and
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Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell
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* AI models are becoming quickly outdated as they’re replaced with newer versions * Most AI tokens are used on models available for less than four months * Open-weight models are now more popular than closed AI models New data from Vercel’s AI Gateway claims AI models are becoming outdated faster
