The U.S. Senate has passed a bill requiring the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-approved buyer or risk a ban. President Biden has indicated that he will sign the bill to that effect. The Senate passed the proposal, formally known by the resounding name Protecting Am... Read more
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Microsoft today released the first version of a new series of super-small AI models: Phi-3 Mini. This so-called small language model (SLM) is small enough to easily run on a smartphone. The introduction of Phi-3 Mini follows a few months after Phi-2, which already contained relatively few parame... Read more
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SAP's focus on delivering more AI services to ease customers' cloud ERP transition seems to be paying off. In the first quarter of this year, the company saw its revenue increase. In the first quarter, SAP saw its revenue increase to 8.04 billion euros, eight percent more than in the same quarte... Read more
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TikTok finds itself once again in the crosshairs of the European Commission. The governing body is launching a formal investigation into the launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain due to concerns about the 'Task and Reward Program' that is part of this app. This allows users to earn rewards by p... Read more
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Meta is renaming its VR platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third parties. Meta, leading sales figures in VR hardware by a country mile, hopes to create an ecosystem around its OS. Microsoft, Lenovo and Asus are already shuffling in. Previously, the operating system for Quest headse... Read more
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Update 22/04/2024 - Salesforce does not appear to have closed the deal with cloud data management firm Informatica. The companies can't agree on the terms of Salesforce's proposed acquisition. If the deal had gone through, it would have been one of the largest acquisitions Salesforce—already know... Read more
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Software application development is benefiting from AI-assisted testing at the ‘back end’ of enterprise IT systems in order to make our business apps bug-free, more functionally complete and safer. Among the firms pushing forward AI tools of this kind is continuous testing and quality engineeri... Read more
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Hugging Face recently introduced its Open Medical benchmark. This solution tests LLMs on the reliability and quality of the medical information they provides. With this, the AI platform aims to ensure that the medical sector can use GenAI responsibly. GenAI is increasingly being used in healthca... Read more
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Microsoft has made available the commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024. This version is intended for a limited number of niche applications. An LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel) version of a Microsoft product is not intended for most organizations and not for regular end users. Suitable applic... Read more
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Meta has announced Llama 3, the successor to the highly successful open-source model Llama 2. Along with the new LLM debuts Meta AI, one of the best AI assistants in the world, according to the company. Llama 3 launches with two models: the compact Llama 3-8B (8 billion parameters), which can be... Read more
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