Author: Floris Hulshoff Pol

Hugging Face rates AI models on their medical reliability

Hugging Face rates AI models on their medical reliability

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

date10 hours ago
Databricks sees sales grow 70 percent in EMEA

Databricks sees sales grow 70 percent in EMEA

Databricks has seen strong revenue growth in the EMEA region over the past year. Sales in this region increased 70 percent over the past 12 months, mainly due to increased business demand for AI solutions. Databricks reports that sales increased by this percentage in the EMEA region. The main re... Read more

date12 hours ago
Microsoft’s VASA-1 model lets photos talk

Microsoft’s VASA-1 model lets photos talk

Microsoft recently published a study in which the company presented the AI model VASA-1. This model uses portrait photos and associated audio files to show realistic "talking heads". This technology offers creative options, but carries serious risks. The VASA-1 AI model is still in a research ph... Read more

date13 hours ago
Cisco warns of brute-force attacks on VPN and SSH applications

Cisco warns of brute-force attacks on VPN and SSH applications

Cisco security specialists are warning of brute-force attacks on VPN and SSH applications for their own devices, as well as those from CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall and Ubiquiti. The attacks focus on stealing login credentials and may have links to previous recent attack attempts. Cisco Talos ... Read more

date3 days ago
AWS charges hefty fee to use Anthropic’s Claude Opus LLM

AWS charges hefty fee to use Anthropic’s Claude Opus LLM

AWS is now making all of Anthropic's Claude 3 LLM versions available through Amazon Bedrock. Recently, the hyperscaler added the largest variant Claude Opus to its portfolio. Using this model does come with a higher price tag. The fact AWS is making all of Anthropic's Claude 3-LLMs available thr... Read more

date3 days ago
xAI shows preview of new multimodal LLM Grokv 1.5

xAI shows preview of new multimodal LLM Grokv 1.5

xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, recently previewed its new multimodal LLM Grok Vision (Grokv) 1.5. This LLM is more powerful than the original recently launched Grok-1.5 LLM and should compete with equivalent LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The preview of Grokv 1.5 presented by... Read more

date5 days ago
Microsoft to raise Dynamics 365 prices significantly

Microsoft to raise Dynamics 365 prices significantly

Microsoft is raising the prices of its Dynamics 365 application suite by ten percent or more. As an explanation for the price increase, the company says that the products are getting more and more new features from which users can benefit. In Microsoft's announcement for Dynamics 365, it announc... Read more

date5 days ago
Epic Games demands Google reform the Play Store

Epic Games demands Google reform the Play Store

Epic Games wants a U.S. judge to force Google to open up the Play Store more to competition from alternative app stores. The game company is taking this further in its earlier battle against Google over alternative app payment methods. According to the new demands, Epic Games is now asking the j... Read more

date8 days ago
Chrome Enterprise Premium offers browser security, for a price

Chrome Enterprise Premium offers browser security, for a price

Google recently introduced an enterprise-targeted paid version of its Chrome browser: Chrome Enterprise Premium. Among other things, this variant of the well-known browser should offer businesses better AI-based security features. Google now sees the browser as a standalone endpoint that employe... Read more

date8 days ago
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