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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zscaler attracts micro-segmentation platform with acquisition of Airgap
Zscaler has acquired Airgap Networks. The micro-segmentation technology is intended to complement its Zero Trust platform.
With the acquisition, the financial details of which were not disclosed, Zscaler gains a platform that companies can use to address potential data breaches and secure their ... Read more
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