Experts denounce EU client-side scanning proposal: ‘Too many risks’
A group of European experts has plenty to criticize when it comes to the European Union's client-side scanning proposal. This is according to a report from a recent seminar on the subject by the umbrella European privacy regulator EDPS.
The EU wants to eventually implement client-side scanning o... Read more
Intel says it’s the only one who can take on Nvidia’s AI hardware
During Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) in Denver, Colorado, Intel has made a number of announcements. In addition to sharing more details about its Aurora supercomputer, Intel stated that it is the only one to offer an AI chip competitive with Nvidia's offerings.
In collaboration with the US-based Ar... Read more
Microsoft’s stock reach record heights thanks to 1.5 trillion Big Tech boosts
Microsoft market cap has never been as high as it is today: $2.69 trillion. Despite global economic uncertainty and disappointing PC sales, the tech industry recently gained $1.5 trillion. The AI hype seems to be the main driving force behind Microsoft's green digits flying by on the Nasdaq ticker.... Read more
Google Play lets developers set their own deadline for verification
Google wants apps in its Play Store to meet the highest quality standards, and is now helping app developers do just that. One way it does this is by letting developers determine when deadlines for performing certain obligations occur. However, the store's requirements are also being tightened in p... Read more
Cyber attack knocks out four Australian ports, 30,000 containers stuck
DP World had a weekend to forget in Australia. After cyber attackers struck on Friday, the shipping giant was forced to shut down multiple ports. It also disconnected from the Internet to fight off the hackers. For now, the perpetrators are unknown.
A spokesman for DP World states that 5,000 con... Read more
OpenAI aspires creation of software as smart as humans: what is AGI?
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is setting sights on artificial general intelligence (AGI). This technology must have the same level of intelligence as humans. These ambitions should also help to raise new investments from Microsoft.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Sam Altman indicates that... Read more
Microsoft will keep Windows Server 2012 alive for another three years with security updates
Microsoft is giving Windows Server 2012/R2 users more time to upgrade. The tech giant is now offering three more years of security updates, moving the end date to 2026. Customers can access these so-called Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for products that have now reached their end-of-line status ... Read more
“Google wants to invest hundreds of millions in chatbot maker Character.AI”
Google may want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in AI chatbot specialist Character.AI. With this investment, AI chatbot startup wants to finance training its models. It also hopes to continue to meet user demand, Reuters writes.
The planned investment from Google should strengthen the ... Read more
Datadog integrates Google Vertex AI into its observability platform
Datadog is now integrating the capabilities of the Google Vertex AI platform into its own application monitoring and security platform. This gives customers more insight, monitoring and analysis capabilities for the performance of their own AI and ML models.
The integration of Google Vertex AI i... Read more
OpenAI asks for online unavailable data to willing third parties
OpenAI wants to improve the quality of training data for training its LLM models. This data set should be as broad as possible. To this end, the AI giant now wants to partner with public and private parties through its Data Partnerships program. The partner will receive no reward.
According to O... Read more