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UK to invest £500M more in AI compute capacity, launch five new quantum projects
The U.K. government will invest £500 million, or $626 million, to provide local researchers and organizations with access to compute capacity for artificial intelligence projects. U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the investment in a Wednesday speech before members of Parliament. During the speech, Hunt also detailed five new research initiatives that the government plans to ...
Broadcom restructures VMware into four divisions after closing $61B acquisition
Broadcom Inc. has reorganized VMware into four divisions that are each responsible for a different subset of the virtualization giant’s products. This reorganization led to significant VMware layoffs, with Broadcom cutting at least 2,800 jobs. The Register reported the move this morning, citing new information that was quietly added to Broadcom’s website. The chipmaker later confirmed the ...
Report: OpenAI board’s ouster of Sam Altman followed potential AGI breakthrough
The ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI last week was reportedly influenced by concerns about a potentially major artificial intelligence breakthrough achieved by the company. Reuters reported the twist late Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The sources said that some OpenAI researchers had expressed concerns the breakthrough “could threaten humanity.” It’s believed ...
Google expands Bard’s YouTube integration
Google LLC on Tuesday released a new version of Bard that provides the ability to interact with YouTube videos using natural language prompts. Originally introduced in March, Bard is the search giant’s answer to ChatGPT. Google has rolled out dozens of feature enhancements to the chatbot since its release. A few days before debuting the ...
Researchers find vulnerabilities in major laptop makers’ Windows Hello implementations
Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in several laptop makers’ implementations of Windows Hello, the biometric login feature built into Windows. The researchers, who work at cybersecurity company Blackwing Intelligence, detailed their findings in a Tuesday blog post. They uncovered the vulnerabilities as part of a project carried out on behalf of Microsoft Corp.’s offensive research and ...
Inflection AI debuts new flagship Inflection-2 LLM trained on 5,000 H100 chips
Inflection AI Inc. today debuted its new flagship large language model, Inflection-2, which it claims can outperform most major rivals with the exception of OpenAI’s GPT-4. Inflection AI was founded in March by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research group, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The company closed a $225 million ...
C3 AI brings its C3 Generative AI platform to AWS Marketplace
C3 AI Inc. today debuted a new version of its C3 Generative AI platform that organizations can access through the AWS Marketplace. Redwood City, California-based C3 sells software that eases the task of developing custom artificial intelligence models. It also offers prepackaged AI applications for use cases such as predicting customer demand and optimizing buildings’ ...
Broadcom finally set to close VMware acquisition after receiving regulatory approval in China
Broadcom Inc. today announced that it expects to close its acquisition of VMware Inc. on Wednesday after receiving all the necessary regulatory approvals. The transaction has received the green light in more than a half-dozen countries, including China, where it was reportedly awaiting approval as recently as last month. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware was earlier delayed ...
AWS launches AI Ready initiative to equip 2M people with AI skills
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted AI Ready, a new initiative through which it hopes to equip 2 million people with artificial intelligence skills by 2025. “Artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology of our generation,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and AI at AWS. “If we are going to unlock the full ...
LucidLink nabs $75M for its high-speed file sharing platform
LucidLink Corp., the developer of a speedy file sharing platform optimized for large datasets, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Brighton Park Capital. Adobe Inc.’s venture capital arm, Headline, Baseline Ventures and a number of other institutional backers participated as well. The raise follows ...