Nvidia releases a toolkit to make text-generating AI ‘safer’
For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful. The Verge’s James Vincent once called one such model an “emotionally manipulative liar,” which pretty much sums up the current state of things.
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Google brings generative AI to cybersecurity
There’s a new trend emerging in the generative AI space — generative AI for cybersecurity — and Google is among those looking to get in on the ground floor.
At the RSA Conference 2023 today, Google announced Cloud Security AI Workbench, a cybersecurity suite powered by a specializ
GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
DeveloperplatformGitLabtodayannouncedanewAI-drivensecurityfeaturethatusesalargelanguagemodeltoexplainpotentialvulnerabilitiestodevelopers,withplanstoexpandthistoautomaticallyresolvethesevulnerabilitiesusingAIinthefuture.
Earlierthismonth,thecompanyannouncedanewexperimentaltoolthatexplainscodetoadev
Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions
CorrActions, an Israeli startup that, among other things, built a driver monitoring system that can understand a driver’s cognitive state, today announced that it has raised a strategic investment from Volvo Cars Tech Fund. According to the company, the target for this round is $6 million.
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Everything you need to know about cloud outage insurance
Companies collectively spent $61 billion on cloud infrastructure in Q4 2022, and there's more growth to come. Yet, businesses are poorly protected from losses caused by cloud downtime.
“Cloud service providers typically offer service level agreements (SLAs) that outline their commitments
Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the launch of the TLA+ Foundation to promote the adoption and development of the TLA+ programming language. AWS, Oracle and Microsoft are among the inaugural members.
What is the TLA+ p
CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment
CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform.
CoreWeave today announced that it raised $221 million in a Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital wit
Evermile raises $6M seed to make local deliveries more economic for small businesses
Local retailers have to manage delivery providers themselves or build in-house. Both are expensive and complex. Delivery providers include DPD, Royal Mail, Hived and Veho.
U.K. startup Evermile claims to simplify and automate deliveries, bringing enterprise-grade logistics to small businesses.
Atlassian brings an AI assistant to Jira and Confluence
Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Intelligence, the company’s AI-driven “virtual teammate” that leverages the company’s own models in conjunction with OpenAI’s large language models to create custom teamwork graphs and enable features like AI-generated
Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data
For many, ChatGPT and the generative AI hype train signals the arrival of artificial intelligence into the mainstream. But while there’s little question of a seismic sea change these past six months in terms of public awareness, the growing demand for AI could be outpacing the infrastructure
Salesforce is working on a pair of new generative AI-driven workflow tools
One of the promises of generative AI is the ability to create code based on a written request. This can lead to the ability to generate SQL queries and simple API calls to move work between systems.
Salesforce is laying the foundation for a generative AI-driven workflow system, and it's in the
Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync
Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and proc
Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment
Isaac Heller and Amir Boldo spent over ten years in finance across private equity-backed and pre-IPO companies. At these firms, they dealt with CFOs who wanted to save money by consolidating manual processes and reducing the cost of audits — in part by modernizing their sprawling software too
Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture
There have been more than 171,000 people in the tech industry laid off so far this year, according to data tracked by layoffs.fyi, but those looking for work are not in a “beggars can’t be choosers” mindset. According to new data from LinkedIn, people are gravitating to workplaces