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OpenAI’s upcoming smart speaker will probably cost over $300, “people familiar with the matter” have told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The generative AI company has “discussed” charging up to $400, Bloomberg, which has been reporting on the yet-to-be-announced smart speaker since July, said today. The publication said that OpenAI is viewing the smart speaker as a
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive” Read More »
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities Read More »
The most advanced systems are evolving faster than efforts to keep them safe
The A.I. economy will create a job boom, not an apocalypse, argues Scott Galloway. Will that lead to a renaissance of meaning for young men? The columnist Ross Douthat, the host of “Interesting Times,” isn’t so sure.
This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit described the story of a man who took his own life after being allegedly “coached” into suicide. A college student in Georgia sued OpenAI, claiming that ChatGPT “pushed him into
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Read More »
ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic’s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top US labs. The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10 trillion parameters—three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic Read More »
TL;DR Neoclouds may begin by selling access to scarce GPU capacity, but long-term differentiation requires more than racks, drivers, and a booking portal. A production AI cloud must convert bare-metal servers, virtual machines, GPU pools, storage, networks, and external cloud resources into secure, repeatable, tenant-aware services. The missing layer is vendor-neutral AI infrastructure orchestration. It
GPUs Are Not a Cloud: Why Neoclouds Need Vendor Neutral AI Infrastructure Orchestration Read More »
TL;DR Private AI cloud, sovereign cloud, and neocloud are not three interchangeable names for the same infrastructure model. A private AI cloud is designed around organizational control of AI data, models, infrastructure, identity, and operations. A sovereign cloud is designed around legal jurisdiction, operational autonomy, data and key control, supply-chain constraints, and continuity under a
Private AI Cloud vs. Sovereign Cloud vs. Neocloud: A Practical Enterprise Guide Read More »
Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names leading the tallies for deal count and size. Among lead investors, Khosla Ventures topped the ranks last month, while Y Combinator was by far the busiest backer by deal count. The highest-spending investors for the period, meanwhile, appear to be Coatue and Nvidia.
No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July Read More »
