AI & Machine Learning

TL;DR Protecting workload virtual machines does not automatically protect the VMware Cloud Foundation services needed to discover, authorize, network, orchestrate, and validate their recovery. A complete VCF 9.1 recovery strategy needs several distinct mechanisms: native file-based backups for components such as SDDC Manager, vCenter Server, and NSX Manager; image-based protection for VCF Operations; backup and […]

TL;DR VMware Cloud Foundation is easier to understand when it is viewed as a vertically integrated city rather than a collection of infrastructure products. Physical hardware provides the land and utilities. vSphere and vSAN create the compute and storage districts. NSX becomes the transportation and security system. Tenant organizations occupy governed neighborhoods. VCF Operations and

TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi K3

Silicon Valley parent consolidates control as the London lab’s scientific culture gives way to urgency to build AI products

The ecommerce and cloud company hopes to recoup some of its lost shine with Monday’s release

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The Internet is awash in AI content, and it’s not always easy to tell it apart from genuine human creations. While images and videos are perhaps the most obvious type of AI slop, streaming music services like Spotify are also being inundated with AI-generated tunes. Suno is one of the most prolific sources of this

Genomic language model has huge potential to redesign organisms such as bacteria

Anthropic is hiring a “custom silicon team” to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed. Yesterday, Business Insider noticed a job listing for a senior engineer with experience shipping semiconductor designs. (You can see listings for a Silicon Engineer and a Technical Program Manager, Silicon on Anthropic’s job board right

A lot of the AI work in biology has been focused on designing proteins. That’s in part because proteins do most of the business of life, catalyzing the interesting chemistry and structuring cells. So, figuring out how to make a new protein can mean directly tinkering with biochemistry, providing new and potentially useful functions. Since