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Nvidia, xAI and two energy giants join genAI infrastructure initiative
The new AIP members will “further strengthen the partnership’s technology leadership as the platform seeks to invest in new and expanded AI infrastructure. Nvidia will also continue in its role as a technical advisor to AIP, leveraging its expertise in accelerated computing and AI factories to inform the deployment of next-generation AI data center infrastructure,” the group’s statement said. “Additionally,…
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How 4 genAI tools stack up – Computerworld
Results: Claude, NotebookLM, and ChatGPT answered with str_squish(), which I consider the correct answer. Perplexity assumed I only cared about space at the beginning and end of the text and not in the middle. After a follow-up question, it also found the best function. Test 2: Somewhat vague search of my social media posts This was a more difficult task,…
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Network Trends & Predictions with AI and GenAI in 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already begun making profound changes in how networks are managed, monitored, and optimized. As we look to the future, particularly into the year 2025, the integration of AI is set to reshape networking practices in ways previously unimagined. Generative AI (GenAI) is particularly prominent, reaching into public awareness and making a big impact on the stock…
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Microsoft launches genAI sales agents that focus on finance and supply chain – Computerworld
Salespeople spend hours verifying leads, writing to customers and then waiting for responses, said Bryan Goode, corporate vice president for business applications and platforms at Microsoft. “If you can take something that used to take hours and do it in minutes, you can spend more time selling,” he said. One agent, called “sales chat,” can automatically create documents by drawing…
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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse – Computerworld
“It can be hard to distinguish between mimicking something and actually doing that something. This is an unsolved technical problem,” Volkov said. “AI agents can clearly set goals, execute on them, and reason. We don’t know why it disregards some things. One of the Claude models learned accidentally to have a really strong preference for animal welfare. Why? We don’t…
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Microsoft releases a new genAI model that can control robots – Computerworld
Microsoft has launched Magma, a new generative AI (genAI) model that can be used to control everything from software to robots. The company says Magma is the first such model that can act on its own based on multimodal data such as texts, images, and video. It can, for example, use an interface or handle physical objects, Ars Technica reports.…
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GenAI can make us dumber — even while boosting efficiency – Computerworld
The Carnegie Mellon-Microsoft study isn’t alone in its findings. Verbal reasoning and problem-solving skills in the US have been steadily dropping, according to a paper published in June 2023 by US researchers Elizabeth Dworak, William Revelle and David Condon. And while IQ scores had been increasing steadily since the beginning of the 20th century — as recently as 2012, IQ…
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EU pulls back – for the moment – on privacy and genAI liability compliance regulations – Computerworld
The critical factor is that another, much larger piece of legislation, called simply the EU AI Act, is just about to kick in, and regulators wanted to see how that enforcement went before expanding it. “They want to see how these other pieces of the framework are going to work. There are a lot of moving parts so (delaying) is…
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Google’s latest genAI shift is a reminder to IT leaders — never trust vendor policy – Computerworld
If they add a clause to every RFP that they will only work with model-makers that agree to not do X, Y, or Z, that will get a lot of attention. The contract would have to be realistic, though. It might say, for instance, “If the model-maker later chooses to accept payments for the above-described prohibited acts, they must reimburse…
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Mistral releases its genAI assistant Le Chat for IOS and Android – Computerworld
French AI company Mistral has released several updates to its generative AI assistant Le Chat and made it available on Android and iOS. Mistral describes the tool as a comprehensive genAI assistant for both life and work that can be used to access the latest news, plan daily tasks, keep track of projects, upload and summarize documents, and more. Le…
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