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☆ Meta's Llama 2 gives detailed guidance on making anthrax, Senators learned in a rare moment of interest at AI Forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Kali Hays | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It was a mostly staid meeting until the potential harms from Meta's new Llama 2 model came up. That prompted a testy exchange between Harris and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, formerly known as Facebook. "It was one of the only moments in the whole thing that was like, 'Oh,'" one of the senators present said, describing the exchange as having caught people's attention. "It was, 'Ok, next speaker,' it moved right along," one of the senators present said. Its ability to turn up detailed instructions for creating a biological weapon like anthrax is to be expected, two people familiar with the company said.

Persons: Tristan Harris, Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Chuck Schumer, Democratic Sen, Martin Heinrich, Republican Sens, Mike Rounds, Todd Young, OpenAI's, It's, Meta, ChatGPT, Google's Bard, Kali Hays Organizations: Center for Humane Technology, Meta, Facebook, The Washington, Elon, Twitter, SpaceX, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Senate, Democratic, Republican, YouTube Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other tech names head to Washington for a closed-door meeting on policing AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some of the world's biggest tech leaders gathered in Washington, DC for a closed-door forum on AI. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and other tech leaders all were scheduled to attend. The closed-door forum on Capitol Hill included almost two dozen tech executives, tech advocates, civil rights groups and labor leaders. Tech leaders outlined their views, with each participant getting three minutes to speak on a topic of their choosing. AdvertisementAdvertisementStill, some senators were critical of the private meeting, arguing that tech executives should testify in public.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Musk, Chuck Schumer, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Schumer, Sen, Mike Rounds, Eric Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Arvind Krishna, Josh Hawley, Hawley, Richard Blumenthal, Conn Organizations: Service, Capitol, Microsoft, Tech, IBM Locations: Washington ,, Wall, Silicon

Alibaba Group sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song Acquire Licensing RightsSHANGHAI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Alibaba said on Wednesday it would open its artificial intelligence model Tongyi Qianwen to the public, in a sign it has gained Chinese regulatory approval to mass-market the model. He was replaced by newly installed Alibaba Group CEO, Eddie Wu. In an internal letter to Alibaba staff on Tuesday, Wu said that AI would be at the centre of Alibaba Group's future strategy. Alibaba first unveiled Tongyi Qianwen in April, saying at the time that the AI large language model, which is similar to ChatGPT, would be integrated into all business applications.

Persons: Aly, Alibaba, Daniel Zhang, Eddie Wu, Wu, Tongyi Qianwen, Casey Hall, Tom Hogue Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, REUTERS, Rights, Cloud Intelligence Division, Zhejiang University, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, United States, DingTalk, Alibaba

☆ Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other tech leaders in closed Senate session about AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hosted the panel of tech executives, labor and civil rights leaders as part of the Senate's inaugural "AI Insight Forum." Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Working toward legislationSchumer said in his prepared remarks that the event marked the beginning of "an enormous and complex and vital undertaking: building a foundation for bipartisan AI policy that Congress can pass." Successful legislation will need to be bipartisan, Schumer added, saying he'd spoken with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who was "encouraging." Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who leads the Commerce Committee, predicted lawmakers could get AI legislation "done in the next year."

Persons: Elon Musk, Alex Karp, Chuck Schumer, Leah Millis, CNBC's Eamon Javers, Sens, Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich, Todd Young, Schumer, Sam Altman, Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Arvind Krishna, Bill Gates, Charles Rivkin, Liz Shuler, Meredith Steihm, Randi Weingarten, Maya Wiley, CIO's Shuler, Musk, Shuler, Sen, Pichai, Mandel Ngan, Meta's Zuckerberg, Meta, Julia Nikhinson, Reuters Schumer, Kevin McCarthy, he'd, Young, Maria Cantwell, Altman, We're, Elon Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, Reuters Tech, Microsoft Nvidia, IBM, Microsoft, Former, Tesla, Meta, Nvidia, Federation of Teachers, Civil, Human Rights, AFL, Artificial Intelligence, AFP, Getty, EU, Reuters, Chinese Communist Party, Commerce, Science, CNBC, YouTube Locations: Washington , U.S, U.S, Washington ,, Washington, deepfakes

☆ Meta is building an AI model as powerful as GPT-4, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wall Street Journal report says Meta is developing an AI model designed to compete with GPT-4. It's expected to be much more powerful than Llama 2, the open-source AI that Meta recently released. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The Journal reported that Meta's lawyers had raised concerns about potential misuses of the company's AI model. Meta has bet on open-sourcing its AI models to cut the lead built up by its rivals.

Persons: It's, Google's Bard, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta Organizations: Meta, Service, Street Journal, Big Tech, Microsoft, Reuters, Facebook Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Meta is developing a new, more powerful AI system, Wall Street Journal reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 10 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) is working on a new artificial-intelligence system intended to be as powerful as the most advanced model offered by OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Facebook parent is aiming for its new AI model to be ready next year, the Journal said, adding it will be several times more powerful than its commercial version dubbed Llama 2. Llama 2 is Meta's open source AI language model launched in July, and distributed by Microsoft's (MSFT.O) cloud Azure services to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's (GOOGL.O) Bard. Meta expects to start training the new AI system, known as a large language model, in early 2024, the report added. Businesses and enterprises have flocked to the nascent generative AI market for newer capabilities and refining business processes since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT late last year.

Persons: Yves Herman, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bard, Meta, Google's Bard, Ajax, Nilutpal, Leslie Adler, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, OpenAI, Wall Street, Meta, Bloomberg News, Apple, Thomson Locations: Brussels, Belgium, Bengaluru

☆ In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

In this high-tech contest, seizing the upper hand across fields including AI and autonomous weapons, like Ghost Shark, could determine who comes out on top. This could become critical if the United States intervened against an assault by Beijing on Taiwan. Cheap and expendableThe AI military sector is dominated by software, an industry where change comes fast. Still, the available disclosures of spending on AI military research do show that outlays on AI and machine learning grew sharply in the decade from 2010. The Costa-Mesa, California-based company now employs more than 1,800 staff in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Persons: America’s, Shane Arnott, Anduril, ” Arnott, Arnott, ”, “, Mick Ryan, Eric Schmidt, hasn’t, Lloyd Austin, –, Stuart Russell, Russell, Kathleen Hicks, “ We’ll, Palmer Luckey, Luckey, ” Arnott didn’t, Biden, Tsai Ing, Frank Kendall, Datenna, Martijn Rasser, Feng Yanghe, Feng, Palmer, ” Anduril, Arnott wouldn’t, David Lague, Edgar Su, Catherine Tai, Peter Hirschberg Organizations: Australian Navy, Ghost Sharks, Sharks, Reuters, Defense, Australian, Chinese Communist Party, Beijing, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, Department of Defense, Pentagon, Australia’s Department of Defence, Australian Defence Force, Technologists, University of California, U.S ., U.S, Teledyne FLIR, Facebook, VR, Military, . Air Force, FH, U.S . Central Intelligence Agency, Department, Statistics, Harvard University, Biden Administration, Special, Command, Ministry of Defense, Veteran Locations: China, Australia, United States, Sydney, Britain, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Europe, Asia, Ukraine, ”, America, U.S, Taiwan, East Asia, Beijing, Russian, Berkeley, Fort Campbell , Tennessee, Kenya, “, Russia, Colorado, Zhuhai, Netherlands, Costa, Mesa , California, United Kingdom, Virginia, Canberra, Washington

☆ Putin's biologist daughter is still getting published in science journals in the West despite the Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Maria Vorontsova, Putin's daughter, is a scientist at Moscow State University. Vorontosova, Putin's eldest daughter, is a researcher at Moscow State University specialising in endocrinology, or the study of the system in the body that regulates hormones. The three articles published in MPDI publications appeared in 2022 and 2023, according to Vorontsova's university research profile. Her sister, Katerina Tikhoniva, is a dancer and also works in a senior position at Moscow State University, Reuters reported. In the wake of the Ukraine invasion, the US and other Western allies of Ukraine imposed sanctions on Putin's family.

Persons: Vladimir Putin's, Maria Vorontsova, Vladimir, Putin's, Young Vladimir Putin, Vorontsova, MDPI, Putin, Lyudmila Putina, Mikhail Fridman, Katerina Tikhoniva, Tikhonova's Organizations: Moscow State University ., Service, Moscow State University, US Endocrine Society, Moscow Times, Getty, Putin Reuters, Reuters, US Treasury Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Russia, MDPI, Dresden, Germany, Dutch, Netherlands, Moscow

☆ Russian infighting may have led to Ukraine retaking a key town in its counteroffensive: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Russian mercenary group refused to fight in Ukraine, reports say. It may have enabled Ukraine to seize back control of the village of Robotyne. Infighting has racked the Russian military in recent weeks. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The Rusich was formed in 2014, and has fought in Syria, in conflicts in Africa, and in Ukraine.

Persons: Samuel Ramani, Yan Petrovsky, Wagner, Jeff Hawn, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexsey Milkachov Organizations: Service, Sunday, Ukraine, The Telegraph, Oxford University, Twitter, Kremlin, New Lines Institute, France, Robotyne, Analysts, Group, for Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Robotyne, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Nazi, Finland, Washington, DC, Russia, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Moscow, Syria, Africa

☆ UAE's G42 launches open source Arabic language AI model
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Max A. Cherney | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Startup Cerebras System's new AI supercomputer Andromeda is seen at a data center in Santa Clara, California, U.S. October 2022. Rebecca Lewington/Cerebras Systems/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 30 (Reuters) - A group of engineers, researchers and a Silicon Valley-based chip company collaborated to release advanced Arabic language software that can power generative AI applications. The new large language model called Jais contains 13 billion parameters that was made from a big batch of data combining Arabic and English, a portion of which is from computer code. The new language model was created with the help of supercomputers produced by the Silicon Valley-based Cerebras Systems, which designs dinner plate-sized chips that compete with Nvidia's (NVDA.O) powerful AI hardware. The group trained the Jais model on a Cerebras' supercomputer called a Condor Galaxy.

Persons: Rebecca Lewington, Cerebras, Mohamed bin, Timothy Baldwin, Baldwin, Max A, Josie Kao Organizations: Cerebras, REUTERS, Systems, United Arab Emirates, University of Artificial Intelligence, Reuters, Condor Galaxy, Thomson Locations: Santa Clara , California, U.S, University, Abu Dhabi, San Francisco

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Tenable CEO Amit Yoran
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Tenable CEO Amit YoranAmit Yoran, Tenable CEO, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss national security concerns over the data fueling open source AI resources, using AI to identify software vulnerabilities, and strong demand for cyber security infrastructure.

Persons: Amit Yoran Amit Yoran

☆ Demand for cyber security is strong as AI creates new vulnerabilities, says Tenable CEO Amit Yoran
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDemand for cyber security is strong as AI creates new vulnerabilities, says Tenable CEO Amit YoranAmit Yoran, Tenable CEO, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss national security concerns over the data fueling open source AI resources, using AI to identify software vulnerabilities, and strong demand for cyber security infrastructure.

Persons: Amit Yoran Amit Yoran

☆ 'Putin's vulture': Why the Ka-52 attack helicopter is one of Russia's most influential weapon systems
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia's Ka-52 attack helicopter has been imposing a high cost on Ukraine's counteroffensive this summer. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt can also serve as a surveillance platform and an aerial command center for a fleet of attack helicopters. While some military experts say the US Apache helicopter is superior to the Ka-52, the Russian helicopter gunship is highly rated. In its review of the top nine attack helicopters, Military-Today.com wrote: "The Ka-52 is one of the fastest and most maneuverable attack helicopters due to its two coaxial contra-rotating main rotors. A video appears to show one of the Ka-52 attack helicopters being downed, revealing Russia's weakness, a former US general told Insider.

Persons: Russia's Ka, Ukraine's, Today.com, ALEXANDER NEMENOV, Insider's Ryan Pickrell, Andriy Yermak, Maxym Organizations: Russian, Service, Kremlin, Kyiv Post, Kamov, Russian Helicopters, Airforce Technology, US Apache, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, AP, Military Factory, Russia, Getty, UK Ministry of Defence, Twitter, Ukrainian, Russian Ministry of Defense, Royal United Services Institute, Forbes Locations: Ukrainian, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Ukraine, AFP, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, London, American, Russia

☆ Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Imax, Ulta, Netflix, Alphabet, Microsoft, Chewy & more
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Barclays upgrades Grab Holdings to overweight from equal weight Barclays upgraded the Asian ride-hailing and food delivery company after its earnings report earlier this week. " Morgan Stanley upgrades Abercrombie & Fitch to equal weight from underweight Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock after its earnings report on Thursday. Needham reiterates Nvidia as buy After a transfer in analyst coverage, Needham said it's standing by its buy rating on the stock. " Barclays reiterates Ulta as overweight Barclays said Ulta is "best-in-class" after its earnings report on Thursday. Benchmark reiterates Imax as buy Benchmark said it's standing by its buy rating on Imax despite a report of a delay in film releases.

Persons: Baird, Jefferies, Ferrari, Morgan Stanley, Fitch, Piper Sandler, Piper, Needham, it's, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Ulta, Oppenheimer Organizations: Google, Ferrari, Barclays, JPMorgan, Abercrombie, Citi, Marvel, Western Alliance, Nvidia, NVIDIA, Netflix, Occidental Petroleum, Microsoft, TAM Locations: Southeast Asia, Hollywood, NFLX

☆ Alibaba launches AI model that can understand images and have more complex conversations
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

An Alibaba Group sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023. Alibaba on Friday launched a new artificial intelligence model that the company says can understand images and carry out more complex conversations than the company's previous products, as the global race for leadership in the technology heats up. Alibaba said that Qwen-VL can respond to open-ended queries related to different images and generate picture captions. Qwen-VL-Chat meanwhile caters to more "complex interaction," according to Alibaba, such as comparing multiple image inputs and answering several rounds of questions. The latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT also has the ability to understand images and respond in text, much like Qwen-VL-Chat.

Persons: Alibaba, ChatGPT Organizations: Artificial Intelligence Locations: Shanghai

☆ Russia has lost more than 2,200 tanks in Ukraine, and it may be reaching the limit of its ability to 'rebuild' older ones
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( David Hambling | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Russia has lost more than 2,200 main battle tanks since invading Ukraine in February last year. Russian storage depots are deep, but they don't have an unlimited supply of armor to throw into a new fight. In fact, Russia is rebuilding tanks rather than building them, and their capacity to do so may be reaching its limit. Russia has vast stockpiles of old tanks, from T-90s barely 20 years old to rusting T-62s from the 1960s. More importantly, Russia's supply of old tanks for rebuilding is showing signs of running down.

Persons: Alexander Zemlianichenko, Stalin, UVZ, Sergio Miller, Abrams, ANATOLII STEPANOV, Shoigu, Putin's, Dmitry Medvedev, OLGA MALTSEVA, Jakub Janovsky, Medvedev, Nobody, Putin, David Hambling Organizations: Service, Russia, Victory Day, AP, Stalin Ural Tank, British Army, Sierra Army, Omsk Transport Machine Factory, —, Getty, Defence, Moscow Times, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Aviation, Forbes, The, New, Popular Mechanics, WIRED Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, AP Russia, Nizhny Tagil, Moscow, Stalin Ural, Doyle , California, Omsk, St Petersburg, Siberia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Russian, Rostov, Izyum, AFP, OmskTransMash, Laos, St . Petersburg, Buryatia, Mongolia, Urals, USSR, Germany, Kremlin, London

☆ 'Neutral' China is supplying Putin's forces with helicopters, drones, and crucial raw materials, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

China is providing Russia with helicopters, drones, and crucial raw materials. China claims it has remained neutral and has repeatedly denied sending military equipment to Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But The Telegraph's investigation found that the country has delivered tens of thousands of shipments to Russian military equipment manufacturers. With the outbreak of the war, the aid ramped up, with Chinese firms Hems999 and Tianjin Huarong Aviation dispatching helicopters to Russia. China's actions provide Putin with a vital lifelineChina has also utilized loopholes to send non-lethal but militarily useful equipment to Russia.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Xie Huanchi, Samson, Qin Gang, Sergey Radchenko, Putin Organizations: Telegraph, Service, Privacy, George's, Getty, Russia, The Telegraph, Tianjin Huarong Aviation, PBS, Politico, New York Times Locations: China, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, St, Kremlin, Xinhua, Tianjin, Yiwu, Shanghai

☆ Morgan Stanley says these firms already know how much money they can make from generative A.I. — and they’re not just tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Analysts at Morgan Stanley named companies that have quantified how much money they can make — or save — from using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While firms like Alphabet , Meta and Microsoft are on Morgan Stanley's list, non-tech companies are also financially benefiting from using generative AI, the bank said. Here's what some of the reporting companies said about how much they're making or saving by using AI or generative AI, according to Morgan Stanley's note. Alphabet said: "Our new generative AI offerings are expanding our total addressable market and winning new customers. We noted 47 quotes from management teams at 2Q23 relating to productivity gains or efficiency in employee training," Morgan Stanley said.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Morgan, Edward Stanley, Morgan Stanley's, Meta, Intesa Sanpaolo, Comstock, Bruker Organizations: Microsoft, Energy, Health Care, OpenAI, Ceridian, Pharma, AstraZeneca Locations: Swiss

☆ Former head of FBI intelligence pleads guilty to conspiracy in connection to scheme working for sanctioned Russian oligarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy in connection to a scheme working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021. In court on Tuesday, McGonigal answered a series of questions about the illegal scheme for Deripaska and his mental competency before District Judge Jennifer Rearden accepted his guilty plea. “Mind is clear,” he told the judge, saying he feels “great.”In court, McGonigal, 55, said he is “deeply remorseful” for his actions. “I agreed with another party to collect open source derogatory information about a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin who was a business competitor of Oleg Deripaska,” he said. McGonigal now could face up to a maximum five-year term in prison for the one count he pleaded guilty to Tuesday, Rearden said in court.

Persons: Charles McGonigal, John F, Oleg Deripaska, Seth DuCharme, McGonigal, Jennifer Rearden, ”, “, Vladimir Potanin, Deripaska, Rearden Organizations: CNN, FBI’s, FBI, Emergency Economic, US, Office, Southern, of, Kennedy International Airport Locations: York, Russian, of New York, New York, Washington, Albanian, Albania, McGonigal, United States

☆ Former F.B.I. Spy Hunter Pleads Guilty to Aiding Russian Oligarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Michael Rothfeld | More About Michael Rothfeld | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Under the plea deal, the maximum prison term Mr. McGonigal could serve is five years, instead of the sentence of up to 20 years he might otherwise have faced. In court, Mr. McGonigal told the judge that he had known he could not legally perform services for Mr. Deripaska, who was placed on a U.S. sanctions list in 2018. The plea brings the prosecution of Mr. McGonigal, 55, in New York to a relatively speedy conclusion after fewer than seven months. agents in January at John F. Kennedy Airport upon his return from an overseas business trip. Mr. McGonigal has pleaded not guilty to those charges but is in talks to resolve them; his lawyer, Seth D. DuCharme, told the judge overseeing the Washington case that he expected to provide an update on the talks after Labor Day.

Persons: McGonigal, Deripaska, Vladimir Potanin, Potanin, John F, Seth D, DuCharme Organizations: Mr, Kennedy, Washington, Labor Locations: Cyprus, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Eastern Europe

☆ Yevgeny Prigozhin: Where in the world is the Wagner warlord?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It was a stark contrast to the fate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Back in June, Prigozhin led the abortive mutiny that presented the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in over two decades of rule. Speaking after Wagner fighters relocated to Belarus, Prigozhin suggested he remained focused on this core African market. In a recent Telegram message, Prigozhin hinted that Wagner might be ready to offer its services there. “And this is the (the reason for the) love for PMC Wagner, this is the high efficiency of PMC Wagner.

Persons: Alexey Navalny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, Putin, ”, Prigozhin hasn’t, –, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Andrei Kelin, Kelin, “, ” Kelin, Vladimir, Kara, Murza, … Prigozhin, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Candace Rondeaux, Rondeaux, it’s, ” Rondeaux, Mateusz Morawiecki, Morawiecki, ” Prigozhin, Sudan –, PMC Wagner, Mohamed Bazoum, Tatiana Stanovaya Organizations: CNN, Central African Republic, Kremlin, Amanpour, Putin’s, NATO, Polish, Wagner Group, PMC Wagner, PMC, Russian Foreign Ministry, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Putin Locations: Russian, Moscow, Russia, Africa, St . Petersburg, Orchestra_W, United Kingdom, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, America, Prigozhin, Putin’s Russia, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Sudan, Libya, Niger, Putin Russia

☆ The Kremlin won't admit how many soldiers have died in Ukraine, but researchers have now identified 30,000 dead Russians by name
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers have identified more than 30,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine. More than 1,300 dead soldiers were identified in the last two weeks alone, they said. But researchers working with the BBC say they have now identified — by name — more than 30,000 dead Russian soldiers, including more than 1,300 in the last two weeks alone. More than 5,600 inmates have been identified as killed in Ukraine. At least 9,000 civilians have also been killed in Ukraine, according to the United Nations, most in areas targeted by Russian forces.

Persons: Mediazona, Wagner, Gen, Mikhail Teplinsky, Teplinsky's, Dmitry Peskov Organizations: Service, VDV Airborne Forces, Russia — Kremlin, United Nations, Russian Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Zaporizhzhia, Russia —

☆ Nvidia unveils an update to a new A.I. chip that hasn't even shipped yet — an aggressive move to keep its crown
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"No one is coming for Nvidia on AI, period, any time soon," Stifel analyst Ruben Roy told CNBC in an interview Wednesday. The new version of Grace Hopper primarily delivers improvements in memory capacity and bandwidth compared with the first-generation product. In practice, improving the memory capacity and bandwidth of the Grace Hopper Superchip should help AI applications run more efficiently and smoothly. Volume production of the improved Grace Hopper Superchip is expected in the second quarter of 2024, according to Nvidia. Open-source software Nvidia's closed-source CUDA software platform – along with a library of pre-trained AI models — has helped establish the company's AI dominance.

Persons: it's, Grace Hopper Superchip, Ruben Roy, Grace Hopper, ChatGPT, Roy, Hopper, Nvidia, Pat Gelsinger, Nvidia's, Omniverse, Jim Cramer, Nvidia hasn't, Jim, enabler —, Jim Cramer's, Jensen Huang, Walid Berrazeg Organizations: Nvidia, Club, Devices, CNBC, Microsoft, Bank of America, AMD, Nvidia DGX, Intel, BMW, Computer, Getty Locations: Taipei

☆ Hackers to compete for nearly $20 million in prizes by using A.I. for cybersecurity, Biden administration announces
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden gives remarks on Artificial Intelligence in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on July 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. Hackers will have the chance to compete for millions of dollars in prizes by using artificial intelligence to protect critical U.S. infrastructure from cybersecurity risks, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The AI Cyber Challenge will offer nearly $20 million in prizes and includes collaboration from leading AI companies Anthropic, Google , Microsoft and OpenAI, who will make their technology available for the competition. Up to five of those teams will win $2 million each and advance to the final at DEF CON 2025. "This is a chance to explore what's possible when experts in cybersecurity and AI have access to a suite of cross-company resources of combined unprecedented caliber."

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Perri Adams Organizations: Intelligence, White, Washington , DC, Google, Microsoft, Black Hat USA, Linux, Security, Research Projects Agency, DARPA, Innovation, CNBC, YouTube Locations: Washington ,, Las Vegas

☆ IBM to launch Meta's Llama 2 on watsonx AI platform for businesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) logo is displayed, during the GSMA's 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain March 1, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho DoceAug 9 (Reuters) - International Business Machines (IBM.N) said on Wednesday it would host Meta Platforms' (META.O) artificial intelligence language program on its own enterprise AI platform, watsonx. IBM's watsonx, which helps businesses integrate AI into their workflow, provides early access to the Facebook-parent's Llama 2 to some clients. The enterprise software provider said that the release of Meta's open source AI model will be followed by additional software such as AI tuning studios, fact sheets and other generative AI models. Llama 2 is a commercial version of Meta's open source AI language model launched in July, distributed by Microsoft's (MSFT.O) cloud Azure services to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's (GOOGL.O) Bard in the nascent generative AI market.

Persons: Nacho Doce, IBM's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bard, Zaheer Kachwala, Maju Samuel Organizations: Business Machines Corporation, IBM, Congress, REUTERS, Business Machines, Facebook, Thomson Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Bengaluru

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