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OpenAI jettisons CEO Sam Altman for dishonesty

The chairman of the board of ChatGPT’s parent company also stepped down in a surprise shakeup.

For top cybersecurity talent, companies pay over $500,000: Report

Cybersecurity strategy success depends on appropriate staff size and salary to retain top talent, according to a report from security analysis firm IANS.

VMware enlists Intel, IBM watsonx for private AI initiative

VMware’s do-it-yourself private AI program has two new partners, offering users more options for in-house generative AI training and deployments.

Samsung jumps on the generative AI bandwagon with Gauss

Named for a German mathematician, Gauss AI technology — including a large language model (LLM), coding capabilities, and art generation features — could debut on upcoming Samsung devices.

Splunk cuts 7 per cent of workforce ahead of Cisco acquisition

The layoffs are happening in the wake of a market retraction, Splunk CEO Gary Steele said.

UK government earmarks $122 million on AI for healthcare

Dementia care and mental health are first on the list of targets for a new grant program from the British government toward the use of AI in the healthcare sector.

Intel shows recovery in PCs but faces competition in AI, data centres

Intel’s traditional PC dominance looked to be approaching its former rude health, but that good news in its earnings report was offset by ongoing weakness in servers.

Generative AI training data sets are now trackable – and often legally complicated

A new tool, Data Provenance Explorer, lets users pick through the questionable provenance of many large data sets used for AI training.

ChatGPT can now look at the web — for real this time

Generative AI chatbot ChatGPT can keep up with current events thanks to a new update, and is also getting direct access to the DALL-E 3 image-generation system.

Will the US FTC succeed in breaking up Amazon?

The US Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan has charged Amazon with illegally maintaining a monopoly and seeks "structural relief," which could mean breaking off parts of its business.

AI bias poses danger to the financial sector

A new report from a financial technology expert at the Bank of England says that inherent biases in AI systems makes it dangerous to entrust them with too much decision-making at present.

Bing, Bard updates fuel AI search war

Microsoft brings DALL-E 3 into Bing AI lineup, while Google adds Bard AI to Assistant, bringing generative artificial intelligence to a wider audience than ever.

Cloudflare wants you to build AI applications on its edge network

AI running in serverless configurations on GPUs is coming to Cloudflare’s global network.

IBM brings AI to Z series mainframes, z/OS, Cloud Paks

A new range of AI integrations is coming to IBM’s mainframes, operating systems and private clouds.

Microsoft’s data centers are going nuclear

A job posting suggests that Microsoft is planning to explore the use of small nuclear reactors for its major data centers.

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