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17 Oct

Zyphra’s new Zyda-2 dataset lets enterprises train small LLMs with high accuracy

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Zyphra Technologies, the company working on a multimodal agent system combining advanced research in next-gen SSM hybrid architectures, long-term memory and reinforcement learning, just released Zyda-2, an open pretraining dataset comprising 5 trillion tokens. The offering comes as the successor of the original Zyda dataset. It is five times larger in size and covers a vast range of topics and domains to ensure a high level of diversity and quality – which is critical for training robust and competitive language models. …

17 Oct

Shadow IT risks are on the rise as GenAI tools gain popularity with employees

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Presented by Dashlane Enterprises have always faced the risk of a data breach, but today the threat has expanded by many magnitudes, in part due to the boom of generative AI tools. Gartner recently found that the number of SaaS applications used per employee has doubled since 2019, and a good chunk of those applications are AI tools that employees are using without IT oversight. Unmanaged apps aren’t protected by controls like single sign-on (SSO) or multifactor authentication (MFA), so there’s no visibility into whether these apps, which potentially contain sensitive data, are being accessed with secure credentials, or what type…

17 Oct

Big data, advanced algorithms and new approaches for space missions

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MILAN – Spacewalks, often a highlight of space missions, are likely to change in the future as given advancements in robotics and teleoperations. Every time an astronaut steps out of a space vehicle, “that is an incredible, high-level-risk activity,” Golda Nguyen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aeronautics and Astronautics PhD student and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellow, said Oct. 16 at the International Astronautical Congress here. “We need to critically think about the risk to human life and the value return for assigning humans to do activities.” Nguyen, whose research focuses on intelligent systems that support human activity in…

17 Oct

UK’s Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process

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The UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence and data science has launched a consultation process that could lead to redundancies among its 440 staff.In a memo sent to staff this month the Alan Turing Institute gave an update on its new strategy, under which it will concentrate on fewer projects.It was addressed to “affected employees” and stated that the government-backed institute “may need to consider making redundancies”. According to informal calculations by staff, the memo could have been sent to as many as 140 people.The internal document said the institute – which carries out research with universities, the private sector…

17 Oct

Canada’s Mission Control to demonstrate AI on Spire cubesat

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MILAN – Spire Global and Canadian startup Mission Control announced plans Oct. 16 for Persistence, a technology demonstration mission focused on space-based artificial intelligence. “The Persistence mission will demonstrate resilient onboard spacecraft autonomy over a yearlong demonstration of deep learning AI in space,” Ewan Reid, Mission Control founder and CEO, said at the International Astronautical Congress here. The Persistence mission, housed in a six-unit Spire Lemur cubesat with an optical camera, has applications beyond Earth observation. “Earth observation is important, but this is about updates over the air, validating a model in real time, measuring model parameters and performance, and…

17 Oct

Mistral AI’s new language models bring AI power to your phone and laptop

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mistral AI, a rising star in the artificial intelligence arena, launched two new language models on Wednesday, potentially reshaping how businesses and developers deploy AI technology. The Paris-based startup’s new offerings, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices, marking a significant shift from the cloud-centric approach that has dominated the industry. These compact models, collectively dubbed “les Ministraux,” are surprisingly capable despite their small size. Ministral 3B, with just 3 billion parameters, outperforms…

17 Oct

Magic Leap founder is back with $20M funding round for SynthBee

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, has raised $20 million in funding to create a new kind of “computing intelligence.”The company is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the same place where Magic Leap grew up with the promise of mixed reality computing. The money is aimed at helping the company expand and build out the team around its proprietary computing intelligence platform. Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital) led the round. “Crosspoint is excited to partner with SynthBee and back…

17 Oct

Nvidia just dropped a new AI model that crushes OpenAI’s GPT-4—no big launch, just big results

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia quietly unveiled a new artificial intelligence model on Tuesday that outperforms offerings from industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic, marking a significant shift in the company’s AI strategy and potentially reshaping the competitive landscape of the field. The model, named Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, appeared on the popular AI platform Hugging Face without fanfare, quickly drawing attention for its exceptional performance across multiple benchmark tests. Nvidia reports that their new offering achieves top scores in key evaluations, including 85.0 on the Arena Hard benchmark,…

17 Oct

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. But an AI-powered Auslan avatar can help

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For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry on with their business. But when something out of the ordinary happens, the situation can quickly get scary, because most updates are only delivered by audio announcements. A Deaf traveller may miss their train because it was moved to a different platform, or watch as their station whizzes by because the train isn’t stopping there today. They may also remain on a train carriage in an emergency after everyone else has evacuated, and have to…

17 Oct

Job hunting is demoralising enough without having my personality eviscerated by an AI interviewer | Anna Spargo-Ryan

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I’ve recently found myself back on the job market after my department was made redundant. My new life looks like this: refresh Seek; go on LinkedIn; regret the life choices that made me go on LinkedIn; refresh Seek; try to sound normal in a cover letter; cry; refresh Seek. The usual job-hunting stuff.Late last week I was minding my own business (refreshing Seek) and I saw a job that seemed perfect for me. A disability services organisation was looking for a writer to create accessible content, which is my particular area of interest. Excited, I penned an application. I struck…