Viral Posts and Social Media Strategies
25 days ago
At the end of last week, one of my X threads got 600,000 views. That's not the post I'm talking about. Anything that doesn't cross a million views doesn't count as 'viral' for me anymore. If I'm in a good mood, I'll call it 'very good.' The viral post I came here to talk about is at 2.4 million view
AI in the Boardroom: Perspectives from George C. Lee of Goldman Sachs
25 days ago
Based on the search results, here are the key points about Goldman Sachs' perspective on AI in the boardroom: George C. Lee, cohead of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, argues that leaders should invite AI into the boardroom. He believes AI can help cultivate a culture of accountability, candor, a
Researcher wants to ensure AI doesn't ruin the environment
25 days ago
Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the world as we know it. It's been used for everything from health-care monitoring to writing speeches. But the technology's impact on the environment is becoming a serious concern.
AMD scores big win with thousands of Instinct MI300x shipped to one of world's largest privately held cloud computing platforms
25 days ago
Vultr has invested in 'thousands' of AMD's Instinct MI300X AI accelerators for its cloud computing platform.
Five takeaways from New York Climate Week and the Global Citizen Festival
25 days ago
At last week’s Climate Week and the Global Citizen Festival in New York, both...
Can digital conversations help disaster-proof your business?
25 days ago
“The only thing certain in life is uncertainty.” This quote has been attributed to everyone from Pliny the Elder to John F. Kennedy, which means it’s probably been around longer than recorded history and reflects a fundamental truth about how we live. It’s also a fundamental t...
Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity
25 days ago
Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips is heading toward an energy crunch.
Shortwave evolves into an email collaboration suite for teams
25 days ago
This week, Shortwave is evolving from an email app for you, to an email collaboration suite for your whole team. We want to help your business team (ie. sales team, support team, exec team, etc) collaborate more effectively internally around the emails you send externally. This is a major expansion
Meta Trains State-of-the-Art Movie Model with 30B Parameters
25 days ago
Meta has trained a state-of-the-art movie model. It has 30B parameters and took 6,144 H100s to train. The model was trained on 1B images. Meta released a 92 page paper detailing the research on this topic.
Introducing Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision by Microsoft
25 days ago
Microsoft is introducing Copilot Labs to trial advanced AI tools like Think Deeper and Copilot Vision.
Open FinLLM Leaderboard for Financial Language Models
25 days ago
The Open FinLLM Leaderboard offers a specialized evaluation platform tailored for financial language models. It focuses on tasks crucial for finance, such as stock movement prediction, sentiment analysis, and information extraction from financial reports.
Nvidia's RTX-Acceleration with Ollama in Brave Browser
25 days ago
Nvidia's RTX-Acceleration combined with Ollama allows for running local models in the browser.
Embers of Autoregression for O1
25 days ago
Large language models have limitations due to next token prediction. OpenAI's o1 model was trained with a new objective over reasoning traces. Despite this change, o1 still shows signs of limitations due to next token prediction.
Contextual Document Embeddings
25 days ago
This paper describes a method that encodes contextual information about neighboring documents using information from the entire corpus. It is state-of-the-art on MTEB.
ENTP: Encoder-Only Next Token Prediction
25 days ago
This paper introduces a novel design architecture for using encoder-only transformers as next token prediction models. The models have hints of strong performance at scale and are capable of in-context learning.
Solving Complex Problems with AI
25 days ago
This study develops high-performance graph algorithms to solve complex, large-scale problems like detecting fraud in financial networks or finding efficient delivery routes.
Integrative Decoding enhances the factual accuracy of large language models, especially for open-ended tasks.
Liquid Foundation Models: First Series of Generative AI Models
25 days ago
Liquid AI has announced its first generation of Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), optimized for various hardware and available on platforms like LIQUID PLAYGROUND and soon on Cerebras. These models excel in handling sequential data and offer innovations in efficiency and scaling across industries.
OpenAI's DevDay Brings Realtime API and Treats for AI App Developers
25 days ago
OpenAI announced new tools at its 2024 DevDay, including a beta Realtime API for near real-time, low-latency, AI-generated voice responses.
Microsoft Brings AI-Powered Overviews to Bing
25 days ago
Microsoft has launched Bing generative search, an AI-powered search feature that aggregates and summarizes web information.
Comcast Reveals Data on Over 200K Customers Stolen in Ransomware Attack
25 days ago
Comcast revealed that data on over 200K customers was stolen in February in a ransomware attack on its former debt collector, FBCS. The company learned in July that customer information was compromised, including names, addresses, SSNs, and account details from around 2021.
WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Flaw Could Allow Site Takeover
25 days ago
A serious flaw in the WordPress LiteSpeed Cache plugin affecting versions up to 6.5.0.2 could allow attackers to run harmful code. The vulnerability allows for arbitrary script injection when certain settings are enabled, potentially leading to account hijacking and site takeover. The issue was fixe
Over 700,000 DrayTek Routers Exposed to Hacking via 14 New Vulnerabilities
25 days ago
Researchers discovered 14 security vulnerabilities, dubbed DRAY:BREAK, in DrayTek routers used in homes and businesses. These flaws could allow attackers to take control of affected devices, potentially gaining access to enterprise networks. The vulnerabilities range in severity, with two rated crit
To Catch a Predator Admin: The Power of OSINT
25 days ago
This blog post describes an investigation using OSINT tools that uncovered a disturbing online CSAM marketplace run by 'JoeHaze'. Despite challenges with law enforcement response, efforts were made to gather evidence and report the predator to authorities for further action. The importance of protec
Safe Ride into the Dangerzone: Reducing Attack Surface with gVisor
25 days ago
Dangerzone is a software that sanitizes potentially risky documents by detonating them in a container, creating a pixel map of the document, then converting that image back to a document. Prior to version 0.7.0, Dangerzone relied on Linux containers that are hardened via removing process and network