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Anthropic Launches $100M AI Startup Fund with VC Firm Menlo

Generative AI developer Anthropic, maker of the Claude family of AI models, has joined the likes of Cisco and Amazon in offering promising AI startups millions in funding, support and technology credits.

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Google's AI Video Generator for Business Debuts for Select Users

Google Vids, a new AI-powered video creation tool aimed at business users, has launched as a limited preview via Google's Workspace Labs program.

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AWS Previews Ability To Customize Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku AI Model

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthropic are developing a new capability that would let organizations use their proprietary data to customize Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model.

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AI Making Itself at Home in IT Security Roles: Survey

Either now or later, AI seems to be taking over the enterprise IT security world.

The Week in AI: AWS Summit News, Cloudera Launches AI Assistants, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes a new GenAI-powered conversational assistant built natively into Amazon SageMaker Studio, a new hallucination-detection tool from Patronus, two new services from Biostate.AI, three new AI-powered assistants from Cloudera, and more!

OpenAI Built an AI To Catch ChatGPT's Hallucinations

OpenAI, steward of the widely used ChatGPT AI model, recently described how it developed another AI model to improve the accuracy of ChatGPT's outputs.

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Microsoft Open Sources AI Tool for Exploring Large Document Datasets

Earlier this month Microsoft announced GraphRAG, a "complex data discovery" tool that allows "a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that enables question-answering over private or previously unseen datasets."

New AWS App Studio Uses Natural Language to 'Democratize' App Development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveils the public preview of AWS App Studio, a new GenAI-powered service that uses written prompts and natural language to create enterprise-grade applications without requiring software development skills.

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In Antitrust Dodge, Microsoft Surrenders Its OpenAI Board Seat

Microsoft has relinquished its observer seat on OpenAI's board of directors, a move that's widely seen as a stopgap measure against the multiple antitrust investigations it is facing.

OpenAI, Los Alamos Lab Study Potential of AI Misuse for Bio Threats

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are partnering with generative AI pioneer OpenAI on an evaluation study of how multimodal, frontier models could lower the barrier to entry for non-experts seeking to create biological threats.

Researchers Offer 'A Taxonomy of Tactics' for Generative AI Misuse

A group of researchers from Google DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google.org set out to clarify the potential risks of GenAI and provide "a concrete understanding of how GenAI models are specifically exploited or abused in practice, including the tactics employed to inflict harm," and they recently published their findings in a paper entitled, "Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data."

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Amazon Offers Free AI Tools to Public Sector Orgs in $50M Program

Amazon is giving public sector organizations a chance to tap into its portfolio of cloud-based AI tools with the launch of a new $50 million fund.

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Cloud AI Now in Its 'Disillusionment' Era

Developers and IT pros might be over the hype around cloud AI, not finding it matches reality.

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