The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, a new artificial intelligence-powered system that automates the validation of cloud service providers' (CSPs) security assessments, aiming to improve transparency and trust across the cloud computing landscape.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/13/2025
Cisco launched a new solution this week to help organizations automate and streamline IT management across networking, security and application domains using -- of course -- AI.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is forming a new team focused on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), amid internal dissatisfaction with the performance of its current AI offerings. The team, known internally as the superintelligence group, is part of a broader effort to enhance Meta’s AI capabilities.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/11/2025
OpenAI has published a detailed report outlining how its security teams are identifying and countering the malicious use of AI models -- including on cloud platforms -- across a range of cyber and social threats.
Hugging Face has introduced SmolVLA, a lightweight open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for robotics that operates on consumer-grade hardware and is trained entirely on community-contributed data.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/10/2025
At its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a subtle but significant shift in its machine learning strategy: embedding large language model (LLM) capabilities directly into developers’ toolkits, while keeping the computation on-device and under Apple’s tightly guarded privacy umbrella.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/09/2025
Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning AI researcher often dubbed one of the "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, has launched a new nonprofit, LawZero, aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a comprehensive red teaming guide for Agentic AI systems, targeting the security and testing challenges posed by increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
a U.S.-based network automation firm Network to Code has launched NautobotGPT, an AI-powered assistant aimed at helping enterprise network engineers create, test, and troubleshoot automation tasks more efficiently.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2025
Perforce Software announced Monday a company-wide artificial intelligence initiative called Perforce Intelligence, designed to integrate AI capabilities across its development and operations software portfolio.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/27/2025
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, its most advanced artificial intelligence models to date, marking a significant leap in autonomous coding capabilities while simultaneously revealing troubling tendencies toward self-preservation that include attempted blackmail.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/26/2025
OpenAI announced plans last week to acquire io, an artificial intelligence hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, in an all-stock transaction valued at nearly $6.5 billion. The deal, OpenAI’s largest to date, is aimed at creating a dedicated division for the development of AI-powered consumer devices.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/26/2025
Researchers at NVIDIA, in collaboration with MIT CSAIL, have extended Score Distillation Sampling (SDS)—originally developed for text-to-3D generation—into the audio domain, introducing a new framework called Audio-SDS.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2025