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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.

The Week in AI: ElevenLabs Voice Isolator, Salesforce's INDICT, Oracle's HeatWave, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes a new suite of pre-trained LLMS from Meta, the GA release of the Databricks Assistant, a novel framework for enhancing the safety and effectiveness of LLM-generated code from Salesforce, an AI-based tool designed to strip background noise for film, podcast, and interview post-production from ElevenLabs, and more!

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'Skeleton Key' Jailbreak Fools Top AIs into Ignoring Their Training

An AI security attack method called "Skeleton Key" has been shown to work on multiple popular AI models, including OpenAI's GPT, causing them to disregard their built-in safety guardrails.

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AGI Startup Adept Sheds Top-Level Execs in Amazon Hiring Binge

In a needed boost to its AI credentials, Amazon has poached multiple top executives from artificial general intelligence (AGI) startup Adept.

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The Week in AI: Meta LLM Compiler, Nvidia Nemotron-4 340B, DeepKeep's GenAI Risk Assessment Tool, More

This week's roundup of AI products and services includes, Nvidia's new family of open models for synthetic data generation, Meta's new Large Language Model Compiler, Datastax upgrade of its Langflow and RAGstack dev tools, and more!

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