AMD on Monday issued two patches for severe microcode security flaws, defects that AMD said “could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) protection.” The bugs were inadvertently revealed by a partner last week. The most dangerous time for this kind of security hole is right after it is disclosed and before patches…
DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a Chinese entrepreneur, engineer and former hedge fund manager, is generating a lot of buzz — and for good reason. Here are five things that make it stand out (as well as a listing of the latest news and analysis about DeepSeek). DeepSeek offers: More accessibility and efficiency:…
Hot on the heels of its launch of the o3-mini model last week, OpenAI on Sunday announced another component for ChatGPT that allows the generative AI (genAI) tool to do more in-depth research. Described as “an agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you,” deep research is…
As part of Microsoft’s big push into AI services, the company has created a new department called the Advanced Planning Unit (APU). Employees of the APU will, among other things, study the effects of AI on society and make recommendations about which products are worth investing resources in. According to Silicon Angle, Microsoft is now…
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OpenAI on Friday released the latest model in its reasoning series, o3-mini, both in ChatGPT and its application programming interface (API). It had been in preview since December 2024. The company said in its announcement that it “advances the boundaries of what small models can achieve, delivering exceptional STEM capabilities — with particular strength in…
width=”2486″ height=”1398″ sizes=”(max-width: 2486px) 100vw, 2486px”>Fines and their strict enforcement are an effective way of reminding everyone involved to stick to the rules as much as possible. AVN Photo Lab – shutterstock.com Data protection authorities in Europe imposed fines amounting to €1.2 billion last year according to the seventh edition of commercial law firm DLA…
Italy’s data protection authority Garante has chosen to block the app for the much-hyped Chinese AI model DeepSeek in the country. The decision comes after the Chinese companies providing the chatbot service failed to provide the authority with sufficient information about how users’ personal data is used. Reuters writes that Garante wants to know, among other things, what…
The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions. Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an alternative to Deepseek-R1 called Open-R1 based on open source code. Although Deepseek…
Earlier this week, we learned about Apple’s decision to appoint Kim Vorrath, the vice president of the company’s Technology Development Group (TDG), to help build Apple Intelligence under the supervision of John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for machine learning and AI. Vorrath, who also serves at a board member at the National Center for Women in…