The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have restricted data brokers from selling US citizens’ personal and financial information.
The decision, announced Wednesday in the Federal Register, marks a significant reversal in consumer privacy protection efforts and raises serious concerns about the security of sensitive personal data.
Microsoft plans to force-install its new Outlook client on Windows 10 computers in conjunction with a new security update being released Feb. 11, according to Bleeping Computer. The change affects Microsoft 365 users and the new Outlook client will run alongside the classic Outlook app. It will not change a user’s default settings or any configurations….
Embedding models help transform complex data — text, images, audio, and video — into numerical representations that computers can understand. The embeddings capture the semantic meaning of the data, making them useful for tasks like search, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. Still, they can struggle with more complex materials, such as documents comprising a…
At a special 50th anniversary event on Friday, Microsoft executives reflected on the company’s storied past and on how it’s now reinventing itself for an AI-focused future. With previous CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in attendance, current CEO Satya Nadella boasted that the company is “leading this new wave of AI innovation, and more…
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has evolved quickly during the past two years from prompt engineering and instruction fine-tuning to the integration of external knowledge sources aimed at improving the accuracy of chatbot answers. GenAI’s latest big step forward has been the arrival of autonomous agents, or AI-enabled applications capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions,…
Nvidia has notified customers that its new AI chips in the Blackwell series will be at least three months late, according to The Information. The B200 chip was shown off in March, but a serious design flaw found recently needs to be fixed before they are rolled out widely, according to the site’s sources. According to The…
Microsoft Word’s spell check can already suggest words in real time, but imagine an “idea check” future in which AI suggests ideas on the fly as users type. This is how Microsoft is evolving Copilot — as an AI assistant predicting ideas in real time by tapping into unique corporate and user data. That’s an…