Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ChatGPT o1 tried to hack the system. This forced the opponent to concede the game, and the AI achieved its goal.Fast-forward to mid-February…
AI like ChatGPT o1 and DeepSeek R1 might cheat to win a game Read More »
With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work in China compared to the rest of the world, when this platform is expected to launch, and how Apple’s other partner will handle some AI tasks.According to the report, several…
Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…
AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of Read More »
With the recent DeepSeek hype, it looked almost natural that Apple could choose this LLM to power its Apple Intelligence platform in China. However, iPhone AI will be handled by a well-known Apple partner, Alibaba.Since Apple is required to work with a local Chinese company to develop AI models for its iPhone models sold in…
Apple reportedly chooses Alibaba over DeepSeek to bring iPhone AI to China Read More »
DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a fraction of the cost. Suddenly, anyone could create powerful AI models with the right combination of software innovations and decent hardware. The DeepSeek research implied that the focus wouldn’t be…
This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50 Read More »
You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…
Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Read More »
It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
Solidigm’s datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories – the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs between cost and endurance), and the D7- NVMe drives for the best performance and endurance ratings. The company has been using TLC NAND in the D7…
Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810: 144L SLC NVMe Drive for Write-Intensive Workloads Read More »
Kicking off this morning is Intel’s annual technology conference, Innovation. The second year of the revived show once again has Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger leading things off, with what’s scheduled to be a 90 minute keynote. Intel has four major themes for this year’s show: Accelerating the AI Era Transformative Innovation for the Future of…
The Intel Innovation 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:30am PT, 15:30 UTC) Read More »
In the latest war of word with China, US president Joe Biden has issued a statement prohibiting investment in entities that engage in certain activities related to the development of advanced semiconductors, quantum information technologies, or AI systems. The White House said that the Executive Order covers US investment in technologies designed for military or…
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