Oxford Semantic Technologies, is an example of what Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), was thinking about when he drafted the proposals for the government 50-point AI ppportunities action plan. In 2017, three University of Oxford professors – Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Bernardo Cuenca Grau – formed Oxford Semantic…
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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…
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Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…
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OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents,…
You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…
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Chinese startup DeepSeek took the world by storm this month, and especially in the past few days, with its ChatGPT rivals. The latest is called DeepSeek R1, with DeepSeek published research showing the reasoning model can match ChatGPT o1, OpenAI’s only public reasoning AI model.There’s a big difference between the two. The Chinese developer created…
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A major security flaw in ChatGPT could allow bad actors to use the API to perform mass DDoS attacks. Researchers have reported the issue to OpenAI and have called upon the company to fix the underlying infrastructure to help cut off access to this potential cyberattack.If you’ve never experienced a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)…
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A law firm based in Manchester has gathered around 15,000 claimants for an impending data breach lawsuit against Microsoft and Google. The firm began signing up clients in November 2024 for a class action against the US tech giants. It believes them to be illegally collecting and using peoples’ data to train their artificial intelligence…
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Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a bang on the second Tuesday of January, dropping a massive Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities – rising to 161 incorporating two additional vulnerabilities through CERT CC and GitHub. According to Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative, this may be the largest number of CVEs addressed…
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So far, there is no regulation anywhere in the world specific to the environmental impact of software – a fact that runs alongside the reality that neither consumers nor investors are towards or away from companies based on the green credentials of their software. Many experts expect Europe to be the first region to enact regulation that enforces green software practices. One…
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