Enlarge (credit: VMware) Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company’s personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software...
Project
OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory
Enlarge / When ChatGPT looks things up, a pair of green pixelated hands look through paper records, much like this. Just kidding. (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is experimenting with adding a form of long-term memory to ChatGPT that will allow it to remember details between conversations. You...
Project
Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
Enlarge (credit: Nvidia / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports. He called this concept “Sovereign AI,” which an Nvidia blog post defined as each country owning “the production of their own intelligence.” Huang made the...
Project
(BPRW) Join us for a candid conversation about AI
(Black PR Wire) In recognition of Black History Month, Black PR Wire and media partner, Business Wire will host a webinar to discuss Artificial Intelligence and its opportunities, challenges and impact in the Black community, including the Black medi…
Project
Ongoing campaign compromises senior execs’ Azure accounts, locks them using MFA
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hundreds of Microsoft Azure accounts, some belonging to senior executives, are being targeted by unknown attackers in an ongoing campaign that’s aiming to steal sensitive data and financial assets from dozens of organizations, researchers with security firm Proofpoint said Monday. The campaign attempts to compromise targeted Azure environments by sending account...
Project
The Super Bowl’s best and wackiest AI commercials
Enlarge / A still image from BodyArmor’s 2024 “Field of Fake” Super Bowl commercial. (credit: BodyArmor) Heavily hyped tech products have a history of appearing in Super Bowl commercials during football’s biggest game—including the Apple Macintosh in 1984, dot-com companies in 2000, and cryptocurrency firms in 2022. In 2024, the hot tech in town is...
Project
(BPRW) Black History Month: Celebrating Black Women in STEM
(Black PR Wire) Miami, FL – Black women have made significant contributions to STEM fields throughout history. Two examples of these achievements include Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to fly to space, and Mary Jackson, the first Black …
Project
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in crackdown on car theft
Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device (credit: https://flipperzero.one/) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications. On Thursday, the Innovation, Science and Economic...
Project
London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime
Enlarge (credit: John Keeble/Getty Images) Thousands of people using the London Underground had their movements, behavior, and body language watched by AI surveillance software designed to see if they were committing crimes or were in unsafe situations, new documents obtained by WIRED reveal. The machine-learning software was combined with live CCTV footage to try to...
Project
Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others
Enlarge / OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman walks on the House side of the US Capitol on January 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much as $5...