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Amazon's TorchNeuron software runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on its Trainium chips after a basic configuration change. Amazon is opening it to all developers as a public beta and…
GeekWire ·New features in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception will assess each agent's risk, with the ability to block it from making changes, require human intervention or shut it down. Read More
GeekWire ·Jeff Williams, now chief information security officer at Sigma360, says the consent prompt and indicator light on Amazon's Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse reach the wearer, not the people being recorded. Amazon pointed to safeguards including…
GeekWire ·Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld define more than 35 phrases of the AI era, from AI slop and deepfakes to bragawatts and P(doom), and coin a few of their own, including AI slap, promptatory and agentsomnia. Read More
GeekWire ·Darko Mesaros, a distinguished developer advocate at AWS, has packed his Maple Valley, Wash., home with more than 1,000 pieces of vintage computing history — and the tattooed tech geek is repairing old machines and wiring them to chat with…
GeekWire ·Amazon is using AI and AWS chips to rebuild NBA plays in 3D for its second season of "NBA on Prime," which debuts next week and also adds Yahoo fantasy stats and its first exclusive Eastern Conference Finals coverage. Read More
GeekWire ·Peter Lee, the longtime Microsoft Research leader, plans to join the Mercedes Formula 1 team in a newly created AI advisor role. He'll work on physics problems for the team's car, predictive models and how F1's regulators might govern AI.…
GeekWire ·Nicolas Cage is drawing a hard line in the digital sand against artificial intelligence, revealing that he likely won’t work with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for his now-canceled Prime Video series "Spider-Noir." Read…
GeekWire ·Microsoft says its homegrown Maia chips will handle most of the AI work behind Copilot and its other products, with the new Maia 300 rolling out in 2027. The company says the new chip does more AI work with the same amount of electricity…
GeekWire ·Oren Etzioni and MIT professor Max Tegmark debated AI risks in a New York Post video, splitting over whether this summer's OpenAI sandbox breakout was rogue AI or human error. They agreed that corporate self-regulation won't work and that…
GeekWire ·We’re entering a new world of cyber-attacks, and Washington isn’t ready, a technology expert says.
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