Month: December 2024

AWS’ new service tackles AI hallucinations

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably. Announced at AWS’ re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, the service, Automated Reasoning checks, validates a model’s responses by cross-referencing customer-supplied info for accuracy. AWS claims in a press … Read more

AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

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At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region availability), strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and, the company says, “4x faster reads and writes compared to other popular distributed SQL databases.” AWS argues that Aurora DSQL will offer … Read more

MicroStrategy Looks Poised to Join Influential Nasdaq-100 Index. Here’s What That Means for the Stock.

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The analyst who co-wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR). Despite all the weird memecoins and degen behavior in 2024, ETFs are in the running for story of the year in cryptocurrency investing. And that story — which began when bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds debuted to great fanfare — might not be over. … Read more

Celeb greetings app Cameo pivots to creators

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Celeb greetings app Cameo is pivoting to creators with a new product called CameoX. The company became a pandemic hit, as people stuck at home marked various celebrations, like birthdays and graduations, with celebrity shout-outs. It became a tech unicorn valued at $1 billion, but as life returned to normal, Cameo was hit with multiple … Read more

How Baden Bower Helps EB1A Visa Applicants Stand Out as Competition Intensifies

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The EB1A visa continues to attract growing numbers of applicants eager to secure this “extraordinary ability” green card. Approval rates have improved, but applicants still find the process challenging. Baden Bower, a trusted PR firm, provides creative ways for applicants to make their profiles stand out while addressing everyday challenges. n EB1A Visa Demand Keeps … Read more

Ex-Microsoft employees get $4M from Accel to build an AI tool for product presentations

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Product teams often have tons of screen recordings and screenshots that end up unused. Video production using those screen recordings has been time-consuming and expensive. That’s why two former Microsoft employees started to build Lica, which is an AI tool that easily creates tutorials and product videos out of screenshots and screen recordings. The startup was … Read more

Our Leaders’ Credentials Mean Nothing if They Can’t See The Revolution Bitcoin is Bringing

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The sun rises over our Pacific islands, a testament to our rich heritage and untapped potential. Yet, as dawn breaks, a critical question looms: Are our leaders truly serving our people’s economic future? In the corridors of power across our island nations, a profound disconnect exists. While the global economic landscape transforms at lightning speed, … Read more

Meet The AI Tag-Team Method That Reduces Latency in Your Model’s Response

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Speculative decoding is an advanced AI inference technique that is gaining traction in natural language processing (NLP) and other sequence generation tasks. It addresses one of the most significant challenges in deploying large-scale models: balancing computational efficiency with the quality of generated outputs. Models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 have set new benchmarks in AI capability … Read more

Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel

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Illustration: The Verge Google officials had concerns about potential human rights violations that might be linked to its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government before ever even signing the deal, according to documents first reported on by The New York Times today. “Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation … Read more