In May of this year, Alexis Hancock’s daughter received a children’s tablet for her birthday. As a security researcher, Hancock immediately expressed concern. “I looked at it kind of sideways because I’ve never heard of Dragon Touch,” Hancock told TechCrunch, referring to the tablet’s maker. Upon investigation, Hancock, working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, found … Read more
The use of large language models offers significant business benefits, but it is important to address the known issues associated with these models. One approach to exerting control over these powerful technologies involves imposing constraints on the responses generated by the models. At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky unveiled Guardrails for … Read more
The demand for generative AI is causing a shortage of GPUs, with Nvidia’s best-performing chips reportedly sold out until 2024. The CEO of chipmaker TSMC suggests that the shortage could extend into 2025, leading tech giants to develop custom chips. Amazon has unveiled the latest generation of its chips for model training and inferencing at … Read more
During its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm revealed the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a specialized service designed for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageMaker HyperPod is now available to the general public. Amazon has consistently relied on SageMaker as the cornerstone of its machine learning strategy for building, training, and deploying machine … Read more
Amazon has announced the release of an image generator, joining a host of tech giants and startups that have already launched their own versions. During a keynote at its re:Invent conference, Amazon unveiled Titan Image Generator, which is now available in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock, Amazon’s AI development platform. As part of Amazon’s … Read more