NSA to open AI Security Center
The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced it is creating an AI Security Center to “oversee the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities within U.S. national security systems.” The new center will help foster development of best practices, evaluation methodology, and risk frameworks related to using AI in national security. The NSA will consolidate …
Databricks introduces public preview of GPU and LLM optimization support for Databricks Model Serving
Databricks introduced a public preview of GPU and LLM optimization support for Databricks Model Serving. This new feature enables the deployment of various AI models, including LLMs and Vision models, on the Lakehouse Platform. Databricks Model Serving offers automatic optimization for LLM Serving, delivering high-performance results without the need for manual configuration. According to Databricks, …
IBM announces first release of watsonx Granite model
IBM has announced the release of the first models in the watsonx Granite series, which utilize generative AI for language and code tasks. These models come in various sizes to cater to different business needs and are based on a decoder-only architecture. They can be used to scale AI in various ways, such as generating …
Amazon’s tool for building generative AI apps is now generally available
Amazon has announced that its solution for building generative AI applications is now generally available. Announced in April of this year, Amazon Bedrock enables companies to utilize foundation models from companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Stability AI, and Amazon to build applications. These models can be further customized on customer data using techniques such …
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Atlassian Value Stream Management solution gives dashboard templates for measuring work
Atlassian next month will release an update to its Value Stream management solution that includes dashboard templates in Atlassian Analytics to help organizations measure their work progress against the company’s stated goals. Read the full article here. …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Wolfi
The primary goal behind Wolfi, which was announced a year ago, is to create secure, hardened containers with zero known CVEs, according to the project maintainers in a post. Since its release, the team of maintainers at Chainguard, along with community contributors, has been focused on aiding developers in addressing software supply chain security challenges. …
Sisense releases new toolkit to help developers embed analytics capabilities into their apps
The analytics company Sisense is releasing a public preview of a new SDK that it hopes will empower developers to embed analytics capabilities into their apps. Compose SDK for Fusion is a toolkit that provides tools and components for embedding analytics in a modular way so that developers don’t have to build those capabilities from …
Company behind Grace Hopper Conference, AnitaB.org, launches DEI consulting firm
AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that puts on the Grace Hopper Conference every year, has announced it is launching a new consulting division called AnitaB.org Advisory. The new division will provide consulting for companies and communities looking to improve their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. According to AnitaB.org, it will provide a systematic approach customized to …
Kong announces managed service to run Kong Gateways and Kong Insomnia 8.0
The API company Kong has announced a new managed service for running Kong Gateways so developers don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The new service, Dedicated Cloud Gateways, is a part of Kong Konnect, the company’s API management platform. “At Kong, we enable any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time …
Workday announces AI capabilities for improving developer and general employee experience
Workday, a provider of cloud applications for finance and HR, has unveiled substantial improvements to its no-code platform, Workday Extend. These enhancements, introduced at the Workday Rising customer conference, comprise the Workday AI Gateway, advanced developer tools from AWS, and a user-friendly no-code/low-code toolkit. These upgrades are designed to enhance the developer experience and boost …
GNU celebrates 40 years
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system, and a number of its users are coming together around the world to celebrate the milestone. GNU is an open-source operating system similar to Unix that was created in 1983 by Richard Stallman. In 2019, following controversy around statements he made around Jeffrey Epstein and …
Revefi launches new AI-driven co-pilot for data teams
Revefi has introduced the Revefi Data Operations Cloud, a zero-touch platform designed to oversee data quality, performance, and expenses. This innovative platform acts as a co-pilot for data teams, ensuring reliable, timely, and cost-effective data management in cloud data warehouses. It ultimately enables organizations to utilize data for crucial business decisions and leads to substantial …
Cloudflare releases platform for AI inference
Cloudflare has launched Workers AI, a solution designed to provide the necessary infrastructure for efficiently and cost-effectively scaling and deploying AI models, catering to the upcoming generation of AI applications. The company has established strategic partnerships to offer GPU access on its global network, enabling low-latency AI inference near users. Paired with the Data Localization …
Windows Terminal Preview 1.19 released, Terminal brought up to version 1.18
Microsoft is releasing the preview version of Windows Terminal 1.19, and updating the terminal to version 1.18, adding all the features that were initially promised when it was first announced. One of the features in Windows Terminal 1.19 is Broadcast Input, which allows developers to broadcast the contents of a terminal pane to all other …
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