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In a flurry of AI announcements, Meta has unveiled a suite of new tools and updates designed to bolster security, enhance privacy and strengthen protection of its Llama large language model (LLM) for the open-source AI community. In a bid to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Mark Zuckerberg’s company launched Meta AI on April 29, 2025, during its inaugural LlamaCon, an event dedicated to its Llama family of AI models. Meta AI will be a standalone AI…

Benchmarking jagged intelligence One sticking point to fully leveraging autonomous AI agents involves what Salesforce calls “jaggedness” or “jagged intelligence,” in which AI systems that can excel at complex tasks unexpectedly fail at simpler ones that humans can reliably solve. Salesforce AI Research has created an initial dataset of 225 basic reasoning questions that it calls SIMPLE (Simple, Intuitive, Minimal, Problem-solving Logical Evaluation) to evaluate and benchmark the jaggedness of models. Here’s a sample question…

I set her traits to natural, friendly and consistent. I set her communication style to chatty, empathetic and curious. One user said she asked too many questions, but others said no, I do that, so I left it. Instead of making her my private AI (to help me remember things) or a shared AI (to talk with people I’ve specifically approved, e.g., paying clients), I made her public, to talk with anyone and everyone (much…

La Fórmula 1 abarca una base de fans considerable. De acuerdo a datos recientes de Nielsen Sports, la audiencia global se situaba en 826,5 millones de personas en 2024, lo que marca un crecimiento interanual del 12% —o 90 millones de nuevos seguidores— respecto al año anterior. Se trata además de un público altamente fidelizado en redes sociales: un 81% de nuevos aficionados de entre 16 y 30 años consumen contenido en YouTube, un 80%…

“That’s 100% accurate,” says Patrick Buell, chief innovation officer at Hakkoda, an IBM company. “Tuned, open-source small language models run behind firewalls solve many of the security, governance, and cost concerns.”  Tom Richer, a former CIO and founder of Intelagen, a Google Partner that develops and deploys specialized vertical AI solutions, says the Gartner report aligns with what he is seeing in the field. “General-purpose LLMs have their place, but for specific business problems, smaller,…

The UK’s data protection regulator has said it will not press on with an investigation into the British Library’s catastrophic ransomware breach. The October 2023 attack by a Rhysida ransomware affiliate led to the theft of 600GB of internal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) on users and staff, which was put up for sale and then published on the dark web. The group was also able to encrypt critical data and systems and destroy some servers…

“Close allies are likely getting first dibs on chips, but the line’s long, and prices aren’t dropping,” she says. “Everybody else is getting a limited menu, and some are eyeing the Chinese food truck across the street, even if the quality’s uncertain.” New president, same rules However, the Trump administration appears to be embracing export controls. While a rewrite of the Biden rules may still be coming, the result is likely to be similar to…

The FBI has released details of 42,000 phishing domains, which it said could help network defenders to build cyber resilience and investigate historic breaches. The domains are linked to prolific phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation LabHost. According to British prosecutors, the platform resulted in fraud losses totalling more than £100m ($133m) between 2021 and 2024. The FBI said that LabHost was used by around 10,000 cybercriminals, enabling them to impersonate over 200 sites in order to harvest…

Growing concerns about the cyber risks posed by developments in quantum computing will be major focus at the upcoming Infosecurity Europe 2025 conference. The quantum discussion will begin with an opening keynote by world renowned physicist Brian Cox on Tuesday June 3 at 10.10 BST, in a talk titled ‘Quantum Computers Might Change Everything, Eventually ….’ Cox will set out the principles behind quantum computing and its enormous potential, before delving into some of the…