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OpenAI said it is adding more safeguards to its artificial intelligence (AI) models amid rapid advancements in all AI models.
While the advancements in all AI models bring benefits for cyberdefense, they also bring dual-use risks, meaning they could be used for malicious purposes as well as defensive ones, the company said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) blog post.
Demonstrating the...
Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as companies that spent the past two years experimenting with large language models are now moving those systems into live environments. It’s causing a shift in investment and engineering resources toward inference infrastructure.
Inference refers to the stage where a trained model processes new data and produces results. When...
Crypto just got chartered.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday (Dec. 12) conditionally approved applications for new national bank trust charters to five applicants from the digital asset and blockchain finance space.
“New entrants into the federal banking sector are good for consumers, the banking industry and the economy,” said Comptroller of the...
Target has opened a concept store that the retailer said is part of its “design-driven future.”
The new Target SoHo officially opened Tuesday (Dec. 9) in New York City, the company said in a press release.
Target SoHo features a “Curated By” area that displays the favorite Target finds of influential voices in fashion and lifestyle; a showcase called “The Drop” that spotlights new...
World, an organization co-founded by Sam Altman, has updated its app to include a native chat function, payments and third-party apps.
The new World App began rolling out in more than 100 countries Friday (Dec. 12), the company said in a blog post.
World manufactures an eyeball-scanning device called the Orb that generates unique IDs that let users access the group’s Worldcoin token....
Looking for a travel-related business that’s actually booming during the year of COVID-19? It’s out on the water, in rented boats of every shape and size from kayaks to luxury yachts.
“We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very quick rebound, Bryan Petro, chief operating officer of boat rental and charter marketplace GetMyBoat, told PYMNTS. “From April [to August], we are...
In China, crypto over-the-counter (OTC) traders are being arrested in an attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, according to a report from CoinDesk.
Prominent OTC trader Zhao Dong, of crypto lending platform RenrenBit, was held up by police in the city of Hangzhou, the report says. Zhao has a prominent status among the community, and rumors online began to circulate. One poster relayed...
Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very convincing. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly cutting-edge that only the hopelessly uninformed would fail to recognize its value. The innovators said that they had picked him because he was smart and forward-thinking enough to see the potential. The investor, who prided...