The NewYorkTimes.com reported “Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who in November joined three other board members to force out Sam Altman, the company’s high-profile chief executive, before saying he regretted the move, is leaving the San Francisco A.I. company.”  The May 14, 2024 article entitled “OpenAI’s Chief

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CIO.com reported that “With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases.”  The May 21, 2024 article entitled “IT leaders look beyond LLMs

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Computerworld.com reported that “Microsoft has announced a new category of Windows PCs, designed to leverage the full power of AI. Christened Copilot+ PCs and developed in collaboration with PC manufacturers such as HP, Dell, Samsung, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and Microsoft Surface, these devices will boast higher processing power, all-day battery

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CIO.com reported that “Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Einstein Copilot, its conversational AI assistant for CRM.”  The April 25, 2024 article entitled ” Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot for general availability” (https://tinyurl.com/mryhf9bx) included these comments:

 The company first announced Einstein Copilot in September last year, and released

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SCMagazine.com reported that “Google issued a Windows and Mac patch for a critical Chrome bug, and will roll out a Linux patch in the coming days and weeks. In an April 24 blog post, Google said the flaw — CVE-2024-4058 — was a type confusion in ANGLE, Google Chrome’s graphics

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SCMagazine.com reported that “Microsoft has discovered a new method to jailbreak large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) tools and shared its ongoing efforts to improve LLM safety and security in a blog post Thursday.”  The April 15, 2024 article entitled ” Microsoft’s ‘AI Watchdog’ defends against new LLM jailbreak

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HeathCareInfoSecurity.com reported that “A Department of Health and Human Services division that administers funding, training and other services to children and families is putting sensitive data at high risk because of gaps in cloud security controls and practices, according to a watchdog agency report.”  The April 2, 2024 article entitled

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SCMagazine.com reported that “A $22 million ransom payment allegedly made by Optum, which is supported by blockchain transaction records associated with ALPHV/BlackCat, was apparently stolen by the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) in an exit scam.”  The April 8, 2024 reported entitled “Change Healthcare breach data may be in hands of new ransomware

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SCMagazine.com reported that “There’s a lot going on inside the minds of small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners….. Increasingly, those opportunities exist in the cloud, whether it’s gaining new insights from data, effortlessly scaling to meet demand, or enabling collaboration from anywhere. But when it comes to cloud security,…”  The

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SCMagazine.com reported “An active attack targeting a vulnerability in Ray, a widely used open-source AI framework, has impacted thousands of companies and servers running AI infrastructure — computing resources that were exposed to the attack through a critical vulnerability that’s under dispute and has no patch.”  The March 26, 2024

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