Alibaba test runs Tongyi Qianwen

 

1 Alibaba has been inviting corporate customers to test Tongyi Qianwen, its large language model. The company is expected to formally launch its invention on Tuesday at an Alibaba Cloud event. Q: Do you have concerns about Americans using Chinese AI chatbots? If so, what are they? Let us know on Inside.com.

2 Last Friday, Alan Lee, the head of AMD's research department, announced his resignation from the firm on LinkedIn. Mr. Lee was involved in overseeing the company's development of Processing-in-Memory (PIM) technology which has helped save up to 85% of precious CPU-DRAM data movement energy.

3 Google announced its decision to drop support for three of its security products - Nest Secure, Dropcam, and Works. Support for Nest Secure and Dropcam will end on April 8, 2024, and support for Works with Nest will cease on September 9, 2023. The announcement pushes customers to purchase the company's latest products as the lack of support will render the products useless. Q: Do you think Google will receive backlash for forcing customers' hands? Join the chat on Inside.com.

4 Eleven days after Apple released iOS 16.4 and macOS Ventura 13.3, the company released new updates (iOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1) to address bugs with emojis and Siri, as well as to address two security threats. The security threats targeted Apple's IOSurfaceAccelerator object and WebKit, its web browser engine.

5 AWS launched Cloud Operations Competency, a program that allows customers to select validated partners offering end-to-end cloud operations support. The partnership with 68 firms will support governance, financial management, monitoring & observability, compliance & auditing, and operations management.

6 In an attempt to utilize ChatGPT to overcome challenges at work, employees at Samsung copied sensitive data into the chatbot and asked it for solutions. The workers' actions posed a privacy risk to Samsung as the information provided to ChatGPT could be used in its learning model to provide solutions to millions worldwide. Q: How can companies mitigate the privacy risk? Share your ideas with us on Inside.com.

7 Tech enthusiasts have been working on jailbreaking chatbots like ChatGPT to circumvent restrictions against answering questions about potentially illegal activities. One such individual is the founder of Jailbreak Chat, Alex Albert, who developed ways to paraphrase questions and use role-playing to bypass chatbots' built-in security features.