Tech Ops Labs

The Biden-Harris Administration has issued a sweeping Executive Order on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence." https://bit.ly/3Mp9Rxh

With OpenAI's latest update, you can do all of these tasks in the same single chat session, vastly improving the efficiency of the service. https://bit.ly/49i342f

ZeroRISC has raised $5 million in seed funding to deliver its first commercial OpenTitan-based cloud security service for silicon chips. https://bit.ly/3SkPt4j

Nextbase wants to revolutionize driver safety with its AI-powered dash cam technology priced under $500. https://bit.ly/3tUhIg7

Explore the role of labeled data in machine learning, the challenges it presents, techniques and the future of data labeling. https://bit.ly/3FDoh9y

In a quest to expand metaverse gaming, Animoca Brands has announced the acquisition of Web3 streaming platform Azarus. https://bit.ly/46LGQEr

The Biden Administration's widely-anticipated AI executive order, which is poised to be released on Monday, is said to be over 100 pages long. https://bit.ly/49fbcR6

Ark: Survival Ascended will be getting cross-platform support from modders thanks to Overwolf as the console launches approach in November. https://bit.ly/3Mk5pQG

Moonveil Entertainment has raised $5.4 million for multiplayer mobile games. It has two such games in the works. https://bit.ly/3QdH6F1

Elena Grigorian recently took over as CEO of My.Games, the former Russian game company that moved to Amsterdam. We spoke with her. https://bit.ly/3FBgcSE

The goal is to make it easier for users — from publications to brands — to find images that suit on Shutterstock and manipulate them. https://bit.ly/3Qgs816

The Walking Dead: Match 3 Tales debuts today as a puzzle role-playing game from Com2us and Skybound Entertainment. https://bit.ly/3QccDHm

Researchers from MIT, Cohere for AI and 11 other institutions launched the Data Provenance Platform today in order to "tackle the data transparency crisis in the AI space." https://bit.ly/3QxEcwk

The functionality works similar to other open-ended text-to-image generators such as OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Midjourney. https://bit.ly/3s5Qen0

Meta reported that it lost $3.7 billion in the third quarter in its metaverse-focused Reality Labs division. https://bit.ly/3tOP93H

Artisan Studios, an indie game dev with a reputation for creating premium role-playing games, plans to open a game studio in Saudi Arabia. https://bit.ly/45MwNO1

Okta's unfortunate breach shows how ingenious attackers are in exploiting any opportunity there is to steal privileged access credentials. https://bit.ly/46LW38c

Providing automated support such as tone modification when writing messages, suggested responses to received messages, and meeting summaries https://bit.ly/475KMPX

The system can detect and correct hallucinated text generated by multimodal language models (MLLM) when describing images. https://bit.ly/3s5QXVk

LG NOVA has announced the latest iteration of its Mission for the Future program, where it fosters collaboration between startups and LG. https://bit.ly/46W4TjA

Harmony Games has raised $3 million in seed round funding for mobile games such as Tiles Delight. https://bit.ly/476XQEE

The meeting was attended by roughly 80 Senators and staffers who are taking seriously the many issues surrounding AI risks and regulation. https://bit.ly/3QwsnWY

As generative AI becomes a greater part of robotics, we can expect innovations to happen at a faster pace, moving robots closer to deployment https://bit.ly/46J4gKy

Bard won't respond to user queries or prompts about the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine over the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. https://bit.ly/45JVbj2

More LLMs like GPT-4 are becoming multimodal, making images the newest threat vector for attackers to bypass and redefine guardrails. https://bit.ly/3SiWhzc

By cultivating curiosity, learning and adaptability, we can maximize the benefits and minimize the challenges of the AI-infused workplace. https://bit.ly/46TPDE0

To build trust in AI, business leaders must understand what data verification methods are available and how effective and reliable they are. https://bit.ly/408jhTE

Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 that can teach robots complex skills. https://bit.ly/3tNcK4t

The heat is on. Climate change creates new challenges for data centers while exposing a new vulnerability that attackers can quickly weaponize. The burning problem of overheated servers caused by record heat waves has melted down data centers from Los Angeles to London.  Many data center cooling systems weren’t designed to withstand the heat waves […] https://bit.ly/406rQys

New features include analytics to optimize content, a company intelligence hub to align messaging with brand strategy, and campaign tools. https://bit.ly/46Wq1q0

The dbt semantic layer is now powered by MetricFlow, the SQL query generation engine obtained from the recent acquisition of Transform Data. https://bit.ly/3rWIIec

Shane Chen, the inventor of the hoverboard, has unveiled a new two-wheeled electric car as well as an enhanced hoberboard. https://bit.ly/4026dz3

Bethesda's head of publishing, Pete Hines, announced today that he's retiring and leaving the games company. https://bit.ly/3Qg2Z7P

PTW's Side division has acquired Vibe Avenue, an award-winning interactive music and sound studio, for $1.46 million. https://bit.ly/3PWeHTH

This weekend, two of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, fiercely debated the potential risks and safety concerns surrounding AI. https://bit.ly/46wuTSQ

Logitech unveiled the Zone Wireless 2, an AI-powered headset aimed at hybrid workers. https://bit.ly/3FhlD9d

There is an urgency for comprehensive, global governance of AI. Why getting this right could be critical for humanity. https://bit.ly/3S6kkSd

The edge of the network isn’t always where you find the most powerful computers. But it is the place where you can find the most ubiquitous technology. The edge means things like smartphones, desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and other smart gadgets that operate on their own processors. They have internet access and may or may […] https://bit.ly/3FjZ5o4

Their experiments show that the safety alignment of large language AI models could be significantly undermined when fine-tuned. https://bit.ly/48PLhiT

Dubai-based startup Hexacore is getting to work on its Web3 mobile game Pocket Space, which is a space fantasy. https://bit.ly/3PXnC7y

LLaVA 1.5 combines several generative AI components and has been fine-tuned to create a compute-efficient model that performs various tasks with high accuracy. https://bit.ly/46swM2H

Ottawa, Canada-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology. https://bit.ly/45yscyB

ElevenLabs' AI Dubbing tool can translate speech into more than 20 languages while retaining the original speaker's voice. https://bit.ly/3tzIWZ1

We're just a day away from the launch of the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset, upon which many metaverse dreams depend. https://bit.ly/3FakrUX

Goldman Sachs CIO Margo Argenti told VentureBeat that nearly a year after ChatGPT was released, the company has yet to put generative AI use cases into production. https://bit.ly/46hJUrs

Deep learning hasn't (yet) rendered classical computer vision obsolete. Why some challenges are still best solved with traditional algorithms. https://bit.ly/3F64jDM

Electronic Arts announced that Battlefield 2042 Season 6: Dark Creations will debut on October 10 on the PC and consoles. https://bit.ly/3Q5ZoYX

Kicking off a kind of CES in October, Samsung Electronics showcased new SmartThings appliance connectivity features. https://bit.ly/3LQpcHb

Dell has announced a series of initiatives that expand on the company's generative AI efforts that it has been incrementally rolling out since early 2023. https://bit.ly/3RLCZm4

Here's why I think AI is teetering on the edge of a disillusionment cliff — and how to bring it back to firmer ground. https://bit.ly/3F3joWJ

Twitch was reportedly hit with a fresh round of layoffs just weeks before TwitchCon is set to kick off in Las Vegas. https://bit.ly/45mTJmx