Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is dampening expectations of a quick solution to the problem of AI hallucinations. At an event at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the tech manager explained that the industry is still "several years" away from a reliable solution.
GPT-4, Claude, Grok, Llama and Gemini: the most important AI language models all originate from the USA. With the OpenGPT-X project and the Teuken-7B language model, a European AI infrastructure is now to be established.
The French IT service provider Atos is about to sell its high-performance computing division to the French state. As the company announced on Monday, the advanced computing activities are to go to the government in Paris.
Wiz, the cyber security start-up recently courted by Google, is continuing its ambitious growth course and acquiring the Israeli cloud security specialist Dazz for around 450 million dollars.
PayPal is currently experiencing a widespread technical outage preventing users worldwide from accessing their accounts. According to the outage tracking platform Downdetector, issue reports began surging around 1 PM CET.
Cloud provider Snowflake is expanding its portfolio in the area of data management. As the company announced at the same time as publishing its quarterly figures, it is acquiring data pipeline management specialist Datavolo.
Researchers from the Qualys Threat Research Unit have discovered five vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu standard component "needrestart". The vulnerabilities allow local privilege escalation (LPE) on affected systems.
Cyber criminals claim to have gained access to an internal database of the car manufacturer Ford. The compromised data records include sensitive information from more than 44,000 customers.
VMware owner Broadcom has surprisingly announced that it will offer the desktop virtualization solutions VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion free of charge with immediate effect. The release now applies not only to private use, but also to commercial and educational use.
In its latest quarterly report, the US oil services provider Halliburton quantified the financial consequences of a serious IT security incident. According to the report, the costs amounted to around 35 million US dollars by the end of September.
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