Chinese AI Model Takes U.S. by Surprise with Abilities Rivaling Claude and ChatGPT

Pricing: Small free tier; Pro plans start at $50 per month with usage-based limits and costs Standout feature: Real-time guardrails for deployed agents Best for: Security-conscious installations that need to defend against hallucination and data leakage Grafana Labs Long the go-to source for open source telemetry, Grafana Labs now tracks performance of AI models in…

The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the public and private sectors. Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been compromising routers for years, sometimes in prolonged tugs-of-war…

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The competition in generative AI is expanding from model development to ‘inference optimization’ technology that enhances actual service performance. We are now in an era where corporate competitiveness is determined by how quickly and efficiently the same AI model can be executed with minimal computing resources. Nota demonstrated its open-source large-scale language model (LLM) optimization…

A startup founded by former teenage drone-racing champions won a US Army contract worth up to $500 million for its FPV attack drones This marks the Pentagon’s largest small-drone contract ever, running up till 2031 even as it grapples with taking on Chinese-built drones and components with a much smaller manufacturing base This contract allows…

Takeaway: Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. You don’t know with certainty that your application is resilient until that resilience is tested. Better to learn it isn’t by deliberately breaking it in a test environment and watching how it reacts,…