Taryn Plumb

AR/VR

Google DeepMind researchers introduce new benchmark to improve LLM factuality, reduce hallucinations

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hallucinations, or factually inaccurate responses, continue to plague large language models (LLMs). Models falter particularly when they are given more complex tasks and when users are looking for specific and highly detailed responses.  It’s a challenge data scientists have struggled to overcome, and now, researchers from Google DeepMind say they have come a step closer to

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Learn how GE Healthcare used AWS to build a new AI model that interprets MRIs

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More MRI images are understandably complex and data-heavy.  Because of this, developers training large language models (LLMs) for MRI analysis have had to slice captured images into 2D. But this results in just an approximation of the original image, thus limiting the model’s ability to analyze intricate anatomical structures. This creates challenges in complex cases involving brain

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Gartner predicts AI agents will transform work, but disillusionment is growing

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Very quickly, the topic of AI agents has moved from ambiguous concepts to reality. Enterprises will soon be able to deploy fleets of AI workers to automate and supplement — and yes, in some cases supplant — human talent.  “Autonomous agents are one of the hottest topics and perhaps one of the most hyped topics in

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Gartner: 2025 will see the rise of AI agents (and other top trends)

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The pace of AI continues to accelerate, with capabilities never before thought possible now becoming a reality. This is particularly true of AI agents, or virtual co-workers, which will work alongside us and, eventually, autonomously.  In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI

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Why MFA alone won’t protect you in the age of adversarial AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For a long time, multi-factor authentication (MFA) — in the way of push notifications, authenticator apps or other secondary steps — was thought to be the answer to the mounting cybersecurity problem.  But hackers are cunning and crafty and come up with new ways all the time to break through the fortress of MFA.  Today’s enterprises

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Why Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff see ‘gigantic’ opportunity for agentic AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Going forward, the opportunity for AI agents will be “gigantic,” according to Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.  Already, progress is “spectacular and surprising,” with AI development moving faster and faster and the industry getting into the “flywheel zone” that technology needs to advance, Huang said in a fireside chat at Salesforce’s flagship event Dreamforce this

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Google drops ‘stronger’ and ‘significantly improved’ experimental Gemini models

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google is continuing its aggressive Gemini updates as it races towards its 2.0 model.  The company today announced a smaller variant of Gemini 1.5, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, alongside a “significantly improved” Gemini 1.5 Flash and a “stronger” Gemini 1.5 Pro. These show increased performance against many internal benchmarks, the company says, with “huge gains” with 1.5

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Sophos X-Ops: Ransomware gangs escalating tactics, going to ‘chilling’ lengths

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Posting sensitive data about executives’ family members. Making prank calls to law enforcement that result in violence and even death. Snitching on organizations that don’t pay. Scouring stolen data for evidence of enterprise or employee wrongdoing. Portraying themselves as vigilantes with the public good in mind.  Ransomware actors are escalating their tactics to new, often disturbing

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