French electricity grid limitations will constrain power exports from Monday for more than two months, threatening higher prices in neighboring countries. The curbs that run until October will impact exports to Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Similar limitations this spring…
The large language model (LLM) market has experienced several noted upheavals in 2024. New models have emerged to challenge OpenAI’s unmatched quality supremacy of 2023 to the point where there are several leading foundation models that can legitimately claim to…
Shares of SK Hynix Inc. tumbled after a rout in tech stocks, overwhelming solid financial results for the supplier to Nvidia Corp. in the June quarter. The company, which supplies chips that train artificial intelligence models, reported sales more than…
AWS announced that Amazon SageMaker Studio now includes Amazon Q Developer as a new capability. This generative AI-powered assistant is built natively into SageMaker’s JupyterLab experience and provides recommendations for the best tools for each task, step-by-step guidance, code generation,…
In our previous blog post on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), we explained the motivation for implementing a RAG architecture and presented a very basic example architecture for retrieving enterprise knowledge. But the solution doesn’t stop there; in this blog post, we’ll…
ASM International NV’s orders beat estimates in the second quarter, as the Dutch chip-equipment maker continues to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom and demand from China. Orders increased 56% to €755 million ($819 million), ASM said in a statementBloomberg…
Enterprises experimenting with generative AI (genAI) are prioritizing use cases that enable internal and external users to better retrieve information they need, be it data, how-to pages, corporate policies, or return policies. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the most common…
OpenAI released GPT-4o mini, a smaller version of their flagship GPT-4o model. GPT-4o mini outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo on several LLM benchmarks and is OpenAI’s first model trained with an instruction hierarchy method that improves the model’s resistance to jailbreaks and…
TikTok is planning to launch its in-app shopping platform in Spain and Ireland as early as October, restarting a stalled campaign to expand its fastest-growing business in Europe. ByteDance Ltd.’s social media startup told partners including merchants and creator agencies…
Hedge funds spent last week selling their winners at the fastest pace since the meme stock craze in January 2021 as the world’s largest technology companies got hammered. The cohort “aggressively unwound risk across their long and short books” for…
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 15th, 2024, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1; Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6; Spring Security 6.4.0-M1; Spring Session 3.4.0-M1; Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1; and Spring Modulith 1.3.0-M1;…
Netflix extended its lead over fellow streaming services last quarter, adding another eight million customers and raising forecasts for both sales and profit margins. The company now has 277.7 million subscribers and reaches more than 600 million people around the…