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Amazon adds OpenAI products to AWS after Microsoft change

Following a new agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft, Amazon announced that it has integrated OpenAI's latest models into its AWS platform, specifically its AI-building service Bedrock. The initiative includes a new artificial intelligence agent service called Bedrock Managed Agents, which leverages OpenAI's reasoning models. Amazon also hinted in a blog post at the potential for "deeper collaboration" in the future. The move came a day after OpenAI announced that Microsoft, LinkedIn's parent company, no longer had exclusive rights to its products.

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Amazon's cloud unit is looking to sell AI-powered productivity software for the office. This comes after OpenAI's exclusivity clause with Microsoft expired. OpenAI models, Codex on AWS, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI are coming to AWS in...

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Meta revamps login system to streamline app access

Meta wants to make it easier for users to operate across accounts and devices. A centralized login system announced this week by the Instagram owner seeks to streamline the process. It will roll out over over the next year, Meta said. Separately this week, the tech giant told employees it would lay off 10% of its workforce "to run the company more efficiently" while managing high AI-related expenses. With that decision, Meta's strategy to become "AI native" came into sharper focus.

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A lot of account and security work is invisible when it goes well. People just sign in, recover their accounts, manage their settings, and move across products without thinking about the systems behind it. Making that feel simple, reliable, and safe at Meta...

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Google takes aim at Nvidia's dominance over AI chips

Google on Wednesday announced two new chips, set to debut later this year, as the Alphabet-owned company aims to rival Nvidia. One of the chips will train AI models, while the other will handle inference work. The tech giant previously made chips that handled both tasks at once. The strategy mirrors Amazon's efforts to create custom silicon alternatives to traditional graphics processing units. Google said its new chip is designed with ample static random access memory, significantly enhancing its performance capabilities.

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After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. Google said Wednesday that it's making...

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Malicious artifacts found in the official Checkmarx KICS Docker Hub repository and VS Code extensions.

Docker, Inc flagged suspicious activity on the checkmarx/kics Docker Hub repo and alerted Socket. Our investigation found that attackers overwrote existing image tags (including v2.1.20 and alpine) and pushed a fake v2.1.21 tag with no corresponding upstream release.

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The poisoned KICS binary was modified to collect and exfiltrate data. It could generate an uncensored scan report, encrypt it, and send it to an external endpoint. If you use KICS to scan Terraform, CloudFormation, or Kubernetes configs, that means...

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Vercel Breach Tied to Context AI Hack Exposes Limited Customer Credentials

Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems.

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The incident stemmed from the compromise of Context.ai, a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) tool, that was used by an employee at the company. "The attacker used that access to take over the employee's Vercel Google Workspace account, which enabled...

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Top Apple marketing exec retires amid leadership shift

Apple has lost another company veteran. Stan Ng, who spent more than three decades at the iPhone maker, revealed in a LinkedIn post that Thursday was his last day. "It was a joy to work at Apple and I truly loved what I did," he wrote. Ng joined Apple in 1995; he later helped launch the first iPod and oversaw marketing for the product line. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Apple Watch. Apple's AI chief, John Giannandrea, also left the company this week.

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Apple’s marketing chief for the Apple Watch, AirPods, Home and Health — Stan Ng — is retiring, the latest changing of the guard at the company. He’s been at Apple for 31 years and was a mainstay under both Jobs and Cook.

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Netflix plummets after co-founder announces his exit

Despite strong first-quarter results, Netflix shares dropped more than 10% Friday following co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings' announcement that he was exiting the streaming giant. Hastings, who served as CEO for 25 years until 2023, plans to step down in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits. Meanwhile, the streaming giant's earnings Thursday exceeded analyst expectations, bolstered by a termination fee tied to its collapsed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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In an unexpected turn, Netflix's shares dropped around 8% despite posting a strong first-quarter revenue surge. The news? Co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings - the visionary who co-founded Netflix nearly 30 years ago - is stepping down from his role this...

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Anthropic's 'less capable' Opus 4.7 debuts after Mythos

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, an AI model that excels in software engineering and task execution but blocks higher-risk cybersecurity requests, CNBC reports. The release is "broadly less capable" than Claude Mythos, the company says. Opus 4.7 includes safeguards to prevent misuse and aims to gather insights from its deployment. Anthropic has said it does not plan to release Mythos widely, but the U.S. government has already embraced it, preparing to make the model available to some federal agencies, Bloomberg reports, citing an internal memo.

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Claude Opus 4.7 is out today. There are some significant behavioural changes. It reasons more, reaches for tools less, follows instructions more literally, and checks its own work before reporting back. That shifts how you prompt and how much oversight the...