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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, or EVMs, have been well-documented since at least 2005 , but officials often believed that the problems could be ignored because manufacturers said the machines couldn’t be connected to the Internet. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. It’s this horrible Catch-22.”.