Tag: GitHub

GitHub launches ‘Copilot Enterprise’, an AI coding assistant for businesses

GitHub, a leading platform for open source software development, introduced today a new product aimed at helping large enterprises harness the power of artificial intelligence in their coding projects. The product, called GitHub Copilot Enterprise, is an AI assistant that can generate code suggestions, answer queries, and summarize changes based on the organization’s own codebase […]

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What comes after Stable Diffusion? Stable Cascade could be Stability AI’s future text-to-image generative AI model

Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative AI technology is now previewing a new image generation model called Stable Cascade.  The new model is intended to help prove new approaches to image generation that are more flexible and efficient than the current generation of Stable Diffusion models. Stability AI has been […]

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GitHub has a copy of every open source project in its database during 2020 located deep inside a frozen mine

You may have heard of various projects to back up the Earth’s best bits should anything catastrophic happen. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, for example, keeps a ‘backup’ of over a million seeds to prevent any from being eradicated. Just down the road lies another all-important backup: every active GitHub repository up to 2020, […]

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LLMs unleashed: Navigating the chaos of online experimentation

In an audacious move that defies conventional wisdom, generative AI companies have embraced a cutting-edge approach to quality assurance: Releasing large language models (LLMs) directly into the wild, untamed realms of the internet. Why bother with tedious testing phases when you can harness the collective might of the online community to uncover bugs, glitches and […]

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Microsoft’s AI strategy is paying off with solid cloud revenue growth

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Crediting growing demand for large AI models across consumer and commercial products that are driving increased cloud consumption, Microsoft reported strong FY24 Q1 results last night. First quarter revenue was up 13% to $56.5 […]

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Stack Overflow confirms layoffs affecting 28% of workforce

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Stack Overflow, the 15-year-old web institution for programmers that is noted for its forums where thorny coding questions are answered by the website’s community, is laying off 28% of its workforce, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar […]

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Oops, Microsoft left 38TB of sensitive data exposed for 3 years including internal Teams chats

Even the smartest of boffins can trip up sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened after a member of Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive internal data after misconfiguring a link. Wiz, a cloud security company that routinely looks for vulnerabilities or exposures of cloud-hosted data detailed the exposure on its blog (via […]

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