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The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
"Dependencies shouldn’t have been so tight, should have failed more gracefully, and we should have caught them"
Biggest overhaul of Redmond's security in 20 years sees promises of "code analysis [of] 100% of commercial product”, cryptographic keys to be kept in a hardened Azure HSM, more.
'Do not state anything that is subjective and avoid adjectives (e.g., "state of the art," "mature," "advanced," "appropriate," "comprehensive," or "reasonable")' say experts.
"Cache misses have this weird massive non-linear effect into how much work the GPUs are doing, because we suddenly need to start recomputing all this stuff."
"We're taking on one piece of the network step-by-step. eBPF is making a lot of things possible and with cloud native, all aspects of the network and of connectivity have an opportunity to be redone better."
"We are actively investigating the incident and coordinating with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.”
Executives are getting more worried about the risk of being too dependent on one cloud. But the dominance of the cloud giants makes it hard to avoid.
