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Building Strong Teams: HPI-MIT Design Collaboration

Ransomware attack on ChangeHealthcare disrupts supply chain, highlighting vulnerability in corporate security cultures. MIT and HPI researchers aim to improve cybersecurity across supply chains to combat increasing data theft and ransomware attacks.

AI tool aims to reduce restraints on NDIS participants

New AI program aids in creating better disability support plans to reduce restraints and seclusion on individuals with disabilities. Promoting Positive Behaviour Support Practice program aims to guide carers and support workers in responding to challenging behavior respectfully and constructively.

Optimize Your Prompts with DSPy

Stanford NLP introduces DSPy for prompt engineering, moving away from manual prompt writing to modularized programming. The new approach aims to optimize prompts for LLMs, enhancing reliability and efficiency.

Enhancing Customer Satisfaction with Personalized Rewards on Amazon SageMaker

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in AI applications, but customizing responses to align with organizational values poses challenges. Techniques like reward modeling in Amazon SageMaker help tailor LLM outputs to provide unique customer experiences. Human feedback for AI models is subjective, requiring nuanced approaches to improve quality and account for diverse preferences in...

Universal signs TikTok deal, artists return

TikTok and Universal Music Group resolve disputes, bringing back songs from artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Drake. Content was previously removed over issues including artist compensation and AI-generated music.

Unleashing Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 on Bedrock

Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 offers improved features like multi-language support and lower pricing, making it ideal for various AI applications. Customers can now migrate to V2 for enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness in their projects.

Router Wars: Cyber Battle for Control

Cybercriminals and nation-state spies coexist in compromised routers, exchanging access for financial gain or espionage. Researchers from Trend Micro reveal a hidden world where hackers work together inside VPN devices to evade detection.

The Evolution of Tool Use

LLMs are improving reasoning abilities, enabling them to plan and act, leading to exciting agent prompting templates like in the Voyager Paper. Voyager focuses on prompting LLMs to complete open-ended tasks, like playing Minecraft, using an automatic curriculum, iterative prompting, and a skill library.