A critical part of OpenAI’s safeguarding process is “red teaming” — a structured methodology using both human and AI participants to explore potential risks and vulnerabilities in new systems. Historically, OpenAI has engaged in red teaming efforts predominantly through manual…

The UK is establishing the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to help protect Britain and its allies against emerging threats in what officials describe as an “AI arms race.” The laboratory – which will receive an initial government funding of £8.22 million – aims to…

Blockchain AI research lab YeagerAI has announced the launch of the Intelligent Oracle, an AI-powered oracle that aims to provide decentralised applications (DApps) with online data on-chain. The Oracle can change how data is collected, offering new possibilities and use cases for blockchain…

Ai2 is releasing OLMo 2, a family of open-source language models that advances the democratisation of AI and narrows the gap between open and proprietary solutions. The new models, available in 7B and 13B parameter versions, are trained on up to 5 trillion tokens and demonstrate…

A survey by CloudNine PR shows that 83% of UK adults are aware of generative AI tools, and 45% of those familiar with them want companies to be transparent about the environmental costs associated with the technologies. With data centres burning vast amounts of energy, the growing…

OpenAI and other leading AI companies are developing new training techniques to overcome limitations of current methods. Addressing unexpected delays and complications in the development of larger, more powerful language models, these fresh techniques focus on human-like behaviour to teach…

Alibaba has announced Marco-o1, a large language model (LLM) designed to tackle both conventional and open-ended problem-solving tasks. Marco-o1, from Alibaba’s MarcoPolo team, represents another step forward in the ability of AI to handle complex reasoning challenges—particularly…

Salesforce has unveiled the findings of its UK AI Readiness Index, signalling the nation is in a position to spearhead the next wave of AI innovation, also known as agentic AI. The report places the UK ahead of its G7 counterparts in terms of AI adoption but also underscores areas…

AgentFun.AI, a platform to create and trade AI agents, went live on November 27 on Cronos zkEVM. It became the first decentralised app dedicated to AI agents in the Cronos ecosystem. Users can create, build, and trade tokenised AI agents on AgentFun.AI. They set growth milestones for the…

Alibaba Cloud is overhauling its AI partner ecosystem, unveiling the “Partner Rainforest Plan” during its annual Partner Summit 2024. The Chinese tech giant’s cloud division has outlined several new initiatives, including an AI partner accelerator programme, enhanced incentives, and a…