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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

TechCrunch

But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. The training has to result in behavioral change and be habit-forming.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO

While LLMs are trained on large amounts of information, they have expanded the attack surface for businesses. From prompt injections to poisoning training data, these critical vulnerabilities are ripe for exploitation, potentially leading to increased security risks for businesses deploying GenAI.

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Efficiently train models with large sequence lengths using Amazon SageMaker model parallel

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and marketing—organizations are now engaged in pre-training and fine-tuning these increasingly larger LLMs, which often boast billions of parameters and larger input sequence length. This approach reduces memory pressure and enables efficient training of large models.

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Strength-training startup Tonal crosses unicorn status after raising $250M

TechCrunch

According to Tonal, the new funds will allow it to spend more on marketing its strength-training product to shoppers to increase brand visibility, grow its catalog of streamed fitness classes and invest further in operations and scaling its business to meet increased demand.

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The mainframe’s future in the age of AI

CIO

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. In some cases, that may be a better alternative than moving mission-critical data to other hardware, which may not be as secure or resilient, she adds. I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Navigating the future of national tech independence with sovereign AI

CIO

There are two main considerations associated with the fundamentals of sovereign AI: 1) Control of the algorithms and the data on the basis of which the AI is trained and developed; and 2) the sovereignty of the infrastructure on which the AI resides and operates. high-performance computing GPU), data centers, and energy.