AI systems are the ultimate amnesiacs. Despite an impressive ability to generate text, code, music, and more, they’re limited by the prompt immediately in front of them. Ask ChatGPT about a recipe it recommended last week, and you’ll likely get a confused response or even a hallucinated answer. Large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally stateless:

Generative AI has already had a profound impact on the world of database management. In just a few short years, we’ve watched this technology simplify, accelerate, and automate an expanding list of essential aspects of database management—cleansing data, filling gaps, standardizing formats, and more. And thanks to AI’s knack for pattern-recognition, teams can now use

A year ago, almost nobody had heard of coding agents, and if they did, it was in the context of technologies that didn’t yet work. What a difference a year makes. Today, coding agents are all around us, touching on every aspect of the software development life cycle. Current coding agent products include Amazon Q

Update that VPN Reader, bad habits are hard to break. And when it comes to cyber security, outdated practices are worse than useless – they can be dangerous. Recently CSO published a report outlining seven obsolete security practices that should be terminated immediately. It’s critical reading and was consumed as such by our CISO readers.

ChatGPT isn’t very good at knowing when to keep its mouth shut. That makes for a deadly combination with what it is very good at, which is being able to conjure up a response to pretty much anything you throw at it, having been trained on the entire corpus of human writing on the internet.

All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as “996” — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which employees work from 9am to 9pm,

Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk is famously prolific as a father: at last count, the man has sired 14 known children — though there may be far more in the shadows — while frequently expressing deep concern about the world’s falling birthrate. So why is it that he’s been rolling out a slate of AI “companions” via

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an “impending fraud crisis” in which practically anybody will be able to imitate not only the voice but even the likeness of others, using the type of AI that his company is helping pioneer. During a chat with Federal Reserve vice chair Michelle Bowman in Washington, DC, Altman argued

Streaming slop, meet AI slop. Netflix is bragging that, for the first time, it’s used generative AI in one of its original, scripted TV shows, Ars Technica reports, signaling its championing of a technology that the streamer claims will shorten production times, lower costs, all while supposedly enhancing the quality of its series and films.

Historians don’t know when the Ancient Roman text “Res Gestae Divi Augusti,” a chronicle of Emperor Augustus’s deeds, was first written, since these kind of epigraphs tend to not contain any written dates. Enter our hero Aeneas — not the mythological forefather of Rome, but a generative AI model that’s been trained on Ancient Roman texts.