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EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M

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WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises, has been acquired by Swedish investment giant EQT. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch has learned via sources that the deal values WSO2 at “more than” $600 million, with EQT attaining a “significant majority” stake for […]

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Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

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Jerome Pesenti has a few reasons to celebrate Meta’s decision last week to release Llama 3, a powerful open source large language model that anyone can download, run, and build on. Pesenti used to be vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta and says he often pushed the company to consider releasing its technology for

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Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024

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Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Last week, the company teased its plans by surveying its users about how they may want

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Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available

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Meta has released the latest entry in its Llama series of open generative AI models: Llama 3. Or, more accurately, the company has debuted two models in its new Llama 3 family, with the rest to come at an unspecified future date. Meta describes the new models — Llama 3 8B, which contains 8 billion parameters,

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Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)

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Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app that is reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push towards an open social web, is deepening its ties to the fediverse — the social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and, in time, Instagram Threads, among others. On Thursday, the company announced

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The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

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Ultimately, Scott argues that those three years of code changes and polite emails were likely not spent sabotaging multiple software projects, but rather building up a history of credibility in preparation for the sabotage of XZ Utils specifically—and potentially other projects in the future. “He just never got to that step because we got lucky

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@Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram Threads

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The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — just got another boost of legitimacy Tuesday as the @Potus (President of the United States) account on Instagram Threads shared its first federated post. The account operated by Biden’s team published a message regarding the president’s support

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Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4

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If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers — and increasingly

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