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Meta offers Llama AI to US government for national security

CIO Business Intelligence

Meta will allow US government agencies and contractors in national security roles to use its Llama AI. The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so slightly closer to the generally accepted definition of open-source AI.

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Cisco offers AI application visibility, access control, threat defense

Network World

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

Meta’s Llama models have over 600M downloads to date, and Meta AI has more than 500M monthly actives,” Shih said. model must agree to a 630-word acceptable use policy that, for example, excludes its use by governments in national security roles unless Meta grants permission, as it did recently to the US government.

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IBM X-Force: Stealthy attacks on the rise, toolkits targeting AI emerge

Network World

Obfuscation is becoming an important tactic for threat actors, and PDF malware disguises malicious URLs by encrypting them, hiding them in compressed streams or using hexadecimal representations which can also hinder automated analysis of email security solutions, IBM wrote.Of New technologies, such as gen AI, create new attack surfaces.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Cloudflare accelerates its network with security, traffic optimizations

Network World

Cloudflare unwrapped a series of networking and security innovations during its birthday week event. As a user hovers the mouse over a link on a website and is thinking about clicking, the browser is downloading the page. “We Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC.

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