Singapore and Sweden are collaborating on energy initiatives to enhance clean energy technologies and regional interconnectivity. This partnership includes the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on energy cooperation, focusing on areas such as hydrogen and ammonia.

Character.AI bans users under 18 amid lawsuits.

PayPal and OpenAI partnership.
Amazon cuts jobs._

Microsoft and OpenAI have a new deal that reportedly values OpenAI at $500 billion._

Both Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure experienced major outages that disrupted millions of users and services across the globe in the month of October.

Tech Education Reform in India
India’s government is rolling out a nationwide AI curriculum for secondary schools.

Global AI Governance Summit Held in Geneva._
_. Leaders from over 50 countries gathered to discuss ethical AI deployment, transparency standards, and cross-border data sharing frameworks.

_. Canadian biotech companies are leading this transformation, using machine learning algorithms to analyze vast molecular databases and identify promising compounds with unprecedented accuracy and speed.

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Security._
Cloudflare, a company specializing in internet infrastructure, announced that it recently stopped the biggest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, reaching a peak of 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps).
#security #DDoS

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AI and data._
Switzerland introduced Apertus, an open-source model, on Monday as a rival to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI via Engadget. Its source code, training data, weights, and development details are on HuggingFace.

#ai #llms