LG AI Research and FriendliAI announced a strategic partnership to make LG’s advanced new AI models EXAONE 4.0 publicly available, for the first time, through FriendliAI’s serverless inference infrastructure. FriendliAI is an AI inference provider for open source LLMs. The collaboration brings EXAONE 4.0 to developers and enterprises worldwide through a simple API interface. EXAONE 4.0 is LG…

Cognizant announced the launch of Cognizant Agent Foundry, an offering designed to help enterprises design, deploy and orchestrate autonomous AI agents at scale. The offering comprises a framework along with reusable assets, leveraging Cognizant and third-party IP, and implementation services. Built to enable continuous, agent-driven transformation, Cognizant Agent Foundry supports adaptive operations, real-time decision-making, and personalized customer experiences, empowering organizations…

Pillar Security revealed a novel attack vector that embeds malicious instructions in GGUF model templates, bypassing standard AI security controls. » @pillar_security @huggingface » Pillar Security, a leading company in AI security, discovered a novel supply chain attack vector that targets the AI inference pipeline. This novel technique, termed "Poisoned GGUF Templates," allows attackers to embed malicious instructions that are…

IBM announced Power11, its latest AI-ready enterprise server designed for zero planned downtime, enhanced resiliency, and hybrid cloud deployment. » @IBM » Today, IBM revealed IBM Power11, the next generation of IBM® Power® servers. Redesigned with innovations across its processor, hardware architecture, and virtualization software stack, Power11 is designed to deliver the availability, resiliency, performance, and scalability enterprises demand, for…

Oracle and AWS announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, offering AI-enhanced, zero-ETL integration on OCI infrastructure in AWS Regions. » @oracle @awscloud » Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS. Customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within…

Zignal Labs and Carahsoft announced a partnership to provide AI-powered OSINT capabilities to government and defense agencies through key procurement contracts. » @zignallabs @carahsoft » Zignal Labs, a leader in open source intelligence (OSINT) for mission-ready situational awareness, and Carahsoft Technology, The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, today announced a partnership. Under this agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Zignal’s Public…

SAIC announced a new government risk reduction offering in collaboration with ServiceNow, integrating its AI platform into mission labs for secure IT operations. » @SAICInc @ServiceNow » Science Applications International Corp. announced a strategic collaboration with ServiceNow for a new government risk reduction effort (RRE) offering for mission operations. The new offering will integrate into SAIC’s mission labs to help…

Dassault Systèmes has acquired the Ascon Qube technology from Ascon Systems Holding GmbH, a developer of software-defined automation systems. The acquisition of Ascon Qube accelerates Dassault Systèmes’ leadership in delivering premium industry solutions to model, simulate and optimize virtual twins of an entire factory. This advance enables companies in automation-intensive industries to program machine-specific software through an AI-powered platform approach…

Capgemini, a global business and technology transformation partner, and WNS, a leading digital-led business transformation and services company, announced that they have entered into a definitive transaction agreement pursuant to which Capgemini will acquire WNS for a cash consideration of 76.50 USD per WNS share, which represents a premium of 28% to the last 90-day average share price, of 27%…