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Jamba-Instruct, the instruction-following large language model developed by AI21Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Built for reliable commercial use Jamba-Instruct is a boon for Amazon's customers.

Are robots going to replace human workers? Yes, they have  already started to do so. To accelerate the trend Tesla is looking recruiting humans to train its Optimus-Gen2 robot.

IBM is running a Watsonx Hackathon where entrants get access to watsonx featuring IBM Granite and could win a trip to Las Vegas.

RustConf, the largest annual gathering of the Rust programming language community, is being hosted next month for the first time by the Rust Foundation. Meanwhile Rust has published 26 Project Goals for the second half of 2024.

The MariaDB Foundation has announced a preview version of MariaDB 11.6 Vector. The new functionality is described as being a result of collaborative work by employees of MariaDB plc, MariaDB Foundation and contributors, particularly from Amazon AWS.

A survey from Lakera reveals that only 5% of cybersecurity experts have confidence in the security measures protecting their GenAI applications, despite the fact that 90% are actively using or exploring GenAI. Currently only 22% have adopted ​​AI-specific threat modeling to prepare for GenAI specific threats.

Author: Marc Gregoire
Publisher: Wiley
Date: February 2024
Pages: 1376
ISBN:978-1394193172
Audience: C++ developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Mike James
Can a book on C++ get any bigger and does it need to?

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