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RSA-3000 cryptography recommendation in Germany

The perceived RSA-3000 crypto mandate by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has been reported by Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG, highlighting that: 💡 a BSI speaker confirmed that this is a recommendation, not a mandate 💡 the TLS certificate of the BSI website still uses RSA-2048 as well 💡 the wording, especially across B... Read more

Anthropic Indemnification

Anthropic now provide Indemnification as well: Our Commercial Terms of Service (previously our services agreement) will enable our customers to retain ownership rights over any outputs they generate through their use of our services and protect them from copyright infringement claims. Under the updated terms, we will defend our customers fro... Read more

Indemnification

Indemnification was a significant announcement at Microsoft Ignite: this essentially means that they will pay legal damages on behalf of customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems (Reuters) Others followed suit, including OpenAI, Adobe and ... Read more

Adobe Firefly V2 Review

Adobe have released Firefly V2 some time ago. It’s very good, random sample from the net below. All my previous criticisms are void now. Two things I have noticed, though: the NLU (natural language understanding) capabilities of the input text prompt is not as strong as with OpenAI DALL-E 3. I may(!) have seen slight blurriness introduced ... Read more

Mistral.AI Launches Platform with API Access to Best Models

Mistral.AI 🇫🇷 have launched their Platform, which gives API access to their “best models” on a pay-per-use basis. Currently available on an invite-only, early-access basis. Background: Mistral have been in the news for making publicly available the weights etc. of rather small Text Generation models that show surprising performance in standard ... Read more