fellas, if she wanted to she would
Cyber defenders have an unfair advantage. They have all the telemetry, and patching will always be easier than discovery + chaining. It’s not obvious with all the headlines today, but this is a fundamental truth.
Today, this potential isn’t reality. There are meaningful gaps in solutions available for defenders, and many are having to make the difficult tradeoff between securing their systems and exposing their IP and telemetry to a provider that does “zero data-retention” performatively.
With @stanislavfort, Ondrej, and Jaya, we’ll continue to empower defenders with a truly sovereign platform that they can fully trust to secure their most critical systems.
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i am number one toronto glazer, take a bullet etc. but i do wish we had 24-hour Ichiran’s. we need this capability
we’ve reached the stage of AI safety where allowing egress is "emergent misalignment" and forgetting a network policy is evidence that the model is plotting and scheming
i will have 10000 reports
i will personally hire 10000 interns
i will personally hire 10000 interns
Canada is where Cohere was born. It's the place that raised us, gave our founders an education, and taught them the values with which we build our technology.
Those values?
AI shouldn't take you away from the things you love.
AI should empower you to spend more time with them.
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It’s the wild wild westend of Toronto and there’s some new cowboys in town
Many friendly faces at the cohere booth! Come say hi to us :)
The energy is crazy, DM me or grab me at the @cohere booth if you wanted to chat.
Also come see @chxdie and I talk at 3pm in room 7A (PSE 7303/7363) Fac Hall.
associate member of technical staff
confidential computing in prod
Your data is already encrypted at rest and in transit. But what about in use?
Introducing Confidential Computing in Model Vault: where nothing and no one can access your workloads (yes, not even us).
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I would take a bullet for Brydon Eastman
"Thus, to maintain that sovereignty, we must pursue diminished reliance upon the United States."
Kind of a non sequitur -- but I joined @cohere this month. If you're also a Canadian living in SF feeling weird about the current moment, i'm always happy to talk 🙂
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We just announced Canada’s new Productivity Mega Deduction.
This cuts Canada’s marginal effective tax rate from 13% to 6.4% on new business investment — the lowest of any major economy in the world.
Canada is building big — and becoming the best place in the world to build.
More here:
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i’d take a bullet for rue saint laurent
The idea that two or three Silicon Valley companies should act as the creator, gatekeeper, and rulemaker of AI for every government on earth doesn't survive being said out loud.
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Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?
Artificial intelligence needs evidenced standards, not a cartel. A perspective from @aidangomez, co-founder & CEO of Cohere:
Some great ideas here from the cartel:
- you need to give us employee-level access to your entire operation
- if we don't think you're 'safe' enough, sorry we're shutting you down for 'safety'
- China won't comply, but everyone else has to! or no chips!
Brilliant stuff.
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Who are we concerned about here? OAI/Ant? The Chinese Labs? Cohere? So far the extent of the risk comes from a) OAI/Ant's models hacking when being asked to hack in poorly secured sandboxes, b) China opensourcing models that increasingly can contribute to nefarious use.
a) doesn't require a 3rd party auditor, O/A need to stop using such weak sandboxes when running such high-risk tasks. b) is a discussion with China, and again is not going to be fixed with a 3rd party auditor.
The 3rd party auditor is a great means of power-projection because you can now arbitrarily raise a barrier to entry by shutting down lower-resourced players, while simultaneously providing zero fixes to the problems at hand, but at least you make people feel good.
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