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OpenAI banned PRC-linked accounts using AI to support surveillance-related planning, targeted profiling, and research on critics and other individuals.
OpenAI banned accounts linked to a Russia-origin operation we dubbed “Stop News”, using AI to generate recidivist influence content targeting Africa and the UK.
OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreprorted PRC-origin operation we dubbed "Nine-emdash Line", using AI to create regional influence content about the South China Sea, Hong Kong, and US politics.
With the advent of modern embedding models, capable of distilling the key traits of arbitrary data (including text, images and audio) into multi-dimensional vectors, the capability to index these vectors and perform similarity queries on them has become table stakes for all database products. There has been a lot of research on this topic over the past decade, but most of it happens in a vacuum: new data structures and algorithms are designed, tested and benchmarked as standalone implementations
The GraphQL Analytics API now supports confidence intervals for sum and count fields on adaptive (sampled) datasets. Confidence intervals provide a statistical range around sampled results, helping verify accuracy and quantify uncertainty. Supported datasets: Adaptive (sampled) datasets only. Supported fields: All sum and count fields. Usage: The confidence level must be provided as a decimal between 0 and 1 (e.g. 0.90, 0.95, 0.99). Default: If no confidence level is specified, no intervals are
New instance types provide up to 4 vCPU, 12 GiB of memory, and 20 GB of disk per container instance. Instance TypevCPUMemoryDisk lite1/16256 MiB2 GB basic1/41 GiB4 GB standard-11/24 GiB8 GB standard-216 GiB12 GB standard-328 GiB16 GB standard-4412 GiB20 GB The dev and standard instance types are preserved for backward compatibility and are aliases for lite and standard-1, respectively. The standard-1 instance type now provides up to 8 GB of disk instead of only 4 GB. See the getting started g
You can now enhance your security posture by blocking additional application installer and disk image file types with Cloudflare Gateway. Preventing the download of unauthorized software packages is a critical step in securing endpoints from malware and unwanted applications. We have expanded Gateway's file type controls to include: Apple Disk Image (dmg) Microsoft Software Installer (msix, appx) Apple Software Package (pkg) You can find these new options within the Upload File Types and Downloa
Users can now specify that they want to retrieve Cloudflare documentation as markdown rather than the previous HTML default. This can significantly reduce token consumption when used alongside Large Language Model (LLM) tools. curl https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/ -H 'Accept: text/markdown' -v If you maintain your own site and want to adopt this practice using Cloudflare Workers for your own users you can follow the example here.
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