tech:

taffy

Accenture Federal Services, Google launch data & AI Center of Excellence

Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector have announced the launch of a Data & Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, for federal agencies using Google Cloud’s generative AI technologies.

The Data & AI Center of Excellence is part of an expanded strategic alliance between Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector. It offers mission-focused expertise, specialized data and AI experts, and access to technologies such as Google’s language models, Vertex AI platform, and AI-optimized infrastructure. Clients will also have access to Google Cloud’s AI-powered code generation tools to streamline software development processes.

The center will support sensitive and classified workloads while ensuring regulatory compliance through secure data management platforms and assets, the companies said in a statement.

Accenture Federal Services is a subsidiary of Accenture, and the two companies have been in a global partnership with Google since 2018.

[Image courtesy: Google]

Just in

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies — CNBC

It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use; writes Hayden Field. 

DeepSeek’s popular AI app is explicitly sending US data to China — Wired

Users have already reported several examples of DeepSeek censoring content that is critical of China or its policies, writes Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman. 

DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations — CNBC

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services; writes Hayden Field. 

Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family — TC

The models, which are available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face, are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro, writes Kyle Wiggers. 

Eleos raises $60M

Eleos, a behavioral health AI company, has secured 120 million in a Series C funding round.