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Kount unveils AI solution for real-time identity trust
2020-02-12 03:00

Identity Trust is the ability to establish a real-time level of trust for each identity behind every interaction, including payments, account creation, and login events. "To this end, merchants must reimagine their approaches to fraud. Solutions such as Kount's Identity Trust Global Network go beyond machine learning or rules, offering an identity trust data network, advanced AI, and a user experience engine."

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ZeroFOX launches AI-powered Advanced Email Protection for Google and Microsoft platforms
2020-02-11 02:00

ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Protection for Google's G Suite and Microsoft's Office 365 platforms, which identifies impersonation-based attacks targeting employees.

To Combat Rogue AI, Facebook Pitches 'Radioactive Data'
2020-02-06 13:18

Neural networks are a type of machine learning that involves using a large set of training data to devise rules that can be used to identify future patterns. To detect if training sets have used Facebook images, a team of the company's researchers has proposed building a system that can be used to find out.

Samsung introduces high-performing DRAM, helps advance supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics
2020-02-06 01:00

Samsung announced the market launch of Flashbolt, its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E. The new 16-gigabyte HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize high performance computing systems and help system manufacturers to advance their supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics and state-of-the-art graphics systems in a timely manner. "With the introduction of the highest performing DRAM available today, we are taking a critical step to enhance our role as the leading innovator in the fast-growing premium memory market," said Cheol Choi, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics.

Radiflow and Fraunhofer develop ML and AI methods for industrial cybersecurity
2020-02-03 01:30

Radiflow, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, a prominent research institute for applied science in Germany, announced the launch of a joint research project for applying advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity for industrial automation networks. For this research project, Radiflow and Fraunhofer IOSB will collaborate on developing machine learning methods and artificial intelligence techniques for allowing the autonomous detection of non-compliant and anomalous behaviors on industrial automation networks.

Aquant raises $30M to support growth, drive AI innovation, and accelerate global expansion
2020-02-03 00:30

Aquant will use this capital to support its rapid growth, drive the continuous innovation of its AI platform, accelerate global expansion, and grow its engineering, client services, and go-to-market teams. "The expectations from customers of manufacturing companies are growing, just as skilled service workers are retiring. This makes exceptional service delivery more critical, and more challenging, than ever," said Shahar Chen, CEO and co-founder of Aquant.

ServiceNow acquires Passage AI to advance deep learning AI capabilities
2020-01-31 00:30

ServiceNow, the company making work, work better for people, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Passage AI, a Mountain View, Calif.-based conversational AI platform company. The transaction will advance ServiceNow's deep learning AI capabilities and will accelerate its vision of supporting all major languages across the company's Now Platform and products, including ServiceNow Virtual Agent, Service Portal, Workspaces and emerging interfaces.

AI-based Document Classification Firm Concentric Emerges From Stealth
2020-01-30 17:59

Unstructured documents - especially those that have been given wrong or no sensitivity classification - are among the most difficult assets for any enterprise to track and secure. In a separate report published January 29, 2020, Concentric provides the result of analyzing 26 million unstructured documents from companies in the technology, financial and healthcare sectors.

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Cisco adds AI-powered voice intelligence capabilities to Webex Meetings
2020-01-29 01:30

Cisco is introducing new AI-powered voice intelligence capabilities to Webex Meetings to help turn talk into action. The Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings is powered by technology from the recent Voicea acquisition, turning Webex meetings into a digital treasure trove.

Cybraics partners with AVANT to expand reach of its AI-backed threat detection services
2020-01-28 01:30

Cybersecurity and analytics firm Cybraics announced a partnership with AVANT, an IT decision-making platform for next-generation technologies, further expanding the reach of the company's artificial intelligence-backed threat detection services. "We are excited to partner with AVANT to offer our advanced threat detection services throughout their nationwide network of Trusted Advisors," said Nate Grinnell, Vice President of Sales, Cybraics.