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Accenture has acquired Byte Prophecy, an automated insights and big data analytics company based in Ahmedabad, India, to meet the growing demand for enterprise-scale AI and digital analytics solutions across the region. "Beyond advanced technology capabilities, Accenture brings our clients a co-innovation mindset, and in Byte Prophecy we found a partner with the right mix of technology and consulting skills, and a client-centric innovation culture."
Alipay, the world's leading open digital lifestyle platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, unveiled the enhanced version of the AI-powered risk engine AlphaRisk, the core of its world-leading risk and security technologies. "The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the globe. Businesses and services which can adapt quicker to this growing trend will be in a stronger position to serve customers. Meanwhile, rapid digitization also comes with new challenges in risk and security," said Dr. Zhao Wenbiao, Vice President of Ant Group and Chief Scientist of Alipay Security Lab in his keynote speech.
Sony announced the upcoming release of two models of intelligent vision sensors, the first image sensors in the world to be equipped with AI processing functionality. Including AI processing functionality on the image sensor itself enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, minimizes any privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs.
More than 200,000 users and a multitude of enterprise clients worldwide already trust Dathena's end-to-end AI-powered solutions to identify, classify, and protect sensitive information and ensure regulatory compliance. Dathena's patented AI tools can unlock crucial new efficiencies, facilitate regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of costly data breaches.
Clearview AI - the web-scraping, faceprint-amassing biometrics company that's being sued over collecting biometrics without informed consent - says it's no longer going to sell access to its program to a) private entities or b) any entity whatsoever that's located in Illinois. Clearview AI founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That has claimed that the results are 99.6% accurate.
The ai Corporation, an FCA approved expert in payments, fraud and risk management, announced that it has upgraded EazyFuel, its closed loop fuel card platform, to be fully PCI compliant, in anticipation of the expansion of PCI Data Security Standard to cover fuel cards. Ai, whose aiGateway - omni-channel payment gateway - was granted Level 1 Service Provider accreditation recently, has rolled out PCI compliance across its suite of payments, fraud and risk management solutions for the fuel industry, in advance of any change to PCI DSS compliance or regulation.
Digital Realty developed a pre-configured Data Hub footprint based on typical customer deployment scenarios on NVIDIA DGX and DGX PODTM configurations. Delivered as part of NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program, the Data Hub solution accommodates a typical enterprise deployment of AI infrastructure to address the placement, connectivity and hosting of critical data infrastructure in proximity to users, networks, clouds and things.
Iguazio, the data science platform for real-time machine learning applications, announced a strategic partnership with NetApp that provides enterprises with a simple, end-to-end solution for developing, deploying and managing AI applications at scale and in real-time on top of the ONTAP AI framework. Iguazio's integration with NetApp ONTAP AI leverages enterprise grade data management, data versioning and NetApp Cloud Volumes for a seamless hybrid cloud experience.
Available exclusively to North American customers who are not existing dotData clients, the dotData FastTrack program is designed to empower business intelligence teams to quickly and efficiently add AI/ML models to their BI stacks and predictive analytics applications. At the core of the new program is dotData's full-cycle data science automation platform, dotData Enterprise, which accelerates ROI and lowers the total cost of model development by automating the entire data science process that is at the heart of AI/ML. "We are seeing a huge demand for AI and ML capabilities in the market, but finding that many companies either do not have the internal resources to launch a data science program, or don't know how to get one started," said Ryohei Fujimaki, founder and CEO of dotData.
A team of 13 analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have used machine learning to help them figure out what secret code words are used by online communities of perverts to covertly talk about child sexual abuse images. The IWF is a UK-based charity that every year removes tens of thousands of depraved images.