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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.

There is no easy fix to AI privacy problems
2020-01-23 06:00

Artificial intelligence - more specifically, the machine learning subset of AI - has a number of privacy problems. There is currently a fine line that AI developers must walk to create useful systems to benefit society and yet avoid violating privacy rights.

CIOs using AI to bridge gap between IT resources and cloud complexity
2020-01-23 05:00

There's a widening gap between IT resources and the demands of managing the increasing scale and complexity of enterprise cloud ecosystems, a Dynatrace survey of 800 CIOs reveals. CIO responses in the research indicate that, on average, IT and cloud operations teams receive nearly 3,000 alerts from their monitoring and management tools each day.

Varicent acquires Symon.AI to provide enhanced analytics to business users and data scientists
2020-01-23 00:30

AI, a visionary technology platform built on sophisticated Natural Language and Machine Learning algorithms that provide easy to use, advanced analytics to business users and data scientists alike. The acquisition brings to the Varicent SPM platform a full suite of data connectors, data preparation and augmented intelligence features.

Clearview AI and Facial Recognition
2020-01-20 14:53

The New York Times has a long story about Clearview AI, a small company that scrapes identified photos of people from pretty much everywhere, and then uses unstated magical AI technology to identify people in other photos. His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app.

Cyber AI: Securing Cities from Tomorrow's Cyber-Threats
2020-01-15 21:18

Billions of internet-connected devices and the introduction of 5G are transforming the way cities and municipalities care for their citizens. Join Dave Masson, Director of Enterprise Cyber Security at Darktrace and Craig Brown, Chief Innovation Officer of the City of Westland, as they explain how artificial intelligence can detect and respond to cyber-threats targeting the public sector.