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92% of AI team leaders at leading-edge organizations felt that their AI initiatives are generating value, according to Wallaroo. "Leading edge ML enterprises have a number of lessons to teach other organizations embarking on their own ML production journeys," said Vid Jain, CEO of Wallaroo.
IBM has unveiled the next evolution of its managed detection and response service offerings with new AI technologies, including the ability to automatically escalate or close up to 85% of alerts, helping to accelerate security response timelines for clients. The managed services are delivered by IBM Consulting's global team of security analysts via IBM's advanced security services platform, which applies multiple layers of AI and contextual threat intelligence from the company's vast global security network - helping automate away the noise while quickly escalating critical threats.
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other's elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election.
The TorchServe flaws discovered by the Oligo Security research team can lead to unauthorized server access and remote code execution on vulnerable instances. Due to insecure deserialization in the SnakeYAML library, attackers can upload a model with a malicious YAML file to trigger remote code execution.
The AI security center's establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models from theft and sabotage as a major national security challenge, especially as generative AI technologies emerge with immense transformative potential for both good and evil. Nakasone said it would become "NSA's focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices guidelines, principles, evaluation, methodology and risk frameworks" for both AI security and the goal of promoting the secure development and adoption of AI within "Our national security systems and our defense industrial base."
Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which...
Rather than running from the potential of this evolving technology, individual organizations should be embracing AI tools in their cyber defense strategies. As AI continues to advance, we expect to see additional applications that creatively utilize the technology - meaning that our cyber defenses will need to continually evolve as well.
Microsoft's new AI image generation Paint tool powered by OpenAI's DALL-E text-to-image model is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Dev and Canary channels. "With this update, we are excited to introduce Paint Cocreator, a new AI-powered experience powered by DALL-E that helps you create amazing artwork in Paint by describing in a few words what you'd like to create," said Dave Grochocki, Principal Product Manager Lead for Windows Inbox Apps.
While many IT workers see the productivity benefits of AI, 56% believe it benefits employers more than employees, according to Ivanti. 63% are concerned generative AI tools might take their job in the next five years compared to 44% of office workers.
Generative AI is a double-edged sword, if there ever was one. There is broad agreement that tools like ChatGPT are unleashing waves of productivity across the business, from IT, to customer...