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NICE CXone SmartReach delivers proactive conversational AI for digital experiences
2021-07-08 01:30

NICE launched CXone SmartReach following the acquisition of ContactEngine. CXone SmartReach is a comprehensive artificial intelligence powered solution that enables organizations to have proactive, multi-day, asynchronous conversations - interacting with customers through their channels of choice even before they reach out for service.

ISTARI becomes a significant minority shareholder of Prevalent AI
2021-07-02 23:30

ISTARI and Prevalent AI announced that ISTARI has become a significant minority shareholder of PAI. PAI was founded in 2017 by industry veterans Paul Stokes, Sir Iain Lobban, Andrew France OBE, and Arun Raj to enable organizations to rapidly ingest, transform and contextualise large, complex and disparate data sources using their Security Data Science Platform and related services, enhancing the ability to identify, protect, detect and respond to cyber risk. ISTARI Chief Executive Officer Rashmy Chatterjee commented, "We are thrilled to welcome PAI to the ISTARI Collective. Fundamentally, we invested in PAI because our clients need a quantifiable perspective to cyber risk that allows them to understand their own posture better. There are also significant collaboration opportunities with the rest of our portfolio. It is a complementary fit."

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Secure AI is the foundation of trustworthy AI
2021-07-01 03:30

AI-based recommendation systems are used in many online services we enjoy today, including search engines, online shopping sites, streaming services, and social media. Y Patel, a researcher with cybersecurity provider F-Secure's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, recently completed a series of experiments to learn how simple manipulation techniques can affect AI-based recommendations on a social network.

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Microsoft, SES and GRC demonstrate Azure ML and AI capabilities for remote missions
2021-06-30 23:15

Microsoft and SES, in partnership with GovSat and UK-based solutions provider GRC, came together to demonstrate how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capabilities can be brought directly to end-users deployed globally in a highly secure, reliable way while maintaining network sovereignty - allowing users to exploit key Azure workloads regardless of location and drastically boosting the efficiency of critical missions. In these demonstrations the Azure Stack Mini R device was connected to a quick deployable tactical satcom terminal from GRC through the secure SATCOM connection on GovSat-1 satellite, and sent directly to Azure UK via the SES Cloud Direct service, giving connected and disconnected access to Azure services.

GitHub Launches 'Copilot' — AI-Powered Code Completion Tool
2021-06-30 08:46

GitHub on Tuesday launched a technical preview of a new AI-powered pair programming tool that aims to help software developers write better code across a variety of programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go. Copilot, as the code synthesizer is called, has been developed in collaboration with OpenAI, and leverages Codex, a new AI system that's trained on publicly available source code and natural language with the goal of translating comments and code written by a user into auto-generated code snippets. "GitHub Copilot draws context from the code you're working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions," GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said in a blog post.

Intermedia AI Guardian protects businesses and their employees from targeted cyberattacks
2021-06-26 02:30

Intermedia Cloud Communications launched AI Guardian - the artificial intelligence-based security solution designed to protect businesses and their employees from dangerous and targeted cyberattacks. Integrated within Intermedia Email Protection - the email security engine that currently protects millions of mailboxes globally - and powered by Armorblox, developer of a leading natural language understanding platform for cybersecurity, AI Guardian's algorithms analyze thousands of signals involving the language, context, and historical pattern of emails to prevent increasingly more complex spam, viruses, ransomware, malware, and phishing attempts from ever reaching mailboxes.

AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
2021-06-25 13:53

China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights. According to the Global Times report, the system had shot down several PLA pilots during a handful of virtual exercises in recent years.

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EU Data Watchdogs Want Ban on AI Facial Recognition
2021-06-22 11:23

The EU's data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the "Extremely high" risks to privacy. In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a "General ban" on the practice that would include "Recognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any context".

FIS partners with C3 AI to offer a line of AI-based risk solutions
2021-06-17 23:30

FIS announced the first in a new series of solutions developed in partnership with C3 AI to help capital markets firms tap into the power of their organizational data to increase efficiency and better manage regulatory compliance and risk. The AML Compliance Hub leverages C3 AI's advanced machine learning technology, combined with the deep financial industry domain expertise of FIS, to dramatically improve the efficiency of financial crime detection.

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EdgeQ 5G chipset-as-a-service model allows customers to configure 5G and AI services
2021-06-16 00:15

EdgeQ introduces 5G chipset-as-a-service model, offering customers a future proof platform that can scale 5G and AI features as a function of subscription payments. Enterprise network, telco, and cloud providers can use EdgeQ to virtualize network resources, allowing elastic scaling of 5G services on demand.