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Despite highly publicized risks of data-sharing and AI, from facial recognition to political deepfakes, leadership at many organizations seems to be vastly underestimating the ethical challenges of the technology, NTT DATA Services reveals. Just 12% of executives and 15% of employees say they believe AI will collect consumer data in unethical ways, and only 13% of executives and 19% of employees say AI will discriminate against minority groups.
SlashNext announced the on-device AI mobile phishing defense for iOS and Android with natural language and link-based detection to protect users from the exponential increase in mobile-based SMS phishing attacks. Now SlashNext, customers and partners can benefit from the industry's fastest and most accurate, 2.0 mobile AI phishing defense, protecting users from all forms of phishing across all their communication channels - SMS, email, social networking, gaming, collaboration and search - without compromising user privacy or performance.
Let us briefly discuss two aspects: First, the wide use of open source software gave us insight into a vast quantity of source code changes and the reasoning behind them. We see tools like GPT-3 and their applications in source code being discussed widely.
BlackBerry has announced a new cybersecurity product that it says is the industry's first AI-powered unified endpoint security system. BlackBerry Cyber Suite consists of four tools that BlackBerry said makes it a preventative security tool, rather than just a detect-and-respond one.
The report notes that while organizations are more ethically aware, progress in implementing ethical AI has been inconsistent. The progress on "Fairness" and "Auditability" dimensions of ethical AI has been non-existent, while transparency has dropped from 73% to 59%, despite the fact that 58% of businesses say they have been building awareness amongst employees about issues that can result from the use of AI. The research also reveals that 70% of customers want a clear explanation of results and expect organizations to provide AI interactions that are transparent and fair.
Consider a world where cyber-attackers are using AI to refine, control and scale up their attacks. There is no need to stretch your imagination: sophisticated hackers are using AI techniques today to manage botnets, mount attacks, and cover up their traces, as well as to help them understand the context they're operating in, and, naturally, increase profitability.
VMware and NVIDIA announced a broad partnership to deliver both an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data center, cloud and edge that uses NVIDIA DPUs to support existing and next-generation applications. Through this collaboration, the rich set of AI software available on the NVIDIA NGC hub will be integrated into VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu.
ANNKE unveiled its pro-upgrade CZ400, an AI 4MP Super HD 4X optical zoom PoE security camera, challenging the limits of security solutions and delivering flagship monitoring experience. The OmniVision Ultra HD image sensor brings the clearest 4MP Super HD images & 65 ft crystal night vision, enabling users to capture and view exactly what they want.
Jumio announced that its AI-powered identity verification solutions are now available to Microsoft Azure Active Directory External Identities for B2C customers. Azure Active Directory B2C is a customer identity access management solution.
NTT DATA Services announced the addition of two new data partners, Dataiku and Snowflake, the cloud data platform, to its robust partner ecosystem. In 2019, NTT DATA shared AI guidelines as part of its AI Center of Excellence program and launched Nucleus, an intelligent enterprise platform with AI and automation engines that helps clients create smarter digital solutions.