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Booz Allen and Databricks unify data and AI to meet federal agencies’ data challenges
2021-05-29 23:00

Booz Allen Hamilton announced it is partnering with Databricks to drive business value by unifying data and artificial intelligence to meet federal agencies' data challenges and advance their missions. Booz Allen is the largest provider of AI services for the federal government and already delivers some of the most advanced AI, machine learning and data architecture solutions through its work with the Joint AI Center, Army Futures Command, and Veterans Benefits Administration, among other defense, civilian and intelligence agencies.

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Blue Hexagon delivers agentless cloud-native AI security at runtime for Google Cloud
2021-05-28 01:15

Blue Hexagon offers agentless cloud-native AI security at runtime for Google Cloud. "With the rise of cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service driving rapid enterprise workload migration to the cloud, new challenges with security of cloud compute and network are ever emerging," said Nayeem Islam, CEO and Co-founder, Blue Hexagon.

3Cloud partners with Databricks to simplify data and AI workflows, improve collaboration
2021-05-28 00:00

Azure Databricks is one of the fastest growing Azure services and has become a key part of 3Cloud's toolset for building modern, cloud-based data and AI platforms for its clients. As a new Databricks partner, 3Cloud was recently presented with the Rising Star award at the Databricks Partner Executive Summit.

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How do we decide whether or not to trust AI systems?
2021-05-26 03:00

These are two very different scenarios, but the same issue permeates both: How do we humans decide whether or not to trust a machine's recommendations? This is the question that a new draft publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology poses, with the goal of stimulating a discussion about how humans trust AI systems.

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AIs and Fake Comments
2021-05-24 11:20

The big telecommunications companies paid millions of dollars to specialist "AstroTurf" companies to generate public comments. These companies then stole people's names and email addresses from old files and from hacked data dumps and attached them to 8.5 million public comments and half a million letters to members of Congress.

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Spire Global launches multiple novel computing platforms for AI to improve predictive data capabilities
2021-05-21 01:00

Spire Global announced significant breakthrough processing wins for the Company, having recently launched multiple novel computing platforms for artificial intelligence processing, including "Brain in Space", an on-the-ground simulated testbed replicating Spire's LEMUR 3U platform. "We collect a vast amount of data each day from our global satellite constellation and other systems, so processing and leveraging that data efficiently is key. At our core, we are an Earth data analytics company that happens to gather our data from the ultimate vantage point-space," said Spire CEO Peter Platzer.

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Western Digital expands Purple Pro product line for growing AI-enabled workloads
2021-05-19 23:00

Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers. The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.

Query.AI raises $4.6M to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet demand for its platform
2021-05-15 23:30

The company will use the funding to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet significant demand for its platform. The platform provides security teams with a simple and cost-effective approach to significantly elevate security investigation and response through real-time access and centralized insights to data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications, without duplicating it from its native locations.

Query.AI Launches With Security Investigations Platform, $4.6 Million Seed Funding
2021-05-13 13:17

AI officially launched on Thursday with a security investigations platform and $4.6 million in seed funding. AI says it will be used to accelerate adoption of its product.

DataRobot announces new platform enhancements to derive value from AI
2021-05-12 23:30

DataRobot announced new enhancements to its enterprise AI platform. Users can also integrate their own custom training code to create entirely new models that instantly work with DataRobot's explainability tools and have a clear path to production via DataRobot MLOps.

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