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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 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.
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.
To maximize the data pool, it is customary to share patient data between clinics by sending copies of databases to the clinics where the algorithm is being trained. "These processes have often proven inadequate in terms of protecting patients' health data," says Daniel Rueckert, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine at TUM. AI-based diagnostic processes support doctors.
Atos and Thales announce the creation of Athea, a joint venture that will develop a sovereign big data and artificial intelligence platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities. Athea will draw on the experience gained by both companies from the demonstration phase of the ARTEMIS programme, the big data platform of the French Ministry of Armed Forces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.