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Scientists at Cambridge Quantum Computing have developed methods and demonstrated that quantum machines can learn to infer hidden information from very general probabilistic reasoning models. The proofs of principle suggest quantum machines using highly expressive inference models could enable new applications in diverse fields.

Dashlane announced the relaunch of Password Changer and unveiled a new autofill engine powered by machine learning. Dashlane is the only password management solution on the market with a one-click Password Changer for all accounts, and now has the distinction of providing the fastest and most accurate autofill in the industry.

Our recent research found that 93% of organizations have experienced an email data breach in the last 12 months, at an average rate of one incident every 12 working hours. With organizations continuing to operate in a fully remote or hybrid model due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employees remain highly reliant on email as a way to share sensitive data.

Adversarial machine learning is a technique aimed at deceiving the ML model by providing specially crafted input to fool the AV into classifying the malicious input as a benign file and evade detection. There is great impetus to expand the knowledge that we have not just on the machine learning models that we use, but the adversarial attacks made against them.

"Despite thousands of cybersecurity products, data breaches are at an all-time high," writes Bishop in his sponsored VentureBeat article To protect people, we need a different type of machine learning. It has the ability to look at historical data and calculate important features by aggregating all of the relevant data points which are then passed to the machine learning model.

Why does machine learning matter? Machine learning systems are able to quickly apply knowledge and training from large data sets to excel at facial recognition, speech recognition, object recognition, translation, and many other tasks. What machine learning tools are available? Businesses like IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others offer tools for machine learning.

Calligo launched the only Machine Learning Service to simultaneously address the key obstacles to SME and enterprise adoption of machine learning: cost, data quality, complexity, security, accuracy and data privacy. "Too many businesses have been hesitant to take advantage of machine learning because of the cost and lack of internal expertise required to interpret and use data -and especially to do so safely."

Abnormal is disrupting the market by using AI to reinvent email security. The company is using the new funding to double the size of its machine learning and data science teams to further extend Abnormal's lead as the most effective AI threat detection engine for enterprise email security.

Threat Stack announced ThreatML, its new machine learning engine that enhances security observability for the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform, Threat Stack Oversight, and Threat Stack Insight with anomaly detection. The Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform collects, normalizes, and analyzes over 60 billion events per day from customer cloud infrastructure and applications.

A report published last year has noted that most attacks against artificial intelligence systems are focused on manipulating them, but that new attacks using machine learning are within attackers' capabilities. Microsoft now says that attacks on machine learning systems are on the uptick and MITRE notes that, in the last three years, "Major companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla, have had their ML systems tricked, evaded, or misled." At the same time, most businesses don't have the right tools in place to secure their ML systems and are looking for guidance.