Articles about AI

Data is the lifeblood of artificial intelligence (AI), and the power that AI brings to the business world -- to unearth fresh insights, increase speed and efficiency, and multiply effectiveness -- flows from its ability to analyze and learn from data. The more data AI has to work with, the more reliable its results will be.

Feeding AI’s need for data means collecting it from a wide variety of sources, which has raised concerns about AI gathering, processing, and storing personal data. The fear is that the ocean of data flowing into AI engines is not properly safeguarded.

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In recent months, the buzz surrounding AI technology has grown rapidly, due in large part to the release -- and subsequent zeitgeist moment -- of ChatGPT. A chatbot fueled by language modeling AI technology that is free to the public, ChatGPT has been the subject of seemingly endless discourse regarding its implications since its launch last November.

This type of AI technology is convincing and well… intelligent. It’s almost like a contemporary iteration on the concept of a search engine -- you can type in a prompt, and within moments you’ll receive a well-articulated, seemingly accurate response pulling from sources all over the web.

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how tech assets are evaluated for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through more efficient, accurate, and predictive analyses.

M&A involves complex activities across multiple phases, requiring cohesive cooperation within a competitive timeframe. However, technologies like AI and data analytics have emerged as crucial drivers for successful M&A transactions. As Kevin Knoepp, operating partner and CTO at Trilogy Search Partners, notes, these tools significantly accelerate each step of the M&A process.

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Enterprises plan to invest $33 million in digital transformation projects in the next 12 months, according to a survey of 600 senior IT decision makers.

But the research, from database platform Couchbase, also finds a shift in priorities. 78 percent of IT decision makers confirm their main priorities for transformation have changed in the last three years, and 54 percent say their digital transformation focus has become more reactive to market changes and customer preferences, in order to help the wider organization stay agile.

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The latest 'In the Mind of a Hacker' report from Bugcrowd, which includes responses from 1,000 white hat hackers across 85 countries, finds 55 percent saying that generative AI can already outperform hackers or will be able to do so within the next five years.

But despite this, hackers aren't especially worried about being replaced, with 72 percent saying that generative AI will not be able to replicate the creativity of human hackers.

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AI has been in the news over the past several months, but not everyone is welcoming it excitedly. Many renowned tech personalities have expressed their concerns over the risks associated with it and there are valid fears about artificial intelligence doing more harm than good. For example, there have been reports of AI helping cybercriminals produce less detectable malware.

It is reassuring to know that cybersecurity is among the early adopters in harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence. Cybersecurity firms have been developing ways to integrate AI into their detection, mitigation, and prevention capabilities. Next gen security information and event management (SIEM), in particular, is gaining traction as organizations try to keep up with the growing aggressiveness and complexity of cyber threats.

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M.2 solid state drives are very common, but U.2 NVMe SSDs? Not so much. And so, the announcement of such a drive can be an exciting affair. With that said, today, Transcend has done exactly that. Yes, the company has unveiled a new U.2 NVMe SSD. Called “UTE210T,” the 2.5-inch drive is specifically crafted for use in generative AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and big data analytics.

At the heart of the UTE210T lies the 112-layer 3D NAND flash, an 8-channel controller, and a PCIe Gen 4x4 interface. The combination of these elements make up an SSD that offers blazing-fast sequential R/W speeds of up to 7,200/6,500 MB/s. This, in turn, grants your systems low latency, minimal power consumption, and reliable performance.

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Artificial intelligence isn't all that new, but recently the availability of tools like ChatGPT has catapulted it into the public consciousness. When it comes to introducing AI in the workplace though it's inevitable that some people will perceive it as a threat.

We talked to Khadim Batti, Whatfix CEO and co-founder, to discover how enterprise leaders can prepare their workforces for AI and overcome the challenges that it presents.

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Back in May, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a new Copilot feature which is designed to bring the power of AI to Windows 11.

At the time, the company said that the feature would be made available in preview form in June, and today it finally arrives for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. To try it out, you will need to be running Build 23493 and Microsoft Edge version 115.0.1901.150 or higher.

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Poor data controls and the advent of new generative AI tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs) will lead to a spike in insider data breaches over the coming year, says cybersecurity company Imperva.

As LLM-powered chatbots have become more powerful, many organizations have implemented complete bans or restricted what data can be shared with them. However, since an overwhelming majority (82 percent) have no insider risk management strategy in place, they remain blind to instances of employees using generative AI to help them with tasks.

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Cybercriminals are using AI-created malware that is adept at avoiding detection by traditional antivirus models, according to the latest report from Acronis.

The report also finds email attacks and ransomware cases have exploded relative to last year. Acronis-monitored endpoints are picking up valuable data about how cybercriminals operate and how some attacks have become more intelligent, sophisticated, and difficult to detect.

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Cloud storage provider Dropbox is launching two new AI-powered productivity tools -- though they're not available to everyone just yet.

Dropbox Dash is a universal search that connects all of your tools, content, and apps in a single search bar to help you easily find what you need. There's also Dropbox AI, a new feature that lets customers quickly summarize and get information from their Dropbox files.

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Google says its new generative AI feature will start a "new era of search" by "unlocking new types of questions" and "transforming the way information is organized." But a closer look at Google’s own promotional materials reveals a downside: you may have to face a barrage of ads every time you use it. But how many ads is too many? For Google, it seems, there is no limit.

Google offered a sneak peek at ad placements in its brand new Search Generative Experience (SGE) at an event for advertisers on May 23. There, Google revealed that ads would not only appear before and after the AI-powered snapshot, as originally announced, but would also infiltrate the AI-generated responses. And if the example Google gave is anything to go by, it's not a pretty sight.

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Penetration testing for enterprise security operationalizes the function of security testing for an organization's offensive security program.

Centralizing penetration testing into a core function of the enterprise can provide significant ROI; however, it also requires a new level of considerations, that when applied correctly, can significantly improve overall security outcomes.

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It has been hard to ignore ChatGPT this year as the world goes crazy for the AI tool. While the artificial intelligence is still in its relative infancy, it is astonishing just what can be achieved with it; all that's needed is an idea and a cleverly worded prompt.

There are limitations to what it can do, some of which have been hard-coded into it. In theory, ChatGPT won't do anything illegal, or provide access to illegal content. In theory. Just as users found that while the AI wouldn't provide a list of torrent sites when asked, there was a way to bypass the block (by asking for a list of sites to dodge in order avoid encountering illegal content), and so a technique has been unearthed that can be exploited to get ChatGPT to spew out product keys for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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