DoorDash introduces SafeChat+ to enhance platform safety with AI
DoorDash, the popular food delivery platform, is taking a big step forward to ensure both the safety and positive experiences of its users.
SafeChat+ is a new feature that leverages artificial intelligence to provide an even safer and better experience for everyone involved. SafeChat+ is designed to review in-app conversations and detect and prevent verbal abuse or harassment between consumers and Dashers.
What Elon Musk's AI warning says about ethical AI in business
The report by Statista forecasts a significant 21 percent net increase in the United States' GDP by 2030, attributing this growth to the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This projection underscores the immense impact AI is expected to have on economic expansion. However, amid this rapid advancement, tech innovator Elon Musk has expressed serious concerns about the need for AI regulation.
Speaking at the Paris VivaTech event, Musk highlighted the potential dangers of unregulated digital superintelligence. His warnings serve as a vital reminder for businesses to reevaluate their use and engagement with AI technologies, emphasizing the importance of a balanced approach to AI integration in the economic landscape.
77 percent of companies have seen breaches in their AI
A new survey of 150 IT security and data science leaders shows that 98 percent of enterprises consider at least some of their AI models crucial to their business success, and 77 percent identified breaches to their AI in the past year.
Yet the study from HiddenLayer shows only 14 percent of IT leaders say their respective companies are planning and testing for adversarial attacks on AI models.
AI use leads to new risks for data security
According to a new study, 89 percent of cybersecurity professionals agree that their company's sensitive data is increasingly vulnerable to new AI technologies.
The study of 700 respondents across cybersecurity roles, conducted by Vanson Bourne for Code42, also finds that 87 percent are concerned their employees may inadvertently expose sensitive data to competitors by inputting it into GenAI. In addition 87 percent are concerned their employees are not following their GenAI policy.
AIOps models deliver limited value say tech leaders
A new study reveals that 97 percent of technology leaders find traditional AIOps models deliver limited value, leaving teams unable to tackle data overload.
The global survey of 1,300 CIOs and technology leaders in large organizations, carried out for Dynatrace, also finds that 88 percent of organizations say the complexity of their technology stack has increased in the past 12 months, and 51 percent say it will continue to increase.
Microsoft is giving click-free access to Copilot in Windows 11
It is no secret that Microsoft has jumped wholeheartedly onto the AI bandwagon, and its Copilot assistant is an important part of this.
Copilot is still in preview, but it has already undergone major work since it first appeared, and now Microsoft is trying to encourage people to use it by making it even easier to access. If clicking a mouse button has been standing between you and a fix of AI-powered assistance, you'll be pleased to hear that click-free access is rolling out to Windows 11 users.
AI integration is among top developer challenges
The biggest software development challenge in 2024 will be incorporating AI into the development process, according to a new report.
The Reveal survey of 585 software developers and IT professionals from Infragistics shows 40.7 percent name this as the top challenge followed by high workload (29.6 percent) and increased customer demands (29.2 percent).
2024 Call for Code aims to harness gen AI to improve equality
This week IBM, along with charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate the Linux Foundation, launches its 2024 Call for Code Global Challenge with the aim of encouraging developers to use generative AI technology to create solutions that improve equitable access to resources and opportunities for historically underserved and vulnerable people.
Participants will have access to a trial version of watsonx, IBM's AI and data platform with AI Assistants, as well as IBM Cloud technology and developer-friendly training and resources to help teams develop their solutions.
Cohesity launches gen AI search solution for business data
Businesses are dependent on data but extracting useful information in order to aid decision making, while ensuring it stays secure, can prove surprisingly difficult.
Cohesity Gaia, is the industry's first generative AI-powered conversational search assistant. Designed to help access organizations’ most important data to make smarter decisions faster, all while keeping data secure and compliant.
New gen AI tool helps ease IT workloads
We've known for a long time that working in IT can be stressful and that stressed staff can put the organization at risk.
IT ops management platform InvGate is launching a new set of AI tools that aim to help IT teams do their jobs faster and more effectively.
How IBM is supporting developers with AI education [Q&A]
In May of last year, IBM launched watsonx, its enterprise-ready AI and data platform, and made it generally available in July.
Alongside this it has launched some new free generative AI educational courses and content to help developers and IT practitioners build their AI and open source skills. We spoke with Savio Rodrigues, vice president, ecosystem engineering and developer advocacy at IBM to learn more.
Enterprises face problems integrating AI
New research from Tray.io shows that over 90 percent of enterprises are currently experiencing limitations integrating AI into their tech stack.
Almost three-quarters of companies (73 percent) report that more than half of the apps in their tech stack have AI capabilities or AI-augmented features, and 96 say they percent plan to use these features to improve process efficiency and employee productivity, increase customer satisfaction rates and reduce costs.
Google can now train AI with Reddit posts thanks to new Data API access deal
Google and Reddit have "expanded and deepened" their existing partnership in a deal that will give the search giant near-unfettered access to content posted on the site. As well as helping users to find Reddit content via the search engine, the move also means that Redditor's posts will be used to train Google's AI models.
Reddit says that in giving Google access to it Data API, it will be "easier to discover and access the communities and conversations people are looking for". It is being pushed by both companies as a way of promoting the "open internet", but it is something that is proving conversial.
The impact of AI on cybersecurity
The market for AI in cybersecurity is expected to reach more than $133 billion by 2030 according to a new report from Techopedia.
There's both a positive and negative impact from AI use. Hackers using AI has fueled a huge rise in cybercrime, expected to reach a massive $9.22 trillion cost to internet users in 2024, with the vast majority (85 percent) of cybersecurity professionals blaming AI. This rise is for these key reasons: AI increases the speed and volume of attacks, it adapts to specific defenses, and it creates more sophisticated, personalized attacks.
Cybersecurity professionals believe AI will significantly affect their jobs
With responses from more than 1,100 cybersecurity professionals, a new survey reveals that 88 percent of respondents believe that AI will significantly impact their jobs, now or in the near future.
The study from ISC2 shows 35 percent have already witnessed its effects. However, views on exactly what the implications of AI might be are mixed.
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