ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Munich and San Jose, California, 21 October, 2021 – Infineon Technologies AG a provider of semiconductors for mobility, energy efficiency and the IoT, announced a collaboration with Rainforest Connection (RFCx), a non-profit organisation that uses acoustic technology, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to save the rainforests and monitor biodiversity.

Fraud fighting firm SEON says it is strengthening its mission to eradicate online fraud. It updated its fraud detection solution with new capabilities that aim to increase its ability to detect fraud while decreasing false positives from legitimate customers.

Edinburgh. 20 October 2021 – A new company spun out from the University of Edinburgh promises to drastically reduce the need for expensive hardware and computing resources that 5G providers use to meet the service requirements of their customers.

Denver, CO. USA. 19^th October, 2021- CSG is aiming to transform the way companies engage with customers by arming brands with future-ready, innovative solutions that drive extraordinary customer experiences and inspire loyalty. The company launched CSG Xponent, a unified, cloud engagement hub that takes uninspired customer engagements and turns them into extraordinary customer experiences.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the release of ODYSSEE A-Eye, a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that enhances Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) for a multitude of industry solutions without the need for complex CAE preparation and simulation expertise.

Nuuday, Denmark’s provider of broadband, communication and entertainment services, has launched “Josefine,” an AI-powered voicebot capable of delivering dynamic, immediate and personalised experiences for customers interacting through its Avaya OneCloud communications and collaboration platform.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a strategic partnership to provide secure and flexible network connectivity to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The innovative new partnership claims to make the 2022 Commonwealth Games more connected, more inclusive, and more engaging than ever before.

Misconceptions around how artificial intelligence (AI) learns and what data it needs to store to derive useful insights are rife across almost every industry with a use-case for it.

Corelight, provider of the open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has launched Corelight Labs, a research team within the company dedicated to providing cutting-edge content that enables complete, detailed monitoring of enterprise network activity for threat hunting, analysis, and response.

IPC provider, Advantech, has launched edge AI (artificial intelligence) inference systems that meet rising demands for AI image recognition. As AI devices are widely deployed at the edge, remote management and information security at the cloud/edge remain key concerns.

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire BRIDGEi2i, an artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics firm headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with additional offices in the US and Australia.

As organisations come to grips with the reality of a permanent digital-first world, the pressure to digitise and modernise operations remains high. While this modernisation is imperative, it’s equally difficult; true digitisation and transformation efforts are complex, extensive, and must happen without compromising a company’s ability to support ongoing business needs.

General Micro Systems launched its Velocity “4×4” quad GPGPU artificial intelligence (AI) server designed for battlefield applications. These include command posts, tactical operation centres (TOCs) and protected platforms such as autonomous vehicles, wide body airborne sensor fusion, surveillance, data mining, synthetic vision and any platform than needs massive computational resources from a small, air-cooled rackmount server.

Cisco has unveiled its Hybrid Work Index (HWI) based on millions of aggregated and anonymous customer datapoints. The index, which will be updated quarterly, examines how people’s habits and technology interactions have permanently reshaped work a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic.

New data from Untapped AI has revealed more than 4 in 5 people have described themselves as feeling in the grip of change fatigue in September, exhausted with workplace and social uncertainty.

London’s international artificial intelligence (AI) art fair, deeep, aims to disrupt the city’s art market with new AI generative art and NFT exhibition from 14^th – 17^thOctober in the heart of street art and tech hub, Shoreditch, London.

Steel manufacturer NLMK Europe is expanding its program to monitor the health of critical assets after completing a successful pilot with new machine learning technology at its hot strip mill in NLMK La LouviEre, Belgium. The company plans to roll out the SAM4 system from Dutch tech company Samotics across its other sites in Europe.

Egnyte, a specialist in cloud content security and governance, has released its 2021 Data Governance Trends Report. This is based on a survey of 400 IT executives conducted in July 2021, examining the challenges of securing and governing unstructured content in today’s hybrid and remote work environments.

Cyber security provider F-Secure will research advancements in trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) as part of SPATIAL (Security and Privacy Accountable Technology Innovations, Algorithms, and machine Learning), a new project funded by the European Commission‘s Horizon 2020 program. The collaborative effort unites academia and industry to increase the reliability and security of artificial intelligence and data management in cyber security applications.

Gartner predicts that around 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed at the edge by 2025. Edge computing is a rapidly evolving market, and while there are many benefits, there are still some hurdles to adoption.

NVIDIA announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a news-filled keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some of the world’s preeminent AI research and industry leaders.

BSA the Software Alliance welcomes the inaugural meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) this week. The TTC is an opportunity for the United States and the European Union to advance a data governance vision that reflects a shared commitment to democratic principles, fair and open trade, and inclusive growth.

Energy firm SSE is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to document one of the UK’s best loved birds. The energy company has launched its “Flying Squad” initiative with Microsoft, tech firm Avanade and NatureScot to monitor puffin numbers around the Scottish coastline. 

5G and AIoT need more speed and more capacity, and PCIe 4.0 delivers, doubling the speed of PCIe 3.0 and providing the much-needed performance boost to keep pace with innovation and industry trends.

A report released over the summer shows the number of AI companies in the UK has surged 600% in the last decade, from 180 in 2011 to more than 1,300 today. The rise in AI adoption has resulted as a way for companies to keep up with markets and competitors one of the main challenges for modern businesses, says Anita Weppenaar, SoftwareONE cloud services practice lead for UK, IE and South Africa

The National Robotarium, hosted by Heriot-Watt University, is pioneering intelligent sensing and tele-presence robotic technology to allow health practitioners to remotely assess a person’s physical and cognitive health from anywhere in the world.

RightIndem, an global insurance technology company, has worked with Bristol-based  Amdaris to simplify its customer onboarding process via developing enterprise-grade conversational Artificial Intelligence experiences.