ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

UK-based integrated marketing services, events and brand solutions company, CI Group aims to enhance its data analytics capabilities, in a new partnership with BRIDGEi2i Analytics Solutions, a global, asset-based consulting and AI solutions company.

Researchers from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, EPFL (Lausanne) and Sciteb Ltd have found a mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage and police artificial intelligence (AI) systems’ biases towards making unethical, and potentially very costly and damaging commercial choices. This, they say, is keeping an ethical eye on AI.

At this point in history, the digital revolution has turned nearly every industry upside-down in one way or another. The disruptions are clearly visible in industries like retail, where the rise of eCommerce has changed everything, and in media, where nearly every outlet has been challenged and disrupted by digitisation, says Mark Broadly, a Journalism Major and Spanish Minor at NYU.

Pactum, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform that enables global companies to automate personalised commercial negotiations on a massive scale, today announced the closing of a $3 million (€2 million) seed financing round. This was led by Berlin-based Project A, a venture capital firm focused on innovative start-ups, with investments by DocuSign and other previous Pactum investors.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has arguably been one of the most disruptive technologies in the past few years. AI has played a vital role in progressing technology advancements across a variety of industries and is set to make big changes in the future.

Breed Reply, a European investor in early-stage Internet of Things (IoT) businesses, has increased its investment in Dutch agritech company, Connecterra. As part of its Series B funding round, Connecterra has secured €7.8 million from existing investors, Breed Reply and Sistema, alongside new investors including AgTech specialists ADM Capital, French food safety enterprise Kersia Group and Dutch impact investor, Pymwymic.

Kinaxis, a specialist in confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Rubikloud for US$60 million (€53 billion). Rubikloud is an emerging provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that automate supply chain prescriptive analytics and decision-making in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. 

Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK-based advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.

Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, has released EdgeWorks Platform 2.0. This combines blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in a solution for water billing, delivery and conservation.

Crowdsourced security company, Bugcrowd has released its 2020 Inside the Mind of a Hacker report, studying the global hacking community. One of its key findings is that human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence of the Bugcrowd platform were found to be critical ingredients in maintaining a resilient infrastructure.

Intellectual property (IP) represents one of the enterprise’s most valuable assets – an asset that is becoming increasingly vulnerable to compromise, thanks to the rapid escalation of digitalisation, says Jan van Vliet, VP EMEA at Digital Guardian.

We’ve been in the process of transitioning to Industry 4.0 (aka the fourth industrial revolution) ever since the German government coined the term in 2011. It’s proven to be a long and complex journey, and by 2025, the World Economic Forum has estimated that the worldwide impact of Industry 4.0 will reach UK£2.7 trillion(€2.9 trillion) in value. Report by Nigel Moulton, global CTO, Dell Technologies.

5G is considered as one of the market opportunities in the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services. So says a new report by Cambridge, UK-based IDTechEx.

Intel has introduced its 3^rd generation Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio. These are designed to enable customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data centre, network and intelligent-edge environments. 

As use of AI becomes even more pervasive, data scientists and organisations just ‘doing their best’ won’t be sufficient. Scott Zoldi, AI expert at FICO explains that with the rise of AI advocates, responsible AI will be the expectation and standard.

The Oxford Foundry has chosen four new innovative solutions it will support on the OXFO COVID-19 Rapid Solutions Builder. The four solutions were chosen by a team of international judges from more than 100 entries after a rigorous selection process – based on their ability to have a real, tangible societal impact, their viability and ability to implement and their potential for rapid growth.

Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, UiPath today added conversational AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities to what it claims is the industry’s end-to-end hyperautomation platform.

The race for 5G has dominated its fair share of telecoms headlines in recent times. Communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide have invested a vast amount on new network infrastructure. The race is now on, says Angela Logothetis, CTO of Amdocs Open Network, to identify the consumer use cases that CSPs can monetise to recoup the expenditure.

Remote workers have been targeted by up to 65,000 Google-brand impersonation attacks. So says the most recent ‘Threat Spotlight’ report from UK-based Barracuda Networks. This type of spear phishing scam uses branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials.

With ‘Continuous Improvement’ as one of its seven core values, Romark Logistics (Romark) has become a innovator in the supply chain and logistics sector since 1954. As a top third-party logistics and cold-chain provider in North America, Romark services food, beverage, pharmaceutical, commodities, and retail customers around the world.

The software testing and quality assurance company, Qualitest has launched its new Qualisense suite of innovative Machine Learning-powered tools and services. The newly launched Qualisense toolkit is the next iteration of the previous Qualisense Test Predictor service.

With quarantine orders now slowly being lifted in many countries, we’ve come to realise that society is indeed very vulnerable to what we believed were the plagues of the past. There’s no guarantee another pandemic won’t materialise, says Ofir Zemer, CEO of Cellwize, and many experts believe that there may yet be another round of coronavirus to contend with. If we’ve been given a respite, we need to take advantage of it to prepare for future untoward events.

For years, the sandsiv+ customer experience management (CXM) platform has aimed to help companies understand their customers. Now it brings that understanding to the heart of business operations with VOC CI, the Customer Intelligence (CI) application available as an add-on for sandsiv+.

Finnish-Russian digital solutions provider for heavy industries, Zyfra has developed a comprehensive product to significantly reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 at the industrial and other facilities.

Interxion, an European provider of carrier and cloud neutral colocation data centre services and a Digital Realty company, announced a new partnership with RStor, a provider of cloud services across any multicloud environment.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that total global spend on Digital Twins will reach $12.7 billion (€11.3 billion) by 2021; an increase of 17% from $10.8 billion (€9.6 billion) in 2019. Digital Twins are a digital representation of physical assets that utilise IoT data; enabling use cases such as predictive maintenance when combined with AI.

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has unveiled a suite of innovative workplace solutions and a new vision for three return to work scenarios – returning to the office and venues, working from home, and ultimately, the office reimagined.