ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Smartsheet, an enterprise work management platform, has revealed its Smartsheet platform. It features new product capabilities that unlock sophisticated solution building, AI (artificial intelligence)-driven data insights, and scale during its annual ENGAGE customer conference.

In early August 2023, the UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing personal information collected over the course of eight years, with anyone who registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022 affected, says Yuval Pe’er, chief cyber threat intel analyst (Israel), BlueVoyant.

Thaicom Public Company Limited, has selected Airbus for its recent generation software-defined high throughput satellite. Airbus will provide recent designed satellites, a reconfigurable OneSat. This Thaicom satellite will provide extended connectivity in Ku-band over Asia-Pacific region for millions of users. Thaicom has introduced and operated eight geostationary satellites. This is Thaicom’s flexible satellite, allowing for more adaptability on coverage, frequency and capacity which is crucial in region.

In many ways, as a result of intensified digitisation over the past few years, enterprises today have put the digital foundations in place that are powerful enough to deliver the digital services their users now prefer. The ‘completion’ of these efforts is an indication that we’re approaching the other side of digital transformation, where these digital modernisation efforts no longer are a competitive differentiator, but table stakes, says Neil Miller, leader, technical solutions, EMEA. ThousandEyes, part of Cisco.

Netcracker Technology announced that it has expanded its partnership with Microsoft. This partnership will support Netcracker’s recently launched GenAI Telco Solution, which unlocks the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology to deliver business value to telecom industry.

IBM has announced plans for recent generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) foundation models and enhancements coming to watsonx its artificial intelligence (AI) and data platform with a set of AI capabilities designed to help enterprises scale and accelerate impact of AI. These enhancements include a technical preview for watsonx.governance, recent generative AI data services coming to watsonx.data and planned integration of watsonx.ai foundation models across select software and infrastructure products.

Capgemini has introduced generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for CX (customer experience) foundry for clients using Salesforce. This is recent addition to Capgemini’s portfolio of services that leverage transformative force of GenAI to fuel creation and accelerate business value and growth. The GenAI for CX foundry will deliver hyper-personalised, data-driven customer experiences by automating customised content creation in a secure, ethical, and responsible manner.

SAP SE and LeanIX GmbH have entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX. The planned acquisition helps SAP expand its business portfolio, giving customers access to full suite of tools required for continuous business transformation and facilitating AI (artificial intelligence) enabled process optimisation. LeanIX, a privately held company, has been a partner of SAP and SAP Signavio solutions for 10 years. Many CIOs rely on LeanIX’s offerings as part of their digital transformation with RISE with SAP solution.

Rockwell Automation, Inc., announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada based Clearpath Robotics Inc., for industrial applications. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are frontier in industrial automation and change, and this acquisition will supercharge Rockwell’s lead in bringing connected enterprise to life.

At Gastech 2023, DNV granted a design verification report (DVR) for AI (artificial intelligence) based autonomous navigation system HiNAS Control. This system was a joint project between Avikus and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. Following evaluation, Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry (LISCR) has also given an approval in principle (AiP) for this system.

SAS has revealed expanded capabilities to its SAS Viya data, AI (artificial intelligence) and analytics platform. The new products previewed this week at SAS Explore technology conference create lightweight environments for building AI models and applications, support multiple programming languages and provide immediate access to scalable cloud compute.

The AI (artificial intelligence) hype train has well and truly embarked from its starting station. In fact, it left some time ago, and continues to gather momentum. It feels that there aren’t many people left who haven’t asked ChatGPT a burning question. It’s one of many instances of generative AI, which is now capable of acing school papers, creating photographs that can fool prize juries and even write passable code, says Mat Clothier, CEO of Cloudhouse.

DE-CIX announces its partnership with DCX.us data centre, a provider of managed hyper-density colocation solutions purpose-built for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and mission-critical applications. Currently taking pre-orders, this collaboration brings together the renowned interconnection capabilities of DE-CIX and DCX’s hyper-density data centre in the Phoenix area.

With predictions that AI (artificial intelligence) could boost the world economy by up to $15.7 trillion (€14.63 trillion) by 2030, and increase global growth by 4 yo 6% per annum, every business leader should be galvanised by and concerned with how AI will shape future commerce. When it comes to customer experience, the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT is sparking lively debate amongst the industry and beyond, says Agam Kohli, director, CX solutions engineering at Odigo.

AR Tech has unveiled their new research and development technology SRT, a high-tech product that combines artificial intelligence to enhance everyday trading. SRT is a product designed for cryptocurrency and blockchain field. Over the past 5 years, AR Tech has been dedicated to multiple research and development efforts in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, continuously upgrading and improving their technology. The recent release of SRT is seen in the industry and a contribution to exchanges and cryptocurrency field.

SmartSky and FLASH Weather AI have announced a collaboration. This collaboration brings FLASH predictive lightning data suite to aviation. SmartSky makes this possible through its network, advanced hardware, and enhanced services, which includes the Skytelligence aviation data exchange.

G42 and Microsoft have expanded its collaboration and also announced a multifaceted plan to make available sovereign cloud offerings, co-innovate and deliver advanced AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities. Additionally they plan to expand existing data centre infrastructure in UAE.

So much software, so little oversight! , says Karen Lambrechts of Lansweeper.

Getac has embedded Li-Fi (light fidelity) technology into its rugged devices as part of recent project with Signify. Getac is working with Signify’s Trulifi technology on project, with aim of bringing Li-Fi technology to its customers. Further announcements detailing devices themselves and their commercial availability will be made in future. Signify and Getac are part of Light Communication Alliance (LCA), a community of industry researchers and creators who believe in optical wireless communication to change the way organisations connect and communicate.

ETSI has released a group report on AI (artificial intelligence), addressing the application of AI, commonly known as deepfakes. The report ETSI GR SAI 011, released by securing AI (ISG SAI) group, focuses on use of AI for manipulating multimedia identity representations and illustrates consequential risks, as well as measures that can be taken to mitigate them.

Transatlantic data flows underpin more than $7 trillion (€6.53 trillion) in cross-border trade and investment per year, according to the US Department of Commerce. The recently announced EU-US Data Privacy Framework (TADPF), in place as of 10^th July 2023, is expected to further promote opportunity and economic fruitfulness on both sides of the Atlantic, says Paul Mountford, chief executive officer of Protegrity. 

UST, a digital transformation solutions company, has partnered with price optimisation platform Quicklizard. This will provide AI-guided data-infused pricing at scale to global brands and retailers. The integration of the Quicklizard platform into UST’s solutions portfolio provides clients with improved operations, experiences, and profitability across their retail value chains by optimising pricing capabilities. 

Dell Technologies and City of Amarillo announce plans to create an online digital assistant. This uses generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to provide residents with details on government and city services.

SAS and MAG Aerospace are teaming up to pursue opportunities from the recently awarded US Space Force Space Systems Command $900 million (€838.07 million) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. SAS and MAG Aerospace will bring skills in AI (artificial intelligence), analytics and Joint All-Domain Command and Control to space realm, enabling the Space Force to analyse and use all data coming in from its vast network of radars and sensors.

Viasat, Inc. announced that Inmarsat Government, now part of Viasat, was awarded a proliferated low earth orbit (pLEO) satellite-based services (SBS) contract by the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on behalf of the US Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). Inmarsat Government is one of 16 companies selected for the $900 million (€840.19 million) ceiling, 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.

A new study from Juniper Research forecasts that the great merchant losses to fraud will be via remote physical goods purchases, with losses reaching $5.1 billion (€4.76 billion) across emerging markets in 2028, up from $1 billion (€0.93 billion) in 2023.

The best of both worlds. A terrific blend of the benefits of being in the office and working from home. The future of work, says Matt Rumins, European head of customer success at Intradiem.