ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Infosys and NVIDIA announced that they have expanded their collaboration. This collaboration aims to help enterprises worldwide, drive productivity gains with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications and solutions.

Accenture announces an investment and collaboration with Open Cosmos, to provide access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale via data services platform. These two companies will help clients to track and analyse data found in space in order to help solve business challenges found on earth, related to sustainability.

With retailers struggling to navigate an era of uncertainty, Salman Ahmad, CTO of Rezolve, sets out how the latest wave of technology can help businesses build resilience.

Merck has announced two new drug discovery collaborations aimed at harnessing artificial intelligence (AI)-driven design and discovery capabilities. further advancing its research efforts. The partnerships, with BenevolentAI, London, UK and Exscientia, Oxford, UK, to generate several novel clinical development drug candidates with potential in key therapeutic areas of oncology, neurology and immunology.

Ericsson has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud. This will develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN (radio access network) solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) that offers integrated automation and orchestration and leverages AI/ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning) for additional CSP (communications service providers) benefits.

Fujitsu Limited and The Linux Foundation have marked the official launch of Fujitsu’s automated machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence) fairness technologies as open source software (OSS) ahead of “Open Source Summit Europe 2023,” running in Bilbao, Spain, from September 19-21, 2023. The two projects will offer users access to software that automatically generates code for new machine learning models, as well as a technology that addresses latent biases in training data.

Nokia has introduced its AVA Data Suite. This is designed to run on Google Cloud, to help communication service providers (CSPs) standardise data and facilitate the development of AI/ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning) software applications.

In less than a year, large language model (LLM) AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard have had a powerful impact on the business world. Recent research indicates that most businesses have experimented with the tools, and many are now regularly integrating them into their workflows, says Max Vetter, VP of cyber at Immersive Labs.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., unveiled its future AI (artificial intelligence) IP (internet protocol) and software tools to address rising demand for on-device and edge AI processing. The highly scalable Cadence Neo neural processing units (NPUs) deliver AI performance in a low-energy footprint, bringing productivity to AI SoCs (system-on-a-chip).

Rohde & Schwarz introduces R&S AREG800A automotive radar echo generator and R&S QAT (quick access toolbar)100 antenna array. The system is able to generate short distances for artificial objects, and therefore enables realistic autonomous braking tests with small distance possible on market. The radar test system (RTS) simulates driving scenarios for testing radar based advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and radar sensors used in automated driving cars (AD) over the air.

Xanadu has announced partnership with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The goal of this partnership is to advance fundamental research in quantum machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Xanadu is at the forefront of quantum computing, developing quantum algorithms and applications for future technologies. Integral to this partnership is Xanadu’s open-source software library, PennyLane, designed to augment quantum computing research and development.

Armis has introduced Armis Centrix, an AI-powered cyber exposure management platform. Armis Centrix is a cloud-based platform that secures all the assets, remediates vulnerabilities, blocks threats and protects entire attack surface. Armis Centrix enable organisations to discover, contextualise, enrich and profile every asset in their environment while building a line of defense by leveraging Armis Centrix asset intelligence risk scores, policies, alerting and visualisations and prioritising efforts against exposures that matter to the business.

EY introduces EY.ai, a unifying platform that brings together human capabilities and artificial intelligence. This will help clients change their businesses through confident and responsible adoption of AI. The EY.ai leverages recent EY technology platforms and AI capabilities, with experience in strategy, transactions, transformation, risk, assurance and tax, all augmented by AI ecosystem.

Teradata has introduced ask.ai, a recent generative AI (artificial intelligence) capability for VantageCloud Lake. The natural language interface is designed to allow anyone with approved access to ask questions of their data and receive instant responses from VantageCloud Lake, a complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By reducing need for complex coding and querying, ask.ai can increase productivity, speed and productivity for technical users and expands analytic use to non-technical roles, who can now also use Teradata’s cloud-native platform to sift through mountains of data and draw insights.

Venafi, an inventor of machine identity management, has unveiled Venafi Athena at its fifth annual Machine Identity Management Summit. The new underpinning AI (artificial intelligence) technology for Venafi Control Plane has been made possible by Venafi’s modern software-as-a-service architecture built on skills. Venafi Athena combines powers of machine learning, large language models and Venafi’s data capabilities to make machine identity management faster for security and platform teams.

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.