Future Tech

Lumen Technologies Inc is working with Microsoft Corp. to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to empower its approximately 30,000 employees. Lumen is beta-testing Microsoft 365 Copilot as a part of the early access programme (EAP). The company has already seen the benefits of equipping some of its teams with Microsoft’s large language model (LLM) AI (artificial intelligence) solutions, with plans to deploy the tech more openly in future.

Alteryx, Inc. is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to provide Looker Studio users with native access to a free limited version of Alteryx Designer Cloud’s AI-powered data preparation capabilities and enhanced connectivity. This new integration builds on Alteryx and Google Cloud’s commitment to make it easier for customers to surface critical insights for decision-makers in a timely manner, resulting in actions that can improve business outcomes.

Dell Technologies and Denvr Dataworks, an emerging provider of high-performance cloud infrastructure, are working together to help organisations tap the capabilities of generative AI (GenAI). By combining the security and reliability of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server with Denvr Dataworks’ delivery of high performance cloud computing optimised for AI, organisations can spend less time on configuring their environments and start producing AI results faster.

Cloudera announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). This agreement expands Cloudera’s relationship with AWS and demonstrates their commitment to accelerate and scale cloud native data management and data analytics on AWS. Through this agreement, Cloudera will leverage AWS services to deliver continuous innovation and lower costs to customers with Cloudera open data lakehouse on AWS for enterprise generative AI (artificial intelligence).

Panasas has announced the appointment of Ken Claffey as its new chief executive officer. With Claffey’s background and skills in high-performance computing (HPC), cloud, and enterprise data storage technologies, the company is poised to seize new market opportunities under his management. Claffey replaces Tom Shea, who will remain on the Panasas executive management team as chief operating officer.

Amdocs has announced launch of its generative AI (artificial intelligence)-powered cloud management platform. This new version of the platform, integrated with the public cloud providers, includes a set of generative AI-powered solutions. This is also designed to hyper-automate service development and operations and manage and streamline a service provider’s entire IT (information technology) and business operations lifecycle.

When we think about, for example, counterfeit goods or IP (intellectual property) infringement, we tend to think about the largest and most well-known brands. Everyone knows that somewhere counterfeit Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and other apparel brand goods exist. But malicious actors don’t just fake large brands, says Gediminas Rickevicius, VP, global partnerships at Oxylabs.

IBM has launched an ad campaign to introduce watsonx, company’s enterprise-focused artificial intelligence and data platform. Global business providers remain unclear about power of AI and how to leverage it. The campaign is designed to define and differentiate watsonx as a force multiplier that can accelerate impact for global business providers as they look to apply AI solutions in new ways. 

Autel Robotics Co., Ltd., a provider of drone products and industry solutions, highlights its factory in Hai Phong with manufacturing capabilities. It manufactures 150,000 units of products that are supplying US and European markets.

VERSES AI Inc. has announced completion of Flying Forward 2020 (FF2020). The three-year project that began in November 2020 was funded by European Union to test viability of autonomous drones across five European cities. The final two trial cities, Oulu, Finland and Tartu, Estonia, join the three other sites Eindhoven, Netherlands, Milan, Italy, and Zaragoza, Spain in demonstrating essential digital infrastructure for governing autonomous drones.

Radical Imaging LLC announced that it has joined NVIDIA Inception, a programme. This nurtures startups modernising industries with technological advancements.

BrainChip Holdings Ltd received a patent from IP Australia. This expands not only its 2nd generation Akida IP, but also BrainChip’s technology portfolio extending its competitive advantage in performing transposed and dilated convolutions in a neural network.

XCMG Machinery represents future of mining machinery development through its new equipment products and advanced workplace technology. China’s mining satellite jointly designed and developed by XCMG, China University of Mining and Technology, and Skysight, was launched at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre.

The banking industry is undergoing a paradigm shift. This is driven by the strong influence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, especially concerning the risk profile of retail customers. Traditionally, banks were solely focused on financial metrics to assess retail customers’ creditworthiness and overall risk.

With political and economic uncertainty likely to affect many aspects of businesses across the globe for the foreseeable future, organisations need enhanced frontline agility, says Chris Norton, managing director, InterSystems UK & Ireland.

Karista and Eutelsat Communications have announced a new partnership which will see Eutelsat become a new subscriber to the venture capital (VC) firm’s Spacetech fund. This will add to Karista’s ability to fully harness momentum that is building up in the space economy.

Anthony Lamoureux, CEO of Velocity Smart Technology, discusses how the digital workplace is transforming traditional business operations and reshaping the way companies collaborate. 

NVIDIA announced that system manufacturers will deliver AI-ready servers that support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. The move will help companies customize and deploy generative AI applications using their proprietary business data. These servers feature NVIDIA L40S GPUs (graphics processing unit) and NVIDIA BlueField coming soon from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Lenovo to support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA.

CyberLink Corp. has announced the new release of FaceMe Platform. FaceMe Platform is an on-premise and server based facial recognition API (application programming interface) system. It supports various operating systems (Windows, Red Hat, CentOS) and accessible through any web browser. FaceMe Platform 5.4 further improves the process for developers to add facial recognition to applications for ID verification, such as secure system login, and access control.

MediaTek announced that it is working closely with Meta’s Llama 2, an open-source large language model (LLM). Utilising Meta’s LLM as well as MediaTek’s new APUs (accelerated processing unit) and NeuroPilot AI (artificial intelligence) platform, MediaTek aims to build a complete edge computing ecosystem designed to accelerate AI application development on smartphones, IoT (internet of things), vehicles, smart home, and other edge devices.

Synthetica Bio, a company developing an enterprise-grade, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platform for biopharma, has announced an appointment of five healthcare tech executives to its management team: John Crupi as chief technology officer; Tyrone Richardson as chief commercial officer; Alexi Polenur as vice president of engineering; Brian Drank, as vice president of product and marketing; and Kirby Bloom as vice president of data and AI engineering.

MosaicML, a software development provider that offers infrastructure and tools for building large-scale machine learning models, selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as its preferred cloud infrastructure to help enterprises extract more value from their data. With OCI’s high-performance AI (artificial intelligence) infrastructure, MosaicML states that it has seen up to 50% faster performance and cost savings of up to 80% compared to other cloud providers.

Almost every organisation freely admits that people are the biggest risk to their security and are most vulnerable when using email. While the ‘outbound’ risk of an employee accidentally or intentionally leaking data is very clearly categorised as an insider risk, even a phishing attack that originates from outside the organisation requires an insider to, essentially, open the door, says Tony Pepper, CEO and co-founder, Egress.

Couchbase, Inc., a cloud database platform company, announced that it is introducing generative AI (artificial intelligence) into its database-as-a-service Couchbase Capella. This will enhance developer productivity and accelerate time to market for modern applications.

Exabeam announced that it is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud in development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in its cloud-native New-Scale SIEM (security information and event management) product portfolio. As a Google Cloud partner, the collaborative development process on Google Cloud generative AI products will accelerate the design of AI-based security product enhancements for Exabeam.

Artificial intelligence is already deeply embedded across industries, powering everything from fraud prevention to chatbots and personalised recommendations. But as AI grows more powerful, concerns are being raised about its potential risks. Tech leaders are warning of AI’s destructive potential if left unregulated. In response, lawmakers are considering how to govern AI’s development responsibly, says Kevin Bocek VP ecosystem and community at Venafi.

TTP plc announces launch of Gotonomi at upcoming Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas. With the aim of seeding the market, Gotonomi will offer low size, weight and power satellite terminals for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flight trial development kits to partners. The terminals will be compatible with Viasat’s Velaris global connectivity solution, and have been developed as part of Iris air traffic modernisation programme, led by European Space Agency (ESA) and powered by Viasat’s ELERA satellite network.