It began with a £1 contract. In the hours after a pandemic was declared in March 2020, Palantir, the secretive American data analytics company, was invited to 10 Downing Street along with other tech groups, including Amazon, Google and Meta, to discuss how it could help the British government respond. Within days, Palantir’s software was […]
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VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Canada aims to be the first country in the world with official regulations covering the emerging artificial intelligence sector, said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in a speech on Wednesday. […]
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Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Not content to let Microsoft and Amazon hog the spotlight when it comes to new AI assistants, German enterprise giant SAP today announced a new AI assistant for its enterprise customers called “Joule,” that it hopes will “power the outcomes […]
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This week, Bard — Google’s competitor to ChatGPT — got an upgrade. One interesting new feature, called Bard Extensions, allows the artificial intelligence chatbot to connect to a user’s Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive accounts. (Google also gave Bard the ability to search YouTube, Google Maps and a few other Google services, and it […]
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A Microsoft employee’s inadvertent mistake led to the exposure of a massive 38 terabytes of sensitive data on GitHub, a popular platform for open-source projects. This security blunder was discovered by Wiz security researchers, who promptly reported the issue to Microsoft. The incident occurred when the Microsoft employee was publishing a repository containing open-source AI […]
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Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, saying that investigators for the agency violated his privacy rights by disclosing details to Congress and the public about his taxes and the investigation into his conduct. Mr. Biden, the president’s son, filed the suit days after the Justice Department indicted him on separate charges relating […]
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Powerful machine-learning algorithms known as vision and language models, which learn to match text with images, have shown remarkable results when asked to generate captions or summarize videos. While these models excel at identifying objects, they often struggle to understand concepts, like object attributes or the arrangement of items in a scene. For instance, a […]
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Google has introduced a new feature that allows individuals to request the removal of their personal information from its search results. This initiative aims to give people more control over their online presence and protect their sensitive, personally identifiable information. With the internet’s increasing accessibility, personal privacy has become a challenge, as anyone can easily […]
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SOPA Images / Contributor via Getty Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. Modern cars are a “privacy nightmare” that collect vast troves of personal data and demand owners allow manufacturers to share or sell highly sensitive information such as disability status, genetic information, facial templates, and even sexual activity, according to […]
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