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• Q&A: At MIT event, Tom Siebel sees ‘terrifying’ consequences from using AI

  02-05-2023 23:35
  
  Speakers ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) developers to law firms grappled this week with questions about the efficacy and ethics of AI during MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference. Among those who had a somewhat alarmist view of the technology (and regulatory efforts to rein it in) was Tom Siebel, CEO C3 AI and founder of CRM vendor Siebel Systems.Siebel was on hand to talk about how businesses can prepare for an incoming wave of AI regulations, but in his comments Tu
  
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• Box adds generative AI capabilities through OpenAI partnership

  02-05-2023 21:09
  
  Box is getting set to launching Box AI, comprising generative AI models that will be natively integrated into the company' Content Cloud to help users surface information faster and generate new content in order to boost productivity.The new Box AI capabilities will be powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT API and at launch, will only be available inside the Box Content Cloud, although the company said it has plans to embed Box AI across the Box product suite and support more complex use cases.To r
  
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• Apple, Google team up to tackle Bluetooth tracker-stalking terror

  02-05-2023 17:42
  
  The days when people can be abusively tracked using devices such as Apple's AirTags may be numbered; both Apple and Google today jointly announced work on a new standard that will prevent this from happening and hinted that Android users will soon be able to tell whether they’re being tracked by an AirTag.Got to stop tracker abuse
  The two companies say they have been working on a new industry specification to help prevent Bluetooth location-tracking devices being used to track people
  
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• Samsung bans staff AI use over data leak concerns

  02-05-2023 17:39
  
  Samsung has reportedly issued a memo prohibiting the use of generative AI systems like ChatGPT to prevent the upload of sensitive company data on external servers.
  
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• Veteran Technology Executive Kelly Ducourty Joins UiPath as Chief ... - IT Voice

  02-05-2023 14:57 via news.google.com
  
  Veteran Technology Executive Kelly Ducourty Joins UiPath as Chief ...  IT Voice
  
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• Apple, platform security, and the next big war

  02-05-2023 13:48
  
  When Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2016 warned of a cybersecurity war, he was specifically discussing the pressure Apple then faced to create back doors on its platforms so law enforcement could snoop on users.  He was championing encryption and opposing the creation of designer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by any entity that knows they exist. Since then, we’ve seen a cancerous tumult of surveillance as a service that companies such as the NSO Group break out, each of them using the
  
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• Our Accountability System is Broken. Fix It First - GovExec.com

  02-05-2023 13:00 via news.google.com
  
  Our Accountability System is Broken. Fix It First  GovExec.com
  
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• Job cuts may intensify as IBM plans to use AI to replace 30% of back office jobs

  02-05-2023 12:55
  
  IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries.“Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validate the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company. It will set the direction for other enterprises to look for similar opportunities in their support functions,” said Pareekh Jain, lead analyst at Pareekh Consulting.IBM
  
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• Job cuts may intensify as IBM plans to use AI to replace 30% back office jobs

  02-05-2023 12:55
  
  IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries.“Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validates the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company. It will set the direction of other enterprises to look for similar opportunities in their support functions,” said Pareekh Jain, lead analyst at Pareekh Co
  
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• Businesses, beware: The Motorola ThinkPhone comes with a major caveat

  02-05-2023 12:00
  
  Let me just preface this by saying: No, the saga we're about to dive into isn't in any way related to April Fools' — as far as I can tell, anyway. After all, we're at the start of May.And yet, one of Android's best-known phone-makers is putting out a new device with such eye-rollingly off-the-mark claims, I can't help but wonder if maybe they got mixed up on months and meant this to be a joke. It's so hilariously and obviously ironic, I'm just not sure what else to make of it.So here it i
  
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• White House seeks information on tools used for automated employee surveillance

  02-05-2023 11:23
  
  The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would soon be releasing a public request for information (RFI) to learn more about the automated tools employers use to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage workers, OSTP announced on Monday.“Employers are increasingly investing in technologies that monitor and track workers, and making workplace decisions based on that information,” the blog released on Monday said, adding that while these technologies can benefi
  
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• Toyota Australia executive says it’s too early for electric vehicles to replace nation’s cars - The Guardian

  02-05-2023 05:09 via news.google.com
  Toyota Australia executive says it’s too early for electric vehicles to replace nation’s cars  The Guardian
  
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