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• OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool's impact will be ‘profound’

  20-02-2024 22:36
  
  OpenAI last week unveiled a new capability for its generative AI (genAI) platform that can use a text input to generate video — complete with life-like actors and other moving parts.The new genAI model, called Sora, has a text-to-video function that can create complex, realistic moving scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background "while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt."Sora understand
  
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• Air Canada chatbot error underscores AI’s enterprise liability danger

  20-02-2024 21:03
  
  A civil tribunal in Canada has ordered Air Canada to pay for a mistake made by a customer-service chatbot, highlighting the need for companies to better train and monitor their artificial intelligence (AI) tools.British Columbia resident Jake Moffatt visited Air Canada’s website in November 2022 to book a flight for his grandmother’s funeral in Ontario. The website’s chatbot told him he could be refunded a portion of the next-day ticket and the return ticket, if he applied for
  
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• Adobe’s new Acrobat genAI assistant aims to streamline reading PDFs

  20-02-2024 20:40
  
  Adobe is promising to make it easier to digest lengthy PDFs with a new generative AI (genAI) assistant coming to Acrobat.Currently in private beta, the AI Assistant will later be available within its paid Acrobat desktop and web apps, as well as the free-to-use Reader. There’s no immediate word on cost at launch, though Adobe said an add-on subscription will be required for Reader and Acrobat users.“The AI Assistant in Acrobat is a helpful feature for existing teams using Acrobat an
  
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• EU begins formal investigation of TikTok over potential violations of Digital Services Act

  20-02-2024 19:50
  
  The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether TikTok may have breached the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in various ways associated with the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and managing risk for addictive design and harmful content.The formal investigation adds to the privacy and safety concerns that have plagued the video-sharing platform, giving enterprises yet another reason to consider
  
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• Box CEO 'insanely excited' about future of Vision Pro, work, and AI

  20-02-2024 19:16
  
  Enterprise content cloud and collaboration service Box was fast out the gate with its own feature-filled take on support for Apple’s Vision Pro. I spoke with Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, who described how the company sees spatial computing transforming the enterprise and elsewhere.For Levie, the disruptive tech trends of the last 20 years have set the scene for yet another change wave. “I think we have the early semblance of a new set of trends that are only just starting to
  
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• Ensure security and collaboration thrive in the hybrid working era

  20-02-2024 18:50
  
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  Small and medium sized businesses can cut costs and drive growth by adopting remote working – but increasingly sophisticated cyber attackers can exploit these new practices.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Miro boosts security for its visual collaboration app

  20-02-2024 13:47
  
  Miro has unveiled a set of security tools designed to help businesses protect sensitive data shared on its digital whiteboard application. The new Miro Enterprise Guard includes features to automate detection and classification of sensitive data, manage content for legal audits, and provide IT admins with greater control over encryption.Visual collaboration is one of the fastest-growing areas of the wider collaboration software market, according to IDC. Digital whiteboard apps provide a shared
  
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• How RAG makes generative AI tools even better

  20-02-2024 12:00
  
  As more organizations turn to generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools to transform massive amounts of unstructured data and other assets into usable information, being able to find the most relevant content during the AI generation process is critical.Retrieval augmented generation or “RAG” for short, is a technology that can do just that by creating a more customized genAI model that enables more accurate and specific responses to queries.Large language models (LLMs), also
  
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