Embracing Digital This Week

Here's the latest news in digital transformation for July 10, 2023. The ongoing trade war is starting to impact cloud services. Additionally, there's speculation that the hype around generative AI may be slowing down. On the cybersecurity front, there are concerns about whether we're doing enough to stay ahead of malicious actors. Artificial Intelligence According to Bank of America's latest disco...

For the week of July 3, 2023, in digital transformation news. Is AI finding a replacement for Alexa and Siri? Can we hear our data? And where are the cloud service providers making it rain money?  Artificial Intelligence OpenAI is cooking a new dish: ChatGPT Personal Assistant for the workplace. It's like having your own AI sidekick to help with tasks, but let's hope it doesn't ask for a promotion...

News this week, June 26, 2023,  in digital transformation, including increased attacks in the cyber war, everyone jumping onto the generative AI bandwagon, and virtualized radio area networks. Artificial Intelligence The relationship between AI and cryptocurrency is evolving into a complex dynamic as regulators grapple with their coexistence. While AI technologies offer potential for fraud detecti...

Digital Transformation news from the week of June 19, 2023 including stories of managers replacing workers with AI, Cloud outages again, and privacy laws taking a bite out of big tech. #ai, #compute, #edge, #cybersecurity, #datamanagement, #advancedcomms Ubiquitous Compute InformationWeek explores the AI vs. low-code/no-code debate for developers. While low-code/no-code platforms offer simplicity...

Digital Transformation for the week of June 12, 2023, includes a 1 million cyber force development, many cloud outages, and AI writing code going into the C++ standard library. Artificial Intelligence Microsoft has made its powerful OpenAI technology available to US government cloud customers. The move allows agencies to utilize advanced AI capabilities in language processing, machine learning, an...

Digital transformation news for June 6, 2023. This week more jobs in AI, major cyber security breaches, and cloud technology best practices. Artificial Intelligence According to a report, JPMorgan, a banking giant, has advertised over 3,600 AI-related jobs, reflecting Wall Street's increasing interest in revolutionary technology. The move highlights the industry's growing reliance on artificial in...

News for Embracing Digital for the week of May 29, 2023, learn about more regulations for AI, increased nation-state cyber attacks, and edge computing investments. Ubiquitous Computing Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $12.7 billion in India's cloud infrastructure market by 2030, supporting job creation and renewable energy projects. The investment aims to meet rising customer demand and c...

News in Digital Transformation for the week of May 05,2022. This week we cover stories in cloud computing, advanced communications and data management. Ubiquitous Computing Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $12.7 billion in India's cloud infrastructure market by 2030, supporting job creation and renewable energy projects. The investment aims to meet rising customer demand and contribute to...

News from the week of May 15, 2023 in digital transformation including stories from Edge Computing, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence The Irish Times fell victim to a hoax when it published an article by an artificial intelligence (AI) program. The AI-generated piece went unnoticed and was posted online, highlighting the challenges of detecting machine-generated c...

News in Digital Transformation for the week of May 8, 2023 including Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Ubiquitous Compute. Data Management DIQ, a new data trust index tool, promotes data democratization. The tool measures the trustworthiness of data sources, enabling organizations to make informed decisions about data usage. By providing transparency and accountability, DIQ seeks to em...

News and stories from the Week of May 01, 2023, in Digital Transformation, including cyberattacks and intelligent edge, non-verbal communication AI, and company merges in the IoT space. Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash begins: Fans of Snapchat are expressing their discontent with using ChatGPT-powered bots on the platform, marking a backlash against AI. Users criticize the lack of human-lik...

Artificial Intelligence According to MarketWatch, with an expected annualized growth rate of almost 27%, AI hardware, a $10 billion industry in 2021, is expected to be an $89 billion industry by 2030. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-is-ai-hardwares-leader-now-but-intel-amd-and-others-are-closing-fast-8ad6f23f Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) multi-million dollar GARD (Gua...

CyberSecurity The FBI has warned the public against using public phone charging stations due to the risk of cyber-attacks. These charging stations, commonly found in public places such as airports, malls, and hotels, could potentially contain malware that can compromise the security of users' personal information and devices. Bring your own USB power adapter and you should be good to go. https://w...

Artificial Intelligence Yet another thing parents need to be worried about. AI voice cloning! In a recent virtual abduction from a cyber bad actor, the mother of a 15 year old grow was called and spoofed using her daughter's voice to announce her abduction. Followed by ‘I’ve got your daughter’. Quick thinking, the mom texted her husband to check on the location of their daughter who was safe. The...

Cybersecurity New MacStealer macOS Malware Steals iCloud Keychain Data and Passwords. A new information-stealing malware has set its sights on Apple's macOS operating system to siphon sensitive information from compromised devices. MacStealer is the latest example of a threat that uses Telegram as a command-and-control (C2) platform to exfiltrate data. Microsoft Issues Patch for aCropalypse Privac...

Ubiquitous Compute Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corporation and inventor of Moore's Law, passed away on March 24, 2023, at 92. Born in 1929, Moore co-founded Intel in 1968 and served as its CEO from 1975 to 1987. He is best known for his prediction, Moore's Law, that the number of transistors on a microchip would double roughly every two years, leading to exponential growth in computing p...

Artificial Intelligence In the “Potential for Risky Emergent Behaviors” section of the company’s technical report, OpenAI partnered with the Alignment Research Center to test GPT-4's skills. The Center used the AI to convince a human to send the solution to a CAPTCHA code via text message—and it worked. https://gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai-chatbot-task-rabbit-chatgpt-1850227471 Copilot features, Micro...

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft confirms new version of its popular AI chatbot will be able to turn text into VIDEO. GPT-4 and future developments will forever change how we think about artificial intelligence. This powerful AI can process text and numbers, videos, images, and more. Microsoft explained that GPT-4 would be “multimodal.” Holger Kenn, Director of Business Strategy at Microsoft Germ...

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI based Chatbots are far from perfect. ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing chatbot, Meta's Galactica (a generative AI designed to help scientists with tasks like annotating proteins or writing code), and other systems have been taken down or reined in after they've been found to generate unreliable or incorrect information or spiraled into emotional-seeming reactions and...

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI and Bain & Company formed Global AI Services Alliance to transform business potential. Bain will combine its deep digital implementation capabilities and strategic expertise with OpenAI’s AI tools and platforms, including ChatGPT, to help its clients worldwide identify and implement AI's value to maximizing business potential. The Coca-Cola Company is the first c...

Artificial Intelligence The ethics and regulations of using generative AI-enabled Chatbots are starting to come into play as more people are starting to use ChatGPT and other. Chatbots will now need to include a Warning: We may not produce output that is real. Believe at your own risk. You revoke your right to sue us if you reproduce conversations, images, and videos for high-risk use cases that c...

Artificial Intelligence AI mistakes: Blame it on the inaccuracies in the input datasets. * Alphabet's shares dropped by $100 billion after Google's AI chatbot, Bard, shared inaccurate information in a promotional video, and a company event failed to impress. During a live event, Bard stumbled, prompting Google to   pull the live stream, which fueled concerns that the tech giant is losing ground to...

For the week of February 6, 2023. News from around the world of digital transformation in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.   Artificial Intelligence According to Forbes, by 2030, AI will potentially deliver $13 trillion to the global economy, or 16% of the world's current GDP. ChatGPT lets scammers craft emails that are so convincing they can get cash from victims witho...