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MasterCard jumpstarts AI Express with Brighterion Smart Agent Tech

MasterCard last summer bought Brighterion for an undisclosed sum to help accelerate its Artificial Intelligence capabilities, adding the San Francisco headquartered firm’s Smart Agent technology to its advanced AI suite of security products. Ajay Bhalla, president of enterprise risk and security for MasterCard sees “unprecedented use of artificial intelligence … to fully realize the promise …

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Amazon AWS re:Invent conference highlights

Amazon AWS re:Invent conference highlights: a managed blockchain offering; Amazon Quantum Ledger Database; AWS optimized TensorFlow, AWS Lake Formation (data lakes, that is); Inferential/Elastic Inference; AWS Ground Station, Control Tower, Security Hub; AWS Marketplace for ML and AI… … and here is the curriculum used to train Amazon’s developers and data scientists: https://lnkd.in/eTmPQ55 30+ digital …

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500 million customers’ data exposed

500 million customers’ data exposed, including passport numbers, travel details, and other sensitive data – not a good day for Marriott/Starwood. Given the data hasn’t appeared on the dark web, government intelligence gathering is the most likely guess. Other than the obvious concerns, the length of the breach (starting in 2014 and up until now) …

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GM President Dan Ammann will take over Cruise

GM President Dan Ammann will take over Cruise

GM President Dan Ammann (a former Morgan Stanley investment banker), will take over Cruise, the carmaker’s self-driving vehicle startup… (also see my recent post on Qualcomm Ventures and its Cruise early stage investment). Current CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt (33) will become CTO. https://getcruise.com A couple of AI related notes: 1. GM bought Cruise two …

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The Bureau of Industry and Security reviews controls for emerging technology

The Bureau of Industry and Security within the US commerce department is reviewing the controls for certain emerging technologies, especially AI, to see whether and how tech firms can or cannot export and sell their technologies abroad (an interesting angle to the US/China trade and cybersecurity issues and the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi …

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Enter Carebots: Robots that help the elderly with activities

Enter Carebots: Robots that help the elderly with activities

At age 18-19, during my social year and a half, I worked at a retirement home caring for the elderly. It was tremendously rewarding, but also brutal, physically and emotionally – for me, it was 18 months of laughter, soreness and tears, but for the career nurses and caregivers, the diminishing budgets and growing number …

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