NIST: “Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2023
Microsoft’s new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI
engadget: “The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard yesterday, Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond, WA today. Through a… Continue Reading
$122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Cost of the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis
Report – Strong Nation.org – ReadyNation – Impact on families, businesses, and taxpayers has more than doubled since 2018. $122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Costof the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis. “…ReadyNation’s updated study finds that the nation’s infant-toddler child care crisis now costs $122 billion in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue every year. This staggering… Continue Reading
How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine
Mike Elgan – “The big news today is Google Bard vs. ChatGPT-infused Bing. But the real news is that the search engine is dead.” Not sure about that. Continue Reading
AI State of the Union
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, February 7, 2023 – FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NOTE) (“FiscalNote”), a leading AI-driven enterprise SaaS technology provider of global policy and market intelligence – is leveraging its proprietary AI technology to provide a live transcript of the address in real-time, paired with video coverage and non-partisan automated and human-enhanced analysis to… Continue Reading
The Law of AI for Good
Lobel, Orly, The Law of AI for Good (January 26, 2023). San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 23-001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4338862 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4338862 – “Legal policy and scholarship are increasingly focused on regulating technology to safeguard against risks and harms, neglecting the ways in which the law should direct the use of new technology,… Continue Reading
Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data
Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania: A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it…In a new report, “Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data,” researchers asked a nationally representative group… Continue Reading
Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
The Verge: “Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need,”… Continue Reading
New cybersecurity data reveals persistent social engineering vulnerabilities
Tech Republic: “New research from NCC Group and Abnormal Security shows clouds and a bit of silver to line them: Ransomware attacks declined last year, but business email compromises increased — massively for smaller businesses — and a third of toxic emails got through their human gateways. According to risk management firm NCC Group, there… Continue Reading
The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video
MIT Technology Review: “Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI model that can transform existing videos into new ones by applying any style specified by a text prompt or reference image. In a demo reel posted on its website, Runway shows how its software,… Continue Reading
The new Bing: Microsoft unveils its ChatGPT-like, AI-powered search engine
Search Engine Land, Barry Schwartz – In addition to adding ChatGPT, using GPT-3.5, Bing is applying AI to improve the relevancy of its core search ranking engine: “Microsoft will launch a new, AI-powered search engine that people can chat with, ask questions, or even use to create content. We learned this today from Yusuf Mehdi,… Continue Reading
AI Tools for Local Newsrooms
AI Tools for Local Newsroom Database by Samantha Sunne. Currently includes 72 tools with links, descriptions of each tool and level of expertise required – an excellent resource. Continue Reading
