In the news this week: More companies offer AI-based software to enable safe return to work environments, Intel and Informatica separately launch AI educational initiatives, and more.
Keeping pace
with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting
task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff
came across each week. Here is a short list of some news from this week:
Informatica has launched a collaborative technology initiative with The ADAPT Centre, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre for Digital Media Technology. The ADAPT Centre, funded by SFI, focuses on developing next-generation digital technologies that transform how people communicate by helping to analyze, personalize, and deliver digital data more effectively for businesses and individuals. Informatica’s R&D team collaborates with ADAPT to leverage its leading-edge applied research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to further accelerate the application of AI and Machine Learning (ML) to automate Informatica’s portfolio of enterprise cloud data management offerings.
Intel is partnering with Maricopa County
Community College District (MCCCD) to launch the first Intel-designed
artificial intelligence (AI) associate degree program in the United States. The
Arizona Commerce Authority will also provide a workforce grant of $100,000 to
support the program. It will enable tens of thousands of students to land
careers in high-tech, healthcare, automotive, industrial, and aerospace fields.
The AI program consists of courses that have been developed by MCCCD’s faculty
and Intel leaders based on Intel software and tools such as the Intel
Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit and Intel Python. Intel will also contribute
technical advice, faculty training, summer internships, and Intel mentors for
both students and faculty members. Students will learn fundamental skills such
as data collection, AI model training, coding, and exploration of AI
technology’s societal impact. Upon completion, MCCCD will offer an associate
degree in artificial intelligence that can be transferred to a four-year
college.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced
the launch of IUX for Workplace Resilience, a business command center solution
that helps enterprises make it safe for employees returning to work amid
COVID-19 and for customers doing business with them. IUX for Workplace
Resilience helps overcome return to work challenges by blending risk management
with key business relaunch functions spanning workforce safety, regulatory
support, operational resilience, and customer engagement. Designed for business
leaders at banks, retailers, corporate offices, and campuses emerging from the
lockdown, the cloud-based solution helps organizations protect employees and
customers, comply with evolving government regulations, and make operations
more resilient despite ongoing disruption. The software lets businesses monitor
infection risk at locations and take immediate action, recording compliance. It
enables contact tracing with proximity data from devices such as mobile phones
and badge scanners.
IBM announced it’s donating a series of
open-source toolkits designed to help build trusted AI to a Linux Foundation
project, the LF AI
Foundation. As real-world AI deployments increase, IBM says the contributions
can help ensure they’re fair, secure, and trustworthy. Tools donated
include the AI
Fairness 360 Toolkit, the Adversarial
Robustness 360 Toolbox, and the AI Explainability 360 Toolkit. The AI Fairness 360
Toolkit allows developers and data scientists to detect and mitigate unwanted
bias in machine learning models and datasets. It provides about 70 metrics to
test for biases and 11 algorithms to mitigate bias in datasets and models. The
Adversarial Robustness 360 Toolbox is an open-source library that helps
researchers and developers defend deep neural networks from adversarial
attacks. The AI Explainability 360 Toolkit provides a set of algorithms, code,
guides, tutorials, and demos to support the interpretability and explainability
of machine learning models.
The Apollo team, which has been developing
a new tool for navigating graphs and building GraphQL queries, announced Apollo
Explorer. The Explorer is a full-featured query builder and runner that’s
part of Apollo Studio (which was renamed from Graph Manager).
This Studio feature is first and foremost built for graph consumers. Developers
can use the Explorer with every graph that’s part of their Studio organization,
and with every environment, those graphs run in (staging, production, and so
on). Powerful features like dynamic field selection, intelligent search, and
built-in documentation help your team members compose exactly the query they
need.
cnvrg.io announced a
collaboration with Red Hat on Red Hat
Openshift to accelerate ML workflows and provide data scientists and DevOps
with everything they need out of the box. cnvrg.io is now part of the Red Hat
OperatorHub as a certified platform to deliver AI lifecycle management, and
simplified MLOps to enterprise DevOps and data science teams across industries.
This announcement follows cnvrg.io’s integration with NVIDIA
NGC’s registry of GPU-optimized AI software, providing IT, data scientists,
and engineers a complete MLOps and model management solution.
Decisions and NLP Logix have partnered to deliver
machine learning capabilities to business process management. The Decisions no-code workflow
and rules platform was designed to enable businesses to automate and optimize
their digital processes but do so in a way that is able to be done by
non-programming staff. NLP Logix was founded with the mission to bring the
power of machine learning to industry by becoming its customers’ outsourced
data science team. With the combination of the Decisions platform and NLP Logix
machine learning tools and team, businesses can quickly and affordably
integrate artificial intelligence into workflows.
QuantaVerse, which uses AI
and machine learning to automate financial crime investigation processes, is
now offering the country code derivation capability of its QuantaVerse
Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring solution for trial.
The AI-powered, cloud-based function helps financial institutions struggling to
identify potentially risky jurisdictions, or country codes, of transacting
parties. With this offering, financial institutions can easily trial AI-enabled
automation against a particularly intractable part of the entity resolution
process. By letting banks try the country code derivation component of
the QuantaVerse Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring
solution, they can quickly and easily experience AI at work in their AML/BSA
operations. The need to automate these functions has been made more obvious by
the recent pandemic, which has led to emergency shortages of financial crime
investigators at financial institutions.
Darktrace announced a range of new products and features that extend its Enterprise Immune System platform to endpoints, video and chat apps, SaaS applications, and identity and access management integrations to protect today’s remote and dynamic workforces. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System protects the dynamic workforce by learning their patterns of work, even as they change day-to-day. Whether employees are in the office or working remotely, using Teams or Zoom, connecting to the Cloud, or relying on email, Darktrace’s cyber AI quickly learns the ‘new normal,’ adapting to fast-changing environments and automating and augmenting security teams. New Darktrace Dynamic Workforce capabilities announced include:
- Client Sensors extend visibility and detection
to remote workers on or off VPN - Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint and Zoom
visibility & detection modules - SaaS-specific AI models and Cloud Console to
protect against data theft and insider threat - Email security modules for Office 365 and
G-Suite - Integrations with Okta adaptive multifactor
authentication and zero-trust solutions Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) and
Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA)
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