Chat-GPT - CybAI news

20 Nov

Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. The tools, such as Midjourney to generate images, Runway and Sora to produce videos, and Luma AI to create 3D objects, are relatively cheap or free to use. They allow filmmakers without access to major studio budgets or soundstages to make imaginative short films for the price of a monthly subscription. I’ve studied these new works…

20 Nov

Microsoft’s new AI agents support 1,800 models (and counting)

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI agents are the talk of the enterprise right now. But, business leaders want to hear about tangible results and relevant use cases — as opposed to futuristic, not-quite-there-yet scenarios — and demand tools that are easy to deploy and use and, further, that support their preferred model(s). Microsoft claims to have all these concerns covered with new no-code and low-code capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Today at Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant announced that users can now build their own…

20 Nov

Can a fluffy robot really replace a cat or dog? My weird, emotional week with an AI pet

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

It looks faintly like one half of a small pair of very fluffy slippers. It squeaks and wriggles and nestles in the palm of my hand, black eyes hidden beneath a mop of silvery-white fur. It weighs about the same as a tin of soup. It doesn’t need to be fed or walked and it doesn’t use a litter tray; it’s guaranteed not to leave “gifts” on my doorstep. Which is just as well, because Moflin is about to become my pet.Before I am entrusted with the welfare of Japan’s latest AI companion robot, I meet its developers at the Tokyo headquarters of…

20 Nov

Microsoft brings transactional databases to Fabric to boost AI agents

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For years, enterprise companies have been plagued by data silos separating transactional systems from analytical tools—a divide that has hampered AI applications, slowed real-time decision-making, and driven up costs with complex integrations. Today at its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking this cycle. The tech giant revealed that Azure SQL, its flagship transactional database, is now integrated into Fabric, Microsoft’s unified data platform. This integration allows enterprises to combine real-time operational and other historical data into a single,…

20 Nov

Salesforce launches AI platform for automated task management

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Business Insider’s “CXO AI Playbook” looks at how firms are utilising AI to tackle challenges, scale operations, and plan for the future. The Playbook looks at stories from various industries to see what problems AI is solving, who’s driving these initiatives, and how it’s reshaping strategies. Salesforce, well known for its CRM software used by over 150,000 companies like Amazon and Walmart, is no stranger to innovation. It also owns Slack, the popular workplace communication app. Salesforce is now stepping up its AI game with Agentforce, a platform that lets businesses to build and deploy digital agents to automate tasks…

20 Nov

Microsoft quietly assembles the largest AI agent ecosystem—and no one else is close

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has quietly built the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with over 100,000 organizations creating or editing AI agents through its Copilot Studio since launch – a milestone that positions the company ahead in one of enterprise tech’s most closely watched and exciting segments. “That’s a lot faster than we thought, and it’s a lot faster than any other kind of cutting edge technology we’ve released,” Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive responsible for the company’s agent vision, told VentureBeat. “And that was…

20 Nov

Microsoft supercharges Fabric with new data tools to accelerate enterprise AI workflows

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, Microsoft kicked off its Ignite conference, talking about all things AI, including how it has assembled the largest AI agent ecosystem and will allow enterprises to build more such apps using any of the 1,800 large language models it has on offer. The move — a significant departure from the long-standing reliance on OpenAI — promises enhanced flexibility to developers, but we all know AI is just ‘garbage in and garbage out’ without a solid data foundation. To this end,…

20 Nov

MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in UK summer riots

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned.Senior executives from Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok are also expected to be called for questioning as part of a Commons science and technology select committee social media inquiry.The first hearings will take place in the new year, amid rising concern that UK online safety laws risk being outpaced by rapidly advancing technology and the politicisation of platforms such as X.The MPs will…

20 Nov

Genies launches Parties for brands and creators to launch their own ‘AI Roblox’

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Genies, a culture-focused avatar technology company, has launched Parties after developing its foundational technology stack since the last fundraise. Genies equips intellectual property owners and creators with a suite of avatar technology and user-generated content (UGC) tools to co-create and launch their own Parties — gaming platforms driven by AI avatars, user-generated content, and personalized gameplay. Genies raised a whopping $150 million in 2022, and it has been busy ever since. “The ‘next internet’ is already upon us as the convergence…

20 Nov

The graph database arms race: How Microsoft and rivals are revolutionizing cybersecurity

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Multidomain attacks are on the verge of becoming a digital epidemic as nation-states and well-funded cybercrime attack groups look to exploit wide gaps in digital estates’ defenses. Enterprises are having to contend with widening – and often unknown – gaps between enterprise assets, apps, systems, data, identities and endpoints. The fast-rising pace of attacks is driving a graph database arms race across leading cybersecurity providers. Microsoft‘s Security Exposure Management Platform (MSEM) at Ignite 2024 reflects how quickly the arms race is…