The Product Security Threat Analysis and Security Standards team is responsible for the structured security analysis of Zoox products and the judicious application of security standards to the System Development Life Cycle at Zoox. The ideal candidates will have a strong general systems engineering background and demonstrated passion and concrete expertise in cybersecurity. A demonstrated skill in turning the analysis into high-quality written deliverables (such as TARA). Carry out security analysis, threat modeling, and risk assessment for a complex product ecosystem consisting of a custom-designed and built vehicle fleet as well as a portfolio of cloud services. Produce high-quality, readable, structured artifacts such as TARAs that reflect the security analysis performed (previous bullet) and help guide the company's efforts in the cybersecurity domain.

Amazon is testing a fleet of robotaxis on public roads in California, using employees as passengers, as the tech behemoth moves closer to a commercial service for the general public. The online retailer has been aggressively expanding into self-driving technology and bought the self-driving startup Zoox for $1.3bn in 2020. A test conducted on 11 February saw the robotaxis successfully drive between two Zoox buildings a mile apart at its headquarters in Foster City, California. It was part of the launch of a no-cost employee shuttle service that will also help the company refine its technology. Zoox's robotaxi – built as a fully autonomous vehicle from scratch rather than retrofitting existing cars for self-driving – comes without a steering wheel or pedals and has room for four passengers, with two facing each other.

Amazon is testing a fleet of robotaxis on public roads in California, using employees as passengers, as the tech behemoth moves closer to a commercial service for the general public. The online retailer has been aggressively expanding into self-driving technology and bought the self-driving startup Zoox for $1.3bn in 2020. A test conducted on 11 February saw the robotaxis successfully drive between two Zoox buildings a mile apart at its headquarters in Foster City, California. It was part of the launch of a no-cost employee shuttle service that will also help the company refine its technology. Zoox's robotaxi – built as a fully autonomous vehicle from scratch rather than retrofitting existing cars for self-driving – comes without a steering wheel or pedals and has room for four passengers, with two facing each other.

Amazon-owned Zoox has started offering driverless robotaxi rides in California after receiving a testing permit from the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), the company announced. Unlike the autonomous vehicles from Cruise and Waymo, Zoox's vehicles are purpose built for driverless taxi rides, so they have no steering wheel or pedals. On February 11th, shortly after receiving the permit, Zoox conducted the "first run of its employee shuttle service in Foster City, California, marking the first time in history a purpose-built autonomous robotaxi without traditional driving controls carried passengers on open public roads," it wrote in a press release. To get to that point, the company completed what it called "rigorous" testing with the vehicles on private roads. It also ran its L3 test fleet (hybrid Toyota Highlanders with safety drivers) over a million autonomous miles on data-gathering missions in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Seattle.

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Conversica Unveils Powerfully Human™ AI Capabilities That Transform Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success Teams and Make Bots Obsolete New Generation Revenue Digital Assistants™ Feature Major Advancements Built to Uniquely Fuel Revenue Growth; Scale Conversational Engagement with Real-Life, Two-Way Interactions FOSTER CITY, Calif., October 27, 2022 – Conversica, Inc., the leading provider of conversation automation solutions for enterprise revenue teams, today unveils the most humanlike AI advancements available to its Conversational AI platform. The new Conversica Chat and Conversica Answers enable the company's Revenue Digital Assistants (RDAs) to engage every lead, prospect, and customer in unscripted conversations with authentic, AI-generated web chat, SMS, and email. For the first time, revenue teams are able to trust RDAs to execute business objectives autonomously and work alongside their human counterparts, increasing capacity and freeing teams to focus on strategic  activities while simultaneously delivering stellar customer experiences and dramatically growing revenue opportunities. A demonstration of the announcement will be simulcast today at 11 am PST at the W Hotel in San Francisco. Conversica's new generation of Revenue Digital Assistants arrives at a pivotal time for businesses. With company budgets tightening and customer expectations for brand interactions continuously increasing, revenue teams across industries are required to do more with less.  "As the economy continues to change, the old growth model—working one customer at a time—no longer works," said Jim Kaskade, CEO of Conversica. "Businesses simply can't staff to the level needed for one-to-one conversations with every prospect, lead, and existing customer. And today's buyers are too savvy to be moved by the many one-way message blasts or, worse, scripted bots that are painfully programmed to route frustrated customers to an already overwhelmed human.” Unlike scripted bots that force people down a predefined path, Conversica’s AI-powered RDAs leverage the most advanced, largest language models available to quickly interpret open-ended questions and dynamically generate responses just like a human would. With over a decade of expertise in AI that benefits from being trained by billions of revenue-centric interactions, Conversica’s RDAs have evolved and learned how to influence and persuade customers and prospects throughout buyers’ lifecycles. Customers benefit from solutions that offer an average of 24x return on investment, 40-50% conversion rates, and 5x more pipeline, at reduced costs to the business. “The impact of Conversica’s RDAs goes way beyond our expectations, and the new advancements up the ante,” said David Shell, Director of Global Omnichannel Demand Marketing at Rockwell Automation, a Conversica customer. “The potential to increase productivity, lower costs, accelerate the velocity of leads in the pipeline and multiply staff efforts make Conversica’s solutions vital for fueling revenue growth.” New advancements include: Conversica Chat that is powered by an advanced natural language processing (NLP) solution that engages web visitors in the moment through dynamically generated dialog which goes far beyond the scripted workflows of simple chatbots. RDAs autonomously answer open-ended questions, connect visitors with the right resources, and set up demos or follow-up meetings to unlock revenue opportunities. No programming is required, which makes this solution uniquely game-changing. In the future, this same NLP technology will be applied across channels, including voice. Conversica Answers enable Revenue Digital Assistants to learn customers’ businesses FAQ automatically, so they can autonomously and authentically answer questions across any channel, in any language, at any point in the customer journey where businesses want strict governance around the answers, such as in highly regulated industries or for companies with very specific brand guidelines.  Conversica Premium Skills power Revenue Digital Assistants with the knowledge to act like a human member of the team. Premium Skills enable RDAs to leverage sophisticated segmentation and insights from across the enterprise to deliver more highly personalized customer experiences. These skills have enriched content from insight platforms like Account Based Marketing, Customer Data Platforms, and even CRM platforms with recommendation capabilities like Salesforce’s Einstein.  “Companies must deliver personalized, back-and-forth, human-like conversations to their contacts at every point in the customer journey. Otherwise, they’re leaving revenue on the table,” Kaskade said. “Conversica's RDAs feature a new level of Powerfully Human exchanges powered by the most advanced conversational AI technology on the market today. One can no longer tell the difference between a human and a Conversica RDA. Welcome to the new era of business where no revenue opportunity is missed!" To view the live simulcast, go to: https://conversica.brandlive.com/Conversica-Revenue-Revolution/en  About Conversica Conversica’s Revenue Digital Assistants™ (RDAs) supercharge workforces such as marketing, sales, and customer success teams to acquire untapped revenue through perfectly structured conversations. With billions of human interactions spanning more than a decade, Conversica’s RDAs have learned to influence and persuade customers and prospects throughout the customer journey lifecycle. Unlike chatbots, Conversica RDAs are Powerfully Human and can hold meaningful conversations at every touchpoint to create brand loyalty and maximize every revenue opportunity. The result is increased operational efficiencies, reduced costs, and improved customer experiences. To learn more, visit conversica.com and follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.   Conversica Media Contact:  Meriane Morselli, on behalf of Conversica  conversica@msrcommunications.com (415) 989-9000 ###

For a human to drive successfully around an urban environment, they must be able to trust their eyes and other senses, know where they are, understand the permissible ways to move their vehicle safely, and of course know how to reach their destination. Building these abilities, and so many more, into an autonomous electric vehicle designed to transport customers smoothly and safely around densely populated cities takes an astonishing amount of technological innovation. Since its founding in 2014, Zoox has been developing autonomous ride-hailing vehicles, and the systems that support them, from the ground up. The company, which is based in Foster City, California, became an independent subsidiary of Amazon in 2020. The Zoox purpose-built robot is an autonomous, pod-like electric vehicle that can carry four passengers in comfort.

Zoox has built dozens of custom-built electric robotaxis and is testing them in one or more "semi-private courses" in California, according to the company's co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson. "We have dozens of them -- not hundreds yet, but it's very far into the double digits, said Levinson, referring to the total number of robotaxis built and in testing. The disclosure, which came up in a wide-ranging interview with media, suggests that the Amazon subsidiary is ramping up in preparation to begin testing its electric robotaxis on public roads. Zoox currently tests Toyota Highlander vehicles equipped with its self-driving system in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Foster City, California, near its headquarters, and recently expanded testing to Seattle as well. Those vehicles all have human safety drivers behind the wheel. Zoox plans to launch commercially with its purpose-built autonomous vehicle, which is loaded with sensors, can drive bidrectionally, has four-wheel steering and is capable of transporting four people at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour. The company unveiled the cube-like vehicle in December 2020, before largely disappearing from public view. It turns out this vehicle is being tested on open roads in campus-like settings. Levinson wouldn't disclose exactly where the robotaxis are, but said it was not a closed campus with only Zoox employees. "You can imagine, you know, campuses or research facilities," he said. "What I mean by open roads is that the people that we're interacting with, whether they're bicyclists, pedestrians, (other) vehicles, they're not other Zoox agents.

Amazon.com Inc.'s self-driving-car unit, Zoox Inc., is getting a green light from California to test autonomous vehicles on public roads without a safety driver, becoming the fourth company to receive the state's blessing for truly driverless testing. The permit allows Zoox to operate two vehicles without a driver behind the wheel, a step up from approval it received four years ago that required the presence of a person to take control if needed, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles said in a statement. While some 60 companies have permission to conduct autonomous testing with a safety driver in California, Zoox joins Alphabet Inc. unit Waymo LLC, Nuro Inc. and AutoX Technologies in a small club of truly driverless testers in the state. Zoox will be allowed to conduct tests on public roads within a designated area in San Mateo County near its headquarters in Foster City, California. The tests are allowed only under fair-weather conditions and on streets with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour.

IBM Thursday introduced new storage hardware and software aimed at placing its storage at the center of large-scale data requirements for artificial intelligence and analytics workloads. The new offerings are aimed at helping to build the kind of information architecture needed to get the most out of businesses' fast-changing data, said Eric Herzog, IBM's chief marketing officer and vice president of worldwide storage channels. "The new stuff is all about storage solutions for AI, big data and business analytics," Herzog told CRN. "IBM thinks customers need an information architecture to build AI before they can collect and analyze their data and feed it into their AI systems." IBM storage technology has always been an important part of customers' high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and machine-learning infrastructures, said John Zawistowski, global systems solutions executive at Sycomp, a Foster City, Calif.-based solution provider and IBM channel partner. "Why IBM? It's the way they integrated the AI software platform and storage," Zawistowski told CRN. "And the way IBM understands the importance of doing that. And the way IBM technology performs."