As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today's mobile and IoT era, coupled with an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets. Increasingly, they are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a key weapon to win the battle against stealthy threats inside their IT infrastructures, according to a new global research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company HPE, 1.66% This press release features multimedia. The Ponemon Institute study, entitled "Closing the IT Security Gap with Automation & AI in the Era of IoT," surveyed 4,000 security and IT professionals across the Americas, Europe and Asia to understand what makes security deficiencies so hard to fix, and what types of technologies and processes are needed to stay a step ahead of bad actors within the new threat landscape. The research revealed that in the quest to protect data and other high-value assets, security systems incorporating machine learning and other AI-based technologies are essential for detecting and stopping attacks that target users and IoT devices.

WIRE)--Imanis Data, the leader in enterprise data management powered by machine learning, today announced a major upgrade to the Imanis Data Management Platform, continuing the company's momentum since raising $13.5 million Series B funding earlier this year. The new Version 4.0 includes multiple industry firsts including autonomous backup, any-point-in-time recovery for multiple NoSQL databases, enhanced ransomware prevention, as well as numerous Imanis Data management enhancements. Hadoop and NoSQL applications are running in virtually every enterprise on-premises and in the cloud, but they lack enterprise data management capabilities, exposing organizations to data loss, downtime, and cyberattacks. "According to our research, 78% of organizations currently use NoSQL databases and an additional 18% plan to in the future," said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst for data protection, at ESG Research. "The data protection market in this space is underserved by traditional vendors and Imanis Data with their unique machine learning approach is setting the bar for Hadoop and NoSQL enterprise data management."

Big data analytics might not be the most exciting application of artificial intelligence (AI), but there's a lot of money in it -- as much as $42 billion, according to Statista. So it's not exactly surprising that startups like Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that leverages AI to speed up analytics workflows, continue to rake in the capital. Tamr announced today that it has closed a $10 million round with participation from Pear Tree Partners and Granite Hill Capital Partners. It also announced the appointment of new board observers: John McClellan, a partner at Pear Tree Partners; Masataka Otomo at SBI Investment; and Mona Vernon, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters Labs. The funds will fuel future growth, cofounder and CEO Andy Palmer told VentureBeat.

TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2018 – Datametrex AI Limited (the "Company" or "Datametrex") (TSXV: DM, FSE: D4G) is pleased to announce that it has created a newly formed subsidiary, Canntop AI Inc. ("Canntop AI"), to focus on the global cannabis industry. This follows on the previous announcement by the Company to establish a working relationship with a key data collection company in the Agriculture and Cannabis sectors. Canntop AI will utilize Nexalogy's tool set and unique algorithms to analyze large unstructured data sets from the Agriculture and Cannabis space. By gathering and analyzing the data we will be able to provide cultivators and dispensaries with business intelligence that allows them to better understand their clients and markets in the areas of patient analysis, strain and protocol management, and quality assurance. "Taking our proven solutions and focusing them on this sector will add tremendous value to growers, dispensaries, pharma and government agencies. The large amount of data that will result from the legalization of marijuana creates an opportunity for Canntop AI to provide the industry the most effective social intelligence," says Andrew Ryu, CEO and Chairman of the Company.

Earlier this summer, Google announced that it is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to help you write better in Google Docs, and now the grammar check tool is getting some competition. Grammarly, a popular grammar check service, announced that it is bringing its grammar checking tool -- available initially as a beta -- to Google Docs via a browser extension. "Grammarly wants to be a part of everything you write," the company announced in a blog post. "While many of our users type their important documents in a word processor, we know that Google Docs is where some of the most collaborative work gets done. That's why we're starting to release a beta version of Grammarly for Chrome in Google Docs to all users!"

The University at Buffalo announced today that it is launching a multidisciplinary artificial intelligence institute -- the University at Buffalo Artificial Intelligence Institute (UBuffalo.AI). UBuffalo.AI will explore how to combine machines' superior ability to ingest, connect and recall information with concepts that humans excel at, such as reasoning, judgement and strategizing, to develop dynamic human-machine partnerships. To lead UBuffalo.AI, the university recruited David Doermann, PhD, from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Doermann built his career at UMD developing technologies for document understanding and computer vision for the defense and intelligence communities. Human language is considered one of the grand challenges of AI, and the fundamental and applied research performed in his UMD laboratory has provided a critical foundation for addressing the next wave of AI challenges.

Did AI write this article?Depositphotos enhanced by CogWorld Imagine how productive Woodward and Bernstein might have been if only they had robots to write their articles for the Washington Post. With a little A.I. on their side, they might have taken down Nixon in days instead of years. "A lot of people don't realize this, but a lot of the news stories you read now are increasingly written by artificial intelligence," said Stephen Ibaraki, social entrepreneur, futurist and chair at REDDS Capital in an interview for my upcoming book, Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: A Modern Primer on A.I. for the Modern Business, co-authored by Michael Ashley. "You get these news releases about things that are happening in sports, for example, or in business. But people are not creating these pieces anymore. Lots of us are spending hours on our mobile phones reading updates about events and news flashes never realizing it's A.I. that's generating this stuff now."

Aidoc, a Tel-Aviv, Israel-based medical imaging company, announced back in August that it had gained FDA clearance for a new solution that helps radiologists triage patients using artificial intelligence (AI). Now, to meet an increase in customer demand as a result of that announcement, the company has hired Tom Shearer to manage sales in North America and Jeremy De Sy to handle sales throughout Europe. "AI isn't the future for medical imaging; it's the present," Shearer said in a prepared statement. "Aidoc is led by extraordinary individuals who have developed a revolutionary product. This solution is always running in the background, on every exam, filling a critical need in medical imaging by helping radiologists manage their increasing workload while maintaining high standards."

Digital transformation is a process that has been underway for some time. It is a wide-ranging overhaul of the way organisations do business both internally and externally. It includes changes to technology and culture from users to developers, operations teams to the C-Suite. On the technology side, organisations have taken advantage of APIs to integrate with suppliers and key customers. This removes paper from the workflow reducing both delays in entering data and the risk of keying errors.

The third edition of Drivers for Deploying Speech Analytics 2018, an annual survey commissioned by Uniphore Software Systems, was released today. The survey revealed that 60% of Indian companies deploy speech analytics for marketing initiative support and quick identification of customer intent, equally. This is in line with the finding of the previous year's survey underlining the growing relevance of speech analytics in increasing sales and delivering superior customer experience. Root cause remediation of customer experience failures came a close second with 58%. In North America and South East Asia, the top driver for deploying speech analytics was quick identification of customer intent.