ANSR, a company that establishes and operates global capability centres (GCCs) for large enterprises, has announced the acquisition of FastNext in an all-stock deal. An AI-driven tech company, FastNext was incubated by CoffeeBeans, a boutique product and technology services firm, and has over 20 employees. ANSR said the acquisition will enable it to help its clients build their GCC teams using deep learning and AI-powered tools across talent acquisition and management, smart workspace management and business workflows. "Organisations aren't going digital, they are digital. Building global capability and engineering centres for technology innovation is a priority for multiple Fortune 1000 companies. We are excited to integrate FastNext's portfolio of AI-based tools and solutions into our portfolio so that data is at the core of everything that our customers do to win in the digital age," said Lalit Ahuja, founder and CEO, ANSR.

Adversarial attacks against neural networks in a regression setting are a critical yet understudied problem. In this work, we advance the state of the art by investigating adversarial attacks against regression networks and by formulating a more effective defense against these attacks. In particular, we take the perspective that adversarial attacks are likely caused by numerical instability in learned functions. We introduce a stability inducing, regularization based defense against adversarial attacks in the regression setting. Our new and easy to implement defense is shown to outperform prior approaches and to improve the numerical stability of learned functions.