Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The potential threat posed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) means safeguards need to be built in to systems from the start rather than tacked on later, a top U.S. official said on Monday. "We've normalized a world where technology products come off the line full of vulnerabilities and then consumers are expected to patch those vulnerabilities. We can't live in that world with AI," said Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Afif Khoury, CEO and Co-Founder of SOCi, believes that AI will greatly improve the customer experience for both digital marketers and end customers. He believes that customers' expectations are likely to change regarding how they interact with products like SOCi's, and that this will impact the company's product strategy. Khoury believes that generative AI will help SOCi get enterprises' jobs done better than previous approaches by providing more accurate and timely information to customers. SOCi, a leading marketing platform for multi-location brands, announced today a fundraise of $120 million to develop a transformative line of AI-based marketing products and grow into new markets.

Global and national brands have been upended by changes brought on in omnichannel marketing as customers access search engines and social media sites that provide highly localized results. "Brands must ensure consistent localized marketing efforts while still appealing to the unique local audience, and marketers must find ways to consolidate workflows while optimizing local channels," Afif Khoury, founder and CEO of Soci, told VentureBeat. To bolster this, the digital marketing software provider announced today that it has raised $120 million in its latest financing round. The funds will serve to advance use of AI and machine learning (ML), including ChatGPT natural language models along with Soci's marketing platform for multi-location brands. Khoury said the Soci platform aims to streamline localized marketing efforts across digital channels while adhering to brand guidelines, optimizing local search and integrating data.

If much of the conversation about artificial intelligence in the past few years has focused on the threat it poses to employment, there has been another conversation going on that looks at it more positively. Beyond the immediate impact of AI on human resources, that conversation goes, is a workplace that is driven by the combination of human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Those companies that deploy AI mainly to displace employees will only see short-term productivity gains, argue Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty, chief technology officer and group chief executive, and H. James Wilson, managing director of information technology for the professional services firm, in an article in the Harvard Business Review based on their 2018 book "Human Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI." Instead, they said, the technology's larger impact will be in complementing and augmenting human capabilities. Their research for the book, which looked at 1,500 companies, found that firms achieve the most significant performance improvements when humans and machines work together. Since the book was published, the only thing that has changed is the number organizations that are now using AI.

There is no end to the fretting about the impact of automation and AI on jobs and careers, along with the skills shortages that go with it. Heck, I've even done my share to add to the angst myself, posting pieces on the issues here and here. There is a lot of attention to automation and jobs, but what about the structures of the jobs themselves? Is automation and AI changing the way we do work, along with what we do? Digital success requires the human touch.Photo: Joe McKendrick For years – make that decades – business pundits, futurists and journalists have spoken about the shifting workplace, the end of the 9-to-5 routine, the all-telecommuting organization, and the flattening of the hierarchy.

BEIRUT: The rise of Artificial Intelligence has grown and developed globally, owing to various advances in many fields. Although many people are still finding it hard to understand the virtual intelligence, others are taking in the challenge and bringing together ways to connect computers and humans, producing new AI material that somehow benefits many. With the inspiration of corralling several key ideas, Nicolas Zaatar and Charlie El Khoury have developed their own startup NAR – Next Automated Robot – whose mission was to transform drones from flying cameras to flying computers. "We thought, what if we use the drone as an inspector gadget?" The ideas they have combined are information, data, algorithm, uncertainty, computing, and finally, optimizing.

You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation--why should you have to wait nine months to see what kind of baby you're going to have? In a modern-day reboot of Lindsay Bluth's "Mommy What Will I Look Like" business venture, Denver-based startup HumanCode has introduced BabyGlimpse. It's a $259 test that uses DNA from each member of a couple to predict how their future child might look and act--from skin, hair, and eye color to preferred kinds of snacks. "We've coined it sunshine science," HumanCode co-founder Jennifer Lescallet told the Balitmore Sun last month. "You get to look at the fun part of your potential future baby versus some of the scary stuff."

Artificial intelligence (AI) is behind many of our daily interactions, from email communications to online purchases. AI is also shaping the ways that physicians and other health care professionals are making decisions and delivering care, according to expert panelists at the 2017 Health Datapalooza conference in Washington. The panelists presented a range of ways that AI--the use of computerized automation and neural network-based algorithms to accomplish tasks once performed by human beings--has already begun to affect health care. These include simple analytics and data interpretation as well as complex genomic sequencing and patient-care prioritization. "It's really about selecting narrower tasks that computers can do better than humans," said Christopher Khoury, vice president of the AMA's environmental intelligence and strategic analytics unit.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future for improving customer experience, according to home appliances manufacturer Fisher & Paykel. As a result, the New Zealand-based company is following up its cloud computing overhaul by looking into implementing both AI and self-learning systems to personalise some of its customer touch points, Rudi Khoury, former GM of customer experience and current GM of global sales at Fisher & Paykel, told ZDNet. "We're seeing automatic chatbots through Facebook coming up, AI live agents that are able to respond to 80 percent of enquiries without needing a human. I can see that really taking off in the next five years for sure," Khoury said. Fisher & Paykel has already improved its customer experience by overhauling its IT systems and moving them to the cloud, according to Khoury.

France will deploy anti-drone technology to interfere with and take control of any flying machines that violate no-fly zones over stadiums at the European Championship, part of unprecedented measures to secure Europe's biggest sports event since the Paris attacks in November. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Euro 2016 security chief Ziad Khoury said Tuesday that no-fly zones will be declared over all 10 stadiums as well as training grounds for the 24 teams at the June 10-July 10 tournament. "We've noted the general proliferation of drone-usage in society," Khoury said in his Paris office. "So no-fly zones will be defined over every training ground and every stadium, and in most stadiums and for most matches anti-drone measures -- which are quite innovative -- will be deployed, working with the state, which will interfere with drones and take control of them if they are spotted." French authorities have trained for the possibility of drones being used to disperse chemical weapons over crowds.