Artificial Intelligence

Databricks has closed its Series I funding after receiving new investments from AT&T and other strategic partners, placing the company at a $43 billion post-money valuation. The funding will go towards accelerating the development of artificial intelligence technologies, generative AI research and hiring new talent with data science and engineering expertise, the San Francisco, California-based company said Friday.

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Accenture is opening generative artificial intelligence studios in Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Toronto in Canada. The studios are being set up at Accenture's innovation hubs as part of its $3 billion investment in AI and data, the company said Thursday.

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The “exorbitant” amount of data being taken in by the U.S. Army is impacting the effectiveness of warfighters and commanders, and the service branch’s leaders say they actually need less of it. “Information overload is real. Data overload is real,” said Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, during a panel discussion at the ExecutiveBiz Army Acquisition Priorities: Balancing Readiness and Modernization Forum on Wednesday.

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Cloud platform provider TechnoMile unveiled GovSearchAI during Elevate 2023, the company's annual customer conference. GovSearchAI is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that works to help government contractors identify the federal contracting opportunities they would be in a position to win, TechnoMile said Thursday.

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Data lakes are key to the effectiveness and advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly for technologies used in the government, according to Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions. In an article published on Federal News Network, Carey discussed the importance of data management in preserving privacy and security in AI processes.

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Mitre and Microsoft have updated a community knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques that security professionals use to protect artificial intelligence-enabled tools with the addition of new vulnerabilities and case studies involving generative AI and large language models. Mitre Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems features updates describing the type of attack pathways in LLM-enabled platforms that could be used to build up defenses against malicious attacks involving AI tools used in health care, transportation and finance, among other sectors, the nonprofit organization said Monday.

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Carahsoft Technology will serve as a master government aggregator for the federal business of Seerist to offer the latter’s artificial intelligence-based threat and risk intelligence service. Under the partnership, Carahsoft said Thursday it will market Seerist Federal’s Foreign Influence and Risk Index offering through its reseller partners.

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Microsoft plans to launch new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud environments in the next few months to help government clients meet their requirements and support mission-critical workloads. Candice Ling, vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft Federal, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the company intends to introduce its Azure OpenAI Service in Azure Government during the first quarter of 2024.

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