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Professional services automation and financial management software company Certinia Inc. today rolled out what it calls a “System of Action” as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of autonomous artificial intelligence agents in the enterprise. The new System of Action debuted alongside what the company said is the largest expansion of its Veda AI suite to date, aiming to transform the way professional services, financial and customer success teams operate. Certinia says a new foundation for AI is urgently required for enterprises to properly get to grips with AI agents. Citing the 2026 edition of its Global Service…
A collaborative model for expanding AI educationBringing the program to life required broad collaboration across the college, including support from leadership, staff, and contributions from more than half a dozen instructors in fields ranging from finance and computer science to sustainability. Together, they helped shape a workshop that paired core technical concepts with examples and teaching materials adaptable to a range of classroom settings.“I have not seen an effort quite like it — this many dedicated instructors assembling materials of this richness, all to equip the educators who serve their students,” says Saurabh Amin, the Edmund K. Turner Professor in…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese organized crime syndicates. “Approximately $52 million of cryptocurrency involved in scam money laundering was restrained in one day, bringing the total restrained by the Scam Center Strike Force to approximately $938 million,” DoJ said. In tandem, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)…
Data, this small thing that pervades all of human society, might just be like having the power of the sun in the palm of someone’s hand. However, like most powerful things, humans have fibbed data to the point of causing losses in the thousands and millions every year- this number is higher for organizations that deal with more data. And that produces more data in its quest to create more value for itself, which is, in effect, all companies now. Data is currency. But because of this wild chase (a goose chase for some, perhaps?), data is abundant, and meaning-making…
Seattle’s foundation as a hub of technology, science and innovation runs deep. Its confidence should, too. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Jacob Colker is co-founder and co-managing director of AI House.] Seattle is one of the most talented, creative and inventive places in the world. But if we want the rest of the country to see us that way, we have to start acting like we believe it ourselves. First, we need more pride around here. Let’s talk about what it means to be proud. My mother grew up in Tarnów, Poland. She escaped communism and came to…
When Marketing AI Institute founder and CEO Paul Roetzer posted his take on New York City’s decision to ban generative AI in public school classrooms, the response was immediate and voluminous. Hundreds of comments flooded in, ranging from thoughtful to pointed to aggressive. Sorting through all of them manually would have taken hours.
The next piece of sensitive information you expose may not end up on a phishing site. You may paste it directly into an AI chatbot. AI assistants have made it almost effortless to paste in a document, a screenshot, a block of code, or a personal problem and ask for help. Still, that convenience can encourage users to hand over information they would never give to a stranger. Security guidance from Norton and other sources specifically warns against sharing certain kinds of information with general-purpose chatbots. To help you understand the kinds of information you should keep off AI platforms,…
Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during its September hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster chip, new health and fitness features, and the watchOS 27 software update announced at WWDC last June.Both the Series 12 and Ultra 4 have an expanded wellness-tracking suite. There’s an updated health sensor with new LEDs that allows heart rate measurements to be collected every 5 seconds, giving you a continuous stream of heart data throughout the day.The new hardware arrives alongside watchOS 27, which will also be made…
The free update arrives today. Mario Kart World is getting a free update today that adds several retro courses pulled from the SNES original. These include classics like Choco Island, Mario Circuit and Ghost Valley, among others. All told, there are ten newly-uploaded courses to race on, which will be available in Versus mode. There are two neat things here. The courses were already hiding in plain sight within the open game world. However, they only offered exploration rewards and timed P-Switch missions. Now they are actual tracks to race on. They also feature question blocks that appear flat on the…
Big data company Cloudera Inc. is pushing to become the go-to partner for enterprise-grade sovereign artificial intelligence workloads after announcing a massive, nine-figure strategic partnership with the French AI model maker Mistral AI SAS. The partnership is aimed at bringing secure, sovereign AI to wherever enterprises’ data lives, be it in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments, Cloudera said at its EVOLVE26 event in São Paulo today. Mistral will integrate its powerful large language models directly with Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform to enable this. Cloudera says it’s trying to address a major problem for enterprises that operate…