The top U.S. cybersecurity official said that China’s cyber espionage and sabotage capacities are a defining threat. She warned, “In the event of open warfare, aggressive cyber operations from China would threaten critical USA transportation infrastructure to induce societal panic.” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly said, “I think this is the real…
Searching for important old emails will get a lot easier, according to Google. Recently Google announced an artificial intelligence update for Gmail, “Over the next 15 days, end users will begin to see ‘top results’ when they search their inboxes, featured above the ‘all results’ section.” Google’s machine-learning models power the new category. The new…
According to an early investor in Google’s research laboratory, DeepMind, “We are still some way off reaching human-level artificial intelligence despite rapid advances in the technology.” Humayun Sheikh is a founding investor in the AI startup DeepMind. DeepMind is currently owned by Google. Sheikh said, “In terms of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT stuff: it’s…
Amazon said Thursday that its cloud unit Amazon Web Services grew revenue by around 16% in the first quarter of this year, a slightly more rapid growth than analysts had estimated. Revenue from AWS totaled $21.35 billion, representing about 17% of Amazon’s overall earnings, according to Amazon’s earnings statement. Analysts surveyed by StreetAccount had anticipated $21.22…
