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Employees want more AI to boost productivity, study finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Eighty-one percent of employees believe AI improves their overall performance at work. As a result, more than two-thirds (68%) are calling on their employers to deploy more AI-based technologies to help them execute tasks. That’s the top-level finding from a study published today by 3GEM on behalf of SnapLogic, which…
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Untether AI nabs $125M for AI acceleration chips

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Untether AI, a startup developing custom-built chips for AI inferencing workloads, today announced it has raised $125 million from Tracker Capital Management and Intel Capital. The round, which was oversubscribed and included participation from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Radical Ventures, will be used to…
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Nvidia releases TensorRT 8 for faster AI inference

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nvidia today announced the release of TensorRT 8, the latest version of its software development kit (SDK) designed for AI and machine learning inference. Built for deploying AI models that can…
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AI adoption and analytics are rising, survey finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The need for enterprise digital transformation during the pandemic has bolstered investments in AI. Last year, AI startups raised a collective $73.4 billion in Q4 2020, a $15 billion…
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Edge AI’s benefits bring ‘much higher’ security risks, says McAfee data scientist

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Edge AI is becoming increasingly important with the internet of things (IoT) boom, but the security challenges make it more difficult for companies to adopt edge computing. As the size of the IoT ecosystem has grown, so have the risks. Edge AI has an advantage over cloud-based AI, McAfee chief data scientist Celeste…
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Threat modeling can protect data used by AI assistants

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The growth of AI-driven voice assistants has brought challenges to privacy and security. Jamie Tomasello, head of security programs and GRC at Gusto, sat down with VentureBeat executive editor…
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Supply chain threats demand industrywide approach to AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As the world becomes increasingly reliant on technology, organizations have to consider the growing threats to their supply chain. Goldman Sachs principal engineer Michael Mattioli and AMD CTO Mark Papermaster spoke about this issue at VentureBeat’s virtual Transform 2021 conference last week. They stressed that this…
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