AI & Robotics

Canada aims to be the first country in the world with official regulations covering the emerging artificial intelligence sector, said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in a speech on Wednesday. “The world is looking at us to lead in how we’re going to define the guardrails that are going to be put in place here in Canada and inspire the rest…

One of the two major unions now striking in the film industry, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), has reached an agreement with the organization representing major studios, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), and its leadership has voted to end the writers’ strike as of Wednesday, September 27, 2023 — 148 days after it began. Among the concessions won by the…

Socially engineered attacks are sidestepping millions of dollars worth of cybersecurity systems. Simple phone calls help attackers steal access credentials and impersonate identities at will across networks.  The tradecraft behind the attacks on Clorox, MGM and many others prove that crunching real-time telemetry data faster isn’t the answer alone. Attackers simply studied MGM employee profiles…

Microsoft announced a series of new enterprise security features today that use artificial intelligence (AI) to help defend Windows 11 against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. The tech giant claims its new AI capabilities will reduce security incidents by 60% and firmware attacks by 300% for businesses using the latest version of its software. Microsoft’s vice president of enterprise and…