Artificial Intelligence

• [New] The European Union is poised to ban artificial intelligence systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behavior, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they fail to comply with new rules governing the software applications.
• [New] The Russian Intelligence Services - specifically the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, and the Foreign Intelligence Service - have executed some of the most dangerous and disruptive cyber attacks in recent history, including the SolarWinds cyber attack.
• [New] Outsourcing cyber attacks allows Russia to create plausible deniability and lower the risks and costs associated with controversial foreign information campaigns.
• [New] The European Commission will seek to outlaw Artificial Intelligence systems used for indiscriminate surveillance operations as part of new prohibitions to be put forward next week.
• [New] Canadian startup BlueDot has successfully used artificial intelligence to trace and predict outbreaks by analyzing unstructured data in social media and news reporting.
• [New] Microsoft may be betting that more sophisticated forms of AI will eventually be able to triage patients before they see a doctor, or offer medical professionals advice in real time.
• [New] For all firms, 2021 will be a year of changing how they do business, how they reach out to customers, how they make the most of AI and machine learning and how they adopt new digital solutions.
• [New] Chipmaker Nvidia plans to collaborate with the University of Florida to develop an AI model called GatorTron that's trained using records from more than 50 million interactions with 2 million patients.
• [New] The Morpheus framework is powered by its graphics processing units and designed to identify, capture and execute actions on cyber threats through machine learning.
• [New] NVIDIA has launched a cloud-native application framework driven by artificial intelligence that works to rapidly detect cybersecurity threats including malware, phishing attacks and leaks of sensitive data.
• [New] Microsoft on Monday announced that it will acquire Nuance Communications, a deal aimed largely at advancing cloud and artificial intelligence offerings for its healthcare customers.
• [New] Imagine that there is a startup that wants to offer speech to text processing using AI who uses GCP and discovers that now Google Cloud has a similar (and competing product) under its AI and Machine Learning product offering.
• [New] OpenBlue leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as edge computing technologies, to analyze large datasets and predict patterns and trends.
• [New] Worldwide revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services, is forecast to reach $327.5 billion in 2021, up 16% from 2020.
• [New] The overall quantum computing market is projected to grow to $1.7 B by 2026, at a CAGR of 30.2% by analysts at MarketandMarkets.
• [New] The capabilities that Earth 300 scientists will have at their disposal: artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, real time data processing-including the latest quantum computer - are exceptional.
• [New] China posed a serious strategic threat, while the signals intelligence agency last November identified state-sponsored programs in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as cyber crime threats for the first time.
• [New] Russia probably will continue to expand its global military, intelligence, security, commercial, and energy footprint and build partnerships with US allies and adversaries alike - most notably Russia's growing strategic cooperation with China - to achieve its objectives.
• [New] Russia will continue to develop its military, nuclear, space, cyber, and intelligence capabilities, while actively engaging abroad and leveraging its energy resources, to advance its agenda and undermine the United States.
• [New] Over the next five years the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture market will register a 21.6% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach US$ 770.7 million by 2025.
• [New] Threat monitoring systems allowed by AI will anticipate new threats and immediately warn administrators of data violations as the next cyber security trends 2021.
• [New] The global market for AI in healthcare is expected to grow from $4.9 billion in 2020 to $45.2 billion by 2026 at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 44.9%.
• 41% of businesses expect frontline workers to be using AI in the next two years.

Last updated: 18 April 2021