Google is Bringing Generative AI to Cybersecurity
⚡ Today’s Highlights
📰 News: Google is bringing generative AI to cybersecurity and Russia’s leading bank created its own ChatGPT rival
💰 Funding: XRSPACE, Quadrant, Productive Machines, and Epicbrief
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📰 Today's Top Stories
Google brings generative AI to cybersecurity
(4 min read) (Source: TechCrunch)
TLDR: Google announced Cloud Security AI Workbench, a cybersecurity suite using a specialized security generative AI language model called Sec-PaLM.
The suite includes new AI-powered tools such as Mandiant's Threat Intelligence AI, VirusTotal, Chronicle, and Security Command Center AI.
Sec-PaLM is "fine-tuned for security use cases," incorporating research on software vulnerabilities, malware, threat indicators, and behavioral threat actor profiles.
The suite is only available in a limited preview, with the rest of the offerings to be rolled out to trusted testers in the coming months.
Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat
(2 min read) (Source: Reuters)
TLDR: Sberbank, Russia's dominant bank, has launched GigaChat, an AI chatbot that communicates more intelligently in Russian than other foreign neural networks. The technology has been released in an invite-only testing mode and aims to compete with ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI.
Sberbank has invested heavily in technology to reduce Russia's reliance on imports, which has become critically important as Western nations have slashed exports to Russia and imposed punitive sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine. GigaChat is part of the bank's effort to reshape how people work and win business in the process.
Initial £100 million for expert taskforce to help UK build and adopt next generation of safe AI
(7 min read) (Source: Gov.UK)
TLDR: The UK Prime Minister and Technology Secretary have announced £100 million in start-up funding for a task force to accelerate the UK's capability in foundation models, a type of artificial intelligence trained on massive data sets like ChatGPT and Google Bard.
The investment will establish a government-industry task force to ensure the safe and reliable adoption of foundation models and reinforce the UK's position as a science and technology superpower by 2030, on top of the £900 million already invested in computing technology at the Budget.
US Supreme Court rejects computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions
(3 min read) (Source: Reuters)
TLDR: The US Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler's challenge to the Patent and Trademark Office's refusal to issue patents for inventions created by his AI system.
Thaler founded Imagination Engines and argued that his AI system, DABUS, created unique prototypes on its own, but the lower courts rejected his patent applications.
The ruling upheld that inventors must be human beings, and not AI systems, jeopardizing investments and US competitiveness, according to Thaler's supporters.
💰 Funding Alerts
XRSPACE, a metaverse platform, has raised $25 million in funding from Foxconn Technology Group and Taiwan’s National Development Fund to accelerate R&D efforts and launch innovative partnerships in Taiwan, China, Japan, and the US.
The company uses AI and machine learning to create 3D live and social experiences with features such as live facial and motion tracking of user-driven avatars, 5G-powered real-time interaction, 3D live streaming, and AI-powered social engagement.
The funds will also be used to further develop XRSPACE's GOXR platform for business and PartyOn platform for entertainment.
Qdrant has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Unusual Ventures with participation from 42cap, IBB Ventures, and angels such as Amr Awadallah.
Qdrant provides an API service for vector similarity search technology using a vector database, allowing for more advanced AI applications.
The funds will be used to expand operations and development efforts.
Productive Machines, an AI startup from The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, has raised £2.2 million in Seed funding led by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) to expand its team and develop a fully-automated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product.
The company uses AI to optimize machine tool processes, reducing energy consumption by up to 25%, and improving surface quality, yield, and waste reduction.
The funding will enable Productive Machines to bring its technology to more manufacturers worldwide and develop its network of partners to take its technology to market.
Epicbrief has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding led by Dutch VC firm Curiosity, with participation from Finnish investor Superhero Capital to automate the administrative tasks of sales professionals and streamline the sales process.
The platform uses AI to generate clear, objective summaries of sales conversations in seconds and integrates with video conferencing tools and CRM systems to automatically fill in fields.
The company plans to use the funds to optimize its platform and expand its user base.
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👀 More Reading
AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them (Scientific American)
How Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei plans to turn trust and safety into a feature, not a bug (Business Insider)
Hey Apple, Where Are Your Chatbots? (The Washington Post)
AI is copying these actors’ voices. Can you tell the difference? (The Washington Post)
🌎 Fresh Content
1. AI is rapidly changing the world and, with it, is presenting new problems for personal security and online identity. Brett Malinowski broke down the problem of AI changing our online identities and how blockchain technology may present one of the only solutions to such a complex issue. (YouTube)
2. Kyle Hill also went in depth about the problems that AI currently presents, particularly in relation to the “black box” nature of many AI systems and their limited capabilities in performing tasks that require creative thinking beyond their programming. (YouTube)
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🧠 Resources
These prompts enable you to utilize ChatGPT as an expert in SEO and help you optimize your website's search engine rankings for a specific topic. Request suggestions on how to improve your website's on-page SEO using structured data, images, videos, title tags, and meta descriptions. With the help of ChatGPT, you can improve your website's visibility in search engine results pages and increase your organic traffic.
Structured Data SEO
Request ChatGPT to suggest ways to improve on-page SEO for a specific topic through the use of structured data.
Prompt: "Your role is to assist me in improving my website's on-page SEO for a specific topic through structured data. Please provide suggestions on how I can use structured data to optimize my website's search engine rankings. Confirm that you're ready by saying 'Ready to suggest structured data optimizations for on-page SEO.'"
Image and Video SEO
Request ChatGPT to provide suggestions on how to optimize website images and videos for on-page SEO for a specific topic.
Prompt: "As an expert in SEO, your role is to help me optimize my website's images and videos for on-page SEO for a specific topic. Please suggest ways I can improve my website's search engine rankings through optimizing images and videos. Confirm that you're ready by saying 'Ready to suggest optimizations for on-page SEO of images and videos.'"
Title Tag and Meta Description SEO
Request ChatGPT to provide suggestions on how to optimize website title tags and meta descriptions for on-page SEO for a specific topic.
Prompt: "As an expert in SEO, your role is to help me optimize my website's title tags and meta descriptions for on-page SEO for a specific topic. Please suggest ways I can improve my website's search engine rankings through optimizing title tags and meta descriptions. Confirm that you're ready by saying 'Ready to suggest optimizations for on-page SEO of title tags and meta descriptions.'"
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