10 AI News that Broke the Internet Last Week: Top Headlines

By AIT Staff Writer On May 3, 2024

Welcome to AITHORITY’s Weekly Roundup of the coolest AI news! We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest updates in artificial intelligence, but don’t worry if you’re new to this stuff – we’ll break it down into simple bits you can easily understand. As you are aware we launch a special edition for our weekly roundups in the AI domain, so here is the first week AI news clubbed for May 2024.

Get ready to explore the amazing world of AI with us!

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Qualtrics X4 Kicks Off in Salt Lake City — CEO Zig Serafin Demonstrates Next-gen of Experiences

Qualtrics X4 Summit is now officially live. CEO Zig Serafin announced the start of event, addressing 10,000+ attendees. At the X4 mainstage event, Zig is accompanied by AI leaders and CX champions including Porsche CMO Robert Ader, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, American Express CEO Steve Squeri, Delta CEO Ed Bastian, Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta, and others. Sessions will feature world-class thought leadership from the XM Institute™ and Qualtrics subject matter experts. Product demos, roadmap sessions and an expert-staffed help desk will also be available for X4 attendees. On Friday, attendees have the opportunity to attend XM Basecamp Live hands-on training and certification, to unlock more value from their experience
management programs and become certified in XM.

Parks | Pilkerton selects Cloze’s AI-powered real estate platform to drive marketing conversion, referrals, and repeat clients

These integrations make it easier for the company and its agents to:

Capture and convert leads from advertising, third-party portals, the website, and other lead sources using Cloze Leads
Drive engagement, interest, and urgency with Cloze Marketing’s AI-driven campaigns
Build deeper relationships, while tracking engagements and transaction details using Cloze CRM

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AWS Launches GenAI-Powered Assistants for Software Development, Business Decision-Making

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of its generative artificial intelligence-powered assistants for software development and business decision-making. One assistant, Amazon Q Developer, generates code, tests, debugs and implements new code generated from developer requests. Amazon Q Developer generates code suggestions and recommendations in near real time, autonomously performs tasks like software upgrades, and performs security vulnerability scanning and remediation.

Microsoft announces US$1.7 billion investment to advance Indonesia’s cloud and AI ambitions

Microsoft announced it will invest US$1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia, as well as AI skilling opportunities for 840,000 people, and support for the nation’s growing developer community. It represents the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country. Together, these initiatives will help achieve the Indonesian government’s Golden Indonesia 2045 Vision, which aims to transform the nation into a global economic powerhouse.

Copilot Workspace is GitHub’s take on AI-powered software engineering

Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub’s floating the idea. Ahead of its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco early this fall, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace, a dev environment that taps what GitHub describes as “Copilot-powered agents” to help developers brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language. Copilot loses an average of $20 a month per user, according to a Wall Street Journal report, with some customers costing GitHub as much as $80 a month. And the number of rival services continues to grow. There’s Amazon’s CodeWhisperer, which the company made free to individual developers late last year. There are also startups, like Magic, Tabnine, Codegen and Laredo.

OhioHealth embracing AI bots in the doctor’s office

It’s among the first in a long list of ways AI is likely to be used in medical offices in the coming years.

At OhioHealth, practitioners start by getting their patient’s permission to use the program to record the visit.
If they agree (and most do, per the health system) the provider fires up the app and records the visit. At the end, a first draft of notes is waiting for them to review and make any necessary corrections.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says companies will ‘still want human’ workers as AI grows

The workers work for companies. And so companies, when they become more productive, earnings increase,” Huang said in the interview that aired Sunday. “I’ve never seen one company that had earnings increase and not hire more people.” “I believe that you still want human in the loop, because we have good judgment, because there are circumstances that the machines are not — just not going to understand,” Huang added.

Trend Micro Expands AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform to Combat Accidental AI Misuse and External Abuse

Trend is introducing new capabilities to protect every person accessing public or private generative AI services across organizations. The new elements in Trend Vision One™ – Zero Trust Secure Access (ZTSA) continue Trend’s leadership as the first vendor to focus on securing AI services as well as the people using them across the enterprise:

Centralized management of employee access and usage of AI applications
Prompt inspection to prevent data leaks and malicious injections
Content filtering to meet compliance requirements
Defense against large language model (LLM) attacks

Borderless AI and Nium Transform Employer of Record Business with Real-Time Cross-Border Payments

Borderless AI, a leading Employer of Record (EOR) services provider, announced its strategic partnership with Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, aiming to revolutionize cross-border payments in the EOR industry. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in enhancing efficiency, transparency, and speed in global employment and payroll solutions. The traditional EOR process often faces delays and inefficiencies in cross-border payments, leading to administrative bottlenecks and hindered business operations. With Nium’s cutting-edge technology integration, Borderless AI is able to streamline operations, offering faster, more efficient, and secure payment solutions. This enables organizations to confidently navigate international complexities, seamlessly pay employees and contractors, and manage remote teams more efficiently.

Confluent Unveils New Capabilities to Apache Flink Offering to Simplify AI and Bring Stream Processing to Workloads Everywhere

Confluent, Inc. , the data streaming pioneer, announced AI Model Inference, an upcoming feature on Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink^®, to enable teams to easily incorporate machine learning into data pipelines. Confluent introduced Confluent Platform for Apache Flink^®, a Flink distribution that enables stream processing in on-premises or hybrid environments with support from the company’s Flink experts. Confluent also unveiled Freight clusters, a new cluster type for Confluent Cloud that provides a cost-effective way to handle large-volume use cases that aren’t time-sensitive, such as logging or telemetry data.

That’s all for this week’s AITHORITY Weekly Roundup of AI news! We hope you enjoyed learning about the awesome things happening in artificial intelligence. Don’t forget to come back next week for more exciting updates. See you then!

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