Biggest AI Acquisitions For The Year 2020, So Far

Although the year 2020 started with a crisis, the technology landscape has drastically gained its momentum, and artificial intelligence has played a crucial role amid this pandemic. And that’s why the majority of companies are trying to get their hands on this technology, either by hiring AI and analytics experts or by acqui-hiring AI startups.

Read more: https://analyticsindiamag.com/biggest-ai-acquisitions-for-the-year-2020-so-far/

#startup #artificial-intelligence #aquisition #accenture #nvidia #microsoft

What is GEEK

Buddha Community

Citrix Bugs Allow Unauthenticated Code Injection, Data Theft

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway would allow code injection, information disclosure and denial of service, the networking vendor announced Tuesday. Four of the bugs are exploitable by an unauthenticated, remote attacker.

The Citrix products (formerly known as NetScaler ADC and Gateway) are used for application-aware traffic management and secure remote access, respectively, and are installed in at least 80,000 companies in 158 countries, according to a December assessment from Positive Technologies.

Other flaws announced Tuesday also affect Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances, models 4000-WO, 4100-WO, 5000-WO and 5100-WO.

Attacks on the management interface of the products could result in system compromise by an unauthenticated user on the management network; or system compromise through cross-site scripting (XSS). Attackers could also create a download link for the device which, if downloaded and then executed by an unauthenticated user on the management network, could result in the compromise of a local computer.

“Customers who have configured their systems in accordance with Citrix recommendations [i.e., to have this interface separated from the network and protected by a firewall] have significantly reduced their risk from attacks to the management interface,” according to the vendor.

Threat actors could also mount attacks on Virtual IPs (VIPs). VIPs, among other things, are used to provide users with a unique IP address for communicating with network resources for applications that do not allow multiple connections or users from the same IP address.

The VIP attacks include denial of service against either the Gateway or Authentication virtual servers by an unauthenticated user; or remote port scanning of the internal network by an authenticated Citrix Gateway user.

“Attackers can only discern whether a TLS connection is possible with the port and cannot communicate further with the end devices,” according to the critical Citrix advisory. “Customers who have not enabled either the Gateway or Authentication virtual servers are not at risk from attacks that are applicable to those servers. Other virtual servers e.g. load balancing and content switching virtual servers are not affected by these issues.”

A final vulnerability has been found in Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Linux that would allow a local logged-on user of a Linux system with that plug-in installed to elevate their privileges to an administrator account on that computer, the company said.

#vulnerabilities #adc #citrix #code injection #critical advisory #cve-2020-8187 #cve-2020-8190 #cve-2020-8191 #cve-2020-8193 #cve-2020-8194 #cve-2020-8195 #cve-2020-8196 #cve-2020-8197 #cve-2020-8198 #cve-2020-8199 #denial of service #gateway #information disclosure #patches #security advisory #security bugs

Biggest AI Acquisitions For The Year 2020, So Far

Although the year 2020 started with a crisis, the technology landscape has drastically gained its momentum, and artificial intelligence has played a crucial role amid this pandemic. And that’s why the majority of companies are trying to get their hands on this technology, either by hiring AI and analytics experts or by acqui-hiring AI startups.

Every year, many AI companies get acquired, especially the promising startups that get gobbled up by large tech companies in order to expand their AI capabilities. Similarly, this year also saw many exciting mergers and acquisition in the AI space, despite the COVID pandemic.

Here are the top AI acquisitions of 2020, so far — in random order:

Apple Acquired Xnor.ai

In January 2020, Apple announced that the company had acquired an edge-based AI startup — Xnor.ai for a reported $200 million. The company, Xnor.ai, employs machine learning and image recognition tools for delivering AI capabilities on low-resource edge devices and has been one of the promising AI companies to acquire. The acquisition by Apple was an attempt to direct its efforts towards edge computing to keep user information more private and speed up processing. Not only edge-based computing brings back the data from the cloud to the device, improving the response times, but also allows for faster programs that would use significantly fewer data.

---

#opinions #acquis #acquisition #acquisition india #ai

Making Sales More Efficient: Lead Qualification Using AI

If you were to ask any organization today, you would learn that they are all becoming reliant on Artificial Intelligence Solutions and using AI to digitally transform in order to bring their organizations into the new age. AI is no longer a new concept, instead, with the technological advancements that are being made in the realm of AI, it has become a much-needed business facet.

AI has become easier to use and implement than ever before, and every business is applying AI solutions to their processes. Organizations have begun to base their digital transformation strategies around AI and the way in which they conduct their business. One of these business processes that AI has helped transform is lead qualifications.

#ai-solutions-development #artificial-intelligence #future-of-artificial-intellige #ai #ai-applications #ai-trends #future-of-ai #ai-revolution

This Week in AI | Rubik's Code

Every week we bring to you the best AI research papers, articles and videos that we have found interesting, cool or simply weird that week.

#ai #this week in ai #ai application #ai news #artificaial inteligance #artificial intelligence #artificial neural networks #deep learning #machine learning #this week in ai

This Week in AI - Issue #22 | Rubik's Code

Every week we bring to you the best AI research papers, articles and videos that we have found interesting, cool or simply weird that week.Have fun!

Research Papers

• Unsupervised Learning of Probably Symmetric Deformable 3D Objects from Images in the Wild
• Slowing Down the Weight Norm Increase in Momentum-based Optimizers
• The Collective Knowledge project: making ML models more portable and reproducible with open APIs, reusable best practices and MLOps
• AutoGAN-Distiller: Searching to Compress Generative Adversarial Networks
• Coherent Reconstruction of Multiple Humans from a Single Image
• Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo with Noisy Likelihoods
• GNN3DMOT: Graph Neural Network for 3D Multi-Object Tracking with Multi-Feature Learning
• Are we done with ImageNet?
• How to Avoid Being Eaten by a Grue: Structured Exploration Strategies for Textual Worlds
• Background Modeling via Uncertainty Estimation for Weakly-supervised Action Localization
• The Collective Knowledge project: making ML models more portable and reproducible with open APIs, reusable best practices and MLOps
• Image Deconvolution via Noise-Tolerant Self-Supervised Inversion
• Learning a Unified Sample Weighting Network for Object Detection

Articles

• Deepfake Detection Challenge Results: An open initiative to advance AI
• Slightly Unnerving AI Produces Human Faces Out of Totally Pixelated Photos
• NeoML Released as TensorFlow Alternative
• Google Meet takes on Zoom with AI-powered noise cancellation
• Open Compound Domain Adaptation
• Dense pose for animal classes with transfer learning
• 10 Ways Enterprises Are Getting Results From AI Strategies
• An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
• Why we switched from Flask to FastAPI for production machine learning
• Simple Transformers
• The key differences between rule-based AI and machine learning
• Deep learning-based surrogate models outperform simulators and could hasten scientific discoveries
• HANDS-ON GUIDE TO OBJECT DETECTION USING YOLO
• Artificial neural networks that mimic the flexibility and computing power of the brain
• MIT researchers train AI to predict how humans paint works of art
• What Do Machine Learning Engineers Do Anyway?
• AI Is Amazing But Complicated, And We Don’t Necessarily Need To Plunge In Headfirst
• Deep learning networks track up to 100 animals simultaneously
• Is artificial intelligence changing art?

#ai #this week in ai #ai application #ai news #artificaial inteligance #artificial intelligence #artificial neural networks #deep learning #machine learning #this week in ai