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Artificial Intelligence

The Less You Know, the Better: Tech Moves Toward Data Minimization

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‘At the end of the day, wherever that data is, it has to be protected’

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IBM May Pay Closer Attention to AI Risk Amid Model Boom

The context in which an AI model is used can change how much risk it presents, and who it affects.

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IBM Patent Highlights Security Risks of Quantum Development

“If quantum computers can break encryption, they can also encrypt in a way that other quantum computers can’t break.”

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IBM Advertising Patent Could Present Privacy Concerns

IBM may want to use household appliances to track users and time ads.

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IBM Patent Highlights Fundamental Issues with Big Tech’s Net-Zero Goals

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IBM may want to help businesses reach net zero.

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IBM Diagnostic Patent Highlights AI-powered Healthcare’s Data Issue

AI has a lot of promise in the healthcare industry in areas such as documentation, imaging, and quicker diagnostics as staffing shortages loom.

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Big Tech

IBM Shutters Its China R&D Division

IBM announced it would be shutting down its Chinese research and development team, shifting some operations to other locations.

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Google Adds Error-Correction Patent to Arsenal as Quantum Race Heats Up

Quantum computing faces major roadblocks, but the payoff for overcoming them stands to be tremendous.

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IBM Wants Autonomous Vehicles to Do More than Just Drive

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IBM’s patent aims to use self-driving cars’ idle resources, giving access to them to the riders within them.

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IBM’s Coding Companion Patent Adds to the Sea of AI-based Developer Tools

A recent IBM patent shows that it may be working on Grammarly for software developers.

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IBM Protects AI From Being Swayed by Bad Data

Its latest patent puts a magnifying glass to large wells of public data, aiming to make foundational models more robust against attacks.

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IBM Patent Highlights Double-Edged Sword of Synthetic Training Data

The tech underscores that offering AI services may be just as lucrative as building AI models themselves.

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