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AI & Security Trends & Observations | 11/1/2024

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Phil Moroni
November 01, 2024

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week.

With all the AI and GenAI talk these days, I’ve been wondering, who’s going to come out with a Next Gen GenAI model first? NGGAI. Yep. Heard it here first.

It seems that I’m covering more and more about the intersection of AI and Security and this week was no exception. I hope you had a wonderful Halloween and are ready for the rest of Q4!

Phil

P.S. Claude keeps giving me good stuff to work with re: Logo idea for FTN. What do you think of this one?

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • Hugging Face has released HUGS (Hugging Face for Generative AI Services) to simplify building AI systems.

  • The service is available through AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean.

  • It aims to lower AI development costs and enhance data privacy, crucial for industries like finance and healthcare.

  • Cohere introduced two new models, Aya Expanse 8B and 35B available on Hugging Face.

  • The Aya initiative aims to bridge the language gap in AI by focusing on non-English languages and improving multilingual capabilities.

  • Aya Expanse models outperform similar sized models from Google, Mistral, and Meta in multilingual benchmarks.

  • Cloudbrink is leveraging AI to enhance connectivity, security, and enterprise insights.

  • AI algorithms help recover lost data packets in congested networks, ensuring uninterrupted video streams and data transfers.

  • GitHub has expanded Copilot’s model support to include new models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.

  • A new AI native tool called GitHub Spark allows developers to build web applications using natural language integrating AI features without managing cloud resources. Very cool.

  • Now supports complex edits across multiple files in Visual Studio Code and includes security campaigns for large scale vulnerability remediation.

  • Amazon Q Developer now supports inline chat within software editors, allowing developers to describe their needs directly and receive responses without switching to a sidebar.

  • The inline chat is powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

  • Devs can invoke the chat interface using simple keyboard shortcuts and get immediate assistance with code improvements, documentation (woo!) and more.

  • Available for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs through Q Dev’s free tier, which you’ll burn thru.

  • AWS Lambda has introduced a new code editing experience in its console to integrate with VS Code-OSS editor.

  • The editor supports extensions, customizable settings, and a split screen layout for viewing test events, function code, and outputs simultaneously.

  • Integration with CloudWatch Logs allows devs to track logs instantly as code executes.

  • Comes with support for Q.

  • Opsera has partnered with Databricks to enhance software and DevOps engineering through AI/ML model deployments and schema rollback capabilities.

  • Opsera’s platform is powered by Hummingbird AI and aims to improve software delivery management by automating data orchestration.

  • Addresses the growing demand for data management and AI solutions for customers.

  • LambdaTest has introduced advanced tagging, preconditions, and CSV export functionality to its AI powered Test Manager.

  • Expanded POST and PUT functionalities for better test data management and CI/CD pipeline integration.

  • Users can now copy and move multiple test cases across folders and projects and use expanded custom fields.

  • Cohesity introduced Gaia a while back which categorizes themes across documents and files to help users gain insights faster.

  • Gaia uses advanced AI techniques like topic modeling and NLP to identify hidden thematic structures in data.

  • Gaia now supports data from M365 Mail, SharePoint, OneDrive, and various on-prem and cloud based file servers.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • great report. 79% of respondents reported experiencing or being aware of secret leaks, up from 75% last year.

  • 77% of respondents are investing in or planning to invest in a secrets management tool by 2025.

    • see my friends @ Dazz for help 😀 

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Filigran is a France-based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as threat intelligence, crisis management and attack simulation for businesses.

  • Armis is a California based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and IoT asset management for businesses.

  • Zenity is an Israel based SaaS platform that enables enterprises to securely govern and adopt copilots and low code/no-code development technologies.

  • Secret Double Octopus is an Israel based digital security platform that provides solutions such as MFA protection and remote work security for businesses.

  • Normalyze is a California based cloud security platform that offers solutions such as data discovery, governance, and risk management for enterprises. Great pickup from Proofpoint.

  • Decart is an Israel based company that’s developed a platform that enhances the efficiency of AI models for businesses.

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