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Azure AI Content Safety , an AI-powered platform to help organisations create safer online environments, is now generally available. The service uses advanced language and vision models to filter out both user and AI-generated content that is deemed unsafe, including adult content, gore, violence and hate speech. The ease of access to such content has been an ongoing concern in the Asia Pacific region, where social media and messaging apps are popular. Azure AI Content Safety offers: - Multilingual proficiency, ensuring that users are safe online regardless of the language a particular piece of content is in. - Severity indication metrics, which rates specific flagged content on a severity scale of 0-7. This allows users to swiftly assess a potential threat in a particular piece of flagged content and address it in a timely manner. - Multicategory filtering, providing an at-a-glance summary of what kind of content has been deemed unsafe. - Text and image detection, ensuring that a...

Zoom has announced the general availability of new Zoom AI Companion * capabilities and the expansion of AI Companion summarisation capabilities to new industry customers in higher education and healthcare. Zoom AI Companion is the company’s generative AI digital assistant, which is included at no additional cost with the paid services assigned to Zoom user accounts. A new capability for Whiteboard debuted at the company's Zoomtopia conference this month, bringing the total available capabilities to seven so far. Users can now manage their AI Companion settings for Meetings, Team Chat, Whiteboard, and Mail all in one place in the web portal. “Zoom is continuing to invest in AI throughout our platform and taking a leadership stance in AI technology by being transparent that communications-like customer content will not be used to train Zoom’s AI models or its third-party artificial intelligence models,” said Mahesh Ram, head of AI applications at Zoom. “With the incredible...

Source: Zoom. Zoom Docs is a new AI-powered workspace that shines in hybrid work environments. Zoom has launched Zoom Docs , a modular, flexible AI-powered workspace that is designed for hybrid work. “Hybrid work is hard enough, and the status quo for document creation and collaboration isn’t cutting it anymore. Zoom is helping our customers by bringing the definition of a ‘doc’ into 2023 — with powerful document authoring and collaboration capabilities, modern collaboration tools, and a next-gen workspace built from the ground up with AI at its heart; Zoom Docs is that solution,” said Smita Hashim, Chief Product Officer at Zoom. “With Zoom Docs , teams can work faster, all while minimising silos and being seamlessly integrated into the Zoom interface that users already know and love.” With Zoom Docs , teams can create documents, build wikis and manage workflows, all on the Zoom platform. Zoom Docs integrates with Zoom and third-party apps, making it easy for teams and...

Source: Databricks. Bringing together local experts, customers and partners, the sold-out event attracted close to 1,000 attendees and focused on trends, challenges and case studies. Representatives from GovTech, SATS, Grab, GetGo, PETRONAS, and bolttech were among the speakers. At Databricks' Singapore Data + AI World Tour in September , part of a global series that spans more than 30 cities across five continents, data and AI experts and visionaries gathered to discuss Generation AI . "At GovTech, we strive to engineer digital government and make lives better through technology. By working with partners such as Databricks, we have been able to provide better access to data, enhance collaboration with business units, and realise significant time savings through comprehensive data management.  "This helps us achieve our goal to be an organisation that harnesses data for decision-making, making data accessible to everyone and delivering timely and relevant insigh...