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Turkish insurer Neova Sigorta has launched an initiative to offer better auto insurance premium prices to up to 95% of its customers. This development is projected to save Neova Sigorta’s customers money – and decrease overhead costs for the insurer. The  first of its kind in the Turkish market, the service will use advanced machine learning (ML) to optimise how it prices auto insurance. Neova Sigorta selected SAS Dynamic Actuarial Modeling, a pricing solution with AI-based premium modelling for general and life insurers, as its platform of choice for its transformation. Software and consultancy firm Sade Software & Consultancy (Sade Yazılım), an SAS partner, will be the initiative’s integrator. The deployment, expected to last between six and eight months, will help Neova Sigorta offer more appealing prices to new and existing customers. It is also expected to significantly increase market share in new regions and bolster renewal rates in established regions. Similar c...

by Johan Fantenberg, Director at Ping Identity Source: Ping Identity. Fantenberg. Deepfakes are artificial media that have created quite a stir in our world of digital firsts. Political deepfakes can take different forms. Deepfake videos can greatly influence a country's election – the way campaigning is done, as well as the results. The convincing nature of today's digitally-changed photographs is demonstrated by the fact that 52% of 700 IT worldwide decision-makers questioned by Ping Identity expressed doubt about their ability to identify a deepfake CEO. Given how advanced deepfakes have become, it may not be unexpected that this stark assessment of the state of affairs has been made. It is impossible to overstate the power of deepfakes to spread misinformation that can sabotage democratic processes, damage people's reputations, and spark civil unrest, especially in light of the growing influence of digital media in social media, news broadcasting, and political campaig...

DigiCert ONE digital trust solutions are now available for purchase through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DigiCert ONE, the platform for digital trust, provides organisations with centralised visibility and control over a broad range of public and private trust needs, securing websites, enterprise access and communication, software, identity, content and devices. This partnership simplifies purchasing and licensing. “We are thrilled to bring DigiCert ONE solutions to the Azure Marketplace, providing our customers and partners with more convenient and accessible purchasing options,” said Dave Packer, Chief Revenue Officer at DigiCert.  “This collaboration underscores our commitment to delivering innovative, scalable solutions that meet the evolving needs of modern businesses.”  “Microsoft welcomes DigiCert to Azure Marketplace, where global customers find thousands of line-of- business partner solutions that work with the Microsoft products they already use,” said Giovanni ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than US$5 B in Thailand. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AWS estimates the construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS region will add approximately US$10 B to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually. These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand. “I would like to extend my appreciation to Amazon Web Services for investing in the development of data centres in Thailand,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, PM of Thailand. “I am pleased that Thailand’s potential and readiness ha...

Japanese AI company Turing has established its computation platform for full driving automation at Digital Realty’s NRT10 data centre in Japan. NRT10, a certified NVIDIA DGX-ready data centre featuring a high-density power supply, provides the ideal environment for maximising GPU performance and efficiency. Turing, a pioneer in the development of full driving automation technology, is working on an end-to-end self-driving system that uses AI to control all driving functions, such as steering, acceleration, and braking, solely based on data from the vehicle’s cameras. The company has advanced autonomous driving by creating Heron , a multimodal generative AI that makes sophisticated decisions using text and visual data, and Terra , a generative world model that understands complex real-world situations and generates realistic driving scenes as videos. Turing is now focused on its flagship project, Tokyo30 , aiming to achieve Level 5 full driving automation for 30 minutes or more in ...

NVIDIA is putting generative AI within reach of more people with a new compact supercomputer that offers increased performance at a lower price. The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, which fits in the palm of a hand, provides gains in generative AI capabilities and performance for everyone from commercial AI developers to hobbyists and students, the company said, for US$249 (down from US$499). The kit can be used to run the most popular generative AI models, like vision transformers, large language models, vision-language models, and more, and delivers as much as a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance, a 70% increase in performance to 67 INT8 TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102 GBps compared with its predecessor. The developer kit consists of a Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB system-on-module (SoM) and a reference carrier board, providing an ideal platform for prototyping edge AI applications. The SoM features an NVIDIA Ampere architecture G...

Verizon has developed a solution with NVIDIA that enables a wide range of AI applications to run over Verizon’s 5G private network with private mobile edge compute (MEC). Verizon’s 5G Private Network with Enterprise AI solution brings together Verizon’s secure, reliable, low-latency 5G private network and private MEC with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform and NVIDIA NIM microservices to deliver real-time AI services on premises for enterprise customers.  “Generative AI, with its predictive capabilities, is poised to be a critical component of digital transformation and future business growth in almost all industries,” said Srini Kalapala, Senior VP of Technology and Product Development at Verizon.  “We're leveraging our network's unique strengths including private networks and Verizon’s global industry leadership in private MEC, combined with NVIDIA’s AI compute capabilities to enable real-time AI applications that require security, ultra-low latency, and high bandw...