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Lumen is unveiling a new threat defense tool driven by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.

Europe’s connectivity objectives and targets set out in the digital compass for this decade. Orange shared the landing in Marseille of the 21,700 km SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6) system, which will link France to Singapore. Following this operation in Marseille, work will begin on the installation of more than 3,000 kilometers of cable to bring the system to Egypt.

AI & Analytics News

In AI & Analytics News, The EU Council approved a ground-breaking law aiming to harmonize rules on artificial intelligence, the so-called Artificial Intelligence Act. The flagship legislation follows a risk-based approach, which means the higher the risk to cause harm to society, the stricter the rules. Snowflake launched Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. The Financial Times formed a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with OpenAI to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content, help improve its models’ usefulness by incorporating FT journalism, and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for FT readers. Intrinsic has integrated NVIDIA AI and Isaac platform technologies to advance the complex field of autonomous robotic manipulation.

Cerillion launched Cerillion 24.1, which exploits the latest GenAI-powered image recognition technology to completely transform how communications services providers design and build new products and services. Lumen is unveiling a new threat defense tool driven by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Lumen DefenderSM, powered by Black Lotus Labs, is a patented product that proactively blocks evolving threats at the network edge, before they can compromise a business's network perimeter. Palo Alto Networks and Accenture expanded their long-standing strategic alliance. New offerings will combine Precision AI technology from Palo Alto Networks and Accenture's secure generative AI services to help organizations embrace the potential of AI with unparalleled cybersecurity. Oracle unveiled plans for Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency. Powered by large language models running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and optimized for Java, SQL, and application development on OCI, Oracle Code Assist is planned to provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization’s best practices and codebases. ServiceNow and Microsoft expanded their strategic alliance, combining their industry leading generative AI capabilities to enhance employee choice and flexibility. The new ServiceNow Now Assist and Microsoft Copilot integration brings the power of two generative AI assistants into one seamless enterprise experience.

Security & Assurance News

In Security & Assurance News, Keysight is partnering with ETAS to provide automakers and automotive suppliers with a comprehensive automotive cybersecurity solution to ensure vehicles are protected when they hit the road. Through this arrangement, the ESCRYPT CycurFUZZ smart automotive fuzzer tool from ETAS will be integrated into Keysight’s Automotive Cybersecurity Test Platform. Cyngular Security launched a new cybersecurity platform to proactively address cloud threats: THIRDhub. Short for Threat Hunting, Investigation, Response, and Deception, THIRDhub is currently the only platform that delivers comprehensive cloud security for organizations of any size or in any industry. Amazon Web Services and CrowdStrike announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate cybersecurity consolidation and cloud transformation.

Palo Alto Networks released Cortex XSIAM, an AI-driven security operations platform that enables organizations to transform their security operations with a unified platform that delivers all critical capabilities in one powerful solution. Radware signed a managed security service provider agreement with Lightpath. Based on the agreement, Lightpath is leveraging Radware’s AI-powered DefensePro DDoS Protection to offer customers a DDoS scrubbing service designed to combat today’s increasingly complex threats.

CrowdStrike launched CrowdStrike Falcon for Defender, augmenting Microsoft Defender deployments to stop missed attacks. As part of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform, Falcon for Defender deploys alongside Microsoft, elevating the security posture of endpoints running Microsoft Defender. Cloudflare unveiled Cloudflare for Unified Risk Posture, a new suite of risk management solutions designed to streamline the process of identifying, evaluating, and managing cyber threats that pose risk to an organization across all environments.