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Cybersecurity challenges and AWS solutions in the AI era
As the technology world has grown more complicated through an explosion in artificial intelligence use cases, it has also led to challenges for cybersecurity professionals. Generative AI applications must be secured, the infrastructure around AI needs to be protected, and there is a constant worry about new threats driven by AI-powered tools.
AWS’ Rohan Karmarkar talks with theCUBEs John Furrier about cybersecurity.
For major cloud practitioners such as Amazon Web Services Inc., this reality requires close coordination with its partners to ensure that these factors are properly managed.
“We’re definitely seeing an increase in the velocity of attacks, so obviously security partners have to cater to that, AWS has to cater to that,” said Rohan Karmarkar (pictured), director of APO technology for AWS Partner SA. “These partners are making sure that they build capability to defend against AI-powered attacks and also build capability to make the security engineers and security operations center more productive, more automated. Those are the two things that we’re working with our partners on to build those capabilities using the secure foundation that we have.”
Karmarkar spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier at the AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how partners are using AWS tools to mitigate threats and build a more secure environment.
Building cybersecurity on AWS
For partners, a key approach for managing security initiatives in the AI world is to build on the AWS platform. This includes leveraging many of the cloud provider’s intelligence tools, according to Karmarkar.
“PagerDuty, one of our key partners, uses Amazon Q Business, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker to improve the incident response automation with AI,” Karmarkar said. “There are other partners like Trellix who has a Trellix-wide security assistant, which is built on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Typically, security engineers get overwhelmed with these incidents, so bringing the right context and helping them analyze and getting them more productive is something that security partners are doing.”
Something else that security partners are doing is building agents. AWS is seeing its partners explore innovation in agentic AI to address a wide range of factors, including cost, accuracy and specialized domain management.
“There are a couple of partners like PantherAI and Securonix who have launched various agents that help in security engineering aspects, security operations,” Karmarkar said. “We are seeing a lot of agentic kinds of workflows and applications being built now. They’re starting with simple agents, but we are also seeing trends where agent-to-agent communication and multi-agent kinds of workflows are there.”
Adoption of AI agents and new ways to leverage autonomous technology for improving security have forced many AWS partners and customers to re-evaluate their applications. App modernization has become a key ingredient in building a secure IT environment.
“There’s a lot of conversation around app modernization,” Karmarkar explained. “We definitely are talking about application modernization because application and data modernization is the foundation to have a strong AI. How do we get apps to use the latest technologies, provide interfaces or databases to be vector enabled? It’s an interesting time to be in tech.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit:
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TED Radio Hour : NPR
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil’s goal is to not die at all.
A far-fetched idea, and yet those who have followed Kurzweil’s work over the decades know that many of his wild ideas and predictions come true.
Kurzweil was one of the first to forecast how AI would turbocharge human potential. His thought-provoking predictions about digital technology come from over six decades of experience inventing groundbreaking tools that we use today — tools like text to speech synthesis in 1976 and the first music synthesizer in 1983.
Now, 77, the computer scientist is focused on another prediction: that technology will soon make it possible to extend the human lifespan indefinitely.
Extending life through “longevity escape velocity”
“Right now you go through a year and you use up a year of your longevity,” Kurzweil explained in his 2024 TED Talk. “However, scientific progress is also progressing. … It’s giving us cures for diseases, new forms of treatment. … So you lose a year, you get back four months.”
As scientific progress accelerates, Kurzweil thinks the rate of developing treatments will outpace our aging. He calls this concept “longevity escape velocity.”
“For example, I’ve had these two problems, diabetes and heart disease, which I’ve actually overcome, and I really have no concern with them today,” Kurzweil told NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi. “So today I have an artificial pancreas that’s just like a real pancreas. It’s actually external, but it detects my glucose, determines the amount of insulin that I should have, and it works just like a real pancreas.”
With these types of medical advances, every year that someone gets older their health could deteriorate less and less.
“I don’t guarantee immortality. I’m talking about longevity escape velocity, where we can keep going without getting older. We won’t be aging in the same way that we are today,” said Kurzweil.
Is it only a matter of time before your mind merges with AI?
Along with his goal of escaping death, Kurzweil has envisioned a future where AI dramatically alters the way we think and live.
In 1999, in his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil predicted that by 2029, artificial general intelligence would match and even exceed human intelligence. And while that may not seem so far-fetched anymore, Kurzweil says there’s one way his prediction is unique:
He claims our minds will merge with AI.
“We’re going to be able to think of things and we’re not going to be sure whether it came from our biological intelligence or our computational intelligence. It’s all going to be the same thing.”
Kurzweil calls this “the Singularity” and predicts a future where nanobots directly connect our brains to the cloud, expanding our intelligence.
“We will be funnier, sexier, smarter, more creative, free from biological limitations. We’ll be able to choose our appearance. We’ll be able to do things we can’t do today, like visualize objects in 11 dimensions … speak all languages,” Kurzweil said in his 2024 TED Talk. “We’ll be able to expand consciousness in ways we can barely imagine.”
As far as Kurzweil is concerned, our minds are already starting to merge with machines and will only continue to do so.
TED Radio Hour‘s special series: Prophets of Technology
Curious to learn more about Kurzweil’s predictions about AI and technology? On TED Radio Hour‘s three-part series, Prophets of Technology, host Manoush Zomorodi speaks with Ray Kurzweil and other scientists, entrepreneurs and experts predicting and shaping our tech future. They share what they’ve gotten right — and wrong — and where they think we’re headed next.
This episode is part one of TED Radio Hour’s three-part series: Prophets of Technology, conversations with the minds shaping our digital world. Part two will be available on Friday, July 18 and part three will be available on Friday, July 25.
This digital story was written by Harsha Nahata and edited by Katie Monteleone and Rachel Faulkner White.
This episode of TED Radio Hour was produced by James Delahoussaye and Matthew Cloutier. It was edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour and Manoush Zomorodi.
Our production staff at NPR also includes Fiona Geiran.
Our audio engineers were Maggie Luthar, Jimmy Keeley, Stacey Abbott and Josephine Nyounai.
Talk to us on Instagram @ManoushZ, and on Facebook or email us at TEDRadioHour@npr.org.
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Scotta taps Nextail AI powered technology to support retailer’s growth across stores and online — Retail Technology Innovation Hub
“We’re committed to growing without compromising our values or customer experience. Partnering with Nextail allows us to proactively address operational bottlenecks and bring more precision and agility to our stock decisions. As we grow, it will be even more important to continue delivering on our brand promise of offering high-quality products at a fair price with an authentic story,” says Carlos Serra, Scotta CEO.
By leveraging Nextail, Scotta aims to boost sell-through and margins, reduce markdowns and stockouts, and improve strategic collaboration across teams through data driven insights and automation.
“Growing brands like Scotta prove that forward thinkers don’t need to wait to operate like larger industry leaders,” says Carlos Miragall, CEO and Co-Founder at Nextail. “By choosing to tackle key inventory challenges early on, they’re setting the foundation for sustainable and efficient growth, and we’re proud to be part of that story.”
RTIH AI in Retail Awards
RTIH, organiser of the industry leading RTIH Innovation Awards, proudly brings you the first edition of the RTIH AI in Retail Awards, which is now open for entries.
As we witness a digital transformation revolution across all channels, AI tools are reshaping the omnichannel game, from personalising customer experiences to optimising inventory, uncovering insights into consumer behaviour, and enhancing the human element of retailers’ businesses.
With 2025 set to be the year when AI and especially gen AI shake off the ‘heavily hyped’ tag and become embedded in retail business processes, our newly launched awards celebrate global technology innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world and the resulting benefits for retailers, shoppers and employees.
Our 2025 winners will be those companies who not only recognise the potential of AI, but also make it usable in everyday work – resulting in more efficiency and innovation in all areas.
Winners will be announced at an evening event at The Barbican in Central London on Wednesday, 3rd September.
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