Category: Unite.AI
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Sarah Assous, Vice President of Product Marketing, Akeneo – Interview Series
Sarah Assous is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Akeneo, where she drives strategic messaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategies. A results-driven leader, she has played a key role in accelerating company growth and leveraging marketing to support revenue generation. With expertise in content strategy, customer engagement, and competitive positioning, she combines creativity and business
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Whats Next for Automatic Speech Recognition? Challenges and Cutting-Edge Approaches
As powerful as today’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are, the field is far from “solved.” Researchers and practitioners are grappling with a host of challenges that push the boundaries of what ASR can achieve. From advancing real-time capabilities to exploring hybrid approaches that combine ASR with other modalities, the next wave of innovation in
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The Role of Generative AI in Banking: Choosing the Right Solution for Right Now
The conversation around Generative AI in banking often focuses on efficiency and job displacement, with reports predicting up to 200,000 job cuts in the industry due to AI. While the focus is often on AI’s potential to replace routine tasks, a key question is: What’s the right solution for now, and where should humans remain
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A Forensic Data Method for a New Generation of Deepfakes
Although the deepfaking of private individuals has become a growing public concern and is increasingly being outlawed in various regions, actually proving that a user-created model – such as one enabling revenge porn – was specifically trained on a particular person’s images remains extremely challenging. To put the problem in context: a key element of
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10 Best AI Tools for Event Planning (February 2025)
Event planners are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to streamline the planning of conferences, trade shows, and corporate gatherings. Below, we highlight some of the best AI-powered tools for event planning, each offering unique capabilities to enhance efficiency and attendee experience. These tools range from specialized event management platforms to general AI assistants that can
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What DeepSeek Can Teach Us About AI Cost and Efficiency
With its cute whale logo, the recent release of DeepSeek could have amounted to nothing more than yet another ChatGPT knockoff. What made it so newsworthy – and what sent competitors’ stocks into a tailspin – was how little it cost to create. It effectively threw a monkey wrench into the U.S.’s notion of the
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Perplexity AI “Uncensors” DeepSeek R1: Who Decides AIs Boundaries?
In a move that has caught the attention of many, Perplexity AI has released a new version of a popular open-source language model that strips away built-in Chinese censorship. This modified model, dubbed R1 1776 (a name evoking the spirit of independence), is based on the Chinese-developed DeepSeek R1. The original DeepSeek R1 made waves
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Shikhil Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Astra Security – Interview Series
Shikhil Sharma is the Founder of Astra Security – a continuous pentesting platform. At the very onset of his career, Shikhil consulted a number of businesses, startups & banks on cyber security. After helping some top businesses secure their websites & apps, Shikhil noted how in-effective traditional pentesting was, and founded Astra Security as an
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DeepSeeks R1: A Useful Reminder
As a college educator and former IT industry veteran, I find that the hype around China’s DeepSeek R1 model is a useful reminder of three things. The first is that generative AI is no longer just about processing vast amounts of content to generate relevant responses to prompts; it’s also about cognitive reasoning (the “R”
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SmartSuite Secures $38 Million to Drive Global Expansion and Transform Work Management
SmartSuite, the next-generation work management platform, has announced a significant global expansion, fueled by a total of $38 million in funding. The investment includes a newly secured $13 million Series A round, led by Canapi Ventures with participation from Sorenson Capital and High Alpha. This follows an earlier $25 million founder-led seed round, underscoring the