Cisneros Assumes Key Role to Advance Veritone’s Public Sector Division Strategic Initiatives

Veritone, Inc., a leader in designing human-centered AI solutions, today announced that it has appointed former Anaheim, Calif. Chief of Police Jorge Cisneros as a Law Enforcement Advisor of Veritone Public Sector. Cisneros will work alongside Veritone's team to empower law enforcement agencies with the latest AI-driven tools for accelerating investigations, protecting personally identifiable information and improving public safety.

“I am honored to join Veritone on a shared mission to empower law enforcement with tools for improving public safety,” said Cisneros. “I have experienced firsthand how Veritone’s AI-powered solutions, now actively serving hundreds of state and local agencies, can transform law enforcement operations. I look forward to collaborating with the Veritone team and contributing to their mission of making our communities safer and more secure."

In his role as an advisor, Cisneros will focus on business development initiatives, including providing invaluable guidance on key law enforcement trends and advocating for Veritone's AI-powered solutions, which enable law enforcement professionals to spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time serving, protecting and leading. Cisneros’ unique perspective, derived from his tenure as Chief of the Anaheim Police Department, will be instrumental in catering to the specific needs of law enforcement agencies.

“Chief Cisneros is a tremendous addition to our team. His deep-rooted connections and wealth of insights gained from more than 30 years in law enforcement make him an invaluable asset,” said Jon Gacek, General Manager for Veritone Public Sector. “As we advance and expand our AI-powered solutions to help law enforcement solve superhuman challenges, Chief Cisneros will play an active role in validating and advocating for our offerings in the public safety space, further bolstering our credibility and impact.”

Cisneros brings a distinguished background to his position at Veritone. He began his career in 1991 as a detective and police officer with the Long Beach Police Department, eventually serving as Chief of the Huntington Park Police Department in Los Angeles County and later as the Chief of the University of California, Irvine Police Department. Most recently, Cisneros served as the 36th Chief of the Anaheim Police Department, overseeing nearly 600 employees, from 2018 until his retirement earlier this year.

Veritone Public Sector is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art AI-powered solutions that address the unique challenges faced by government agencies, legal organizations and compliance professionals. These solutions are designed to accelerate data ingestion and analysis, case processing, enhance Freedom of Information Act requests and facilitate the discovery and management of critical evidence. Characterized by their cloud-agnostic nature, FedRAMP Authorization and Criminal Justice Information Services compliance, Veritone’s advanced technology ensures the highest standards of security and accessibility.

British data scientists have unveiled Brain Assistant, areal-time conversational search engine which includes the ability for a user to upload content for analysis and interrogation, marking a ground-breaking shift in how users interact with the internet.

Unlike traditional search engines and AI models like ChatGPT, Brain Assistant offers an interactive experience that compiles and analyses real-time data, delivering comprehensive and sensible answers to user queries. By providing analysis, Brain Assistant ensures users are always up-to-date with the latest news and developments.

"We're not just providing information; we're providing understanding. Our technology sifts through the vast expanse of the internet to deliver the most relevant, up-to-the-minute results in a conversational manner," said Dan Wagner, CEO of Rezolve AI, the company behind Brain Assistant.

As well as real-time search results, Brain Assistant also gives users the ability to upload documents and spreadsheets with the ability to review and question their own content.

Users can experience this revolutionary technology firsthand at www.mybrain.zone and organisations in the legal, research and retail sectors have already started using Brain Assistant.

Brain Assistant utilises cutting-edge technology to provide its revolutionary real-time conversational search experience. Through advanced algorithms and models, the system performs deep analyses of original prompts and queries, enabling it to accurately and precisely answer natural language questions.

By combining real-time processing of internet and user-ingested data, Brain Assistant delivers up-to-date and comprehensive results. Its multidimensional lookup matching capability allows it to sift through vast amounts of processed data and formulate correct responses using the power of generative AI. This innovative approach ensures that users receive the most relevant and timely information, setting Brain Assistant apart from traditional search engines and AI models. With its ability to extrapolate and specific summaries, not just raw information, Brain Assistant is poised to redefine the future of internet search.

Chief Data Scientist Dr. Senka Krivic - Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, has been testing the technology for the past 18 months. She said, "Brain Assistant is a game-changer in the world of search engines. Its ability to compile and analyse real-time data in a conversational manner sets it apart from anything else on the market. It has the potential to revolutionize how we access information and stay informed in today's fast-paced world."

Dr. Salman Ahmed, CTO of Rezolve AI, added, "Brain Assistant is a revolutionary leap in conversational assistants, combining real-time processing of internet and user-ingested data to accurately and precisely answer natural language queries. Our algorithms and models perform deep analyses of the original prompts/queries and perform multidimensional lookup matching processed data to formulate correct responses using the power of generative AI."

Failing to use AI to fight fraud could result in catastrophic consequences to businesses and the continued acceleration of the world's $5 trillion annual fraud losses

Onfido, the global leader in automated identity verification, today released the results of a study surveying over 1,500 business leaders, examining perceptions, challenges and usages of artificial intelligence (AI). Respondents were from financial services, gaming, retail, healthcare, transportation, legal and telecom industries across the US, UK, and Italy. The research shows that as interest and investment in AI technology soars, leaders are concerned about the growth of AI-powered cyber threats. Despite this, a staggering 73% are failing to act, putting their businesses and the global economy at risk.

This disturbing news revealed by the survey shows that almost seven in ten business leaders (68%) recognize the threat that AI and, more specifically, Generative AI presents for accelerating the speed and quantity of fraud attacks, but less than one in three (27%) are prioritizing its use in fraud prevention. Instead, almost two in five (39%) leaders are focusing on using AI as a catalyst for reducing operational costs and enhancing digital services, creating a blind spot that could upend their businesses.

Balancing AI priorities 
The hype cycle around AI has been fuelled by the roll-out of ChatGPT last November, with the survey revealing global leaders are now seeing widespread benefits from its implementation. Over three in five (61%) are using AI to boost efficiency and productivity through process automation, while more than half (53%) are implementing the technology to increase the speed of service. Almost the same number (52%) see it as a means to reduce human error or bias in their processes.

Yet, as AI has emerged on the global stage, bad actors have closely followed. It is being used to automate attacks around the clock, and Onfido's research indicates that these tactics are front of mind for businesses. Just under one in three (31%) expect fraud perpetrated by Generative AI to become a heightened national issue, while worryingly, global leaders have indicated that it's not where they see the most pressing threats.

When asked to choose from a list, UK and US leaders point to data privacy and consent infringements as their most pressing AI security concern (56% and 64% respectively), while in Italy, 44% said it is synthetic identity fraud. Despite public attention on deepfakes, it is the lowest-ranked perceived threat across all countries: UK (33%), US (32%), Italy (27%).

Pledging investment 
In light of these fears, leaders recognize that AI can be the best defense against itself. Across the US, UK and Italy, almost two-in-five (38%) see Generative AI applications as being beneficial in automating fraud prevention and empowering fraud specialists to address more sensitive cases. On top of this, one-quarter (24%) say these applications will make fraud easier to identify and stop.

To truly combat the emergence of new threats, global leaders must turn these theories into action, and Onfido's survey finds some businesses will have the AI budget to make it happen. Within the next five years, almost one-in-five UK (17%) and Italian (15%) leaders and one quarter (24%) of US leaders will invest between 1 million and 2.5 million in local currencies in AI. Around 10% of those in the UK and US will invest between 2.5 million to 5 million, rising to 16% in Italy. This still leaves a worrying 73% who have no plans to use AI to combat the fraud threat coming from AI. Since this is one of the most promising approaches, that gap is concerning.

Responding to these findings, Mike Tuchen, CEO at Onfido, said: "Global companies need to wake up to the fact that the recent development in generative AI and deep learning tools are supercharging the fraudsters' toolkit. If they don't take action now and prioritize their investment in AI to fight fraud, catastrophic losses could follow.

As the threat landscape evolves and bad actors attempt to exploit vulnerabilities through edited photos, submissions of deepfake playbacks on screens, printed images, and 2D and 3D masks, AI is now mission-critical for businesses to adopt. 

With so many opportunities for fraudsters to attack online, businesses must develop a multi-layered, holistic approach to fraud prevention. That's how they will develop the right protections to combat this trillion-dollar problem and flourish in the digital economy."

Recently released report from TextUs and Benenson Strategy Group provides definitive market overview on how consumers in the US view SMS messaging for both personal and business communications.

A recent study conducted by TextUs and Benenson Strategy Group surveyed smartphone users nationwide on their usage of text messaging. The results provide an insightful look into how consumers interact with text messages in both their personal and business lives.

Consumer preferences largely indicate a strong propensity to utilize SMS to stay in touch.  The study revealed that 77% of users find text messaging helpful for staying in touch with friends and family.  Additionally, 42% say text messaging is a good way to save time compared to phone or email. Only 2% of users say that they usually ignore text messages as much as possible. 

The findings also showed that 42% of those surveyed believe that texting is a non-intrusive way to interact with companies or organizations, while 41% of those aged 30-49 think it’s a great way for companies or organizations to keep them informed about new offerings or opportunities. Moreover, 63% of respondents said text messaging was their go-to method for daily communication with people they know, and 50.4% said it was their most effective channel of communication for their business.

“We are encouraged by the findings of our research," said TextUs VP of Marketing Maggie Mistovich. “We have always known that people are increasingly relying on texting as an effective form of personal communication, but are excited by the growing number of consumers that prefer to interact with businesses via SMS.  This further supports the need for businesses to make sure they are leveraging this channel to engage with prospects, candidates, customers and more," she adds.

Whether keeping in touch with friends or communicating with customers, texting has become the go-to method for staying connected.  Many people rely on texting more than ever before, and understanding its power is essential for businesses looking to reach consumers effectively.

Partnership to enable syndicated and custom audience targeting across linear TV and CTV

Cadent, the largest independent solutions provider for advanced TV advertising, and Proximic by Comscore, a division of Comscore, Inc. and leading provider of audience and content targeting solutions for programmatic activation, today announced a two-part partnership, beginning with the now live integration of Proximic by Comscore's ID-based audience suite into Cadent Aperture Platform. The second phase will integrate Proximic by Comscore's Predictive Audiences and content targeting tools into the Aperture Converged TV DSP.

This partnership combines the capabilities of Aperture Platform and Proximic by Comscore to provide enhanced ID-based and ID-free audience targeting across linear and advanced TV, including addressable TV and CTV viewership audiences. Through the joint solution, marketers will be able to plan, target, activate, and measure their campaigns through Aperture Platform, while following strict privacy guidelines, ensuring maximum scalability and cost efficiency.

"Cadent Aperture Platform is built to unify the fragmented data ecosystem of converged television, a challenge that any advertiser that needs to target across households and devices faces," said Tony Yi, EVP, Business Development and GM, Platform Sales at Cadent. "By integrating Proximic by Comscore, we are enabling holistic targeting and measurement with their syndicated and custom audience segments."

Aperture Platform offers an unparalleled depth of campaign coverage and performance, allowing advertisers to activate across the converged TV landscape. Aperture Platform is powered by Cadent's patented Aperture Viewer Graph, which connects audience intelligence to screens with access to more than 100M+ Home Addresses, 400M+ Connected Device IDs, and 300M+ Home Device IPs, in addition to the Data and Measurement Marketplaces.

Proximic by Comscore provides ID-based and ID-free audience targeting across a rich set of granular TV and CTV viewership audiences derived from the industry's largest TV panel. It provides accurate, scalable demographics to help advertisers and publishers reach the highest in-target rates, with extensive user personas to reach audiences based on broad interests or shopping habits. Proximic offers a robust list of brand safety and suitability filters along with content topics specific to TV and CTV and a unique set of custom capabilities to reach audiences based on criteria such as website and search behaviors, TV show, ad exposure and more. All segments are available with or without IDs. ID-free audience targeting follows strict privacy guidelines and ensures maximum scalability and cost efficiency, providing the perfect complement to ID-based tactics.

"With more than 5,000 advertising clients already relying on Proximic by Comscore's privacy-compliant, ID-free audience targeting to complement their traditional behavioral targeting solutions, we're excited to partner with Cadent to continue building on this strong adoption," said Lee Blickstein, Vice President of Targeting Solutions, Proximic by Comscore. "This integration allows us to open the door for more advertisers and marketers to achieve added reach while remaining focused on performance."

Partnership Protects Customers against Vendor Payment Fraud

JAGGAER, the global leader in Autonomous Commerce, has announced its collaboration with Trustpair, a leading vendor fraud prevention platform. Trustpair technology monitors millions of data points from internal and external data sources to verify bank account information internationally. Its platform also provides dashboards, secure workflows, and real-time warnings to streamline risk identification and management.

“The integration with Trustpair enables JAGGAER customers to add an additional layer of protection against a risk that has been on the rise around the world. Organizations are vulnerable when new supplier bank accounts are added or modifications are made to existing accounts, and the fraudsters are getting more sophisticated in exploiting such changes,” said Dawn Andre, Chief Product Officer, JAGGAER. “By automating fraud detection with Trustpair, CFOs at JAGGAER customer organizations can sleep easier in the knowledge that they can pay their suppliers on time without the risk of being the victims of payment fraud,” she added.

“We’re delighted to work with JAGGAER, a global leader in procurement and supplier management technology, and to give customers peace of mind that they are paying the right vendor every time. This native integration of Trustpair with JAGGAER enables procurement and finance teams to confidently mitigate vendor payment fraud within their current procure-to-pay process,” said Baptiste Collot, CEO and co-founder, Trustpair.

“Fraud has become incredibly sophisticated and complex and is a big concern for organizations everywhere. Our solution gives a clear view of organizations’ fraud risk and eliminates fallible manual account validations and controls that are no match for the savvy fraudsters organizations are up against,” Collot added.

“By automating account validations from supplier onboarding through to payment, Trustpair extends JAGGAER’s Autonomous Commerce offering, which already deploys various AI-based solutions to protect against threats in many areas of supplier and supply chain risk,” Andre said.

A survey conducted by Treasury & Risk co-sponsored by Trustpair and GIACT revealed that 56% of companies in the US were victims of vendor fraud in 2022. Furthermore, most companies that were a victim of fraud attempts were targeted more than once. 12% of all US companies were targeted more than 10 times and 5% more than 15 times. According to the report, these record-breaking numbers can be linked to changes in the way fraudsters operate. “They have become more sophisticated, organized, and specialized – the threats aren’t the same as they were 10 years ago.”

Leading marketing platform expands product suite and strengthens executive team to accelerate growth

With an innovative AI roadmap, a growing roster of blue-chip companies and a significant demonstration of its competitive advantage, Cordial raised the bar in 2023, charting a course to transform the future of marketing.

The only true marketing platform that empowers brands to fully automate their marketing strategies, Cordial delivered 369% ROI to customers, reducing costs, improving efficiency and boosting revenue, according to a Forrester Total Economic Impact Study.

"Our unparalleled accomplishments in 2023 make one thing clear: We're meeting the moment for marketers," said Jeremy Swift, CEO and co-founder of Cordial. "While legacy marketing clouds have failed to innovate — requiring expensive add-ons for essentials like personalization, email triggers, SMS, testing and identity resolution — our comprehensive, AI-enabled platform consolidates these critical capabilities, reducing complexity and costs and lifting revenue. And we're not slowing down. For Cordial and the ambitious clients we serve, the best is yet to come."

With a focus on customized global services and a platform designed to help brands communicate in personal, intelligent ways, Cordial signed several key enterprise customers in 2023. Kahala Brands (Coldstone Creamery, Baja Fresh, sweetFrog, Planet Smoothie, Blimpie Sub Shop, and more), Church's Texas Chicken, Coldwater Creek, Getaway House and PacSun, among others, now deploy Cordial as their trusted cross-channel marketing platform.

And to help manage this significant customer growth, Amy Jerusalmi joins Cordial as chief customer officer. With more than 20 years of experience working for world-class brands such as Quattro Wireless, Apple, SessionM (a Mastercard company) and Reachdesk, Amy has grown and scaled teams across customer success and support, professional services, managed services and implementations. Jerusalmi brings big-name credentials and a unique vision of how product and customer teams can collaborate to achieve a winning balance of company goals and client needs.

Additionally, with more than 30 years of go-to-market (GTM) strategy and execution experience with leading organizations like Contentsquare, Percolate and Tibco, Matt Elders joined Cordial earlier this year as executive vice president of revenue. With expertise in building and leading world-class revenue teams, Elders has a proven track record of driving exceptional results for global software and services companies.

With AI innovations expected to boost global marketing revenues to $107.4 billion by 2028, AI-led tools will be essential for company growth moving forward. Cordial is leading the way, launching Cordial AI and setting out a roadmap for future releases that will continue to advance the AI and ML capabilities of the platform over the next several years. Product updates in 2023 included:

• Cordial AI: A new set of tools providing marketers with generative, predictive and prescriptive artificial intelligence capabilities to help marketers improve strategic decision-making, brand creativity and the customer experience. This is the first of many AI updates in the making for the company.
• Identity+: Customers can now seamlessly experience identity resolution, reporting, attribution and automated messaging with the power of data management and marketing execution across channels — all on one platform.
• Snowflake Integration and Partnership: Cordial now lists its data offering on Snowflake's Marketplace, allowing joint customers to unify their first-party data and unlock its potential by making it available across their entire business ecosystem through bi-directional data sharing.

"At the heart of our incredible journey, it's our people who shine and our culture focused on the well-being, development, and overall experience that genuinely sets us apart and fuels our success. From winning over prominent new clients to fostering a world-class culture, our teams have truly outdone themselves this year," said Cheryl Horner, director, people and culture. "Starting with our executive leadership and extending to our newest hires, we're united by a common vision — to inspire meaningful connections — both within our dedicated team and externally with our valued clients."

Companies pave the way for more accessible generative AI deployments with Llama 2 large language models and Dell systems to accelerate customer innovation

News summary 

• Dell Technologies is helping simplify deployment of Meta's Llama 2 models with Dell Generative AI Solutions on premises
• The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI offers customers a ready-made foundation of pre-tested software and hardware, purpose-built for GenAI efforts

Full story 

Dell Technologies is collaborating with Meta to make it easy for Dell customers to deploy Meta's Llama 2 models on premises with Dell's generative AI (GenAI) portfolio of IT infrastructure, client devices and professional services.

"We are at the beginning of a new era with generative AI transforming how industries operate, innovate and compete," said Jeff Boudreau, chief AI officer, Dell Technologies. "With the Dell and Meta technology collaboration, we're making open-source GenAI more accessible to all customers, through detailed implementation guidance paired with the optimal software and hardware infrastructure for deployments of all sizes. Now, customers can more easily deploy secure GenAI models on premises for powerful new approaches and insights."

Open-source GenAI fuels innovation on premises

The collaboration simplifies the on-premises AI environment by bringing together Dell's top-selling infrastructure portfolio and the Llama 2 family of AI models. Customers can accelerate their GenAI efforts on premises in a traditional data center or at edge locations. Dell has integrated Meta's Llama 2 models into its system sizing tools to help guide customers to the right solution to power their Llama 2 based AI efforts.

The Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with Meta's Llama 2 provides pre-tested and proven Dell infrastructure, software and services to streamline deployment and management of on-premises projects. With fully documented deployment and configuration guidance, organizations can get their GenAI infrastructure up and running more quickly and operate Llama 2 with more predictability.

With Meta's Llama 2 and the breadth of the Dell Generative AI Solutions technology and services portfolio, organizations of all sizes have access to more reliable tools to deliver GenAI solutions from desktops to core data centers, edge locations and public clouds.