Security company Palo Alto Networks announced Wednesday an agreement to buy Israeli identity security provider CyberArk for $25 billion in cash and stock. Palo Alto Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora said on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street that the deal will strengthen his company's ability to prevent AI-based identity theft, noting that about 88% of ransomware attacks are driven by credential theft, and “identity is an unsolved problem.” Palo Alto viewed CyberArk as the “strongest player” in the space, he said.
The growing practice of uploading medical reports on generative AI platforms is an "alarming phenomenon" because it risks loss of control over people's sensitive health data and the provision of incorrect information to the public, Italian data protection authority (DPA) Garante said Wednesday.
Google will sign the EU general-purpose AI (GPAI) code of practice in hopes that it will boost Europeans' access to "secure, first-rate AI tools as they become available," the company said Wednesday.
Comments are due Sept. 12 on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft guidelines for developing secure software and testing for vulnerabilities, the agency said Wednesday.
Exports are a crucial part of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, whose goal is for the U.S. to win the AI race, said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during a Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) event Wednesday. There's also the potential for a revival of the 10-year moratorium on enforcing state AI regulations in the action plan, an official said, though specifics weren't provided.
YouTube will use AI to estimate U.S. users’ ages starting Aug. 13, the Google company said Tuesday.
Companies will need to navigate stricter security requirements in response to the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan, attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine said Monday (see 2507230058).
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will focus on sectors and technologies that compromise rights and create power and information imbalances, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Tydd said Tuesday as the OAIC released its 2025-2026 agenda.
French data protection authority CNIL will host a public discussion on Oct. 15 about ethical issues surrounding post-mortem data, it announced Tuesday.
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