Hashtag Trending Feb. 7-Google reveals AI projects, including a chatbot, surge in supply chain attacks and fake news on Twitter

Google jumps on the conversational AI craze, software supply chain attacks increase, and
An Ohio study shows that Reddit readers prefer stories that are more accurate, while Twitter
Users love fake news.

Welcome to Hashtag Trending – Today’s top tech news stories for Tuesday, February 7th
2023.

Google released a Code Red last week to advance the company’s AI strategy
Microsoft invests $10 billion in Chatbot, ChatGPT.

Google desperately needs to get out of the discussion around conversational AI
The technology is inspired by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its wild popularity. tech giants
Announces three AI-related projects including Bard, a conversational system
Conceptually similar to ChatGPT and based on Google’s LaMDA large language model,
Coached on dialogue to allow free-flowing, open-ended conversations. google too
Announced plans to integrate LaMDA alongside search results to help offer a narrative
Answer questions that do not have a clear answer. Eventually, Google Will Evolve
API that will allow users to dive into their larger language model, starting with LaMDA.

These announcements, though potentially visionary, appear timid and almost too late
Games, seeing how OpenAI
The very technology that Google pioneered.

Google has so far been cautious despite the pressure to move quickly. there is
There have been embarrassing episodes with AI in the past. Microsoft pulled an earlier experiment
The programming delivered some very disturbing anti-feminism when a Twitter bot called out Tay
And racist remarks it apparently learned from Twitter users.

TechCrunch suggests Google will potentially record “to do” conversations with users
Making sure Bard’s reactions meet a high standard for quality, safety and truly grassroots-
World information. ,

As big companies tread lightly, smaller AI companies, with a clean slate and lower
Accountability is gaining traction. Investors are flocking to the following AI stocks
Viral success of ChatGPT. Software firm C3.ai 11 per cent, analytics firm BigBear.ai
Jumped nearly 21 percent and the conversational artificial intelligence company
SoundHound soared 40 percent in recent trading.

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Gartner expects that by 2025, 45 percent of organizations globally will have
experienced a software supply chain attack, which has tripled since 2021.

Historic SolarWinds hack in 2020, at the forefront of supply chain attacks
Security talks, but today the threat is at an all-time high.

The thing with these attacks is that, when one system is affected, a range of clients and
is compromised of the organizations associated with it, making it extremely attractive and more
Harmful than any other type of cyber attack.

Also the definition of supply chain attacks is no longer limited to injecting malware
in a compiled object or deliverable, but also in the tooling used to create them
Seen with recent attacks on code repositories like GitHub.

Fair or not, open source software has taken a real hit to its reputation as a result.

But some organizations are trying to fight back.

Knetson Ziv, CEO of startup Ox Security, has joined the OSC&R (Open Software Supply
Chain Attack Reference) to give enterprises a common framework, language, and tools
To measure supply chain risk, understand attack strategy, and track threat clusters
Behaviour

The framework covers 9 key areas which include technology and framework
Processes used by attackers, from initial access to defense evasion.

Supply chain security vendors Chingard and CISA have also taken steps to address
Increasing supply chain attacks.

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Dell Technologies has cut 6,650 jobs as it faces declining PC sales.

The company announced the shakeup in a blog post yesterday, saying it was impressed
Employees will hear from their leaders and be supported for who they are
Transition to their next opportunities.

It is not yet clear which departments have been affected, nor the extent of the support.
Dismissed employees will get

Among the major companies, Dell has been hit the most by the PC slowdown
The market is facing a 37 percent drop in sales in 2022.

In comparison, rival HP saw a 29 per cent drop in sales and announced plans to
In November last year, 4000-6000 employees were laid off.

Dell’s layoff spree spells even more bad news for tens of thousands
Employees who have been affected by large tech layoffs.

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Samsung Electronics has shifted the production of its Galaxy S23 flagship smartphone
Other high-end models in India despite stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers.

Samsung is one of a growing number of high tech companies coming from China
for India and that strategy seems to be paying off by pleasing the US market not only
There is growing skepticism about or reluctance to buy Chinese technology.

Within 24 hours of the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, Raju Pullan, the
The country president of Samsung’s mobile business said that the company has received orders
Around 140,000 devices for approximately 14 billion rupees or 169 million USD.

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An Ohio State University study found that posts on the social media site Reddit

Featured news articles get more engagement and positive fact-checking as true

Reactions. For Twitter, it’s the other way around.

In fact, a 2018 study of Twitter users found that false news spreads more

faster and more widely than those that were true.

Ohio study researchers claim Twitter has potential

Users sharing mostly misinformation may have little to do with human nature and

More about how people behave on different social media platforms. Twitter and Reddit

differ in many ways including their technical characteristics, social norms and the people they

serve, the researchers noted.

Another important difference is that Twitter has a shorter message format, which consists of multiple messages.

Generating absolutely no response, and with very few extended discussions. opposite of this,

Reddit has complex, threaded discussions and users often engage in continuous

Conversations.

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