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CBS News
14 minutes ago
- CBS News
New AI-powered cybersecurity training headquarters to create more than 200 jobs in Maryland
A new AI-powered cybersecurity training in Maryland is expected to create more than 200 jobs in the state. The global headquarters for IronCircle, a cybersecurity education provider, has relocated to Columbia, Maryland's Merriweather District. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joined IronCircle leaders on Tuesday to celebrate the new headquarters. "IronCircle's decision to open their new, global headquarters in Columbia affirms Maryland's growing status as the cyber capital of America," Gov. Moore said. IronCircle relocated its AI cybersecurity workforce platform from Florida to Maryland. The cybersecurity training platform is used by universities and businesses across the world. According to IronCircle, its platform "leverages the power of artificial intelligence to simulate complex, real-world scenarios reflective of today's evolving cybersecurity threats." With the new global headquarters in Columbia, the governor's office says this will create opportunities for Maryland's cyber workforce, including roles for cybersecurity contractors and instructors. "By doubling down on industries of the future like cyber and AI, our administration is growing Maryland's economy and building new pathways to work, wages, and wealth for all, Gov. Moore said. "We are thrilled to partner with IronCircle in our work to make Maryland more competitive." According to the governor's office, Maryland's cyber-defense hubs were key factors in IronCircle decision to relocate to Maryland. The state says that information technology is a major part of Maryland's economy, with nearly 19,000 I.T. businesses supporting more than 124,000 jobs and generating nearly $80 billion in economic activity. More than 24% of information technology job postings in the region are cyber-skilled roles, with average starting salaries exceeding $100,000, the governor's office says. "Howard County is home to nearly 300 cybersecurity companies and a global leader in cyber innovation, pioneering new ways to protect ourselves online. Located just a short drive from Fort Meade and Baltimore Washington International Airport, home to the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, Howard County is at the heart of our nation's cybersecurity efforts," Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said.
Yahoo
42 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Overview of the China Optics Valley Artificial Intelligence Innovation Conference & 2025 Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 Release Ceremony
Wuhan, China--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2025) - On June 27, in the grand banquet hall on the third floor of the China Optics Valley Technology Exhibition Center, the "China Optics Valley Artificial Intelligence Innovation Conference & 2025 Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 Release Ceremony" took place, featuring the release of the comprehensive "China's Optics Valley Report", which highlighted major developments and broad insights for the global AI industry. Aiming for "China's Fourth AI Pole" In his opening speech, Shen Yue, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Wuhan Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone, revealed the "report card" and "roadmap": Industry Scale: By 2024, the AI industry in Optics Valley was expected to exceed 45 billion yuan, with a three-year goal of reaching 100 billion yuan, nurturing three leading companies worth 10 billion yuan and a thousand SMEs. Computing Power Base: With the leading intelligent computing/supercomputing center in China, the national storage base in the country, and the largest optical communication R&D base globally, comprehensive support for AI from storage to computing is ensured. Talent and Funds: A global talent attraction plan has been launched, offering up to 100 million yuan in support for top scientists; a 10 - billion - yuan humanoid robot master fund coordinated by Hubei provincial, Wuhan municipal and East Lake High-tech Development Zone governments is set to launch. Open Scenarios: A massive autonomous driving operational zone reaching 7.7 million people and covering 3,000 square kilometers, a big data pool of 12 million cervical cancer screenings ensures abundant data and scenarios for large models. "Pooling Strengths, Driving Breakthroughs" Industry Collaboration Signing Ceremony: Multiple AI Firms Establish Presence in Optics Valley of China During the "Pooling Strengths, Driving Breakthroughs" collaboration signing ceremony, several leading companies ranked in the 2025 Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 list signed strategic cooperation agreements with the East Lake High-Tech Development Zone. Representing core AI sectors—including autonomous driving, XR-powered cultural tourism, industrial quality inspection, healthcare robotics, AIGC content generation, and intelligent computing infrastructure—these companies span a full-stack ecosystem, from foundational large models to end-to-end application scenarios. World-Class Brainstorming: Key Insights from Four Academicians and Experts AI Paradigm Leap From healthcare to cultural tourism, from industry to daily life, the conference highlighted ten transformative breakthroughs shaping the future of AI: Trusted Interaction: Achieving high accuracy in urban hotlines, bank counters services, and autonomous driving operations, elevating AI from mere "understanding" to active "management". AI-Native Creativity: Generating 33.27 million pixel-level images from a single prompt, compressing the traditional "shoot-edit-publish" process into minutes. Medical Scenarios: Diagnostic-level large models advancing evidence-based medicine into an "intent-driven" era, validated by millions of screening data in "no doctor" scenarios. Additionally, Integrating family doctors, fall monitoring, and emergency calls into service robots, deeply engaging with rural areas and communities to address the aging population. Cultural Tourism: Ultra-high-resolution immersive experiences bringing millennia-old murals to life, enabling a 25-minute journey along the Silk Road. Embodied Intelligence: Completing training-deployment loops in 45 days via simple voice commands, achieving a new paradigm of human-AI collaboration. Content Production: AI workstations scaling to 20 million users in 20 months, transforming diverse physical environments into trainable "embodied AI" interfaces. Industrial Quality Inspection: Nano-level defect detection setting new industry benchmarks and driving a national AI initiative targeting 2030. Manufacturing Methodology: Introducing a new industrial AI framework: "scene-first + model collaboration + five core capabilities." Computing Infrastructure Consensus: A shift toward inference dominance - predicting that inference compute demand will soon surpass training, redefining the next generation of AI factories. Autonomous Driving: Achieving global deployment across over 100 projects within three days, with remote safety operators leading commercialization efforts. The ten paradigms collectively outline a future vision of "AI being everywhere, seamlessly integrated into daily life." Four Roundtables, One Message: Scenarios Are King, Collaboration Is Key Addressing the integration bottlenecks in embodied intelligence, the tripartite complementarity of technology, scenarios, and funding, and the emerging consensus around smart manufacturing - defined by "data × model × software-hardware co-design," the four roundtable discussions converged on a shared conclusion: as of 2025, AI competitiveness no longer hinges on showcasing isolated technologies, but on who can fastest embed algorithms into real-world scenarios, integrate computing power into industrial workflows, and attract capital to secure global orders. Wuhan unveiled a series of initiatives to accelerate this transformation, including： A "humanoid robot marathon testbed," to advance embodied AI; A support package for SMEs featuring "computing power vouchers," open data access, and an industry-finance collaboration platform; Making Optics Valley of China the "World Optics Valley" in the AI Era The 2025 Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 Award Ceremony was held with great acclaim, honoring: 50 core technology pioneers, 10 breakthrough AI applications, 10 cutting-edge technologies, 10 rising startups, and 15 influential leaders shaping the future of AI. At this pivotal moment, Optics Valley not only celebrate achievement but also illuminated the path forward: "From a beam of light to a city, from a city to an era." The sparks of AI innovation have ignited a torch in Optics Valley of China. Next stop, the World Optics Valley! Media contactContact: Austin LeeCompany Name: ForbesChinaWebsite: info@ To view the source version of this press release, please visit
CNET
43 minutes ago
- CNET
What Worries Americans About AI? Politics, Jobs and Friends
Americans have a lot of worries about artificial intelligence. Like job losses and energy use. Even more so: political chaos. All of that is a lot to blame on one new technology that was an afterthought to most people just a few years ago. Generative AI, in the few years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, has become so ubiquitous in our lives that people have strong opinions about what it means and what it can do. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Aug. 13-18 and released Tuesday dug into some of those specific concerns. It focused on the worries people had about the technology, and the general public has often had a negative perception. In this survey, 47% of respondents said they believe AI is bad for humanity, compared with 31% who disagreed with that statement. Compare those results with a Pew Research Center survey, released in April, that found 35% of the public believed AI would have a negative impact on the US, versus 17% who believed it would be positive. That sentiment flipped when Pew asked AI experts the same question. The experts were more optimistic: 56% said they expected a positive impact, and only 15% expected a negative one. Don't miss any of CNET's unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome. The Reuters/Ipsos poll specifically highlights some of the immediate, tangible concerns many people have with the rapid expansion of generative AI technology, along with the less-specific fears about runaway robot intelligence. The numbers indicate more concern than comfort with those bigger-picture, long-term questions, like whether AI poses a risk to the future of humankind (58% agree, 20% disagree). But even larger portions of the American public are worried about more immediate issues. Foremost among those immediate issues is the potential that AI will disrupt political systems, with 77% of those polled saying they were concerned. AI tools, particularly image and video generators, have the potential to create distorting or manipulative content (known as deepfakes) that can mislead voters or undermine trust in political information, particularly on social media. Most Americans, at 71%, said they were concerned AI would cause too many people to lose jobs. The impact of AI on the workforce is expected to be significant, with some companies already talking about being "AI-first." AI developers and business leaders tout the technology's ability to make workers more efficient. But other polls have also shown how common fears of job loss are. The April Pew survey found 64% of Americans and 39% of AI experts thought there would be fewer jobs in the US in 20 years because of AI. Read more: AI Essentials: 29 Ways You Can Make Gen AI Work for You, According to Our Experts But the Reuters/Ipsos poll also noted two other worries that have become more mainstream: the effect of AI on personal relationships and energy consumption. Two-thirds of respondents in the poll said they were concerned about AI's use as a replacement for in-person relationships. Generative AI's human-like tone (which comes from the fact that it was trained on, and therefore replicates, stuff written by humans) has led many users to treat chatbots and characters as if they were, well, actual friends. This is widespread enough that OpenAI, when it rolled out the new GPT-5 model this month, had to bring back an older model that had a more conversational tone because users felt like they'd lost a friend. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that users treating AI as a kind of therapist or life coach made him "uneasy." The energy demands of AI are also significant and a concern for 61% of Americans surveyed. The demand comes from the massive amounts of computing power required to train and run large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. The data centers that house these computers are like giant AI factories, and they're taking up space, electricity and water in a growing number of places.
