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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI is a Ticking Time Bomb for Your Data, Reveals New Report From Varonis
The State of Data Security Report shares findings from 1,000 real-world IT environments to uncover the dark side of the AI boom Varonis' State of Data Security Report: Exposing Data at Risk in the Age of AI MIAMI, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new report from Varonis reveals 99% of organizations have sensitive data exposed to AI. The State of Data Security Report: Quantifying AI's Impact on Data Risk examines how much sensitive information is exposed and vulnerable to AI tools due to misconfigurations, overly permissive access, and other data security gaps. 'The productivity gains of AI are real — and so is the data security risk,' said Varonis CEO, President, and Co-Founder Yaki Faitelson. 'CIOs and CISOs face enormous pressure to adopt AI at warp speed, which is driving the adoption of data security platforms. AI runs on data, and taking a data-centric approach to security is critical to avoid an AI-related data breach.' Varonis analyzed data risk assessments from 1,000 organizations — providing empirical evidence of risk, not conclusions based on AI readiness surveys and polls. The dataset included nearly 10 billion cloud resources — over 20 petabytes of data — within popular IaaS and SaaS applications and services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Box, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Okta, Databricks, Slack, Snowflake, Zoom, and many others. In the organizations examined, Varonis found: 99% have sensitive data unnecessarily exposed to AI tools. 90% of sensitive cloud data, including AI training data, is open and accessible to AI tools. 98% have unverified apps, including shadow AI, within their environments. 1 in 7 do not enforce MFA across SaaS and multi-cloud environments. 88% have ghost users lurking in their environments. Get the State of Data Security Report: Exposing Data at Risk in the Age of AI. Additional Resources: See Varonis in action: schedule a 30-minute demo. Check out these Varonis integrations. For more information on Varonis' solution portfolio, please visit Visit our blog and join the conversation on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. About VaronisVaronis (Nasdaq: VRNS) is the leader in data security, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Our cloud-native Data Security Platform continuously discovers and classifies critical data, removes exposures, and detects advanced threats with AI-powered automation. Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Varonis to defend their data wherever it lives — across SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. Customers use Varonis to automate a wide range of security outcomes, including data security posture management (DSPM), data classification, data access governance (DAG), data detection and response (DDR), data loss prevention (DLP), AI security, and insider risk management. Varonis protects data first, not last. Learn more at Investor Relations Contact:Tim PerzVaronis Systems, Inc.646-640-2112investors@ News Media Contact:Rachel HuntVaronis Systems, Inc.877-292-8767 (ext. 1598)pr@ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in to access your portfolio
The Hindu
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
AI developers should counter misinformation, protect fact-based news: Global media groups
A global group of broadcasters and publishers is calling on artificial intelligence developers to make sure their technology serves the public by helping to counter misinformation and protect the value of fact-based news. The Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union, an association of public broadcasters that's also known for running the popular Eurovision Song Contest, says it and the World Association of News Publishers and other partners want to cooperate with tech companies behind AI. The group says thousands of public and private media in broadcast, print and online formats have joined the 'News Integrity in the Age of AI' initiative, whose five core steps were announced Monday at the World News Media Congress in Krakow, Poland. The initiative is calling for news content to only be used in generative AI models with the authorisation of the content originator, and for clarity about attribution and accuracy. It says the original news source behind AI-generated material must be 'apparent and accessible." 'Organisations and institutions that see truth and facts as the desirable core of a democracy and the foundation of an empowered society should now come together at one table to shape the next era,' said Ladina Heimgartner, president of the publishers association and CEO of Switzerland's Ringier Media. Among the media affiliates along with EBU and WAN-IFRA — as the association of news publishers is known — are Latin American broadcasters association AIL; the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union; and the North American Broadcasters Association, which counts Fox, Paramount, NBC Universal and PBS among its members. Since AI surged into public awareness with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, legacy media have grappled with how best to use the technology, and whether to cooperate with or even combat the companies behind it. The New York Times and other newspapers have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and business partner Microsoft. The Times has said the tech companies have threatened its livelihood by effectively stealing billions of dollars' worth of work by its journalists. Many news outlets have struck deals with OpenAI, including the Associated Press. which has a licensing and technology deal with it as well as with Google for delivery of news through its Gemini AI chatbot. In the U.S., leading tech companies like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have told the Copyright Office that their training of AI models fits into the 'fair use' doctrine that allows for limited uses of copyrighted materials. That includes teaching, research or transforming the copyrighted work into something different.
Forbes
09-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Selling AI Strategy To Employees: Shopify CEO's Manifesto
Tobias Lütke, CEO, Shopify (Photo By David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile via Getty Images) A leaked internal memo from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has quietly gone viral in executive circles—and for good reason. It is arguably one of the clearest expressions to date of what CEO leadership should look like in the Age of AI. In the memo, Lütke states plainly, 'Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify.' Not just developers. Not just analysts. Everyone. This is not some passing trend, or another bullet point on an IT roadmap. It is a cultural shift. It's a new way of working and thinking—one that Shopify is now weaving into its performance reviews, product development cycles, and company-wide expectations. In the memo, Lütke makes the following proclamations: The tone of the memo is direct and urgent. Lütke asserts that failing to adopt AI now will lead to stagnation and decline, emphasizing that employees must keep climbing—or risk sliding backward. 'This exemplifies what CEO leadership looks like in the Age of AI, says Paul Baier, CEO of GAI Insights. 'CEOs must adapt to leading organizations of, say, 1,000 employees empowered with 5,000 AI assistants.' What makes the Shopify memo so compelling is its bluntness. Lütke doesn't politely suggest employees try using AI. He doesn't offer training modules or optional tools. He says adapt or fall behind. 'Stagnation is slow-motion failure. If you're not climbing, you're sliding.' Lütke's memo also reflects a broader reality: AI has already shifted from experiment to expectation. The companies that thrive in this new environment will be those whose CEOs stop treating AI as an initiative and start treating it as a core operating model. This isn't bravado, attention-seeking, or trying to be the 'cool kid' in the industry. It's realism. For organizations in the crucible of generative AI disruption—media, retail, finance, logistics—awareness and experimentation are no longer enough. Adaptation is the new mandate and must start at the top. Several other business leaders are issuing similar directives—less publicized, but equally transformative: What these leaders understand is that AI is about much more than tools and apps. Nor is it a sidecar to business strategy. It is business strategy. Executive leadership isn't about cheerleading AI or greenlighting another pilot project. CEOs must fundamentally shift how they lead. Here's what that looks like in practice: We're fast approaching an era when leading companies will function more like self-driving enterprises—data-fueled, agentic AI orchestrated, highly automated, and continuously learning and strategically adapting in real time. That won't happen by happenstance. It will require CEOs to shift their organizations' very metabolism. What Shopify has shown is that the path to this future isn't paved with expensive platforms or massive headcount changes—it's built by creating a workplace culture where AI is part of every project, every role, and every decision. Not because it's trendy, but because it's an imperative to be sufficiently efficient and adaptable. Organizations that treat AI as a way of life will thrive. Those that relegate it to the IT department will lag, or lose altogether. The memo from Lütke is more than an internal directive. It's a mirror for every senior executive to look into and ask: Are we organizationally adapting? Or are we merely treating AI as a science project?
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Yahoo
A robotics tournament in a power outage
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — As if the challenge of building and programming a completely autonomous robot weren't enough, hundreds of teams and thousands of students from across Oklahoma and Kansas had to complete preparations in the dark Saturday morning. Regional Botball Organizer Steve Goodgame got an early phone call explaining the situation. 'I got a call about 5:30AM that the power was out,' he says. 'They said they were working on it.' An overnight rainstorm cut power to the Centennial Building at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds. Junior Botballer Presley Bolton and friends from Pratt, Kansas worked through morning overcast away from the dark interior of the building. She admitted, 'It's kind of hard to code in the dark but we moved right next to the window.' Two separate divisions, two different eras in history met in one building, the Age of AI and the Stone Age. Junior Botball contestants worked on a series of challenges that included retrieving soda cans from a pre-arranged grid. Senior Botball teams worked with two robots at a time preparing food in a simulated kitchen. Practice was supposed to start at 8 a.m. for these first time competitors from Allen-Bowden south of Tulsa. 7th grader Jesse Whitlock explained, 'A major obstacle is probably that we crammed in a lot of the programming last minute.' The same went for a team from Millwood Schools in OKC. 'We coded five times,' chuckles one member of the team. 'We've had to run it and re-run it,' Organizers like Goodgame present different challenges each year, a course impossible to fully complete. The only think lacking in this simulated kitchen happened to be a Stone Age staple. 'No open flames?,' we ask. 'No open flames here,' Goodgame agrees. 'In fact, no kitchen. No power.' In the cave of the Centennial Building where light came from cell phone flashlights and laptop screens, robots on battery power and students on cold Poptarts solved the kinds of problems humankind has always faced, getting a meal ready fast with no heat or light. Survive and move on. The 2025 Regional Botball Challenge did get underway later Saturday, April 5th. Winners from both divisions qualified for the World Botball Conference scheduled for early July 8th in Norman OK. For more information on Saturday's event, click here. For more information on the World Conference go to Great State is sponsored by True Sky Credit Union Follow Galen's Great State adventures on social media! Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
iHeartMedia Announces Brad Gerstner Is Concluding His Service on Its Board of Directors
Company Also Announces Nomination of Robert Millard to Stand for Election for Vacant Board Seat NEW YORK, April 01, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iHeartMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: IHRT), the leading audio company in America, today announced that Board member Brad Gerstner has chosen not to stand for re-election and will conclude his service on its Board of Directors in order to focus on his other commitments. Mr. Gerstner, the founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, has been a member of the iHeartMedia Board of Directors since 2019. "When we began this journey together back in 2019, Brad was only able to promise us one term as a director due to his enormous commitments to Altimeter and its portfolio companies, and we're grateful he gave us five terms. We appreciate all the contributions he made during that time, especially his experience and view of technology and the future -- which helped us determine how to make the technology transitions we needed to maximize our revenue opportunities in an increasingly data-focused and technology-led marketplace. He's had a significant impact on iHeart's success and our vision for the company's direction," said Bob Pittman, iHeartMedia CEO and Chairman of its Board of Directors. "The longer I served on the iHeart Board the more excited I got about the power of audio and the unique opportunity iHeart has because of its enormous and unparalleled consumer reach and connection. From seemingly ubiquitous talk to podcasts to radio, iHeart sits on an unparalleled goldmine of constantly refreshing audio data that will only become more valuable in the Age of AI," said Mr. Gerstner. "The biggest issue in my life is time; my strong obligations to Altimeter and its portfolio companies, and my deep commitment to my philanthropic activities, mean that I have to conclude my service on the iHeart Board, but I'm glad I was able to be a part of it for so many years. I appreciate all I've been able to learn, and I've loved the constant exchange of ideas. I've also valued being a part of iHeart's growth and having a front row seat as they created whole new businesses, like podcasting, where they are now number one." The company also announced the Company's Board of Directors has nominated Robert Millard to stand for election at the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 13th. Mr. Millard is a Director of Evercore, an international investment bank, and co-founder and former Chairman of the Board of L3 Technologies, a major defense technology company. He currently serves as Lead Director of L3Harris Technologies. He formerly served as Chairman of the MIT Corporation and Chairman of the MIT Investment Management Company endowment board. Prior to becoming Chairman of MIT, Mr. Millard served as the Chairman of Realm Partners LLC from 2009 to 2014 and held various senior roles, including Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and its predecessors from 1976 to 2008. If elected by stockholders, he is expected to begin his service effective May 13th. "We appreciate the opportunity to have Bob Millard bring his broad range of experience across business, finance and strategic planning to the iHeart Board," said Pittman. "We believe his critical thinking and insights, combined with his long experience as an investor, will add important and unique benefits for our company and our shareholders, and will contribute significantly to positioning iHeart for continued growth." About iHeartMedia, Inc. iHeartMedia (Nasdaq: IHRT) is the number one audio company in the United States, reaching nine out of 10 Americans every month. It consists of three business groups. With its quarter of a billion monthly listeners, the iHeartMedia Multiplatform Group has a greater reach than any other media company in the U.S. Its leadership position in audio extends across multiple platforms, including more than 860 live broadcast stations in over 160 markets nationwide; its National Sales organization; and the Company's live and virtual events business. It also includes Premiere Networks, the industry's largest Networks business, with its Total Traffic and Weather Network (TTWN); and BIN: Black Information Network, the first and only 24/7 national and local all news audio service for the Black community. iHeartMedia also leads the audio industry in analytics, targeting and attribution for its marketing partners with its SmartAudio suite of data targeting and attribution products using data from its massive consumer base. The iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group includes the Company's fast-growing podcasting business -- iHeartMedia is the number one podcast publisher in downloads, unique listeners, revenue and earnings -- as well as its industry-leading iHeartRadio digital service, available across more than 500+ platforms and thousands of devices; the Company's digital sites, newsletters, digital services and programs; its digital advertising technology companies; and its audio industry-leading social media footprint. The Company's Audio & Media Services reportable segment includes Katz Media Group, the nation's largest media representation company, and RCS, the world's leading provider of broadcast and webcast software. View source version on Contacts MediaWendy GoldbergChief Communications Officer(212) 377-1105wendygoldberg@ InvestorsMike McGuinnessEVP, Deputy CFO, and Head of Investor Relations(212) 377-1336mbm@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
