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AI, like ChatGPT, Fuels Surge in Phishing Attacks

PLUS: 2024's Top 5 AI Tools for Maximum Productivity

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Samuel S.
November 29, 2023

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

  • AI, like ChatGPT, Fuels Surge in Phishing Attacks

  • Dataminr Cuts 20% Staff, Shifts Focus to AI

  • 2024's Top 5 AI Tools for Maximum Workplace Productivity

  • AI Boosts Sales with Personalized Pitch Perfection

  • Revolutionary AI: Animating Any Image with 'Stable Video Diffusion

AI, like ChatGPT, Fuels Surge in Phishing Attacks

CNBC

AI, like ChatGPT, is fueling a staggering 1,265% surge in malicious phishing emails since Q4 2022, with a 967% rise in credential phishing, reports cybersecurity firm SlashNext.

Cybercriminals leverage AI tools for sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

The exponential growth in AI-based threats emphasizes the need for robust cybersecurity measures, including continuous user education, advanced email filtering tools, regular security audits, and a layered defense strategy.

The FBI's Internet Crime Report notes $2.7 billion in BEC losses in 2022, highlighting the effectiveness of phishing attacks.

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Dataminr Cuts 20% Staff, Shifts Focus to AI

TechCrunch

Dataminr, the $4.1 billion big data startup, is cutting 20% of its workforce, around 150 employees, as it focuses on AI advancements.

CEO Ted Bailey cites economic challenges and the rapid progress of their AI platform.

The move aims to fortify the company financially, providing multiple years of cash runway and a path to profitability.

Dataminr, known for using AI to predict global events, plans to launch a new AI platform in Q1, combining predictive and generative AI.

The restructuring reflects a strategic shift amid the evolving tech landscape.

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2024's Top 5 AI Tools for Maximum Workplace Productivity

  • Murf.ai: Create realistic-sounding voiceovers for your projects.

  • Google Assistant: Set reminders and alarms, manage your schedule, look up answers, navigate and control smart home devices while away from home, and much more.

  • Jasper: Generate text, translate languages, write various types of creative material, and provide you with helpful answers to your queries. You also use Jasper for customer support, email marketing, copywriting, and content creation.

  • Synthesia: Create high-quality videos with no actors, studios, cameras, or microphones. You can even create professional-looking videos with realistic AI presenters in minutes using the text-to-video function.

  • Adobe Firefly: Create detailed, stylish images with a text prompt. You can quickly customize your images with other Firefly tools, or fine-tune them even further in Creative Cloud apps like Adobe Photoshop.

AI Boosts Sales with Personalized Pitch Perfection

HBR

AI revolutionizes sales by enhancing personalization. Traditional approaches often fail, with only 13% of buyers finding messages relevant.

Generative AI helps craft tailored pitches. In a study, robotic emails with generic content received poor responses.

However, personalized messages, demonstrating a deep understanding of the buyer's business, achieved higher engagement.

AI tools focus on three key data types: Mutual Fit, Personal Value, and Time-Spend Justification.

By automating preparatory tasks, AI empowers average sellers, increasing relevance and credibility with buyers, and ultimately fostering long-term customer relationships.

Revolutionary AI: Animating Any Image with 'Stable Video Diffusion

ars TECHNICA

Stability AI introduces Stable Video Diffusion, a free AI tool transforming still images into short videos, driven by two models—SVD and SVD-XT. While running on Nvidia GPUs, the tool outputs 2-4 second MP4 clips at 576x1024 resolution.

The models, functioning at 3 to 30 frames per second, exhibit panning, zooming, or animated effects. Stability AI emphasizes its early research stage, unsuitable for commercial use, and seeks user feedback.

The training datasets, drawn from a vast video dataset, remain undisclosed.

Stability AI also hints at a forthcoming text-to-video model for generating clips from written prompts.

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