Imagine the next wave…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/business/cdk-global-cyber-attack-update/index.html

The auto dealers outage has been hamstringing car dealerships for days. Experts say that’s the new normal for cyberattacks

Cyberattacks seem to be more devastating than ever and taking targeted companies even longer to resolve.

The latest attack to receive wide attention continues that trend: An ongoing cyber incident at CDK Global, whose software car dealerships use to manage everything from scheduling to records, has crippled dealerships for days now, with no clear end in sight.

In May, a cyberattack on Ascension, a St. Louis-based nonprofit network that includes 140 hospitals in 19 states, forced the system to divert ambulances from several of its hospitals. It took almost a month to fully resolve the issue.

And in February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group, caused billing disruptions at pharmacies across the US and threatened to put some health providers out of business.

From raw data to analysis, then perhaps to autonomous attack?

https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2024/06/26/how-the-military-is-preparing-for-ai-at-the-edge/

How the military is preparing for AI at the edge

The Defense Department has long used artificial intelligence to detect objects in battlespaces, but the capability has been mainly limited to identification. New advancements in AI and data analysis can offer leaders new levels of mission awareness with insights into intent, path predictions, abnormalities, and other revealing characterizations.

The DoD has an extensive wealth of data. In today’s sensor-filled theaters, commanders can access text, images, video, radio signals, and sensor data from all sorts of assets. However, each data type is often analyzed separately, leaving human analysts to draw — and potentially miss — connections.

Something to consider?

https://www.bespacific.com/energy-releases-generative-ai-guidance-for-employees-contractors/

Energy releases generative AI guidance for employees, contractors

Fedscoop: “Employees and contractors at the Department of Energy now have a new reference guide to help them navigate use of generative AI tools at the agency, including best practices and a note that ChatGPT is available for use by request. That 61-page document was published and distributed on DOE’s internal network on June 14, a DOE spokesperson told FedScoop. The detailed reference guide constitutes the first such document on generative AI that the department has shared publicly, and while the guidance isn’t considered a formal policy, it provides a window into how the DOE is thinking about the technology. “For us, it is a way to educate our agency and all the folks who will use it for many different purposes about what the opportunity space is [and] how to use it responsibly,” Helena Fu, director of Energy’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies and its chief AI officer, said during a panel at Scale’s Gov AI Summit on Tuesday…”

Legal tech inspired by an invisible rabbit? (You young whipper-snappers may need to Google it.)

https://www.bespacific.com/the-hype-behind-harvey/

The Hype Behind Harvey

Law.com: Part 1 – The Hype Behind Harvey: How the Stealthy Startup Is Raising Industry Eyebrows. “Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal tech startup, has nabbed high-profile clients and tons of cash, along with an air of suspicion around its AI capabilities.”

Law.com: Part 2 – The Hype Behind Harvey: How Firms Are Using the Gen AI Startup. “Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal and professional services software provider, has quickly accumulated a list of high-profile law firm and corporate clients. At the same time, it’s also raised some skepticism from an industry that has largely been kept out of product demos and pricing details about Harvey’s technology. The first part of this series, which you can read here, digs further into Harvey’s stealth approach, and its impact. While not all law firms that use Harvey have gone on the record, below is a picture of how some of them are currently using the generative AI technology. Harvey offers a suite of generative AI-powered products geared toward law firms and legal professionals. These products currently fall into three buckets: workflow automation; legal research; and an AI assistant (chatbot). Most of the firms listed are piloting and licensing several generative AI tools, one of which is Harvey…”

I would not have guessed that.

https://www.bespacific.com/inhouse-counsel-more-focused-on-ai-automation-than-us-law-firms/

Inhouse Counsel More Focused on AI + Automation Than US Law Firms

Artificial Lawyer: “A survey of over 200 senior lawyers at AmLaw 200 law firms and those working inhouse at major corporations, mainly with a professional interest in disputes, has found that inhouse lawyers appear to be more focused now on AI and automation than their external cousins. The study by ALSP UnitedLex found that when asked what were the top areas for modernisation, only 57% of law firms said integrating automation and analytics, while 71% inhouse said this – which was the highest level of interest across all options. But, in addition, when asked about their long-term goals and specifically on what were the top areas for continuous improvement, inhouse lawyers said the top priority was adopting AI tools (46%), as compared to law firms, which put this in sixth place in terms of importance (38%). For law firms the top long-term, continuous improvement goal was to focus on ‘resource use improvements’, which in this context is likely a euphemism for getting more out of associates and support staff.”