Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives – May 31, 2024

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for IT executives on the go. This edition covers May 27-May 31.

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Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives – May 31, 2024

In this week's news for IT executives: 

These Are The Best Generative AI Text Detectors, According To A New Study

Benchmark results for evaluating machine-generated text detectors have just been released in a new study. The researchers evaluated 12 leading AI detectors in three categories. 

5 AI Policy Templates You Can Use As A Framework

Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, generative AI tools, have opened up a whole new set of challenges for corporate IT.  Among them include copyright and fair use questions, data privacy and transparency concerns, potential issues over ethics and bias in an AI chatbot's response for example, and the chance of AI giving incorrect or hallucinatory responses. 

It's vital that organizations set an AI policy that is customized to the needs of their organization.

Other Tech News And Info

Google Eyes HubSpot Acquisition To Challenge Microsoft

Google's parent, Alphabet, is making moves to acquire HubSpot, a marketing software company valued at $30 billion.

Leaked Documents Provide Glimpse Into Google's Search Secrets

For well over a decade, content publishers have tried to second guess how Google Search ranks articles.

Half Billion Ticketmaster Customers Hacked: Report 

The personal data of 560 million Ticketmaster customers has allegedly been exposed in a massive data breach.

This Sector Saw A 136% Surge In Cyberattacks In One Year

The report was compiled using data from the Identity Theft Resource Center's monitoring of data violation incidents. 

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