Digital Transformation

Here you'll find articles exploring digital transformation in higher education.


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Microsoft Intros New Agentic AI Security Multi-Model Defense System

A new multi-model agentic AI security system built by Microsoft's Autonomous Code Security team helped researchers find 16 new vulnerabilities across the Windows networking and authentication stack, the company anounced in a recent security blog post.

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Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen

AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.

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It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy

Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.

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USC Launches AI Initiative to Accelerate Innovation in Health Sciences, Security, Business, and the Arts

The University of Southern California recently announced that it has launched a "transformational" new AI initiative thanks to a $200M gift from venture capitalist Mark Stevens and his wife. The project will leverage AI toward breakthroughs and innovations in subjects like the health sciences, business, security, and the arts.

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An AI Adoption Imperative: Centralized Sources of Governed Truth

Strategies for enterprise teams who aim to build a data foundation to move the institution from AI experimentation to real-world execution.

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Meta Expands into Physical AI with Acquisition of Robotics AI Startup

Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a robotics artificial intelligence startup focused on humanoid systems, as the company expands its AI work beyond software and into models that could help robots operate in physical environments.

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Cloud Security Alliance Expands Focus on Governance and Assurance for Agentic AI Systems

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recently announced a series of CSAI Foundation milestones aimed at securing what it calls the agentic control plane, including a new catastrophic risk initiative, CVE Numbering Authority authorization, and the acquisition of two agentic AI specifications.

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Why AI Strategy Belongs in the President's Office

Institutions that are succeeding with AI share one thing in common, and it is not a better committee, a larger budget, or a more sophisticated technology stack. It is a president who never handed off the steering wheel.

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Nvidia Unveils 'Ising' Quantum AI Model

Nvidia has announced a new family of open source AI models, dubbed "Ising," designed to accelerate quantum computing by improving calibration and error correction.

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Google Intros New Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Google Cloud has announced a new platform for building and managing enterprise AI agents, as the company seeks to turn its Gemini models and Vertex AI tooling into a broader system for automating business workflows.