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Walmart uses AI to inform its security analysts

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Walmart has used artificial intelligence technology to find patterns and make sense of the trillions of pieces of data it generates every year. “There’s scale, and then there’s Walmart scale,” said Rob Duhart, Walmart’s deputy chief information security officer. Walmart, which has developed some AI tools in-house, is also looking at generative AI systems to…

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