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• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IBM AI executive talks AI adoption in the enterprise

  AI use in enterprises is generally low, largely because the technology is not understood, and organizations have problems with data, trust and lack of skills.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Medline streamlines workflow by automating accounts payable

  By using Abbyy for OCR and UiPath for RPA, Medline is automating accounts payable. This speeds up the filing of the 2,000 invoices the healthcare distributor receives daily.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Anaheim PD explores facial recognition for law enforcement

  Using a facial recognition platform from Veritone, the Anaheim Police Department can more quickly identify suspects captured on camera by comparing photos with booking photos.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  New FICO AI products aim for secure digital identities

  Two new FICO products, FICO Identity Proofing and the FICO Authentication Suite, aim to use AI to help keep users' digital identities and logins secure.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Booz Allen releases Modzy AI platform and marketplace

  Booz Allen Hamilton introduced an AI platform and marketplace made for uploading, deploying and managing AI models across a scalable environment.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Microsoft Power Platform gets AI and RPA updates

  At Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant released new updates to ease RPA and AI building across its Power Platform, as well as new capabilities for Cortana within Microsoft 365.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Google releases TensorFlow Enterprise for enterprise users

  With the new TensorFlow for enterprises, organizations running previous versions of TensorFlow can get long-term support, including security updates and select bug fixes.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  The importance of AI for fraud prevention

  As fraudsters become increasingly more professional and technologically advanced, financial organizations need to rely on products that use AI for to prevent fraud.

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  DataRobot machine learning boosts MicroStrategy AI

  Under a new partnership, MicroStrategy customers can use automated machine learning models from DataRobot for predictive, AI-based analytics.

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  A chemical company simplifies workflows using RPA

  Software from Automation Anywhere, an RPA vendor, was easy for Eastman Chemical Company employees to use at a desktop level to automatically handle daily tasks.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  As more push for explainable AI, companies add features

  As businesses demand more explainable AI, vendors such as IBM and DarwinAI are introducing new features to help break down for business users how AI systems work.

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Adoption of AI in healthcare grows quickly, survey finds

  The adoption of AI in healthcare is continuing to grow as the technology becomes more refined. Healthcare organizations are expecting to see returns in their AI investments.

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Government AI strategy includes tech transfer to private sector

  The Department of Energy's chief commercialization officer works with the DoE's national laboratories on transferring AI and other technologies to the private sector.

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Cornell Tech puts computer vision into practice on clothing

  A team at Cornell Tech built a clothing recognition dataset, and recently turned to Samasource, which provides AI training data services, to annotate tens of thousands of images.

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Energy secretary Rick Perry touts U.S. government AI efforts

  The U.S. government is ramping up AI research and development efforts to try to stay ahead of China in both public and private sector AI efforts.

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  Pride and nerves delay AI adoption in the enterprise

  A new study shows that AI adoption in the enterprise is slower than it ought to be. Experts point to a lack of education, the need for explainable AI, and even executive pride.

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  John Deere's software and AI journey

  John Deere began a software journey more than a decade ago, hiring technology teams and developing new technologies, including AI, to help drive innovation in its machinery.

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Modular AI can help enterprises apply and understand AI

  Modular AI enables customers to deploy AI as it applies to individual use cases, creating a more focused, open, and cheaper overall AI system and strategy.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  AI and humans need each other

  Sometimes, fully automating a system can lead to problems. AI and people need to work together to handle workflows, instead of leaving it all up to a system.

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Cambridge Consultants demos show uses of AI

  At a demo event, Cambridge Consultants highlighted some of the applications of AI with a system that can count TB cells in a sputum sample and a system that can fix image distortion.

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Clearsense uses Unravel Data for AI in performance management

  Unravel Data uses AI in performance management to power its APM platform. Clearsense turned to Unravel to get automated optimizations and enable multi-cloud support.

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Organizations hire ethicists for AI ethical concerns

  As organizations wrestle with AI ethical concerns, they need to create AI ethicist roles or develop teams to consider issues around data governance, data privacy and AI ethics.

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  Gen Z in the workforce both want and fear AI and automation

  For Gen Z in the workforce, AI and automation are ways to ease workloads, even as the young generation worries the technologies could eventually replace them.

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  U.S. spends more on AI as AI in China continues to grow

  Research and development of AI in China continue to grow. Meanwhile, the U.S. plans to up its spending on non-defense AI projects by close to $1 billion in 2020.

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  After fine, YouTube AI to help flag content for children

  YouTube AI will help flag videos that contain content for children following a settlement with the FTC and the New York attorney general over mishandling of children's data.

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Use of AI in business requires education, understanding

  AI adoption requires business leaders to have a clear understanding of the technology and its capabilities, as well as how AI can help automate and aid specific functions.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  Microsoft India AI workshops to upskill government employees

  Microsoft India partnered with the government of India to launch a new training program for government employees on AI, data governance and cloud computing.

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Huawei AI processor helps complete vendor's AI portfolio

  The Chinese technology vendor Huawei aims to speed up AI training times with the launch of a new processor in China and a new AI computing framework.

• August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19

  Parabole search analytics product moves to Azure Marketplace

  Parabole.ai moved its Cognitive Analytics Platform onto Azure Marketplace in a move that aligns with the current trend of tool and platform vendors moving to a cloud service.

• August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19

  The use of technology in education has pros and cons

  Vendors continue to develop AI in education applications and technologies as students see benefits in using technology in the classrooms and when doing their homework.

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  Consumer goods company Unilever uses Google AI for marketing

  Using Google Cloud products, including Google's Vision API and Natural Language API, Unilever creates innovative and personalized social media marketing campaigns.

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  With ThoughtSpot, GlobalTranz makes AI in logistics platform

  GlobalTranz, a logistics company, uses AI and analytics in logistics to predict driver behaviors and plan shipping routes that will keep the shippers and the drivers happy.

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  Bibb County School District cybersecurity efforts use AI

  Using AI-driven cybersecurity from ManagedMethods, a Georgia school district blocks external threats and identifies potentially harmful language in student documents.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  IBM, Google report advances in conversational AI training

  As enterprises rely more on conversational agents to power customer service efforts, tech vendors such as IBM and Google steadily develop new methods of training language models.

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  IBM interprets machine models with AI Explainability kit

  IBM's open source AI Explainability 360 toolkit packages algorithms and training examples to help humans better understand the decision-making process of machine learning models.

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Despite losses, DeepMind technologies are worth it to Alphabet

  Alphabet's DeepMind company loses millions of dollars each year, but it appears the research firm’s AI advances are so valuable that Alphabet finds it worthwhile anyway.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Enterprises should start developing an AI ethics framework

  As enterprises begin to deploy AI, they should focus on AI and ethics issues, as well as data privacy, and begin to create policies and guidelines around them.

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  AI council examines emerging trends in AI

  Experts on the Illinois Technology Association's AI Council urge companies to use their AI investments to connect with community members to make the best use of the technology.

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  Enterprises need to create an AI culture for success

  Enterprises can resist using AI because of the cultural changes employees feel it will bring, including changes to employee job descriptions and elimination of outdated jobs.

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Analyst, author talks enterprise AI expectations

  The author of the upcoming book about enterprise AI talks about realistic AI deployment, dispelling some of the AI hype myths that can be harmful to enterprises.

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Augmented intelligence applications showing ROI, broad success

  Enterprise uses have shown that utilizing augmented intelligence technology increases ROI, productivity and linear success as compared to general AI or AGI.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Agricultural equipment maker uses AI for customer experience

  Using AWS services Redshift, S3 and SageMaker, as well as third-party tools, AGCO has created new AI marketing tools and a customer portal to better compete in a tight market.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  AI for digital marketing heavily used in the gaming industry

  AI in gaming has evolved beyond automating character and fictional world development. Gaming companies are now using AI to better market to existing and potential players.

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  AI in financial services helps speed consumer interaction

  By using AI in finance, financial organizations are able to speed processes that otherwise would require more manual input from employees or consumers.

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Automated transcription services for adaptive applications

  NLP technologies have advanced in recent years. Using them, startups have been able to create automatic transcription software for adaptive applications.

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  Use of AI in government still lags

  Adoption of AI in government might lag behind the business world, but some agencies within the government hope to make more use of AI.

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Working toward explainable AI

  Many constituencies are on a push toward explainable AI algorithms, as AI technologies become more widespread, powerful and relied upon than ever before.

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Gauging the right amount of government regulation of AI

  Government AI regulation is needed, AI experts and policymakers concur. But, there's no clear consensus on how much regulation by the government is necessary.

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Tellius joins Google Cloud Partner Program

  Tellius is now part of the Google Cloud Partner Program, which enables it to integrate with Google BigQuery and Google Analytics in addition to using the Google Cloud Platform.

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  Successful retail robots improve the augmented workforce

  The future of AI in the workplace relies on the successful integration of humans and bots. Retail use cases for cobots point to customer engagement and labor tasks.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  New Amax servers aim to accelerate AI and ML workflows

  The Amax BrainMax Series servers feature the latest Nvidia RTX GPU accelerator cards for intensive GPU and AI applications and deep learning initiatives.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  DataRobot acquisition of ParallelM to enhance AI management

  DataRobot machine learning tools should see a boost following the company's acquisition of ParallelM, a startup with tools for deploying, managing and monitoring AI.

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  AI in pharma: Pfizer team tries Vyasa deep learning platform

  To help automatically categorize drug particle shapes, a Pfizer research team is experimenting with Vyasa, a deep learning platform for the life sciences.

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  New Nuxeo AI platform gives enterprises custom models

  Nuxeo Insight Cloud is an AI platform that enables an enterprise to use its own data with machine learning models to improve accuracy by being enterprise-specific.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  How a chatbot sales platform helps King Kong on Broadway

  Using an intelligent ticketing agent from vendor Broadw.ai, the Broadway production of 'King Kong' can better manage its brand while driving up ticket sales.

• May 29, 2019 29 May'19

  Human rights advocate talks GDPR, AI and data privacy laws

  Human rights advocate Bjørn Stormorken talks about the importance of data privacy laws, and why stronger laws and more data literacy are necessary today.

• May 20, 2019 20 May'19

  Abbyy TimelinePI acquisition boosts process intelligence

  With its acquisition of process intelligence software startup TimelinePI, document capture vendor Abbyy streamlines its content analysis and NLP capabilities.

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  Red Hat OpenShift Operators target AI, big data workloads

  Speedy deployment of machine learning jobs may not arrive too soon. But container platform enhancements from Red Hat aim to quicken the uptake of such innovations.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Google adds Firebase AI tools to make ML mobile dev easier

  A new Google Firebase update simplifies machine learning app development. The update is part of a trend of making machine learning more accessible for developers to create and deploy.

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Google's Cloud TPU v2, v3 Pods accelerate ML training

  For the first time, Google Cloud TPU Pods are available in public beta, enabling machine learning developers and engineers to more quickly deploy and train models.

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Microsoft AI services roadmap to be delivered at Build

  Microsoft's Build developer conference is set to showcase a range of new services for IoT, AI and machine learning. It's evidence of how developers' palettes and customer requirements have expanded beyond core enterprise IT scenarios.

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  ShopRunner uses Databricks for machine learning in retail

  Databricks user ShopRunner talks about the tools showed at Spark + AI Summit 2019, such as MLflow and Databricks Delta Lake. And Datameer reveals new Databricks integration.

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Future of AI in transportation goes beyond self-driving cars

  Transportation and logistics companies are eying an ever expanding role for AI in their products and services, ranging from safer cars to prompter shipments.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Databricks and Microsoft collaboration boosts MLflow tool

  Databricks' MLflow gets support from Microsoft and new features, including easier model tracking, as the open source tool prepares for its 1.0 release next month.

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Databricks open sources data lake building tool Databricks Delta Lake

  Databricks Delta is now Delta Lake, an open source tool for building in data lakes. Databricks introduced the product at Spark + AI Summit 2019, alongside the upcoming Spark 3.0.

• April 19, 2019 19 Apr'19

  Machine learning on edge devices solves lack of data scientists

  Enterprises are having a hard time hiring data scientists, who are scarce and high-priced. But as edge devices get smarter, they may not need them as badly.

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Real-time machine learning with Splice Machine's ML Manager

  Splice Machine's AI management software ML Manager, shown at Spark + AI Summit 2019, enables users to update their machine learning models with up-to-date data from varied sources.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  New Google Cloud AI Platform unifies AI development tools

  Google's newly unveiled AI Platform offers AI developers a collaborative environment to test, train and deploy machine learning and deep learning models.

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  IBM PowerAI workstation eases AI app development, lowers cost

  IBM has delivered a low-cost workstation tuned to work hand in hand with its Power AC922 server to lower the bar of entry for AI application development.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Abbyy Vantage eyes easy AI infusion in content automation

  The Abbyy Vantage platform aims to enable customers to infuse intelligence skills and automation into their content-based platforms, including RPA and BPA software.

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Tools fill gaps in predictive modeling and machine learning

  Machine learning platforms can bring the lone data scientist into the overall workflow. Updates to tooling also let that data scientist use familiar development interfaces.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Google AI division open sources GPipe neural network library

  Google AI, the AI research and development team at Google, made GPipe a framework for building large-scale and accurate deep neural networks open source.

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Trump's AI executive order glosses over data privacy, funding

  Trump released his AI executive order two weeks ago, and researchers are continuing to analyze its potential impact on the industry. One thing is certain: AI is about to change.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  DataRobot AI platform to get boost from Cursor acquisition

  The DataRobot acquisition of Cursor will see DataRobot incorporate unified search and data collaboration tools into DataRobot's automated machine learning platform.

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech see upgrades

  Google upgrades its cloud-based speech and text products with higher accuracy levels, new WaveNet voice options and support for several new languages.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  IBM Watson OpenScale: AI control, monitoring for any cloud

  OpenScale, a new IBM AI product, enables organizations to monitor their AI models. Global services provider KPMG is using OpenScale to help power its own AI monitoring tool.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  IBM's Project Debater loses debate but shows off AI prowess

  While Project Debater, the IBM AI debate system, lost the live IBM Think 2019 debate, it impressed those who watched the event. Maybe next time, Debater.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  IBM Project Debater crowdsources to boost its AI, NLP skills

  Project Debater, an IBM AI system, creates viewpoints with the help of people who type in arguments on topics. That may also help drive future business uses.

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Intel AI chip aims to boost inference for AI users

  Adding to the Intel Nervana chip line, Intel and Facebook are expected to launch in the second half of 2019 a new processor designed to speed up inference.

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Formula E technology driven by data analytics and AI

  Formula E racing team EVR hopes to drive wins and innovation with a new partnership with Genpact, a professional services firm that offers an AI and analytics platform.

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Impact of AI on business still more limited than some hoped

  Most businesses have yet to feel the full effect of AI, as enterprises labor to determine where and under what conditions the technology can most effectively be deployed.

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Oracle-DataFox acquisition could expand users' AI options

  Oracle AI capabilities are likely to see a boost, as the vendor now has access to machine learning algorithms that can automatically distill useful information from large bodies of text.

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  An AI project should start with a question, not an insight

  Avis' former director of BI and analytics talks about the kind of analytics capabilities and business problems you need to have before launching your next AI project.

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Lessons learned from 3 AI use cases

  Sharing use cases is a form of storytelling, and that may be a key to proving just how valuable AI can be for companies, according to Gartner's Erick Brethenoux.

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Wayfair's computer vision technology gets your style

  At Wayfair, the digital and physical worlds continue to converge thanks to computer vision and mixed reality tech, enabling customers to get a better feel for products before they buy.

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Create and apply a successful enterprise chatbot strategy

  For enterprises looking to introduce chatbots, tips range from testing the bot in many different channels, planning for conversational limitations, and studying successful bots.

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Credit card giants step up AI fraud detection

  While Capital One and Mastercard delve into AI and machine learning to detect credit card fraud, IBM joins the ranks of AI vendors with AI bias detection tools.

• August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

  O'Reilly machine learning survey: Enterprises aim for maturity

  A new survey finds companies are using fairness and bias as metrics to evaluate the success of a machine learning model.

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Google's Edge TPU breaks model inferencing out of the cloud

  Google's Edge TPU is a force multiplier to compete against the likes of Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, and to attract next-gen app developers.

• July 30, 2018 30 Jul'18

  Where the IBM Project Debater AI system may be headed

  Unveiled during a live debate in June, IBM's Project Debater will be partially released in 2019 and could have real-life applications, particularly in education.

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Quantum computing applications creep forward

  Tech vendors and users are moving forward on quantum computing tools and research. While still futuristic, developments bear watching, Forrester's Brian Hopkins says.

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Databricks platform additions unify machine learning frameworks

  Databricks' new products take aim at simplifying machine learning integration -- something that has become increasingly difficult, as the number of tools has multiplied.

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  New data science platforms aim to be workflow, collaboration hubs

  Oracle's acquisition of DataScience.com is shining a spotlight on workbench-style platforms designed to centralize advanced analytics work by teams of data scientists.

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  New Intel toolkit OpenVINO supports deep learning on CPUs

  A new developer kit from Intel seeks to lower the bar for doing deep learning on CPUs and other types of chips to extract more intelligence from video.

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Artificial intelligence in business strategies, uses

  SearchEnterpriseAI delivers news, tips and strategic advice on applying artificial intelligence technologies in the enterprise to improve products, services and operations.

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Expert panel warns developers to beware of AI bias

  Despite new development tools to build AI applications, developers must be wary of bias creeping into their systems.

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  AI experts advise developers on dev tools

  New tools help developers build better, smarter AI apps, as machine learning toolkits have progressed exponentially over the last few years.

• December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17

  AI experts: Business alignment key to AI implementation

  For enterprises to benefit from AI tools and techniques, experts at AI World stressed that technology needs to be grounded by a tight focus on how it can improve business goals.

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  The brain-computer interface comes of age?

  Two entrepreneurs on the forefront of emerging tech describe their progress on developing a brain-computer interface for commercial use.

• October 26, 2017 26 Oct'17

  Oil and gas IT leaders drilling for AI benefits

  In an industry not known for being on the tech cutting edge, some are exploring the business value of artificial intelligence.