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• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  DataRobot training aims to upskill citizen data scientists

  DataRobot unveiled a new data science training program, and enhancements to its enterprise AI platform, including a geospatial capability and automated time series anomaly detection.

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Amazon highlights distancing with Distance Assistant

  Amid a lawsuit over unsafe warehouse conditions, Amazon brings an AI-powered camera and monitor system to its warehouses to help employees maintain social distancing.

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Predictive maintenance vendor launches AI warranty

  A predictive maintenance vendor added a new warranty to its platform that pays customers $100,000 for repair if the AI-based prediction system fails to foresee a machine breakdown.

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  DataRobot partners with BCG, acquires its analytics software

  DataRobot's new partnership with Boston Consulting Group aims to bring the technical expertise of BCG to DataRobot's customers. The AI vendor also acquired analytics software from BCG.

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Microsoft replaces dozens of journalists with AI system

  In a cost-saving move, Microsoft is ending the employment of dozens of contract journalists in favor of AI systems. It's a risky move, though.

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• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Contact tracing apps seem effective, but have privacy concerns

  Contact tracing mobile applications appear to offer an easier, safer way to track where an infected person has been, but technology could cross a data privacy boundary.

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Enterprises should not neglect AI digital transformation

  Enterprises should focus on automation to augment their workforces as they recover from the COVID-19 economic downturn, and not lose sight of larger digital transformation projects.

• May 28, 2020 28 May'20

  AI in sales can make smart lead recommendations

  For one B2B sales tech company, a self-service AI startup founded by a former Google employee helps create lead recommendations using machine learning.

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Using data and IBM AI to make coronavirus economic predictions

  A major marketing firm has turned to IBM Watson Studio, and its data, to create an interactive platform that predicts the risk, readiness and recovery periods for counties hit by the coronavirus.

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  Pegasystems releases Ethical Bias Check to cut down on AI bias

  Pegasystems has embedded a new tool to combat AI bias in its Pega Customer Decision Hub. The tool can alert users to potential biases before they deploy system changes.

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  IBM Think 2020: AI, security, COVID-19 news, trends and analysis

  News at the IBM Think 2020 digital conference focused on paths to modernization -- including advanced AI and automation -- IoT, hybrid cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity.

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Nvidia unveils A100 GPU for demanding AI workloads

  Designed for demanding AI and data science workloads, Nvidia's new A100 processor is a powerhouse, but it's also power-hungry and high-heat-producing.

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Intel makes new investments in AI startups

  Intel reveals new investments in 11 startups focused on AI, automation and chip design as the tech giant ramps up its efforts in the AI hardware market.

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Facebook advances AI used to detect hate speech

  Facebook can now proactively find and flag hate speech better. Meanwhile, the social media giant's AI Research made BlenderBot, an advanced conversational AI system, open source.

• May 08, 2020 08 May'20

  Automated data governance vendor Immuta gets key update

  An update to Immuta's automated data governance enabled one of its users to better anonymize its consumers' data and control who has access to it.

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  AI in digital transformation vital for enterprises

  Without using AI, enterprises will not be able to compete effectively, according to the CEO of Box. Companies need to infuse AI into their digital transformation efforts now.

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  IBM's Watson AIOps aims to help networks run smoothly

  Launched during IBM Think 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, IBM's Watson AIOps aims to use AI to help CIOs more quickly and efficiently keep their networks running.

• May 01, 2020 01 May'20

  SBA bans RPA for PPP loan applications after bots clog system

  After a deluge of Paycheck Protection Program loan applications overwhelmed the SBA's electronic loan transfer system, the agency said it would no longer accept loans filed by RPA systems.

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Nvidia finalizes Mellanox deal to boost AI products

  The Nvidia acquisition of Mellanox will improve its GPU and AI infrastructure products, but it's not likely to give the company a significant edge in the competitive AI market.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  AI helping higher education during the pandemic

  By using AI and analytics, higher education schools can gauge how their students are faring at scale during the coronavirus pandemic.

• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  Safety vs. privacy in the age of coronavirus raises tech questions

  To slow the spread of the coronavirus, governments and organizations are using contact tracing and thermal imaging for fever detection, but these methods carry privacy concerns.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Atos acquisition of AI consulting firm looks promising

  Atos, a global IT services company, acquired a data science and AI consulting firm as more enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  PyTorch update from Facebook and AWS eases model building

  PyTorch 1.5 introduces TorchServe, a model serving library, and TorchElastic, a Kubernetes controller. Both applications are still in experimental mode.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Using ModelOps, a financial services company scales out

  Using model operations (ModelOps), a fintech startup was able to scale up its model deployment quickly, while also maintaining model governance at scale.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  Text search tool makes finding documents easier

  Using a visually appealing approach, Keeper.fyi enables users to search text documents, images, and graphs and charts quickly and efficiently.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  AI for supply chain can help companies handle disruptions

  Even faced with the unpredictability of the coronavirus pandemic, enterprises can generate some stability using AI and machine learning in their supply chains.

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  City of Knoxville deploys a web and SMS chatbot

  By using a chatbot from text messaging vendor Quiq, the city of Knoxville, Tenn. can give its residents information on the coronavirus, the 2020 census, and the city's social services.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  DataRobot layoffs come after years of growth

  Boston-based automated machine learning vendor DataRobot, a major player in the AI industry, has laid off employees amid the coronavirus pandemic after years of fast growth for the company.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  AI in procurement creates searchable, sorted data

  Canadian startup Tealbook uses NLP and machine learning to automatically create sorted and searchable supplier data, enabling its customers to spend less time looking for data and more time using it.

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  AI in mining takes root in the industry

  Executives from data science vendors Kespry and Descartes Labs discuss the importance of AI in the mining industry, a sector that is still fairly new to AI technologies.

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Using automated machine learning for AI in insurance

  Using dotData, an automated machine learning vendor, one of the largest insurance firms in Japan built out an AI platform that provides a personalized experience to customers.

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Social media platforms ramp up automated content curation

  As the new coronavirus continues to disrupt the workforce, social media companies are increasingly using machine learning to automatically detect and remove harmful content.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Data Science Central co-founder talks AI, data science trends

  In a Q&A, Vincent Granville, executive data scientist and co-founder of Data Science Central, discusses how AI has changed the data science field and the ways in which it will continue to do so.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Advanced AI in financial services boosts fraud detection, efficiency

  Financial firms plan to invest more into R&D on AI and plan to deploy advanced AI, like deep learning, within the next two years, according to a new survey.

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  The pope, with Microsoft and IBM, calls for AI ethics

  The Pontifical Academy for Life has issued new guidelines for ethical AI that call for artificial intelligence technology to be explainable, trusted and secure.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Customer experience chatbot provides answers

  Upwork has slowly been rolling out a customer experience chatbot service from vendor Ada, which it uses in conjunction with Zendesk to help provide customers with support.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Forest fire sensors and AI help detect fires in Chile

  Entel Ocean uses DataRobot's automated machine learning platform, as well as IoT sensors, to automatically detect forest fires in Chile. The platform can detect fires faster than manual counterparts.

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  EU AI regulation guidelines worry vendors

  The EU released AI regulation guidelines that demand AI systems in high-risk areas are transparent and have human oversight. Some vendors are worried.

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Employee AI readiness is fairly low

  Enterprise employees are largely lacking in AI skills, and enterprises need to work to reskill or upskill employees to improve their skills and help reduce AI job loss fears.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Customer experience vendor benefits from AI in forecasting

  Using Anodot, customer experience software vendor Gainsight can automatically surface anomalies in its data and fix them, often before they become major problems.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  How the Clearview AI affair likely won't spur meaningful change

  An obscure AI vendor sparked controversy for scraping social media for data to power a facial recognition platform that it sells to law enforcement agencies around the world.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  IBM's Policy Lab calls for AI regulation

  Launched during the Davos World Economic Forum, IBM's Policy Lab seeks to unite governments and businesses on creating and adopting more regulation of AI.

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Social media marketing vendor uses sentiment analysis

  Falcon.io, a social media marketing vendor, turned to AI vendor Lexalytics to add automatic social media sentiment analysis capabilities to its platform.

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Intel AI hardware roadmap shifts away from Nervana

  Intel said it is ending development of its Nervana AI processors. The tech vendor will instead focus its efforts on its Habana Labs processors, which it acquired last year.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Microsoft launches AI for Health initiative

  Microsoft's new health AI initiative may do some good for partner nonprofit and academic healthcare groups, but it may raise some data privacy concerns as well.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  RPA in payroll automates finance processes for NYP hospital

  NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest hospitals in the U.S., looked to WorkFusion to automate some payroll processes, including filling out missed punch forms.

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  New IBM Power9 server adds Nvidia, Google chips for AI workloads

  Big Blue rolled out another member of its IBM Power9 server family targeted at corporate users who are ready to move beyond the training phase of their AI projects to the deployment phase.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  ServiceNow acquisition of Passage AI to boost chatbots

  ServiceNow will acquire Passage AI, a startup conversational AI vendor, in an effort to further develop existing conversation capabilities in its chatbots.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Eye transplant nonprofit turns to supply chain modeling

  Eversight, a nonprofit that recovers and transports eye tissue, turned to a supply chain management software system to better predict supply routes.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  GumGum uses machine learning annotation service Figure Eight

  Computer vision vendor GumGum gets its training data from Figure Eight, a machine learning training data vendor. Figure Eight uses crowdsourcing to annotate training data.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  AI in e-commerce helps product sales

  EBay uses AI to power tools and services it built in-house to attract and retain users, such as automatic translation, image recognition and photo cleanup.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Hair salon uses front desk AI to boost appointments

  A hair salon in Florida uses conversational AI to automatically engage clients over text. The bot answers questions and schedules appointments without human input.

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  U.S. restricts exports of geospatial AI software

  The Trump administration's move to limit export of AI-based geospatial imaging software extends U.S. restrictions on technology that foreign countries could use to develop weapons systems.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  AI vendors to watch in 2020 and beyond

  The past 10 years have seen a surge of new AI vendors, and the trend isn't likely to end anytime soon, as investors continue to pour money into artificial intelligence.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Intel acquisition of Habana Labs expected to enhance AI portfolio

  By purchasing Habana Labs, an AI hardware startup, Intel now has a more diverse AI portfolio in a quickly growing multi-billion-dollar hardware market.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  DataRobot acquisition of Paxata adds data prep to AI platform

  By buying data prep vendor Paxata, DataRobot plans to fill out its machine learning and AI platform with tools to automate data prep processes and provide an underlying data fabric.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  AI trends 2020 outlook: More automation, explainability

  Top AI trends for 2020 are increased automation to extend traditional RPA, deeper explainable AI with more natural language capacity, and better chips for AI on the edge.

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  AWS, NFL machine learning partnership looks at player safety

  A new AWS and NFL partnership aims to use AI and machine learning to reduce the risk of injuries to players. The partnership builds off of the companies' Next Gen Stats agreement.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  SageMaker Studio makes model building, monitoring easier

  New SageMaker tools from AWS to open up machine learning models by making it easier for non-expert developers make, run, monitor and debug machine learning models.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  New Amazon Kendra AI search tool indexes enterprise data

  With Kendra, a new cognitive search tool from Amazon, enterprise users can more easily query their data. The tool uses machine learning and NLP to understand context, according to AWS.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Vendor 3PM uses AI and analytics to prevent Black Friday fraud

  Using AI, analytics and Google Cloud tools, e-commerce intelligence vendor 3PM Solutions helps identify and take down counterfeit products for major e-commerce players.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  AI in advertising captures audiences with personalized ads

  Using AI technology, AdGreetz generates millions of personalized ads over the web and social media for its client Flipkart, an e-commerce vendor based in India.

• 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.