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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.
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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.
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.

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