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- April 09, 2021
09 Apr'21
Check model accuracy with Facebook AI's new data set
Facebook paid people for their likenesses in its new Casual Conversations data set. The data set can help researchers check for bias in their AI models.
- April 09, 2021
09 Apr'21
New DataRobot CEO sees bright AI future for the vendor
New CEO Dan Wright discusses how DataRobot can stay competitive in a crowded AI marketplace, new markets for the vendor, and how DataRobot has tackled the pandemic.
- April 07, 2021
07 Apr'21
Research manager resigns amid Google AI ethics controversy
Prominent Google AI research manager Samy Bengio resigns from the company following months of internal discord and the termination of two AI researchers.
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- April 02, 2021
02 Apr'21
Automatic speech recognition may be better than you think
Even as more enterprises turn to voice recognition systems to process unstructured audio and build virtual assistants, many organizations don't have confidence in the high accuracy of these systems.
- April 01, 2021
01 Apr'21
AI voice technology has benefits and limitations
The quality of an automated transcription depends on high-quality recording equipment as well as modern AI-powered transcription software, according to one CTO.
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- March 30, 2021
30 Mar'21
Cloudera Foundation merger to bring AI and data to nonprofits
The merger creates a program within the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation that will provide artificial intelligence technology and expertise to nonprofit organizations.
- March 26, 2021
26 Mar'21
Jumio CEO discusses new $150 million funding round
Jumio CEO Robert Prigge talks about Jumio's new funding round and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Jumio's digital identity verification and fraud prevention business.
- March 23, 2021
23 Mar'21
Abbyy releases Vantage 2 and a new skills marketplace
Abbyy aims at further injecting automation and intelligence into its products with the launch of a new marketplace and an update to its Vantage platform.
- March 16, 2021
16 Mar'21
PatSnap lands $300M in Series E funding
PatSnap reports new funding for its IP and R&D management platforms, as the number of patents granted globally picked up, despite COVID-19, in 2020.
- March 15, 2021
15 Mar'21
Google will develop RPA with Automation Anywhere
Google Cloud and a top robotic process automation vendor team up to focus on automating back-office tasks and later industries such as financial services, healthcare and retail.
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- March 12, 2021
12 Mar'21
Icertis raises $80M for AI-powered contract management
Icertis, founded in 2009, is now valued at more than $2.8 billion with the new funding. The vendor is a key player in the contract management niche.
- March 09, 2021
09 Mar'21
Automation vendor WorkFusion raises $220 million
A new round of funding may vault WorkFusion into the top echelon of enterprise automation vendors currently occupied by UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere.
- March 09, 2021
09 Mar'21
Broad use of EHR voice assistants still years away
EHR voice assistants aren't much more than a Siri-type interface to the patient's healthcare record right now. But vendors and clinicians see big things for the tech.
- March 05, 2021
05 Mar'21
Mastercard senior VP talks about AI and fraud prevention
Mastercard uses and sells AI-powered technology to prevent fraud and has found that AI-powered services can inspire customer loyalty.
- March 05, 2021
05 Mar'21
Samsung adds AI processor in memory to high-bandwidth memory
Samsung's new in-memory processing architecture brings compute capability to high-bandwidth memory to address data bottlenecks with AI and HPC workloads.
- March 04, 2021
04 Mar'21
Edge AI brings new uses to IoT devices
A Lenovo executive describes AI at the edge, highlighting how this rapidly advancing technology unlocks new automations and capabilities within IoT devices.
- March 02, 2021
02 Mar'21
Microsoft brings Azure AI to the edge with Azure Percept
Azure Percept includes software for building machine learning models or deploying pre-built models, as well as hardware to deploy the models at the edge.
- February 26, 2021
26 Feb'21
Steel producer reduces costs using AI in manufacturing
The largest long steel producer in Latin America used data and machine learning predictions to save money, while maintaining the same level of production quality.
- February 24, 2021
24 Feb'21
Robotics company Berkshire Grey will go public
Berkshire Grey is the latest AI firm to go public, after the robotics vendor said it will merge with a special-purpose acquisition company. The move comes amid a surge in AI IPOs.
- February 19, 2021
19 Feb'21
Nvidia acquisition of Arm faces industry, regulatory hurdles
Nvidia's acquisition of Arm Ltd. could change the chipmaker landscape and is reportedly raising industry and regulatory eyebrows.
- February 19, 2021
19 Feb'21
CTO on the need for AI ethics and diversity
A CTO talks about the importance of diverse data sets when creating AI models and how a lack of diversity can create bias in systems.
- February 19, 2021
19 Feb'21
Nvidia opens paid, instructor-led AI workshops to the public
While many technology vendors offer online courses on how to use their AI products, it still might not be enough to educate the global workforce.
- February 16, 2021
16 Feb'21
DataRobot integrates Feature Discovery tool into Snowflake
The product integration comes months after Snowflake Ventures invested in DataRobot and the two vendors agreed to a strengthened partnership.
- February 11, 2021
11 Feb'21
Autonomous truck startup raises $200M but faces competition
The investment will fund Plus' autonomous driving software, which could enable long-haul trucks to drive themselves along long stretches of highway.
- February 09, 2021
09 Feb'21
Nuance touts CX benefits of AI in healthcare during pandemic
Nuance acquires speech transcription vendor Saykara, adding the startup's tech to Nuance's arsenal of health IT systems. Meanwhile, Nuance and Best Buy Health execs tout CX benefits from AI.
- February 05, 2021
05 Feb'21
Microsoft makes image classification model available
Microsoft's release of a pre-trained vision model comes after Google and OpenAI also released open source vision models. The models may not have much enterprise use, though.
- February 03, 2021
03 Feb'21
Automated speech recognition gives CX vendor an edge
An automated transcription service can help users train their sales staff and stop robocalls. A contact center software vendor included one for free in its platform.
- January 29, 2021
29 Jan'21
AI vendors may have to prove systems don't discriminate
Washington state is considering a bill that would require vendors to prove their AI algorithms aren't biased. If enacted, the AI regulation could have far-reaching implications.
- January 26, 2021
26 Jan'21
Nvidia partners launch Nvidia-Certified Systems for AI
According to analysts, Nvidia-Certified Systems' launch is a shrewd move for Nvidia, as the vendor looks to cement its lead in the AI hardware marketplace.
- January 19, 2021
19 Jan'21
Google launches a suite of retail AI products
Google released AI products for online retailers as the tech giant increases its focus on industry verticals. The new products are designed for small and large retailers.
- January 15, 2021
15 Jan'21
Diverse talent pools and data sets can help solve bias in AI
Bringing historically underrepresented employees into critical parts of the design process while creating an AI model can reduce or eliminate bias in that model.
- January 13, 2021
13 Jan'21
The power and limitations of enterprise AI
A panel at CES 2021, held virtually this year, discusses the areas in which modern-day AI and automation shine, and where they still struggle.
- January 12, 2021
12 Jan'21
White House issues guiding principles for AI regulations
While the recommendations for AI regulation in the White House memo are loose, they appear to show the government is beginning to embrace AI, and could be a start toward oversight.
- January 08, 2021
08 Jan'21
Doubts about Trump video show how hard deepfakes are to detect
Some Twitter users insist that a recent video of President Trump admitting his defeat in the election is a deepfake, although there's no proof. Deepfakes are difficult to detect.
- January 06, 2021
06 Jan'21
Intel launches RealSense ID for facial authentication
Amid a surge of facial recognition technology systems from vendors, Intel introduces RealSense ID, a system that Intel claims can accurately and quickly identify human faces.
- December 28, 2020
28 Dec'20
Conversation intelligence helps ChowNow meet online order demand
Using RingDNA, online food ordering platform ChowNow can automatically surface insights about what works in sales calls to better coach its sales staff.
- December 18, 2020
18 Dec'20
AWS digs into its new machine learning industrial products
Amazon Monitron and Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to help industrial customers predict when their machines will break. Amazon's GM of machine learning and AI explains.
- December 17, 2020
17 Dec'20
Emerging AI startups to look at in 2021
AI startups in the legal, MLOps, NLP and data training markets make this year's list of emerging AI vendors to look out for.
- December 15, 2020
15 Dec'20
DataRobot releases new feature to detect AI bias
DataRobot is the latest AI vendor to address AI bias, releasing a new feature to help organizations detect and prevent bias in their models.
- December 11, 2020
11 Dec'20
Nuance CTO: Conversational AI is the 'next big step'
Conversational AI has steadily grown more advanced over the past several years. Nuance CTO Joe Petro explains why the vendor is refocusing on the technology.
- December 09, 2020
09 Dec'20
Sharing medical imaging data with AI apps raises concerns
Opening the door to third-party AI apps is a double-edged sword for patients. Its potential for healthcare is promising, but privacy is still a work in progress.
- December 09, 2020
09 Dec'20
New, updated IBM AI tech bring better NLP, NLU to business users
IBM is commercializing its AI governance tool, AI FactSheets, and bringing more natural language capabilities to some of its Watson products.
- December 08, 2020
08 Dec'20
Amazon SageMaker Clarify aims to mitigate bias in machine learning
AWS looks to tackle machine learning bias with a new a new tool that works with Amazon SageMaker products to help developers and users better detect and eliminate AI bias.
- December 04, 2020
04 Dec'20
Hundreds support former Google AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru
A prominent AI ethics researcher said she was unfairly fired by Google after sending an email to colleagues critical of the way Google treats women and people of color.
- December 01, 2020
01 Dec'20
AWS releases machine learning services for industrial clients
AWS released a mix of hardware, software and cloud-based services to help manufacturing clients better manage workplace safety and machine health.
- November 30, 2020
30 Nov'20
ServiceNow will acquire AI startup Element AI
ServiceNow's acquisition of an AI startup based in Montreal marks the latest move by the cloud computing giant to add more automation and intelligence to its platform.
- November 25, 2020
25 Nov'20
Courses teach automation to prepare students for the workforce
At a California university, students in April Morris' class learn how to use RPA and analytics tools. They hope to use the skills to get jobs out of school.
- November 20, 2020
20 Nov'20
Google AI art tool turns 2D creatures into 3D models
These 3D chimera creatures are brought to you by Google's Chimera Painter, an AI-powered tool that turns 2D images into 3D creature models.
- November 18, 2020
18 Nov'20
New Nvidia, AMD GPUs deliver more memory and speed -- again
Nvidia and AMD each delivered much faster GPUs for data scientists and corporate IT shops investing in hardware to run AI and data intensive workloads.
- November 17, 2020
17 Nov'20
UiPath platform update makes it easier to deploy smarter bots
A new platform upgrade for UiPath makes it easier for users to develop and use robots at scale, as well as makes the bots more resilient to UI changes.
- November 17, 2020
17 Nov'20
DataRobot pre-IPO funding raises company valuation to $2.7B
Amid the pandemic, Boston-based AI vendor DataRobot raised $270 million in a pre-IPO fundraising round. The company is likely to file for an IPO.
- November 10, 2020
10 Nov'20
Infosys applied AI launch follows IT consulting AI releases
Infosys launched a new offering to help enterprises find and apply AI use cases at scale. The release is part of a wave of similar products from other big systems integrators.
- November 06, 2020
06 Nov'20
AI might not have rights, but it could pay taxes
Tax, liability and patent laws can't handle AI systems, which have grown steadily smarter. As AI becomes ubiquitous, the legal system may need to change to accommodate it.
- November 03, 2020
03 Nov'20
AWS launches P4d instances for deep learning training
AWS released its EC2 P4d instances, the tech giant's newest GPU-backed instances. The instances speed up AI training and supercomputing workloads.
- October 29, 2020
29 Oct'20
Intel will acquire model optimization startup SigOpt
Intel's acquisition of SigOpt, a startup vendor of an AI model optimization platform, will help accelerate Intel's AI software products for developers.
- October 28, 2020
28 Oct'20
AI fraud detection tools can help fight rising e-commerce fraud
As the coronavirus pandemic has forced more businesses online, e-commerce fraud has spiked. AI fraud detection and prevention tools, however, can help merchants.
- October 28, 2020
28 Oct'20
Wordtune AI tool from AI21 Labs rewrites sentences using NLG
A new product powered by AI and natural language generation can rewrite sentences. The tool could foreshadow the arrival of more AI-powered writing assistants.
- October 26, 2020
26 Oct'20
Insurance provider uses AI for legal to manage contracts
The legal team at Asurion, a major insurance provider, kept its documents spread out across filing cabinets, hard drives and the cloud. It turned to an AI platform to better manage them.
- October 21, 2020
21 Oct'20
Google enters mortgage space with new Document AI tool
Google's new Lending DocAI product can help users automate mortgage document processing. The product is Google's first specialized mortgage tool.
- October 19, 2020
19 Oct'20
COVID-19 to drive more AI in retail for small retailers
Retailers were hit hard by the COVID-19 economic fallout, especially small, local businesses. Amid a shift online, AI could help some retailers adjust to the new reality.
- October 15, 2020
15 Oct'20
New AI system to give Microsoft Seeing AI a boost
A new object captioning AI model from Microsoft strengthens the tech giant's accessibility services, which the vendor has championed for years.
- October 09, 2020
09 Oct'20
Establishing AI governance in a business
It's hard to ethically manage data for AI models, but AI governance, as well as a strong ethics framework, can help enterprises effectively manage data and models.
- October 08, 2020
08 Oct'20
Nvidia Jarvis, new conversational AI tool, now in open beta
A speech recognition services vendor in Great Britain turned to Nvidia Jarvis, a new framework for creating conversational AI models on GPUs, to quickly build a product.
- October 08, 2020
08 Oct'20
Nvidia adds DPUs to GPU lineup for artificial intelligence apps
Nvidia has rolled out a new chip technology that supplements its GPUs, along with a new development kit and architecture to create more capable AI-based applications.
- October 02, 2020
02 Oct'20
IBM chatbot gives voting information to Idaho residents
By turning to IBM Watson Assistant, the state of Idaho deployed a chatbot to help voters get information about the primary elections, which were mail-in only, back in May.
- September 25, 2020
25 Sep'20
The deepfake 2020 election threat is real, but containable
Disinformation could harm the 2020 presidential election, and technology simply isn't advanced enough to detect manipulated content, especially deepfakes.
- September 25, 2020
25 Sep'20
Google, Unilever partnership uses AI for sustainable sourcing
Unilever says it will use Google Earth Engine, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery, as well as AI technologies, to create a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023.
- September 23, 2020
23 Sep'20
Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's GPT-3 language model
Microsoft expanded its partnership with AI research organization OpenAI. The tech giant will exclusively license OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 language model.
- September 14, 2020
14 Sep'20
Nvidia, Arm deal creates AI, chip powerhouse
Nvidia's acquisition of U.K. chipmaker Arm, if approved by regulators, will greatly expand Nvidia's reach in the CPU market, especially in IoT and mobile devices.
- September 10, 2020
10 Sep'20
AI in transportation reduces employee workloads
By using intelligent automation, a shipping company trimmed employee workloads, enabling employees to shift from document processing to customer service.
- September 03, 2020
03 Sep'20
GCP powers AI in marketing at McDonald's
McDonald's uses the Google Cloud Platform to drive its personalized marketing efforts, which has helped the company grow and know its customers better.
- September 03, 2020
03 Sep'20
Microsoft deepfake software combats election propaganda
Ahead of the 2020 United States presidential election, Microsoft released Video Authenticator, an AI-powered tool to help identify deepfake images and videos.
- August 28, 2020
28 Aug'20
IBM uses AI to power new US Open online features
With AI and Watson Discovery, IBM is providing tennis fans with new ways to interact with each other online during this year's US Open, which will be held without live spectators.
- August 28, 2020
28 Aug'20
It's been a slow road for AI in oil and gas industries
Analytics and AI can help oil and gas companies better predict supply and demand, involuntary flaring and where to drill. But the companies struggle to get talent.
- August 27, 2020
27 Aug'20
It's time to address AI ethics
Enterprises need to focus on creating and adopting AI ethical guidelines, especially for emerging technologies such as facial recognition and home assistants.
- August 24, 2020
24 Aug'20
AI in retail has helped retailers during COVID-19
During the Ai4 2020 virtual conference, a panel of retail experts discusses how AI and analytics have helped retailers deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- August 21, 2020
21 Aug'20
Automated document processing helps PPP applications
Using its own AI models, as well as technology from Abbyy, PwC can rapidly and correctly file a large volume of PPP loan applications.
- August 21, 2020
21 Aug'20
AI, robotics help businesses pivot supply chain during COVID-19
Big enterprises such as Wayfair, UPS, Unilever and Siemens move to automate more of their supply chains with AI as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts business operations.
- August 17, 2020
17 Aug'20
Does technology increase the problem of racism and discrimination?
According to a publication from the MIT Technology Review, technology promotes racism. Most facial recognition algorithms discriminate against the Black population. And even certain concepts or technological terminology tend to be offensive, ...
- August 13, 2020
13 Aug'20
Process automation in education helps school during COVID-19
Using process automation, a school in Sydney helped keep classes going online by automating the daily roll call process. Organizations have increasingly turned to automation and AI during COVID-19.
- August 05, 2020
05 Aug'20
Google Cloud, Harvard release COVID-19 Public Forecasts
Google Cloud, in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute, released public models that can predict new COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations 14 days out.
- July 31, 2020
31 Jul'20
Intuit AI, knowledge engineering help power Aid Assist
The principal product manager at Intuit talks about the company's use of machine learning, natural language processing and knowledge engineering in its new Aid Assist tool.
- July 30, 2020
30 Jul'20
Salesforce's AI-powered Einstein Call Coaching now available
Salesforce's Einstein Call Coaching has moved out of pilot testing, during which a steel building manufacturer saw a 60% reduction in time spent manually analyzing customer calls.
- July 24, 2020
24 Jul'20
The state of AI in 2020 likely sees more adoption
AI adoption has appeared to grow this year, as organizations deploy automation to augment dwindling workforces and help deal with growing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- July 22, 2020
22 Jul'20
Nvidia, University of Florida building AI supercomputer
Nvidia and the University of Florida have teamed up to build what they claim will be the fastest AI supercomputer in academia, capable of hitting 700 petaflops of performance.
- July 17, 2020
17 Jul'20
Accounts payable automation eliminates invoice backlog
Purple, a mattress company, struggled each week to manually process its myriad invoices and bills. It found relief in automated accounts payable software from a startup vendor.
- July 15, 2020
15 Jul'20
Care provider uses automated machine learning in healthcare
An assisted living and transitional care provider uses DataRobot to automate the process of building and deploying machine learning models, enabling it to deploy models quickly.
- July 09, 2020
09 Jul'20
DotData Stream enables real-time predictions at the edge
DotData opens the doors to new markets with DotData Stream, a new product that enables customers to create low-memory, low-latency models at the edge.
- July 08, 2020
08 Jul'20
IBM acquires RPA vendor to enhance automation suite
IBM bought a Brazilian RPA and chatbot vendor to expand its collection of automation products.
- July 06, 2020
06 Jul'20
Warehouse AI and robotics help train employees
Workers at a logistics and transportation company learn on the job with an autonomous cart, Chuck. The robot teaches employees the layout of the warehouses and where items are.
- June 29, 2020
29 Jun'20
IBM donates AI ethics tools to Linux Foundation
IBM donates open source toolkits AI Fairness 360, Adversarial Robustness 360 and AI Explainability 360 to the Linux Foundation amid calls for more ethical AI.
- June 26, 2020
26 Jun'20
Bank modernizes with MLflow and Databricks
With Databricks and MLflow, an Argentinian bank modernized its infrastructure, increased customer retention and better managed its machine learning models.
- June 24, 2020
24 Jun'20
RPA use cases expanding in large enterprises
Robotic process automation veterans at Blue Prism's virtual conference talk business process automation strategies, obstacles and untethering bot deployments from cutting jobs.
- June 24, 2020
24 Jun'20
Databricks acquisition of Redash boosts data visualization
Databricks bought Redash, a data visualization vendor, to boost its own visualization capabilities. Databricks had largely relied on partnerships with other vendors for such tools.
- June 23, 2020
23 Jun'20
Databricks AI in next-generation transportation
Virgin Hyperloop turned to Databricks to horizontally scale out and speed up its processes as it works to create a new form of transportation.
- 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.