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Microsoft and SSE using AI to monitor Puffin numbers

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9/29/2021

Cameras automatically detect and count the birds

Experts in AI: Embracing diversity in AI with Shutterstock

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9/29/2021

At the AI Summit London 2021, Max Smolaks, editor at AI Business, and Alessandra Sala, director of AI and data science at Shutterstock talk diversity in AI.

Experts in AI: The importance of AI in the cyber security arms race

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9/29/2021

At the AI Summit London 2021, Max Smolaks, editor at AI Business, and Matt Armstrong-Barnes, chief technologist for AI, HPE discuss how AI can be a protagonist in the fight against malicious actors.

Experts in AI: Exploring the AI space race with Mobius Labs

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9/29/2021

At the AI Summit London 2021, Max Smolaks, editor at AI Business, and Appu Shaj, CEO at Mobius Labs take a look at how computer vision can be deployed in space.

Experts in AI: The rise of creative AI

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9/29/2021

At the AI Summit London 2021, Max Smolaks, editor at AI Business, and Yichuan Zhang, CEO, Boltzbit talk generative, or creative, AI.

Experts in AI: Delivering value so consumers will embrace chatbots

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9/29/2021

At the AI Summit London 2021, Max Smolaks, editor at AI Business, and Philipp Heltewig, CEO and co-founder at Cognigy, talk chatbots and the lightspeed advances in conversational AI.

AI Summit London 2021: Conversations from the show floor

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9/29/2021

Straight from the show floor, AI Business’s Ben Wodecki and Jenalea Howell from Informa Tech discuss highlights from the first day of 2021’s AI Summit London.

GM backs Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Momenta with $300m investment

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9/27/2021

Joining existing investors Toyota, Daimler, and Tencent

AI as a video game designer: How it may soon lend a helping hand

Analysis
9/27/2021

Matthew Guzdial and Mike Cook – research pioneers in the field of using AI to develop video games – provide their expertise on letting a machine design games

ABBA’s Aggie spends money, money, money in AI-powered record company’s $6m funding round

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9/24/2021

Snafu Records plans to launch a songwriting collaboration platform, and a peer-to-peer financing program for breakout artists

India’s Analytics Vidhya plans to train 500,000 AI professionals in five years

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9/24/2021

Thanks to a $5.5m cash injection by AI specialist Fractal Analytics

EU hoping for a larger share of the semiconductor market with new ‘Chips Act’

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9/20/2021

Commission leaders desire to produce at least 20 percent of the world's semiconductors by 2030

Cirrascale offers AI megachip from Cerebras as a cloud service

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9/20/2021

The $2 million AI compute box now available in the cloud

Stellantis investigates smart roads as a shortcut to Level 3 autonomy

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9/20/2021

European car manufacturing giant is participating in a government-funded experiment in Italy

Edge AI chipmaker Deep Vision secures $35m in Series B funding

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9/20/2021

Plans to expand its processor capabilities and hardware manufacturing

AI and video games: An emotional game

Analysis
9/20/2021

AI Business talks to Georgios Yannakakis, the author of Artificial Intelligence and Games, about measuring emotions with AI

Exclusive: Kneron’s AI chips to be integrated into QCT’s smart factory monitoring systems

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9/17/2021

Partners say this would reduce basic edge AI infrastructure costs by 25 percent

How Ubisoft is using AI in game development

Analysis
9/17/2021

AI Business looks to La Forge and Test Automation for examples of how AI can help large video game publishers

Google Cloud unveils digital twin tools for supply chain applications

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9/17/2021

Retailers, healthcare firms, and manufacturers targeted as potential customers

Alibaba leads $300m investment in Chinese autonomous vehicle startup DeepRoute.ai

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9/17/2021

DeepRoute wants to build driverless vans – the same thing Alibaba’s Cainiao plans on doing

Dutch AI semiconductor startup Axelera secures $12m in a seed round

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9/17/2021

Its chips won't be available until 2022 but Axelera dreams of creating 'the world’s most efficient solutions for AI at the edge’

Warehouse robot maker Locus nabs $50m for expansion

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9/17/2021

Locus CEO told AI Business in March the startup had its sights set on Europe and APAC

Juniper improves AI used to manage complex networks

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9/17/2021

Adding campus fabric management and making Marvis smarter

DSEI 2021: BAE Systems developing quadcopter drone for ship-to-shore logistics

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9/16/2021

T-650 can also be deployed for humanitarian purposes and casualty evacuation

DSEI 2021: Tekever drones deployed in British channel in a bid to quell illegal migration

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9/15/2021

The drones could save lives: Portuguese UAV maker announces automated life raft deployment option

DSEI 2021: Military training firms unite to train British Reaper drone operators

News
9/15/2021

Reapers are expected to fly for another 15 years

Let’s not date chatbots: Drawing the line with AI

Analysis
9/14/2021

You would think AI has no business filling many of these gaps in human relationships. But in reality, the market is trending otherwise

Virtual Power Plants: Why smart energy storage provides the best chance of meeting climate targets

Analysis
9/14/2021

AI-controlled battery networks can enable more renewables and empower energy consumers, says Moixa's CEO Simon Daniel

Chinese AI company demands iPhone ban over Siri patent infringement claims

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9/14/2021

Apple has repeatedly denied that its handsets contain features from the asserted patent

Insurance tech firm Sproutt closes $26m Series B round

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9/14/2021

Plans on using the funds to roll out a new predictive life insurance product

Facebook is designing its own machine learning silicon

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9/14/2021

Plans to collaborate with chip experts like Intel and Qualcomm put to the wayside

Russian network giant MTS launches $100m AI investment fund

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9/13/2021

Looking to invest in firms in Asia, Europe, and North America

Natural language processing pioneer Lexalytics acquired by InMoment

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9/10/2021

Lexalytics employees, including its founder Jeff Catlin, will continue in their roles

AI drug discovery startup Exscientia secures $70m Gates Foundation deal to research COVID therapeutics

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9/10/2021

Exscientia could earn additional grant funding to help push candidates through commercialization

Honda and Cruise to test autonomous vehicles in Japan

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9/10/2021

Cruise Origin vehicles to be evaluated on how they adapt to traffic

AI Business Book Club: The Exponential Age by Azeem Azhar

Analysis
9/10/2021

Technology is advancing faster than our understanding of its implications – Azhar looks at what this could mean to human societies

Arm China boss tries to break company away from chipmaker parent

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9/10/2021

Arm maintains ‘successful working relationship’ with rogue iteration

US and Israel to open joint AI research center, new bill outlines

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9/10/2021

Around $10m a year until 2026 would fund the center

Oxbotica and Applied EV to build fully autonomous delivery vehicle

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9/9/2021

Hoping for fully operational delivery platforms in little more than a year

Lenovo pitches ThinkEdge SE70 for AI processing at the edge, developed in collaboration with AWS

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9/9/2021

Primarily focused on computer vision applications

Nvidia’s Arm purchase questioned by EU competition regulators

News
9/9/2021

Chinese regulators haven’t even started the official processes

Can AI fight fake news?

Analysis
9/9/2021

“If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became the truth.” – George Orwell, 1984

Remotely-controlled vehicle developer Vay aims to launch commercial service in 2022

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9/9/2021

Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg and former Google CFO Patrick Pichette are among its backers

Fiat delivers autonomous breakthrough for vans

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9/8/2021

Level 2 Autonomy is coming to popular Ducato line of light commercial vehicles

British supermarkets are planning to use AI to police underage drinking

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9/8/2021

The company developing one such system says no images of customers are shared with stores – just their assumed age

Turkey publishes its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

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9/8/2021

"Unknowingly, we are transforming from people struggling with nature to individuals stuck between algorithms," says President Erdoğan

GXO uses robot arms from Knapp to automate warehouse picking

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9/8/2021

The pilot project envisages much more automated warehouses

VW-backed Argo AI unveils autonomous electric vans designed for ride-sharing

News
9/7/2021

The ID. BUZZ won’t be hitting German streets before 2025

DesignCon 2021: Combining AI and IoT leads to greater impacts

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9/7/2021

In this interview from the DesignCon 2021 show floor, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and Josh Builta, AI & IoT research director at Omdia, talk about how AI and IoT complement one another.

DesignCon 2021: A snapshot of the power semiconductor market

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9/7/2021

In this interview from the DesignCon 2021 show floor, senior Omdia analyst Paul Pickering tells Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, that the global chip shortage didn’t forget power semiconductors.