Council of Europe launches stakeholder consultation on prospective AI regulation News 3/31/2021Looking to tackle new challenges posed by AI to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law
GPT-3 milestone marks change of focus for text generation models News 3/30/2021The system is cranking out 4.5 billion words per day – mostly for commercial applications
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch the warehouse robot News 3/30/2021The claw chooses who will go and who will stay
Vietnam joins the fray with its first Level 4 autonomous vehicle News 3/30/2021Back in ‘Nam, the cars drive themselves
This AI-based tutor can homeschool autistic children News 3/30/2021Hey there have you heard about my robot friend?
$300m Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center to use machine learning for biological research News 3/30/2021$150 million from Schmidt family to use AI for healthcare
Machine learning benchmarks revealed to contain ‘pervasive’ labeling errors News 3/30/2021Is it a bear? Is it a sloth? This algorithm won’t tell
Pandemic pushes enterprises towards more AI automation Analysis 3/29/2021Staff numbers, economic outlook and infrastructure can all shape the AI strategy
British AI experts argue machine-created innovations don't deserve patent protection News 3/29/2021Ambitious UK told not to award patents to AI systems
Volkswagen boosts AI research with new Detroit unit News 3/29/2021Looking to transform manufacturing, rather than refine self-driving technology
Robotic process automation specialist UiPath files to go public News 3/29/2021Last valued at $35 billion, RPA company hopes to make IPO splash
Intel opens chip foundries to third parties, pledges to invest $20bn in manufacturing News 3/26/2021Reversing years of company orthodoxy in an instant
Logistics giant XPO and robotics vendor Balyo partner on autonomous reach forklifts News 3/26/2021Testing Linde trucks at a distribution center in France
A word is not a number Analysis 3/26/2021Francisco De Sousa Webber established Cortical.io to apply the principles of semantic supercomputing to text processing
Amazon tells drivers to sign biometric consent form, or lose their job News 3/25/2021How would you like to be watched at work?
Faulty methods and ‘Frankenstein datasets’ are undermining the use of AI in COVD research News 3/25/2021Report criticizes bad workmen, exonerates AI tools
Peloton beefs up with AI, wearables, and hardware acquisitions News 3/25/2021Shareholder gains, from #gains
Flex Logic raises $55m for AI inferencing at the edge News 3/23/2021Another day, another chip startup funding round
UK to wow World Expo with AI-based interactive poetry installation News 3/23/2021"My friend is near, I hear his breath."
Sorcero launches Ingestum, a free and open source data ingestion engine News 3/23/2021The project aims to break down unstructured data without destroying its value
China's largest chip maker to build $2.35bn fab with state funding News 3/22/2021SMIC soldiers on, despite the US sanctions
Preparing for an AI system failure Analysis 3/22/2021Members of the VisionAIres community share their strategies for dealing with the unexpected
Ford and University of Michigan team up on a $75 million robotics complex News 3/22/2021Believed to be the first facility of its kind and dedicated to collaboration between industry and academia
Noogata raises $12m for its ‘no code’ AI platform News 3/22/2021Enables users to build new services out of blocks
NYC Council Member proposes law banning police from using armed robots News 3/22/2021Following Boston Dynamics Digidog being used in a potential hostage situation
Boeing demonstrates UAV created for the Australian military News 3/22/2021Skyborg-like ‘wingman’ system takes to the skies, hopes to accompany human pilots
3DLook gets $6.5 million to take intelligent body measurement to more sectors News 3/18/2021Hoping to offer designers in other sectors the savings and sales enjoyed by fashion e-tailers
PatSnap raises $300m to boost patent search with AI News 3/18/2021The company hopes to take advantage of the US-China trade war
MarkForged fine-tunes 3D printers over time with federated learning News 3/18/2021New software platform leverages data from the world’s largest fleet of connected 3D printers
Researchers blur faces in seminal ImageNet dataset; object recognition algorithms maintain accuracy News 3/17/2021Others claim they conducted similar research in the past, but their work was ignored
Moment AI looks to develop in-car system focused on driver health News 3/17/2021The prototype hopes to prevent accidents caused by events like seizures, strokes, and sudden cardiac arrest
Applied Materials uses AI to improve chip manufacturing, claims it saved customers $400m News 3/17/2021ExtractAI hunts out defects, making semiconductor fabs a little less expensive to run
Cruise acquires rival autonomous vehicle specialist Voyage News 3/16/2021The two nautical-themed self-driving businesses team up
H&M on pushing AI to the next level Analysis 3/16/2021The retailer is looking to embed artificial intelligence across the business
Asia's first ‘official’ open data portal comes online News 3/16/2021Hopes to be as successful as the EU Open Data Portal
Ibex gets $38 million to further AI-powered cancer diagnostics News 3/15/2021Starting with prostate and breast cancer
Lightmatter announces Envise, a photonic accelerator for AI News 3/15/2021Claims it can beat Nvidia in major deep learning workloads
Optibus receives $107 million to optimize mass transit News 3/15/2021Algorithmic decisions could shorten billions of journey times
Ocean exploration company Bedrock raises $8m for underwater drones News 3/12/2021But what will we use the data for?
Spanish team wins AI vs. COVID Xprize News 3/12/2021$500k split between two teams – and the results made available to policymakers
Elucidate raises $3m for platform that predicts the risk of financial crime News 3/10/2021Standardized risk scoring, but for money laundering and terrorist financing
Kepler Vision launches Edge Box, enabling AI to watch over the elderly News 3/10/2021Claims to cut 99 per cent of false alarms in care homes
VMware teams up with Nvidia on AI Enterprise software suite News 3/9/2021Optimized, certified, and supported to run on vSphere
Success with AI needs quick wins in the long game Analysis 3/8/2021The VisionAIres community shares advice on getting started with AI and choosing the right projects
Honda Legend is the world’s first Level 3 certified autonomous car News 3/5/2021Sales will be limited, with only 100 Legends being made available for lease at a price in the region of 11 million yen (around $102,000)
Deloitte and Nvidia join forces to launch supercomputing center for AI News 3/5/2021Based on DGX A100 systems
Iterative.ai pitches open source alternative to AWS SageMaker and Azure ML Engineer News 3/4/2021Working to integrate ML workflows into current software development practices
How Locus Robotics plans to take over the warehouse Analysis 3/3/2021CEO Rick Faulk talks the benefits of Robotics as a Service model
AI-powered transcription platform Otter.ai secures $50m investment News 3/3/2021After growing its revenue by more than 800 percent in 2020
AI Business Week: AI moves up in content customization Analysis 3/2/2021New technologies are being used to predict success of TV shows – and that’s just the start for AI in media