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Content posted in March 2021

Council of Europe launches stakeholder consultation on prospective AI regulation

News
3/31/2021

Looking 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
3/30/2021

The system is cranking out 4.5 billion words per day – mostly for commercial applications

Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch the warehouse robot

News
3/30/2021

The claw chooses who will go and who will stay

Vietnam joins the fray with its first Level 4 autonomous vehicle

News
3/30/2021

Back in ‘Nam, the cars drive themselves

This AI-based tutor can homeschool autistic children

News
3/30/2021

Hey 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
3/30/2021

Is it a bear? Is it a sloth? This algorithm won’t tell

Pandemic pushes enterprises towards more AI automation

Analysis
3/29/2021

Staff numbers, economic outlook and infrastructure can all shape the AI strategy

British AI experts argue machine-created innovations don't deserve patent protection

News
3/29/2021

Ambitious UK told not to award patents to AI systems

Volkswagen boosts AI research with new Detroit unit

News
3/29/2021

Looking to transform manufacturing, rather than refine self-driving technology

Robotic process automation specialist UiPath files to go public

News
3/29/2021

Last 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
3/26/2021

Reversing years of company orthodoxy in an instant

Logistics giant XPO and robotics vendor Balyo partner on autonomous reach forklifts

News
3/26/2021

Testing Linde trucks at a distribution center in France

A word is not a number

Analysis
3/26/2021

Francisco 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
3/25/2021

How would you like to be watched at work?

Faulty methods and ‘Frankenstein datasets’ are undermining the use of AI in COVD research

News
3/25/2021

Report criticizes bad workmen, exonerates AI tools

Peloton beefs up with AI, wearables, and hardware acquisitions

News
3/25/2021

Shareholder gains, from #gains

Flex Logic raises $55m for AI inferencing at the edge

News
3/23/2021

Another 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
3/23/2021

The 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
3/22/2021

SMIC soldiers on, despite the US sanctions

Preparing for an AI system failure

Analysis
3/22/2021

Members 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
3/22/2021

Believed 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
3/22/2021

Enables users to build new services out of blocks

NYC Council Member proposes law banning police from using armed robots

News
3/22/2021

Following Boston Dynamics Digidog being used in a potential hostage situation

Boeing demonstrates UAV created for the Australian military

News
3/22/2021

Skyborg-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
3/18/2021

Hoping 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
3/18/2021

The company hopes to take advantage of the US-China trade war

MarkForged fine-tunes 3D printers over time with federated learning

News
3/18/2021

New 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
3/17/2021

Others 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
3/17/2021

The 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
3/17/2021

ExtractAI hunts out defects, making semiconductor fabs a little less expensive to run

Cruise acquires rival autonomous vehicle specialist Voyage

News
3/16/2021

The two nautical-themed self-driving businesses team up

H&M on pushing AI to the next level

Analysis
3/16/2021

The retailer is looking to embed artificial intelligence across the business

Asia's first ‘official’ open data portal comes online

News
3/16/2021

Hopes to be as successful as the EU Open Data Portal

Ibex gets $38 million to further AI-powered cancer diagnostics

News
3/15/2021

Starting with prostate and breast cancer

Lightmatter announces Envise, a photonic accelerator for AI

News
3/15/2021

Claims it can beat Nvidia in major deep learning workloads

Optibus receives $107 million to optimize mass transit

News
3/15/2021

Algorithmic decisions could shorten billions of journey times

Ocean exploration company Bedrock raises $8m for underwater drones

News
3/12/2021

But 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
3/10/2021

Standardized risk scoring, but for money laundering and terrorist financing

Kepler Vision launches Edge Box, enabling AI to watch over the elderly

News
3/10/2021

Claims to cut 99 per cent of false alarms in care homes

VMware teams up with Nvidia on AI Enterprise software suite

News
3/9/2021

Optimized, certified, and supported to run on vSphere

Success with AI needs quick wins in the long game

Analysis
3/8/2021

The 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
3/5/2021

Sales 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
3/5/2021

Based on DGX A100 systems

Iterative.ai pitches open source alternative to AWS SageMaker and Azure ML Engineer

News
3/4/2021

Working to integrate ML workflows into current software development practices

How Locus Robotics plans to take over the warehouse

Analysis
3/3/2021

CEO Rick Faulk talks the benefits of Robotics as a Service model

AI-powered transcription platform Otter.ai secures $50m investment

News
3/3/2021

After growing its revenue by more than 800 percent in 2020

AI Business Week: AI moves up in content customization

Analysis
3/2/2021

New technologies are being used to predict success of TV shows – and that’s just the start for AI in media

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