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French autonomous vehicle maker EasyMile secures $64 million in funding

News
4/30/2021

After deploying its first driverless cars in Korea, the company is looking to expand even further

Cyber security firm Vectra AI sees valuation jump to $1.2 billion following Series F

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4/30/2021

After a very busy, very profitable 2020

Biden’s first 100 days were dominated by diplomacy and conflict – according to AI-driven media analysis

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4/29/2021

Trump’s last days in office found to be associated with elections and campaign finance

Softbank splashes cash on AI-powered drug discovery in Exscientia’s $225 million Series D

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4/29/2021

Vision Fund 2 will be providing a further $300 million equity commitment

Checkout-free retail startup Sensei secures $6.5 million in seed funding

News
4/28/2021

To scale its R&D and begin rollout in Europe

UK Government set to allow more vehicle autonomy, but research groups urge caution

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4/28/2021

Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) to be permitted in slow-moving traffic

Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving unit for $550m

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4/28/2021

First Uber bails on autonomous cars, now Lyft does the same

General Motors licenses AI software developed at Oak Ridge

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4/27/2021

MENNDL is “an evolutionary algorithm” that leverages a large number of compute nodes

Intel joins forces with Canada’s Mila to apply AI in drug discovery projects

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4/27/2021

And other efforts aimed at advancing state-of-the-art in machine learning

Huawei has created the world’s largest Chinese language model

News
4/27/2021

More than 200 billion parameters – cooked up with homegrown hardware

Potential US legislation could greenlight safety standard exemptions for autonomous vehicles

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4/27/2021

Increasing from 2,500 per manufacturer to 15,000 – and then 80,000 in three years

M&S deploys AI-based platform to manage supply across 1,000+ grocery stores

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4/26/2021

This is not just AI-based supply chain management; this is M&S AI-based supply chain management

EU's data protection supervisor calls for ban on biometric surveillance in public

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4/26/2021

Welcomes proposed AI restrictions, but says the new rules too lax on facial recognition

Panasonic buys into AI-driven supply chains with $7.1bn acquisition of Blue Yonder

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4/23/2021

Blue Yonder brand to be retained under newly formed Panasonic Connect Co

Cerebras unveils successor to the world's largest processor

News
4/23/2021

A huge chip (at a huge price)

This chatbot wants to help universities better understand their students

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4/23/2021

System developed by Juji can politely respond to off-topic questions without losing focus

Nvidia launches two server GPUs: A30 and A10

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4/23/2021

Smaller accelerators to complement the A100

Sony patent details AI system that plays video games by itself

News
4/22/2021

Saying it could help players stuck on a level, or aid in achieving trophies

AI-driven talent acquisition startup Jobilla raises $2.6 million, plans European expansion

News
4/22/2021

And further improvements for its candidate filtering platform

Toyota Industries combines autonomous vehicle tech under new T-Hive brand

News
4/22/2021

Based in Holland and dedicated to control systems for automated forklifts and AMRs

Large businesses launch their own AI ethics initiatives

Analysis
4/22/2021

Comparing approaches to ethics at Microsoft, Bosch, Google, and others

Atos nabs multi-camera tracking developer Ipsotek in a ‘strategic’ acquisition

News
4/22/2021

Around 50 Ipsotek employees to join Atos as part of the deal

Snowflake invests in Dataiku, deepens AI product integration

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4/22/2021

The partnership will be 'further amplified' through Snowpark, the new developer experience in Snowflake

Nvidia partners with Cloudflare for AI at the Edge

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4/22/2021

The pair intend to put ML ‘within milliseconds of the global online population’

France’s largest auto insurer is using AI to assess vehicle damage

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4/22/2021

With a system from Tractable AI that has processed over $1 billion in auto claims to date

EU unveils draft rules that ban AI systems posing a ‘clear threat’ to citizen’s rights and livelihoods

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4/21/2021

Proposals include strict limits on the use of real-time biometric identification systems

Volvo and China’s DiDi team up on driverless robotaxis

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4/20/2021

The new XC90s will drive themselves across Shanghai – but it’s not clear when

Honda partners with AutoX to test autonomous vehicles in China

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4/20/2021

Hoping that successful tests could lead to deployments at scale

UK's data watchdog issued $59 million in fines over data breaches, privacy in 2020

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4/20/2021

British Airways, Marriot, and Ticketmaster among those penalized for failing to manage customer data

American banks are using computer vision systems to monitor customers and workers

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4/20/2021

JPMorgan Chase among those looking to use AI to watch how people bank

Siemens to integrate Google Cloud’s AI and ML systems into manufacturing portfolio

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4/19/2021

Enabling use cases like visual product inspections and predictive maintenance

Walmart is the latest household name to invest in autonomous vehicle developer Cruise

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4/19/2021

Retailer says investment backs its sustainability and clean energy plan

Irish researchers equip e-scooters with computer vision to make them safer

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4/16/2021

E-scooters are currently ‘unlawful’ road vehicles in Ireland – the project aspires to change this

Ocado invests $14 million in autonomous driving specialist Oxbotica

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4/16/2021

UK’s most valuable food retailer ‘excited’ to expand into autonomous deliveries

Google Cloud unveils ‘virtual agent’ to support Covid vaccination efforts

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4/16/2021

Search engine giant is buying 250,000 Covid vaccines for ‘countries in need’

Groq raises $300m to spread the gospel of single-core chips for AI

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4/16/2021

Following SambaNova in a massive round for a small semiconductor business

Twitter launches ‘Responsible ML’ initiative

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4/15/2021

The platform says it intends to fight harmful bias and build explainable ML services

IBM’s Watson to crunch data for 2021 Overwatch League

News
4/15/2021

Using AI models to analyze player performance in one of the largest events in e-sports

Nvidia unveils Omniverse Enterprise: a collaborative simulation platform

News
4/15/2021

BMW, Activision, and Ericsson all given early access

Data labeling startup Scale AI valued at $7.3 billion following Series E

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4/15/2021

Former Amazon executive once tipped to replace Jeff Bezos joins as a special adviser to the CEO

Volvo and Nvidia extend collaboration on driverless tech

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4/15/2021

The upcoming XC90 SUV will be powered by DRIVE Orin hardware

FDA greenlights first AI-based device designed to help detect colon cancer

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4/15/2021

Study found GI Genius improved tumor detection rates

Nvidia, HPE, and CSCS collaborate on the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer

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4/14/2021

Alps will come online in 2023, replacing the Piz Daint supercomputer

AI hardware designer SambaNova raises $676m, now valued at $5bn

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4/13/2021

SoftBank finds another company to throw billions at

Nvidia is developing AI-focused Arm CPU for the data center

News
4/13/2021

With Grace, the company wants to dominate both the GPU and CPU space

Artificial intelligence in data-driven companies

Analysis
4/13/2021

What is the difference between data and information? And how do you turn information into knowledge with AI?

Voyager supercomputer to use Intel Habana chips for AI

News
4/13/2021

San Diego Supercomputer Center to test out the new hardware with NSF grant

Nvidia releases Jarvis, a framework for conversational AI services

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4/13/2021

Using Mozilla’s Common Voice data to offer free, pre-trained ML models

DeepMind natural language expert joins Cambridge Quantum Computing as head of AI

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4/13/2021

Reuniting with former Oxford collaborator

Microsoft is buying speech AI specialist Nuance in $19 billion mega-deal

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4/12/2021

Purchase opens doors to the medical and telecoms markets

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