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Content posted in June 2020

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Gartner predicts 80% of line-of-business leaders will override decisions made by AI

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6/30/2020

The number of disabled people in employment is expected to triple by 2023 thanks to AI and emerging technologies; 69% of an average manager’s workload is expected to be automated by 2024

IBM donates AI fairness and explainability tools to the Linux Foundation

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6/29/2020

Three projects move under the wing of the open source organization

Volvo and Waymo pair up on driverless taxis

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6/29/2020

There are plans for commercial service, but no information on where and when

Deepfakes for good: Synthetic images used to ‘teach’ autonomous cars

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6/29/2020

Helping create infinite visual representations of the same situation

Intel launching AI associate degree program

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6/26/2020

Quelle surprise: the course will rely on the company’s tools

Using AI to give classic Wimbledon matches a new lease of life in 2020

Analysis
6/26/2020

Substituting for the live event, ‘The Greatest Championships’ will use AI create a modern experience for some of the most famous matches in Wimbledon history

Scoping machine learning projects: The six questions each analytics translator has to know

Analysis
6/26/2020

Innovative ML projects can only succeed if they manage to transform a business problem into clear tasks data scientists can work on

Amazon makes major self-driving move, acquires Zoox

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6/26/2020

Unlike some of its competitors, Zoox designs everything – from the chassis to the software

Boston to ban use of facial recognition technology by the city, police

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6/26/2020

Becoming the second-largest city to do so

Deloitte launches AI Institute to advance innovation in the enterprise

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6/25/2020

Hopes to recruit researchers, entrepreneurs and investors

Rasa raises $26 million for open source AI assistants

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6/25/2020

The platform has emerged as a favorite with companies like Adobe and HCA Healthcare

DHL Supply Chain partners with Microsoft and Blue Yonder on warehouse robotics

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6/24/2020

Helping the logistics giant integrate and use robots faster

Mercedes takes major step towards autonomy with Nvidia tie-up

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6/24/2020

Nvidia’s DRIVE technology platform will be included as standard on all Mercs from 2024

China's Didi Chuxing plans one million robotaxis – by 2030

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6/24/2020

Announcement follows self-driving partnership with a domestic carmaker

Omdia: 71% of businesses expect positive results from AI initiatives in next 12 to 24 months

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6/24/2020

Early adopters maximize their advantage due to COVID-19

Japan's Fugaku tops 1.45 exaflops in AI performance - all without a single GPU

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6/22/2020

Arm wrestles away the top spot

Ford to enable hands-free driving on highways in the US and Canada

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6/22/2020

The functionality will be available on select models next year – and could be be safer than Tesla’s

Research: More than half of large businesses are increasing investments in AI, big data

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6/22/2020

New Vantage reports that 70% of adopters achieve measurable results

Baidu leaves 'Partnership on AI’ as US-China relations sour

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6/22/2020

Company claims it made the move for financial reasons

Australia’s CSIRO partners with Microsoft on AI for environmental research

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6/22/2020

Helping reduce illegal fishing and plastic waste

Lantern Pharma IPO raises $26 million to fund AI for cancer drug development

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6/19/2020

The company is interested in resurrecting abandoned or shelved treatments

Qualcomm combines AI, 5G, and robotics in RB5 silicon platform

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6/19/2020

Needs blockchain and quantum to win buzzword bingo

Amazon deploys AI-based camera tracking to help with COVID-19 distancing, promises to open source tech

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6/18/2020

But how much of this is just PR?

University of Oxford startup raises $10 million to advance AI in echocardiography

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6/18/2020

Utromics’ first commercial product, EchoGo Core, was approved by the FDA and obtained a CE mark

Toyota, MIT share data to aid autonomous car research

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6/18/2020

New dataset called DriveSeg contains precise, pixel-level representations of common road objects

US, EU, India and economic allies establish Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

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6/18/2020

China is conspicuously not a member

IDC: AI initiatives move into production, as businesses look to improve customer experience

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6/18/2020

Early adopters report major benefits, but 28 percent of AI projects still fail

Audi's new tech center is adapting ADAS to America

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6/17/2020

German car-maker expects to hire 60 engineers and AI specialists

DataStax unveils Vector, an AIOps service for Apache Cassandra

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6/17/2020

Proprietary monitoring and automation features for the open source database

How AI will enable a digital revolution in sport

Analysis
6/16/2020

Looking at real examples of artificial intelligence in soccer, golf and rugby

AI startup raises $9 million to improve sleep disorder diagnosis

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6/16/2020

Applying machine learning to waveform data

Wenco and Oxbotica collaborate on open standards for autonomous haulage in mining

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6/15/2020

“The mining industry has proven to be at the forefront of deploying early generation autonomy systems”

UK gov't helps fund 2,500 artificial intelligence and data science conversion courses

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6/15/2020

With 1,000 places for students from under-represented backgrounds

IBM stops “general purpose” facial recognition sales, Amazon and Microsoft pause police sales

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6/11/2020

But there are some big caveats

New COVID-19 norms drive AI deals following record 2019

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6/11/2020

Apple alone made 10 AI-related acquisitions in the past 30 months

Google Meet rolls out AI-powered noise cancellation to compete with Zoom

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6/11/2020

But users are running into difficulties

This intelligent camera can identify COVID sufferers in public

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6/11/2020

D-Link offers high-tech surveillance tools for the masses

Chinese semiconductor maker SMIC plans $2.8bn listing as chips mix with politics

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6/11/2020

Plans announced weeks after Huawei lost TSMC as its silicon supplier

US SOCOM is embracing AI and machine learning

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6/11/2020

The Army looks to train officers in data science, and plans to launch a “software factory”

Warehouse automation specialist Locus Robotics raises $40 million

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6/11/2020

DHL is set to deploy 1,000 Locus robots in 2020

Researchers: Deep Learning can automate, enhance soccer analysis

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6/10/2020

A British university is working on an AI model that could revolutionize performance analytics and talent scouting

Russian robot joins Abu Dhabi police

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6/10/2020

Promobot is incapable of brutality

Karma, NVIDIA and WeRide team up on self-driving vans

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6/9/2020

Want to build an electric car, but don’t want to build motors and batteries? Karma has got you covered

Wipro, IBM to collaborate on cloud, AI and IoT

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6/9/2020

The latest stage in a 20-year relationship

US researchers claim wearable tech can help predict the onset of COVID-19

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6/8/2020

Activity trackers, apps used in a study with 600 participants

CM.com is acquiring Dutch chatbot startup CX Company for $17m

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6/8/2020

Hoping to create a one-stop-shop for conversational commerce

UK gov't publishes controversial NHS COVID-19 contracts with Palantir, Faculty, Google, and Microsoft

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6/5/2020

And it only took a lawsuit to get them to open up

Confirmed: VW to work with Ford and Argo AI on self-driving tech

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6/4/2020

The companies will share development costs, while competing on self-driving services

AB Dynamics offers ‘swarm testing’ for autonomous car makers

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6/4/2020

“These swarm scenarios, which are becoming essential for developing autonomous driving technologies, can quickly strain an entire lab’s resources and knowledge”