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USPTO uses ‘state-of-the-art’ machine learning to analyze AI patents

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8/31/2021

Publishes dataset describing all machine learning innovation since 1976

DesignCon 2021: Omdia’s Jonathan Cassell on AI in semiconductor design

Video
8/31/2021

In this interview from DesignCon 2021, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and Jonathan Cassell, principal analyst at Omdia, discuss the benefits of applying AI to processor design – and the tantalizing possibility of using AI to build chips for AI

DesignCon 2021: Why Arm believes in autonomous vehicles

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8/31/2021

In this interview from DesignCon 2021, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and Robert Day, director for autonomous vehicles at Arm, discuss the path to Level 4 autonomy, and Arm’s angle on the rapidly growing automotive chip market

China’s largest AI firm files for $2bn Hong Kong IPO

News
8/31/2021

SenseTime goes ahead with float while remaining blacklisted by the US Bureau of Industry and Security

China plans to regulate algorithms, proposes strict controls

News
8/31/2021

After years of encouragement, the CCP is bringing the country’s tech corporations to heel

DesignCon 2021: Medicine of the future with Mayo Clinic’s Mark Wehde

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8/27/2021

In this interview from DesignCon 2021, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and Mark Wehde, chair at Mayo Clinic Engineering, talk about the recent advances in healthcare tech, the impact of the pandemic, and Mayo Clinic’s 2030 Bold Forward plan

VisionAIres: AI-based automation needs humans

Analysis
8/27/2021

Featuring viewpoints from Branded Entertainment Network, Bajaj Allianz, Deutsche Bank, RCI Financial Services, Afiniti, and IBM

Unity buys OTO to fight swearing in video games

News
8/27/2021

Using AI to censor in-game communications is shaping into a trend

Standards for Voice Assistants – What they mean for the market

Analysis
8/26/2021

Discussing the launch of the Open Voice Network (OVN) with representatives of Spitch, Interactions, Nuance, and Omdia

DesignCon 2021: Back on the road

Video
8/26/2021

Chuck Martin and Jenalea Howell from Informa Tech wrap up one of the season’s first in-person technology conferences and look at the evidence that trade shows are coming back strong

Tesla AI day: Real chips, unreal robots

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8/20/2021

Spandex and silicon whipped out by tech's loudest billionaire

The UK private sector is ready for AI – but lacks skilled personnel needed for adoption, a new report warns

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8/20/2021

Government should consider incentivizing job hunters to take up tech careers, authors suggest

Baidu’s Kunlun II AI chips enter mass production

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8/20/2021

Plus, Baidu Brain is updated and an AI educational academy is set to launch

DesignCon 2021: Conversations from the show floor

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8/19/2021

In this interview, Chuck Martin and Jenalea Howell from Informa Tech discuss the opening keynote, the growing influence of the automotive industry (and its current pains) - and of course, the swag from the exhibition floor

GE Appliances to add Google Assistant to fridges and dishwashers

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8/19/2021

One of the largest appliance companies in the United States partners with Google on a broad range of AI initiatives

Apple’s LiDAR patents suggest its autonomous vehicle project may still be alive

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8/19/2021

Five-year-old filings outline method of predicting LiDAR data using machine learning

Latent AI raises $19 million for AI at the edge

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8/19/2021

The startup emerged after years of DARPA-funded research

DesignCon 2021: Making chips for Samsung

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8/19/2021

Samsung’s Max Min talk about working for one of the world’s largest memory suppliers

Bristol Myers Squibb to license Exscientia immunological drug candidate

News
8/18/2021

The startup will receive a $20m option exercise fee – with tiered royalties on any product sales

British robot farming startup buoyed by $4.8m overfunded Crowdcube campaign

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8/18/2021

Supermarket giant Waitrose and the National Trust are among SRC’s customers

ClosedLoop raises $34m in Series B funding to improve patient care using data

News
8/18/2021

Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano among new investors

China’s largest AI firm is reportedly planning $2bn Hong Kong IPO

News
8/17/2021

SenseTime looks to go ahead with Hong Kong float, while remaining blacklisted by the US Bureau of Industry and Security

DesignCon 2021: It’s good to be back

Video
8/17/2021

After the disruption of the pandemic, the first conference season in almost two years is upon us: and what better place to start than DesignCon, where chip, board, and systems design engineers meet to compare notes on the next generation of IT hardware

US federal government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes

News
8/17/2021

Self-crashing technology

Ultromics closes $33m Series B to fund AI-based cardiovascular diagnostic tools

News
8/17/2021

The firm’s EchoGo Core and EchoGo Pro platforms were built in partnership with the NHS

More vendors acquire their way into the intelligent automation space

Analysis
8/17/2021

Recent acquisitions by Uniphore, Salesforce, and Appian come as more vendors are looking to address the growing demand for intelligent automation

ASAPP’s Ryan McDonald: Augmenting customer service with AI

Analysis
8/17/2021

‘When I joined [Google] 15 years ago, nobody in the research group really talked about AI’

Apple researchers use AirPods and ML to measure breathing rates

News
8/16/2021

Researchers already planning future tests with ‘a larger study cohort’

Omdia: Nvidia responsible for 80 percent of AI-focused data center chip market

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8/16/2021

Impressive 2020 revenue growth as the company admits it is looking over its shoulder

AI-powered drug discovery startup XtalPi closes $400m Series D round

News
8/16/2021

Following reports of a potential public listing

JLL to acquire commercial real estate startup Skyline AI

News
8/16/2021

Will help predict property values and suggest when it’s time to raise rent

Colorado set to host the largest electric autonomous vehicle fleet in the US

News
8/13/2021

Six-seater ‘Mines Rovers’ are ADA accessible and 100 percent electric

HCL launches DRYiCE AEX: A suite of AI-based workplace tools to improve productivity

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8/13/2021

With more than 50 out-of-the-box use cases

OpenAI upgrades Codex machine learning assistant, says it can turn natural language into code

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8/12/2021

As its competitor AI21 launches the world's largest language model

So small: Nvidia unveils compact RTX A2000 GPUs for more capable AI workstations

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8/12/2021

For the first time ever, Nvidia places error correction codes in its 2000 series

Xiaomi takes on Boston Dynamics’ Spot with its own CyberDog

News
8/11/2021

Says it will build an open source community around the quadrupedal robot

Deepbrain raises $44m, plans to bring its AI-based avatars to the US

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8/11/2021

“Synthetic humans” can be deployed as news anchors or English tutors

Hyundai’s Motional to expand robotaxi services across the West Coast

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8/11/2021

The new fleet in Santa Monica will be made up of Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 electric vehicles

Stanford spin-off Snorkel AI reaches unicorn status in two years

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8/10/2021

Programmatic data labeling startup secures $85 million, just a few months after its $35 million Series B

New NSF-backed research institute to build next-gen infrastructure for AI

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8/10/2021

ICICLE will develop practical AI applications, and the tools to make technology easier to use

Retail tech unicorn Bluecore secures $125m in Series E

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8/10/2021

The likes of Gap and Foot Locker use the company’s platform to keep customers coming back

Language models like GPT-3 could be used to send more believable phishing emails

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8/9/2021

Singapore-based research team used AI to create ‘weirdly human’ scam messages

Battery-powered autonomous cargo trains to begin testing in Finland

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8/9/2021

The trains will be fueled by two 100kW engines capable of hauling up to 300 tons

John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million

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8/9/2021

The ag-tech market continues to consolidate

Dataiku closes $400m Series E round, reaches $4.6bn valuation

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8/5/2021

Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and Insight Partners among new investors

British politician decries AI ‘nudifier' platform, calls for the site to be banned

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8/5/2021

DeepSukebe charges up to $40 in crypto for ‘nudifier’ services

Harry Kane transfer would hurt Spurs but may improve Man United, according to AI soccer prediction system

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8/5/2021

Selling star striker would decrease Spurs top-four chances from 29 to just nine percent

Microsoft uses new machine learning model to enhance Bing searches

News
8/5/2021

More relevant searches for the less relevant search engine

How Verizon’s giant 5G truck looks to augment disaster response

Analysis
8/4/2021

Cory Davis, Verizon’s response and public safety director, says there’s ‘a lot more to come’ from THOR

Lawrence Berkeley's CAMERA uses AI for autonomous scientific discovery

News
8/4/2021

As science gets too big for human minds

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