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Content posted in September 2020

Facebook launches Dynabench to test AI in realistic conditions

News
9/30/2020

Looking to solve the problem of users messing with its algorithms

French warehouse robotics startup Exotec raises $90m

News
9/30/2020

Skypods hope to fulfill your 3am retail therapy needs

Facial recognition vendor Clearview AI raises $8.6m, as it faces a lawsuit

News
9/29/2020

Court proceedings scheduled to begin in Vermont later this month

Omdia: AI to help drive robotics revenue to $286bn by 2026

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9/29/2020

With agricultural robots expected to emerge as the largest market category

US and UK governments sign joint AI R&D agreement

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9/29/2020

We don’t think China was invited to the meetings

British startup using AI to fight fraud raises $36.8m

News
9/29/2020

After doubling its business during the pandemic

Taiwan launches business matchmaking platform for the AI sector

News
9/28/2020

Part of the country's national AI program

Maggi Savin-Baden explaining Digital Afterlife

AI Knowledge Hub
9/25/2020

Author of Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

InterDigital releases AI-based video compression codec tool

News
9/24/2020

Available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 license

DeepCube raises $7m to accelerate AI inferencing through software

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9/24/2020

The approach could enable advanced AI systems that don’t require a connection to the cloud

Microsoft to exclusively license OpenAI’s GPT-3

News
9/24/2020

First they get their hands on Doom, now this

Drug discovery startup Insilico raises $37m, launches AI-powered platform

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9/24/2020

The company uses generative models, reinforcement learning, and other machine learning techniques to better predict clinical trial outcomes

German vertical farm developer Infarm raises $170m

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9/23/2020

Investors prove they have an appetite for AI-led farming

IBM and ProMare launch Mayflower, the autonomous research ship

News
9/23/2020

Testing the system ahead of a transatlantic voyage next year

Ten pharmaceutical companies report sucess of a federated learning platform

News
9/23/2020

MELLODDY is backed by the EU, and supported by Nvidia

US researchers are using AI to catch early signs of arthritis

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9/23/2020

Hoping preventative action could help avoid the need for joint replacement later in life

Deloitte finds large enterprises not ready for AI execution

News
9/23/2020

Artificial intelligence, we’ve heard of it

Observe.ai raises $54m to aid call center conversations

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9/23/2020

The startup uses AI to improve human capabilities, rather than replace agents with chabots

Autonomous drone delivery company Volansi raises $50m

News
9/17/2020

Focusing on heavy-duty delivery for the military and enterprise

Data platform vendor Snowflake scores highest ever software IPO

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9/17/2020

Its immense popularity could spell bad news for the likes of Azure and AWS

UK Space Agency is spending £1 million on AI-based answers to the space junk problem

News
9/17/2020

Seven participants will use AI and sensor technologies to help protect satellite-based services from collisions

Marketer attitudes towards AI changed by the pandemic

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9/17/2020

Professionals are worried about being replaced

Nvidia and Arm plan world-class research center in the UK

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9/17/2020

HCL Technologies opening AI lab to develop bespoke products and services

News
9/16/2020

Utilizing Nvidia’s DGX-1 machines

Congress deliberates on the impact and role of AI in the US economy

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9/15/2020

Amid warnings that unchecked development could wreck the labor market

Oculus founder's military venture launches AI-powered drone

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9/15/2020

“America is back on top, baby,” says Palmer Luckey

Advanced adoption of AI in the enterprise projected to reach 63% by 2023

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9/15/2020

A study by ESI Thoughtlab estimates AI projects take 17 months to break even

FDA is using AI to screen imported seafood

News
9/15/2020

The project is just a pilot – but the initial results look very promising

Toyota’s new $800 million fund will support mobility-focused AI companies

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9/15/2020

The fund is the latest move in Toyota’s Woven Planet endeavor

ProteanTecs raises $45m for AI in chip design

News
9/15/2020

The company develops on-chip telemetry to reduce Defective Parts per Million

Pentagon to pit AI-driven jet fighters against human pilots

News
9/13/2020

Hoping to begin trials in 2024

Iron Ox raises $20m for autonomous farming

News
9/13/2020

AI systems could be growing your next salad

Scientific publishing consortium drafts international guidelines for AI-based medical research

News
9/10/2020

Hoping to eliminate dubious studies from medical journals

Tokyo Expressway simulator to speed up car AI development

News
9/10/2020

If it can navigate the Shuto Expressway, it can drive anywhere

US Department of Energy to spend $16m on researching AI tools for hard science, complex systems

News
9/10/2020

A small drop in a sudden flood of government AI funding

UK government announces £50 million funding boost for healthcare AI

News
9/9/2020

“AI in health care will doubtless rank alongside earlier advances such as the stethoscope, the X ray and the blood test,” says CEO of the NHS

Russia’s Yandex to spin off self-driving joint venture with Uber, invest $150m

News
9/9/2020

It will still own most of the business

AI Summit London: How Tesco used AI to help deal with lockdown demand

Analysis
9/8/2020

Tesco’s CTO talks about the steps taken to confront the COVID crisis

AI-based analysis helps predict complications in future pregnancies

News
9/8/2020

The system accurately identifies lesions associated with pre-eclampsia

New Mercedes S-Class showcases self-driving tech

News
9/7/2020

The first time Level 3 and Level 4 self-driving capabilities have been fitted to a production Mercedes

GlaxoSmithKline opens $13 million research hub in London’s Kings Cross

News
9/7/2020

The pharma company will be collaborating with its new, AI-focused neighbors

AI Summit London: How McLaren Racing used its expertise to fight COVID-19

Analysis
9/4/2020

CEO Zak Brown talks about the importance of speed when designing prototype cars – and medical ventilators

AI Summit London: Machine learning predicted to make a genomic breakthrough within two years

News
9/2/2020

Dr. Hal Barron, chief scientific officer and president of R&D at GSK, talks about the future of healthv

Climax Foods raises $7.5 million to turn data into sustainable cheese

News
9/2/2020

Using AI models to find plant-based proteins that taste just as good

AI Summit London: Rolls-Royce to give away its ethical AI framework

News
9/2/2020

Based on decades of experience in AI and analytics, with applications across industries

Amazon’s top robotics engineer jumps ship, joins data annotation startup Scale AI

News
9/1/2020

Scale reached the coveted ‘unicorn’ status in August 2019; its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang was just 22

National Science Foundation to invest $100m in AI research institutes

News
9/1/2020

Dealing with a wide range of subjects, from extreme weather preparedness to primary education

MLOps startup Verta gets $10m in funding, launches first product

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9/1/2020

The company plans to commercialize open source ModelDB project, developed by CEO Manasi Vartak

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