Facebook launches Dynabench to test AI in realistic conditions News 9/30/2020Looking to solve the problem of users messing with its algorithms
French warehouse robotics startup Exotec raises $90m News 9/30/2020Skypods hope to fulfill your 3am retail therapy needs
Facial recognition vendor Clearview AI raises $8.6m, as it faces a lawsuit News 9/29/2020Court proceedings scheduled to begin in Vermont later this month
Omdia: AI to help drive robotics revenue to $286bn by 2026 News 9/29/2020With agricultural robots expected to emerge as the largest market category
US and UK governments sign joint AI R&D agreement News 9/29/2020We don’t think China was invited to the meetings
British startup using AI to fight fraud raises $36.8m News 9/29/2020After doubling its business during the pandemic
Taiwan launches business matchmaking platform for the AI sector News 9/28/2020Part of the country's national AI program
Maggi Savin-Baden explaining Digital Afterlife AI Knowledge Hub 9/25/2020Author of Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age
InterDigital releases AI-based video compression codec tool News 9/24/2020Available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 license
DeepCube raises $7m to accelerate AI inferencing through software News 9/24/2020The approach could enable advanced AI systems that don’t require a connection to the cloud
Microsoft to exclusively license OpenAI’s GPT-3 News 9/24/2020First they get their hands on Doom, now this
Drug discovery startup Insilico raises $37m, launches AI-powered platform News 9/24/2020The company uses generative models, reinforcement learning, and other machine learning techniques to better predict clinical trial outcomes
German vertical farm developer Infarm raises $170m News 9/23/2020Investors prove they have an appetite for AI-led farming
IBM and ProMare launch Mayflower, the autonomous research ship News 9/23/2020Testing the system ahead of a transatlantic voyage next year
Ten pharmaceutical companies report sucess of a federated learning platform News 9/23/2020MELLODDY is backed by the EU, and supported by Nvidia
US researchers are using AI to catch early signs of arthritis News 9/23/2020Hoping preventative action could help avoid the need for joint replacement later in life
Deloitte finds large enterprises not ready for AI execution News 9/23/2020Artificial intelligence, we’ve heard of it
Observe.ai raises $54m to aid call center conversations News 9/23/2020The startup uses AI to improve human capabilities, rather than replace agents with chabots
Autonomous drone delivery company Volansi raises $50m News 9/17/2020Focusing on heavy-duty delivery for the military and enterprise
Data platform vendor Snowflake scores highest ever software IPO News 9/17/2020Its 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 9/17/2020Seven participants will use AI and sensor technologies to help protect satellite-based services from collisions
Marketer attitudes towards AI changed by the pandemic News 9/17/2020Professionals are worried about being replaced
Nvidia and Arm plan world-class research center in the UK News 9/17/2020Powered by a new supercomputer
HCL Technologies opening AI lab to develop bespoke products and services News 9/16/2020Utilizing Nvidia’s DGX-1 machines
Congress deliberates on the impact and role of AI in the US economy News 9/15/2020Amid warnings that unchecked development could wreck the labor market
Oculus founder's military venture launches AI-powered drone News 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 News 9/15/2020A study by ESI Thoughtlab estimates AI projects take 17 months to break even
FDA is using AI to screen imported seafood News 9/15/2020The project is just a pilot – but the initial results look very promising
Toyota’s new $800 million fund will support mobility-focused AI companies News 9/15/2020The fund is the latest move in Toyota’s Woven Planet endeavor
ProteanTecs raises $45m for AI in chip design News 9/15/2020The company develops on-chip telemetry to reduce Defective Parts per Million
Pentagon to pit AI-driven jet fighters against human pilots News 9/13/2020Hoping to begin trials in 2024
Scientific publishing consortium drafts international guidelines for AI-based medical research News 9/10/2020Hoping to eliminate dubious studies from medical journals
Tokyo Expressway simulator to speed up car AI development News 9/10/2020If 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 9/10/2020A 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 9/9/2020It will still own most of the business
AI Summit London: How Tesco used AI to help deal with lockdown demand Analysis 9/8/2020Tesco’s CTO talks about the steps taken to confront the COVID crisis
AI-based analysis helps predict complications in future pregnancies News 9/8/2020The system accurately identifies lesions associated with pre-eclampsia
New Mercedes S-Class showcases self-driving tech News 9/7/2020The 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 9/7/2020The 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 9/4/2020CEO 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 9/2/2020Dr. 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 9/2/2020Using 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 9/2/2020Based 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 9/1/2020Scale 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 9/1/2020Dealing with a wide range of subjects, from extreme weather preparedness to primary education
MLOps startup Verta gets $10m in funding, launches first product News 9/1/2020The company plans to commercialize open source ModelDB project, developed by CEO Manasi Vartak