General Atomics wins DoD’s $93.3m drone AI contract News 11/30/2020Drone warfare continues getting smarter
GrAI Matter Labs raises $14m to bring instant AI inference to devices on the edge News 11/27/2020The company says it is developing the ‘fastest AI per watt’ thanks to neuromorphic computing
Gatik announces Canada’s first autonomous delivery fleet and $25m in funding News 11/25/2020Canadian supermarket giant Loblaw signs up for five vehicles
EdgeQ raises $51m for AI and 5G on a chip News 11/25/2020Potential use cases include autonomous vehicles, drones, and industrial robotics
Abacus.AI raises $22m as it launches model production tools News 11/25/2020The company wants to ‘precipitate an inflection’ in AI adoption
McKinsey: Telecom, high-tech sectors lead in AI adoption News 11/25/2020Survey finds 22% of respondents attributing at least five percent of EBIT to AI
Vaiot uses IBM’s Watson to launch IVAs for the insurance industry News 11/24/2020Able to navigate the process from the initial inquiry though to the contract
AI Summit Silicon Valley joins forces with IoT World News 11/20/2020In an event that will combine in-person and virtual conference experience
Autodesk to acquire AI design firm Spacemaker for $240 million News 11/20/2020As the company beefs up investment in generative design
DOE finds giant Cerebras chip 10,000x faster than a GPU in a CFD workload News 11/19/2020And nearly as many times more expensive
Guavus offers cloud-based AI analytics to telcos, built on AWS News 11/19/2020Building upon an existing legacy of telco analytics
AI predicted to help reduce greenhouse emissions by 16% over next five years News 11/19/2020But there’s still work to be done in finding a balance between climate benefits and energy demands
Jaguar Land Rover is building a smart city hub in Ireland to test driverless cars News 11/19/2020Featuring smart junctions, connected roads, autonomous parking and electric vehicle charging
‘Data as code’ company Arrikto secures $10m in Series A funding News 11/19/2020The platform wants to democratize access to machine learning
Walmart bins Bossa Nova shelf-scanning robots, enters Cruise autonomous delivery partnership News 11/18/2020One AI robot loses its job, but another starts an internship
Danish students develop tool to measure the carbon footprint of AI News 11/18/2020One training session with GPT-3 uses the same amount of energy as 126 homes in Denmark do in a year
NOAA, Google to explore AI for predicting extreme weather News 11/17/2020By leveraging enormous volumes of satellite and environmental data
UK government to crack down on ‘malicious’ foreign investment in British AI News 11/16/2020A new bill is designed to protect businesses in ‘sensitive sectors’
Level 3 self-driving Hondas will be on sale by the end of March News 11/16/2020As Japan outlines conditions for autonomous driving
Hyundai and Nvidia to deliver AI-enabled, connected cars as standard in 2022 News 11/16/2020The deal includes all Kia and Genesis models too
Robo-delivery startup Nuro raises $500 million News 11/16/2020After discovering new applications for its product during the pandemic
Snap acquires AI-based voice agent platform Voca.ai News 11/16/2020The social media giant reportedly spent $70 million on the deal
Nokia launches AI-based edge services to improve 5G delivery News 11/13/2020Promising better performance for video streaming, cloud gaming
Cellwize’s AI-powered 5G deployment platform gets $32m backing from Intel, Qualcomm and others News 11/13/2020The company’s vendor-neutral approach could help get 5G over the line
Telus is acquiring data prep specialist Lionbridge AI for $935m News 11/13/2020The company provides human-labeled data for hundreds of use cases worldwide
Microsoft and Australia’s national science agency use AI to tackle plastic pollution News 11/13/2020The initiative aims to reduce the millions of tonnes of plastic in waterways around the world
NICE: Two thirds of contact centers are using some form of AI News 11/12/2020Chatbots and IVAs get better at resolving customer issues – but there are plenty of improvements still to be made
Samsung and Xilinx are bringing computational storage to the masses News 11/11/2020A new class of SSDs equipped with an FPGA and memory to chew through common data processing tasks without involving the CPU
FLIR introduces AI-enabled traffic cameras to help deal with congestion News 11/11/2020TrafiCam AI and ThermiCam AI enable predictive traffic management, help avoid accidents
Researchers make a beer-sniffing robot, using AI to taste-test News 11/9/2020That’s all 2020 needs – drunk robots
NHS invites applications for second round of £140m AI in Health and Care Award News 11/9/2020Tech used in triage, screening, imaging and operational automation is top of the wish list
Juniper: Loans issued by AI underwriting to reach $315bn by 2025 News 11/9/2020By this point, roboadvisors are expected to manage more than $3 trillion
Clarity AI raises $15m to measure social impact of business News 11/9/2020“It has never been more important,” says founder and CEO
Intelligent tech on new Ford Kuga prevents blind spot collisions News 11/6/2020Hoping to make AI less susceptible to confusion caused by anomalous data
Penn Engineering and CHOP get $6m to bolster AI models against adversarial attacks News 11/6/2020Hoping to make AI less susceptible to confusion caused by anomalous data
Mercedes drops out of the autonomous taxi race News 11/6/2020"We don't compete in any race that we can no longer win," a spokesperson said
Intel continues AI push with acquisition of MLOps vendor Cnvrg News 11/5/2020Looking to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market
European Space Agency funds project to remove space debris, with AI on board News 11/4/2020ClearSpace-1 hopes to keep space clean
Locomation successfully completes ‘autonomous relay convoy’ trucking pilot News 11/2/2020The trial was designed to show regulators the technology is fit for on-road deployment
Waymo partners with Daimler for self-driving trucks News 11/2/2020Autonomous freight delivery gets one step closer
App asks patients to cough into their phone to detect asymptomatic COVID-19 cases News 11/2/2020Researchers have assembled what’s probably the world’s largest dataset of coughs
OrCam and Starkey integrate AI-based solutions to help the deaf-blind News 11/2/2020Transmitting the visual world through audio
Optum: 59% of healthcare leaders expect ROI on AI in under three years News 11/2/2020Confidence in AI appears to grow as organizations advance in implementation