General Atomics wins DoD’s $93.3m drone AI contract

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• 11/30/2020

Drone warfare continues getting smarter

GrAI Matter Labs raises $14m to bring instant AI inference to devices on the edge

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• 11/27/2020

The 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

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• 11/25/2020

Canadian supermarket giant Loblaw signs up for five vehicles

EdgeQ raises $51m for AI and 5G on a chip

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• 11/25/2020

Potential use cases include autonomous vehicles, drones, and industrial robotics

Abacus.AI raises $22m as it launches model production tools

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• 11/25/2020

The company wants to ‘precipitate an inflection’ in AI adoption

McKinsey: Telecom, high-tech sectors lead in AI adoption

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• 11/25/2020

Survey 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

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• 11/24/2020

Able to navigate the process from the initial inquiry though to the contract

AI Summit Silicon Valley joins forces with IoT World

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• 11/20/2020

In an event that will combine in-person and virtual conference experience

Autodesk to acquire AI design firm Spacemaker for $240 million

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• 11/20/2020

As the company beefs up investment in generative design

DOE finds giant Cerebras chip 10,000x faster than a GPU in a CFD workload

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• 11/19/2020

And nearly as many times more expensive

Guavus offers cloud-based AI analytics to telcos, built on AWS

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• 11/19/2020

Building upon an existing legacy of telco analytics

AI predicted to help reduce greenhouse emissions by 16% over next five years

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• 11/19/2020

But 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

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• 11/19/2020

Featuring smart junctions, connected roads, autonomous parking and electric vehicle charging

‘Data as code’ company Arrikto secures $10m in Series A funding

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• 11/19/2020

The platform wants to democratize access to machine learning

Walmart bins Bossa Nova shelf-scanning robots, enters Cruise autonomous delivery partnership

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• 11/18/2020

One AI robot loses its job, but another starts an internship

Danish students develop tool to measure the carbon footprint of AI

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• 11/18/2020

One 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

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• 11/17/2020

By leveraging enormous volumes of satellite and environmental data

UK government to crack down on ‘malicious’ foreign investment in British AI

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• 11/16/2020

A new bill is designed to protect businesses in ‘sensitive sectors’

Level 3 self-driving Hondas will be on sale by the end of March

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• 11/16/2020

As Japan outlines conditions for autonomous driving

Hyundai and Nvidia to deliver AI-enabled, connected cars as standard in 2022

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• 11/16/2020

The deal includes all Kia and Genesis models too

Robo-delivery startup Nuro raises $500 million

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• 11/16/2020

After discovering new applications for its product during the pandemic

Snap acquires AI-based voice agent platform Voca.ai

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• 11/16/2020

The social media giant reportedly spent $70 million on the deal

Nokia launches AI-based edge services to improve 5G delivery

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• 11/13/2020

Promising better performance for video streaming, cloud gaming

Cellwize’s AI-powered 5G deployment platform gets $32m backing from Intel, Qualcomm and others

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• 11/13/2020

The company’s vendor-neutral approach could help get 5G over the line

Telus is acquiring data prep specialist Lionbridge AI for $935m

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• 11/13/2020

The company provides human-labeled data for hundreds of use cases worldwide

Microsoft and Australia’s national science agency use AI to tackle plastic pollution

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• 11/13/2020

The 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

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• 11/12/2020

Chatbots 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

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• 11/11/2020

A 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

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• 11/11/2020

TrafiCam AI and ThermiCam AI enable predictive traffic management, help avoid accidents

Researchers make a beer-sniffing robot, using AI to taste-test

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• 11/9/2020

That’s all 2020 needs – drunk robots

NHS invites applications for second round of £140m AI in Health and Care Award

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• 11/9/2020

Tech 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

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• 11/9/2020

By this point, roboadvisors are expected to manage more than $3 trillion

Clarity AI raises $15m to measure social impact of business

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• 11/9/2020

“It has never been more important,” says founder and CEO

Intelligent tech on new Ford Kuga prevents blind spot collisions

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• 11/6/2020

Hoping to make AI less susceptible to confusion caused by anomalous data

Penn Engineering and CHOP get $6m to bolster AI models against adversarial attacks

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• 11/6/2020

Hoping to make AI less susceptible to confusion caused by anomalous data

Mercedes drops out of the autonomous taxi race

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• 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

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• 11/5/2020

Looking to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market

European Space Agency funds project to remove space debris, with AI on board

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• 11/4/2020

ClearSpace-1 hopes to keep space clean

Locomation successfully completes ‘autonomous relay convoy’ trucking pilot

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• 11/2/2020

The trial was designed to show regulators the technology is fit for on-road deployment

Waymo partners with Daimler for self-driving trucks

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• 11/2/2020

Autonomous freight delivery gets one step closer

App asks patients to cough into their phone to detect asymptomatic COVID-19 cases

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• 11/2/2020

Researchers have assembled what’s probably the world’s largest dataset of coughs

OrCam and Starkey integrate AI-based solutions to help the deaf-blind

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• 11/2/2020

Transmitting the visual world through audio

Optum: 59% of healthcare leaders expect ROI on AI in under three years

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• 11/2/2020

Confidence in AI appears to grow as organizations advance in implementation