UK's NHS faces legal challenge over deal with Palantir

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• 2/26/2021

The country's health service gave the Silicon Valley company access to data in a contract initially valued at just £1

Google to remove gender labels from image recognition tool

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• 2/25/2021

An early example of a feature clashing with the company’s ethical AI principles

Smart home as-a-service company Plume reaches ‘unicorn’ status

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• 2/24/2021

The business focuses on the needs of communications service providers

ABB adds two models to its ‘cobot’ line-up

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• 2/24/2021

GoFa and SWIFTI hope to take robotics into new environments

AIOps firm ScienceLogic raises $105m in Series E

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• 2/24/2021

“What we're witnessing is a major investment cycle away from legacy monitoring tools and toward AIOps platforms,” says CEO Dave Link

Xilinx launches Smart World for faster AI-based video analytics

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• 2/23/2021

New software platform promises quick, cheap inference – as long as you own FPGAs

Robotic harvest companion ‘Carry’ wants to help farmers boost efficiency

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• 2/23/2021

Future Acres claims the machine pays for itself in just 80 days

EU security agencies warn AI in autonomous vehicles “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks”

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• 2/23/2021

Self-driving vehicles could be Waymo trouble than they’re worth

AI and Linux to fly on Mars, as robot helicopter emerges from Perseverance

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• 2/22/2021

Ingenuity will be man’s first object to fly on Mars

LIDAR specialist AEye to go public via SPAC, valuing it at $2bn

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• 2/19/2021

Joining a number of LIDAR businesses that have used SPACs instead of IPOs

AiFi and Wundermart team up for checkout-less stores throughout Europe

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• 2/18/2021

To start, 20 Wundermart locations will be fully automated using the OASIS platform

Bearing.ai comes out of stealth to optimize the shipping industry

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• 2/18/2021

Lands large customers at sea

Peak says $21m funding round will help ‘level the playing field’ for AI in business

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• 2/18/2021

The company runs a one-stop-shop for AI implementation

Vevo launches AI-powered ‘Moods’ to help align ads with music

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• 2/17/2021

Enabling advertisers to choose between ‘fun,’ ‘heartfelt,’ ‘impassioned,’ and ‘empowering’

Chinese AI ecosystem is much larger than previously thought

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• 2/16/2021

According to an AI-based analytics project

VW Group and Microsoft join forces to build autonomous cars

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• 2/15/2021

As the car maker transforms into a “digital mobility provider”

Brain Corp’s sales surge as retailers turn to robots for cleaning

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• 2/12/2021

Autonomous device OS developer partners with OEMs to build robots

Labelbox raises $40m to streamline data labeling

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• 2/12/2021

The company says its platform reduces human effort by 80 percent

Hyundai’s autonomous TIGER concept sets sights on the moon

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• 2/12/2021

The robo-vehicle combines legs and wheels

NeuReality emerges from stealth with $8m to accelerate AI at scale

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• 2/11/2021

First product is expected to launch later this year

Dendra Systems’ ‘sky tractors’ rely on computer vision to restore degraded land

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• 2/10/2021

Aerial seeding drones can plant up to 300,000 trees a day

Theator raises $15.5m for AI-assisted surgery system

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• 2/10/2021

Wants to watch you being cut open

Jigsaw says its AI-based comment moderation service now processes 500m requests a day

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• 2/9/2021

Using machine learning to force trolls to be a little more creative

BP celebrates successful oil refinery self-driving trial

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• 2/9/2021

Next, it plans for a permanent robo-vehicle deployment

Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai raises another $100 million

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• 2/9/2021

Few autonomous vehicle companies can rival Pony.ai’s funding to date

IBM becomes a Palantir reseller

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• 2/9/2021

Plus Palantir signs deals with major oil and mining companies

RNIB and conversational AI vendor Alana partner on tools for people with sight loss

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• 2/8/2021

The project aims to support more than two million people in the UK

Google’s smartphones to start measuring heart and breathing rates

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• 2/5/2021

No wearables involved – everything is done via the camera

Canada says Clearview’s AI-based surveillance is illegal, asks to delete data

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• 2/5/2021

This is a request, not an order – but the government might decide to pursue more aggressive action

AI-based cyber security outfit Darktrace reportedly eyes $5bn London IPO

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• 2/4/2021

After seeing the demand skyrocket

RPA platform UiPath raises $750m in Series F funding

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• 2/4/2021

The company could be close to an IPO

Ford signs up Google as cloud and AI partner

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• 2/4/2021

“We plan to disrupt,” says VP for strategy and partnerships

Rackspace: The UK trails much of the world in AI uptake

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• 2/3/2021

British companies cite poor data and a lack of expertise as barriers to implementation

Experiment tracking platform Weights & Biases raises $45m in funding

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• 2/3/2021

The platform aims to bring machine learning practitioners out of ‘the dark ages’

Large dataset specialist Databricks raises $1bn, is now worth $28bn

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• 2/3/2021

Tech giants line up to invest in “Data + AI” business

Wind River launches telco edge management platform, signs up Verizon

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• 2/2/2021

Using AI to help control 5G networks

Researchers combine human brain cells and microchips in experimental AI architecture

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• 2/2/2021

Neu-ChiP project aims to revolutionize computing by learning from nature

Researchers propose ‘liquid’ neural networks that learn on the job

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• 2/1/2021

A more flexible approach to machine learning could aid better decision-making in autonomous driving and medical diagnosis

World Economic Forum launches foundation for ethical AI

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• 2/1/2021

While the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation pumps $40m into AI for good

Autonomous drone and air taxi port ‘Air One’ set to open in the UK

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• 2/1/2021

Its creators hope to eventually operate hundreds of similar sites