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French autonomous vehicle maker EasyMile secures $64 million in funding

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4/30/2021

After deploying its first driverless cars in Korea, the company is looking to expand even further

Cyber security firm Vectra AI sees valuation jump to $1.2 billion following Series F

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4/30/2021

After a very busy, very profitable 2020

Biden’s first 100 days were dominated by diplomacy and conflict – according to AI-driven media analysis

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4/29/2021

Trump’s last days in office found to be associated with elections and campaign finance

Softbank splashes cash on AI-powered drug discovery in Exscientia’s $225 million Series D

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4/29/2021

Vision Fund 2 will be providing a further $300 million equity commitment

Checkout-free retail startup Sensei secures $6.5 million in seed funding

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4/28/2021

To scale its R&D and begin rollout in Europe

UK Government set to allow more vehicle autonomy, but research groups urge caution

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4/28/2021

Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) to be permitted in slow-moving traffic

Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving unit for $550m

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4/28/2021

First Uber bails on autonomous cars, now Lyft does the same

General Motors licenses AI software developed at Oak Ridge

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4/27/2021

MENNDL is “an evolutionary algorithm” that leverages a large number of compute nodes

Intel joins forces with Canada’s Mila to apply AI in drug discovery projects

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4/27/2021

And other efforts aimed at advancing state-of-the-art in machine learning

Huawei has created the world’s largest Chinese language model

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4/27/2021

More than 200 billion parameters – cooked up with homegrown hardware

Potential US legislation could greenlight safety standard exemptions for autonomous vehicles

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4/27/2021

Increasing from 2,500 per manufacturer to 15,000 – and then 80,000 in three years

M&S deploys AI-based platform to manage supply across 1,000+ grocery stores

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4/26/2021

This is not just AI-based supply chain management; this is M&S AI-based supply chain management

EU's data protection supervisor calls for ban on biometric surveillance in public

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4/26/2021

Welcomes proposed AI restrictions, but says the new rules too lax on facial recognition

Panasonic buys into AI-driven supply chains with $7.1bn acquisition of Blue Yonder

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4/23/2021

Blue Yonder brand to be retained under newly formed Panasonic Connect Co

Cerebras unveils successor to the world's largest processor

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4/23/2021

A huge chip (at a huge price)

This chatbot wants to help universities better understand their students

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4/23/2021

System developed by Juji can politely respond to off-topic questions without losing focus

Nvidia launches two server GPUs: A30 and A10

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4/23/2021

Smaller accelerators to complement the A100

Sony patent details AI system that plays video games by itself

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4/22/2021

Saying it could help players stuck on a level, or aid in achieving trophies

AI-driven talent acquisition startup Jobilla raises $2.6 million, plans European expansion

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4/22/2021

And further improvements for its candidate filtering platform

Toyota Industries combines autonomous vehicle tech under new T-Hive brand

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4/22/2021

Based in Holland and dedicated to control systems for automated forklifts and AMRs

Atos nabs multi-camera tracking developer Ipsotek in a ‘strategic’ acquisition

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4/22/2021

Around 50 Ipsotek employees to join Atos as part of the deal

Snowflake invests in Dataiku, deepens AI product integration

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4/22/2021

The partnership will be 'further amplified' through Snowpark, the new developer experience in Snowflake

Nvidia partners with Cloudflare for AI at the Edge

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4/22/2021

The pair intend to put ML ‘within milliseconds of the global online population’

France’s largest auto insurer is using AI to assess vehicle damage

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4/22/2021

With a system from Tractable AI that has processed over $1 billion in auto claims to date

EU unveils draft rules that ban AI systems posing a ‘clear threat’ to citizen’s rights and livelihoods

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4/21/2021

Proposals include strict limits on the use of real-time biometric identification systems

Volvo and China’s DiDi team up on driverless robotaxis

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4/20/2021

The new XC90s will drive themselves across Shanghai – but it’s not clear when

Honda partners with AutoX to test autonomous vehicles in China

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4/20/2021

Hoping that successful tests could lead to deployments at scale

UK's data watchdog issued $59 million in fines over data breaches, privacy in 2020

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4/20/2021

British Airways, Marriot, and Ticketmaster among those penalized for failing to manage customer data

American banks are using computer vision systems to monitor customers and workers

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4/20/2021

JPMorgan Chase among those looking to use AI to watch how people bank

Siemens to integrate Google Cloud’s AI and ML systems into manufacturing portfolio

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4/19/2021

Enabling use cases like visual product inspections and predictive maintenance

Walmart is the latest household name to invest in autonomous vehicle developer Cruise

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4/19/2021

Retailer says investment backs its sustainability and clean energy plan

Irish researchers equip e-scooters with computer vision to make them safer

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4/16/2021

E-scooters are currently ‘unlawful’ road vehicles in Ireland – the project aspires to change this

Ocado invests $14 million in autonomous driving specialist Oxbotica

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4/16/2021

UK’s most valuable food retailer ‘excited’ to expand into autonomous deliveries

Google Cloud unveils ‘virtual agent’ to support Covid vaccination efforts

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4/16/2021

Search engine giant is buying 250,000 Covid vaccines for ‘countries in need’

Groq raises $300m to spread the gospel of single-core chips for AI

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4/16/2021

Following SambaNova in a massive round for a small semiconductor business

Twitter launches ‘Responsible ML’ initiative

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4/15/2021

The platform says it intends to fight harmful bias and build explainable ML services

IBM’s Watson to crunch data for 2021 Overwatch League

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4/15/2021

Using AI models to analyze player performance in one of the largest events in e-sports

Nvidia unveils Omniverse Enterprise: a collaborative simulation platform

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4/15/2021

BMW, Activision, and Ericsson all given early access

Data labeling startup Scale AI valued at $7.3 billion following Series E

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4/15/2021

Former Amazon executive once tipped to replace Jeff Bezos joins as a special adviser to the CEO

Volvo and Nvidia extend collaboration on driverless tech

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4/15/2021

The upcoming XC90 SUV will be powered by DRIVE Orin hardware

FDA greenlights first AI-based device designed to help detect colon cancer

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4/15/2021

Study found GI Genius improved tumor detection rates

Nvidia, HPE, and CSCS collaborate on the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer

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4/14/2021

Alps will come online in 2023, replacing the Piz Daint supercomputer

AI hardware designer SambaNova raises $676m, now valued at $5bn

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4/13/2021

SoftBank finds another company to throw billions at

Nvidia is developing AI-focused Arm CPU for the data center

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4/13/2021

With Grace, the company wants to dominate both the GPU and CPU space

Voyager supercomputer to use Intel Habana chips for AI

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4/13/2021

San Diego Supercomputer Center to test out the new hardware with NSF grant

Nvidia releases Jarvis, a framework for conversational AI services

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4/13/2021

Using Mozilla’s Common Voice data to offer free, pre-trained ML models

DeepMind natural language expert joins Cambridge Quantum Computing as head of AI

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4/13/2021

Reuniting with former Oxford collaborator

Microsoft is buying speech AI specialist Nuance in $19 billion mega-deal

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4/12/2021

Purchase opens doors to the medical and telecoms markets

Immuno-oncology drug discovered with the help of AI reaches human trials

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4/12/2021

The A2a receptor antagonist was developed by Exscientia and Evotec to help adults suffering from advanced solid tumors

Genentech and Stanford use open source AI to reduce bias in clinical trials

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4/12/2021

A study published in Nature details how Trial Pathfinder was used to address the underrepresentation of minorities in cancer research

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