Reference design from Blaize and eYs3D looks to outmatch Lidar in industrial applications News 6/30/2021Blaize’s Pathfinder P1600 integrated with a depth camera aims to offer a cheaper depth sensing option
‘Precognition’ startup Massive Analytic to open AI and ML center in New Delhi News 6/30/2021Where developers are plentiful
Industrial AI Summit: Firms lacking women in leadership roles are missing out on top talent News 6/30/2021Businesses urged to evaluate hiring practices and advancement policies
Panasonic sells its Tesla shares for $3.6bn News 6/30/2021Cashing in will not affect the relationship or Nevada battery factory, Panasonic claims
WHO report on AI in healthcare calls for inclusive datasets, transparent deployment News 6/30/2021The report is the culmination of two years of consultations by an international panel of WHO-appointed experts
Industrial AI Summit: Hitachi is using AI and IoT to decarbonize industrial vehicle fleets News 6/29/2021Decarbonizing bus fleets alone would save 101m tons of CO2 – the equivalent of running 21,000 wind turbines for a year
DARPA to fund culturally aware natural language processing models News 6/29/2021To help translate in the field, as well as target enemies' feelings and ideas
Germany’s Hawk AI secures $10m to develop AI-powered anti-money laundering as-a-service News 6/29/2021Plans to expand into Singapore and the UAE
Nvidia’s AI-on-5G platform now supports Arm CPUs, HGX upgrades revealed News 6/28/2021Makes sense when you’re planning to buy Arm
Nvidia demos Vid2Vid Cameo – an AI model that brings 2D to life for better video calls News 6/28/2021Available soon as part of Nvidia’s Maxine SDK
AI-based system to fight malaria wins $3 million in XPRIZE competition News 6/28/2021Runners-up include digital mental health company and platform that monitors human trafficking
NIST proposes measures to tackle bias in AI, asks for feedback News 6/28/2021Agency seeks views from psychologists, sociologists, legal experts, and people from marginalized communities
NASA JPL partners with Boston Dynamics to explore Mars-like caves using NeBula AI News 6/28/2021Since they are shielded from cosmic rays, caves could harbor life – and potentially offer safe places for human habitation
Pentagon to become ‘AI-ready’ through implementation exercises, infrastructure upgrades News 6/28/2021"We will ensure that DoD data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure"
Dashcams for good: AI and car cameras are helping fix potholes News 6/25/2021Pilot data collection projects are running in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Dallas
Nvidia launches Fleet Command and partners with Equinix on AI LaunchPad News 6/25/2021Automotive parts manufacturer Continental is already using LaunchPad to develop autonomous vehicle technologies
Australia's Fivecast signs $5m AI contract with US Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency News 6/25/2021Following deals with the Department of Homeland Security
Quadric.io reveals new AI chip design for the edge News 6/24/2021The processor was born after founders struggled to find chips for a potential low-power robotic system
Expert.ai launches natural language platform for document analysis News 6/24/2021Capable of sentiment analysis and understanding complex expressions by looking at the context
Tesla unveils Dojo supercomputer prototype for vision-centric autonomous vehicle development News 6/22/2021Dojo claims 1.8 exaFLOPS of performance and moves data at 1.6 terabytes per second
Automated drinks dispenser from Miso aims to improve restaurant efficiency News 6/22/2021The process would be timed to be completed when the order is ready to be handed off to the delivery driver
HPE buys Determined AI and its deep learning development platform News 6/22/2021The startup promises faster training, more accurate models
Mayflower, the autonomous ship, forced to return to port due to mechanical issue News 6/21/2021Should the MAS eventually make it, it'll be the largest autonomous vessel to cross the world's second-largest ocean
Ford and Hermes study reactions to self-driving cars – by hiding the driver News 6/21/2021The unusual 'self-driving service simulation' trial is set to take place in Oxford, the UK
Origami raises $28 million to develop AI for short-term power trading News 6/21/2021Helping make sense of the increasingly complex and distributed energy market
AI-powered insurance specialist Tractable secures $60m in Series D funding News 6/18/2021Sets sights on home insurance as well as buying and selling used cars
SETI launches SpaceML, with open datasets for space exploration projects News 6/18/2021Some of the data has been used to look for potential alien activity in distant exoplanet atmospheres
Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton inks strategic AI partnership with Google Cloud News 6/18/2021Looking to launch a data and AI academy in Paris
VentureSonic offers AI-generated music as a branding opportunity News 6/18/2021Virgin Hyperloop, Publicis Media among brands signed up to use the platform at launch
Alphabet's self-driving car company Waymo raises another $2.5 billion News 6/17/2021Despite a recent flood of executive departures
Nvidia unveils Jetson AGX Xavier module for industrial AI deployments News 6/17/2021The rugged system-on-module features 512-core Volta GPU with 64 Tensor Cores, two deep learning accelerators, Arm CPU, and more
MLCommons launches machine learning benchmark for devices like smartwatches and voice assistants News 6/16/2021The TinyML benchmark was created over 18 months, with experts from Qualcomm, Fermilab, and Google aiding in its development
Poland’s PGNiG is using AI to increase its gas production News 6/16/2021The company said using digital tools will help increase extraction by more than 11bn cubic meters per year
AI-powered drug discovery startup Exscientia is buying rival Allcyte for $61m News 6/16/2021Allcyte’s Vienna site earmarked as potential EU hub
FedEx partners with Nuro for autonomous deliveries News 6/16/2021Trialing compact autonomous delivery vehicles in Houston
Biden administration appoints 12 people to new AI Research Resource Task Force News 6/15/2021Trump’s deputy CTO, DefinedCrowd’s CEO among experts on the list
Coursera: Finland is the world's top data science nation News 6/15/2021Global Skills Report details growing rise in global AI and ML competency
Dataiku launches fully managed version of its AI platform, aimed at smaller businesses News 6/15/2021Startups that are less than two years old, or with less than $5m in funding, are entitled to a discount
Guavus unveils open NWDAF implementation for 5G News 6/15/20215G-IQ contains a compact streaming analytics engine that’s up to 31 times faster than typical open source alternatives, the company claims
Google Cloud: 25% of manufacturers admit to allocating over half of their IT spend on AI News 6/14/2021Around three-quarters of surveyed automotive manufacturers say they use AI-based systems daily: ‘it’s like asking how many people are using math’
US Senate approves bill to challenge China on AI, semiconductors, and robotics News 6/14/2021American AI research now buoyed by $29 billion a year in extra funding – atop a further $80 billion granted to the National Science Foundation
Software Alliance unveils framework for tackling bias in AI News 6/14/2021BSA says governments pass laws forcing private sector firms to carry out impact assessments for AI systems
Google researchers create an AI system to speed up chip design News 6/11/2021The system continually learns and improves its ability to rearrange and better place cells
Recruitment startup Eightfold AI secures $220 million in Series E funding News 6/11/2021Latest capital injection to be used to accelerate expansion efforts and hire new data scientists
Computer vision specialist Neurala expands into Europe News 6/10/2021Co-founder Max Versace revels in ‘homecoming’
Chinese AI academics claim to have created the world's largest language model News 6/10/2021WuDao 2.0 features 1.75 trillion parameters - and becomes the basis for China’s first ‘virtual student’
Signal AI: 95 percent of the c-suite believes in AI for decision making News 6/10/2021Around 80 percent of respondents said they have too much data to consider
Mythic launches low-power analog chip for edge AI News 6/9/2021After raising a total of $155.2 million in VC funding
IBM to help establish UK's national AI and quantum computing research center News 6/7/2021The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation is looking for 60 scientists and interns
Khalifa Port in UAE to track containers with AI News 6/7/2021Using Microsoft Azure infrastructure and tools, and preparing the site for autonomous vehicles