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USPTO uses ‘state-of-the-art’ machine learning to analyze AI patents

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8/31/2021

Publishes dataset describing all machine learning innovation since 1976

China’s largest AI firm files for $2bn Hong Kong IPO

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8/31/2021

SenseTime goes ahead with float while remaining blacklisted by the US Bureau of Industry and Security

China plans to regulate algorithms, proposes strict controls

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8/31/2021

After years of encouragement, the CCP is bringing the country’s tech corporations to heel

Unity buys OTO to fight swearing in video games

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8/27/2021

Using AI to censor in-game communications is shaping into a trend

Tesla AI day: Real chips, unreal robots

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8/20/2021

Spandex and silicon whipped out by tech's loudest billionaire

The UK private sector is ready for AI – but lacks skilled personnel needed for adoption, a new report warns

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8/20/2021

Government should consider incentivizing job hunters to take up tech careers, authors suggest

Baidu’s Kunlun II AI chips enter mass production

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8/20/2021

Plus, Baidu Brain is updated and an AI educational academy is set to launch

GE Appliances to add Google Assistant to fridges and dishwashers

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8/19/2021

One of the largest appliance companies in the United States partners with Google on a broad range of AI initiatives

Apple’s LiDAR patents suggest its autonomous vehicle project may still be alive

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8/19/2021

Five-year-old filings outline method of predicting LiDAR data using machine learning

Latent AI raises $19 million for AI at the edge

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8/19/2021

The startup emerged after years of DARPA-funded research

Bristol Myers Squibb to license Exscientia immunological drug candidate

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8/18/2021

The startup will receive a $20m option exercise fee – with tiered royalties on any product sales

British robot farming startup buoyed by $4.8m overfunded Crowdcube campaign

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8/18/2021

Supermarket giant Waitrose and the National Trust are among SRC’s customers

ClosedLoop raises $34m in Series B funding to improve patient care using data

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8/18/2021

Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano among new investors

China’s largest AI firm is reportedly planning $2bn Hong Kong IPO

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8/17/2021

SenseTime looks to go ahead with Hong Kong float, while remaining blacklisted by the US Bureau of Industry and Security

US federal government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes

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8/17/2021

Self-crashing technology

Ultromics closes $33m Series B to fund AI-based cardiovascular diagnostic tools

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8/17/2021

The firm’s EchoGo Core and EchoGo Pro platforms were built in partnership with the NHS

Apple researchers use AirPods and ML to measure breathing rates

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8/16/2021

Researchers already planning future tests with ‘a larger study cohort’

Omdia: Nvidia responsible for 80 percent of AI-focused data center chip market

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8/16/2021

Impressive 2020 revenue growth as the company admits it is looking over its shoulder

AI-powered drug discovery startup XtalPi closes $400m Series D round

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8/16/2021

Following reports of a potential public listing

JLL to acquire commercial real estate startup Skyline AI

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8/16/2021

Will help predict property values and suggest when it’s time to raise rent

Colorado set to host the largest electric autonomous vehicle fleet in the US

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8/13/2021

Six-seater ‘Mines Rovers’ are ADA accessible and 100 percent electric

HCL launches DRYiCE AEX: A suite of AI-based workplace tools to improve productivity

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8/13/2021

With more than 50 out-of-the-box use cases

OpenAI upgrades Codex machine learning assistant, says it can turn natural language into code

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8/12/2021

As its competitor AI21 launches the world's largest language model

So small: Nvidia unveils compact RTX A2000 GPUs for more capable AI workstations

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8/12/2021

For the first time ever, Nvidia places error correction codes in its 2000 series

Xiaomi takes on Boston Dynamics’ Spot with its own CyberDog

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8/11/2021

Says it will build an open source community around the quadrupedal robot

Deepbrain raises $44m, plans to bring its AI-based avatars to the US

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8/11/2021

“Synthetic humans” can be deployed as news anchors or English tutors

Hyundai’s Motional to expand robotaxi services across the West Coast

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8/11/2021

The new fleet in Santa Monica will be made up of Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 electric vehicles

Stanford spin-off Snorkel AI reaches unicorn status in two years

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8/10/2021

Programmatic data labeling startup secures $85 million, just a few months after its $35 million Series B

New NSF-backed research institute to build next-gen infrastructure for AI

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8/10/2021

ICICLE will develop practical AI applications, and the tools to make technology easier to use

Retail tech unicorn Bluecore secures $125m in Series E

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8/10/2021

The likes of Gap and Foot Locker use the company’s platform to keep customers coming back

Language models like GPT-3 could be used to send more believable phishing emails

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8/9/2021

Singapore-based research team used AI to create ‘weirdly human’ scam messages

Battery-powered autonomous cargo trains to begin testing in Finland

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8/9/2021

The trains will be fueled by two 100kW engines capable of hauling up to 300 tons

John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million

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8/9/2021

The ag-tech market continues to consolidate

Dataiku closes $400m Series E round, reaches $4.6bn valuation

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8/5/2021

Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and Insight Partners among new investors

British politician decries AI ‘nudifier' platform, calls for the site to be banned

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8/5/2021

DeepSukebe charges up to $40 in crypto for ‘nudifier’ services

Harry Kane transfer would hurt Spurs but may improve Man United, according to AI soccer prediction system

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8/5/2021

Selling star striker would decrease Spurs top-four chances from 29 to just nine percent

Microsoft uses new machine learning model to enhance Bing searches

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8/5/2021

More relevant searches for the less relevant search engine

Lawrence Berkeley's CAMERA uses AI for autonomous scientific discovery

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8/4/2021

As science gets too big for human minds

Hootsuite snaps up chatbot maker Heyday in $49m deal

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8/3/2021

Heyday is to operate as a standalone firm, but Hootsuite will integrate the company's tech into its social media management platform

Nvidia’s Inception program now boasts 8,500 AI startup members

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8/3/2021

Membership has increased by 17 percent in the first half of this year

Toyota and SMBC invest $137m in their third AI and robotics fund

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8/3/2021

Mirai Creation Fund III hopes to raise $915m by the end of March 2022

Europe's first commercial robotaxi service is a yellow ferry that takes you to a Dutch golf course

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8/2/2021

The solar and battery-powered ships can run for six hours at up to four knots

Facebook releases open source robotics development platform, Droidlet

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8/2/2021

A modular system for testing how robots interact with the real and simulated world

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