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• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Experts cautious about Apple's mood-detecting AI research

  The tech giant is working with UCLA to develop technology that uses facial recognition, sleep, typing patterns and other data points to detect emotion. But some are cautious.

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  SambaNova makes a mark in the AI hardware realm

  The startup says it is innovating AI hardware systems with its data flow architecture that enterprises can use to be more efficient when processing large AI data sets.

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  A look at AI trends and bias in AI algorithms

  In the past few years, more and more organizations have focused on AI. However, just as the use of AI and machine learning has expanded, concern about AI bias is also growing.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Deloitte AI Academy: A training ground for AI talent

  The global consulting giant's new AI Academy will provide supplemental education that closes the gap between the knowledge of AI tools and domain experiences and applications.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  DataRobot AI Cloud gives users multi-cloud capabilities

  DataRobot unveiled its cloud, giving users access to technologies and applications the vendor obtained with a series of recent and older acquisitions.

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• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Tableau and DotData partner on AI automation, visualization

  Tableau and DotData partner to help data scientists and engineers accelerate machine learning automation while adding a visualization layer to model building.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  AI hardware and software: The key to eBay's marketplace

  At the AI Hardware summit 2021, an eBay exec discusses how its similarity system enables it to build an AI-driven marketplace for better latency and throughput.

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  IBM Watson Assistant tools aim to speed contact center CX

  IBM has released new AI capabilities to speed virtual agents and automate more contact center tasks. The vendor also formed a partnership with contact center vendor IntelePeer.

• August 26, 2021 26 Aug'21

  RPA market booms as enterprises automate with bots

  The RPA sector is expected to reach nearly $3 billion this year as new vendors compete with larger established RPA specialists and tech giants for enterprise automation business.

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  DataRobot acquires Algorithmia to further MLOps goal

  DataRobot continues to pursue its growth-by- acquisition strategy by buying MLOps vendor Algorithmia in a bid to become a full-service machine learning platform provider.

• June 29, 2021 29 Jun'21

  Nvidia partners with Google Cloud to boost AI for 5G app dev

  Nvidia continues its aggressive push into both the AI and 5G markets, partnering with Google Cloud to aid in development of AI apps for the data center to the edge.

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  HPE buys Determined AI to speed AI model training with HPC

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise scoops up San Francisco-based startup to give customers out-of-the-box AI training models for use with high-performance computing systems.

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Open source RPA vendor Robocorp raises $21 million

  Software automation startup based on open source framework that originated at Finnish tech giant Nokia seeks to challenge bigger RPA vendors with consumption-based pricing, orchestration platform.

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance clears antitrust hurdle

  The U.S. government didn't flag the Microsoft-Nuance acquisition as violating antitrust laws, but scrutiny of big tech continues as governments try to reign in powerful companies.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  DataRobot integrates AI modeling tools with Snowflake

  The AI vendor and cloud data warehouse vendors' latest collaboration will enable joint customers to develop and deploy AI models with fewer production lags.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  M&A wave rising in hot AI market

  The market is ripe for more AI M&A deals as enterprise demand for AI talent, MLOps and vertical applications rose during the pandemic.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  L'Oréal to 'revolutionize' beauty services using Google Vertex

  ModiFace says it will save many hours developing AI algorithms by exploiting the compute power and AI tools of Google Vertex to create digitized beauty services.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Nvidia extends its AI reach with cloud development hub

  Nvidia debuted a development platform to speed the development and delivery of AI projects, along with a monthly subscription plan that allows access to its DGX SuperPod servers.

• May 28, 2021 28 May'21

  Microsoft revs up AI push with GPT-3-enabled Power Apps

  GPT-3-enabled Microsoft Power Apps will enable those with little or no coding experience to build Power FX applications on Azure using natural, conversational language.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Databricks steps up in competitive machine learning market

  At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced AutoML, glass box tools and Delta Lake-based Feature Store capabilities for its AI platform.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Affectiva emotion AI vendor latest in AI acquisition wave

  Amid a surging market for AI technology, Smart Eye, a vendor of AI-based eye tracking and driver tracking systems, acquires a vendor of emotion-sensing AI software.

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Google racing to catch up in growing enterprise AI market

  At Google I/O this week, the tech giant launched a new enterprise machine learning platform and language recognition model, and advanced other AI products under development.

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Google Cloud debuts Vertex AI managed ML platform with MLOps

  Users can build, test and deploy machine learning models and put them in production faster with Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, which contains new and existing Google AI tools.

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Biden sets stage for national AI strategy

  Biden's focus on AI includes funding research and development, manufacturing chips in the U.S. and preparing a workforce to use AI tools.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM Watson Orchestrate poised to take tasks workers hate most

  IBM Watson Orchestrate is the latest technology from a major vendor that promises to save employees from highly repetitive job responsibilities.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  DataRobot looks to enterprise AI coders with Zepl acquisition

  By acquiring cloud data science and analytics platform vendor Zepl, DataRobot gives data scientists a cloud-native, self-service notebook to write tasks and custom models.

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Panasonic to buy Blue Yonder in $7.1 billion deal

  Panasonic's acquisition of Blue Yonder aims to build out Panasonic's software business, but how well the traditional hardware vendor can adapt remains to be seen.

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  IBM Watson updates focus on data privacy and explainability

  Updates include new federated learning capabilities within IBM Watson Studio and more insights into how predictions are made in IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  IBM acquires MyInvenio to build its automation portfolio

  IBM could use MyInvenio's process mining platform to direct its customers to its automation and AI portfolio, a practice that other technology vendors are using.

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  SambaNova funding round brings in $676 million

  SambaNova's large funding round shows that investors are confident in the startup's AI chips, as well as in the AI hardware market. SambaNova competes with Nvidia.

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Nvidia releases new AI software, hardware

  Among the AI news from its virtual conference, Nvidia introduced a new DGX SuperPod, an Arm-based CPU, and the general availability of Jarvis, a conversational AI framework.

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Microsoft to acquire Nuance in $19.7 billion deal

  The all-cash acquisition will give Microsoft access to Nuance’s healthcare-focused dictation technology, as Microsoft continues to expand its role in the healthcare market.

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Check model accuracy with Facebook AI's new data set

  Facebook paid people for their likenesses in its new Casual Conversations data set. The data set can help researchers check for bias in their AI models.

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  New DataRobot CEO sees bright AI future for the vendor

  New CEO Dan Wright discusses how DataRobot can stay competitive in a crowded AI marketplace, new markets for the vendor, and how DataRobot has tackled the pandemic.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Research manager resigns amid Google AI ethics controversy

  Prominent Google AI research manager Samy Bengio resigns from the company following months of internal discord and the termination of two AI researchers.

• April 02, 2021 02 Apr'21

  Automatic speech recognition may be better than you think

  Even as more enterprises turn to voice recognition systems to process unstructured audio and build virtual assistants, many organizations don't have confidence in the high accuracy of these systems.

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  AI voice technology has benefits and limitations

  The quality of an automated transcription depends on high-quality recording equipment as well as modern AI-powered transcription software, according to one CTO.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Cloudera Foundation merger to bring AI and data to nonprofits

  The merger creates a program within the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation that will provide artificial intelligence technology and expertise to nonprofit organizations.

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Jumio CEO discusses new $150 million funding round

  Jumio CEO Robert Prigge talks about Jumio's new funding round and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Jumio's digital identity verification and fraud prevention business.

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Abbyy releases Vantage 2 and a new skills marketplace

  Abbyy aims at further injecting automation and intelligence into its products with the launch of a new marketplace and an update to its Vantage platform.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  PatSnap lands $300M in Series E funding

  PatSnap reports new funding for its IP and R&D management platforms, as the number of patents granted globally picked up, despite COVID-19, in 2020.

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Google will develop RPA with Automation Anywhere

  Google Cloud and a top robotic process automation vendor team up to focus on automating back-office tasks and later industries such as financial services, healthcare and retail.

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  Icertis raises $80M for AI-powered contract management

  Icertis, founded in 2009, is now valued at more than $2.8 billion with the new funding. The vendor is a key player in the contract management niche.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Automation vendor WorkFusion raises $220 million

  A new round of funding may vault WorkFusion into the top echelon of enterprise automation vendors currently occupied by UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Broad use of EHR voice assistants still years away

  EHR voice assistants aren't much more than a Siri-type interface to the patient's healthcare record right now. But vendors and clinicians see big things for the tech.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Mastercard senior VP talks about AI and fraud prevention

  Mastercard uses and sells AI-powered technology to prevent fraud and has found that AI-powered services can inspire customer loyalty.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Samsung adds AI processor in memory to high-bandwidth memory

  Samsung's new in-memory processing architecture brings compute capability to high-bandwidth memory to address data bottlenecks with AI and HPC workloads.

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Edge AI brings new uses to IoT devices

  A Lenovo executive describes AI at the edge, highlighting how this rapidly advancing technology unlocks new automations and capabilities within IoT devices.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Microsoft brings Azure AI to the edge with Azure Percept

  Azure Percept includes software for building machine learning models or deploying pre-built models, as well as hardware to deploy the models at the edge.

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Steel producer reduces costs using AI in manufacturing

  The largest long steel producer in Latin America used data and machine learning predictions to save money, while maintaining the same level of production quality.

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Robotics company Berkshire Grey will go public

  Berkshire Grey is the latest AI firm to go public, after the robotics vendor said it will merge with a special-purpose acquisition company. The move comes amid a surge in AI IPOs.

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Nvidia acquisition of Arm faces industry, regulatory hurdles

  Nvidia's acquisition of Arm Ltd. could change the chipmaker landscape and is reportedly raising industry and regulatory eyebrows.

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  CTO on the need for AI ethics and diversity

  A CTO talks about the importance of diverse data sets when creating AI models and how a lack of diversity can create bias in systems.

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Nvidia opens paid, instructor-led AI workshops to the public

  While many technology vendors offer online courses on how to use their AI products, it still might not be enough to educate the global workforce.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  DataRobot integrates Feature Discovery tool into Snowflake

  The product integration comes months after Snowflake Ventures invested in DataRobot and the two vendors agreed to a strengthened partnership.

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Autonomous truck startup raises $200M but faces competition

  The investment will fund Plus' autonomous driving software, which could enable long-haul trucks to drive themselves along long stretches of highway.

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Nuance touts CX benefits of AI in healthcare during pandemic

  Nuance acquires speech transcription vendor Saykara, adding the startup's tech to Nuance's arsenal of health IT systems. Meanwhile, Nuance and Best Buy Health execs tout CX benefits from AI.

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Microsoft makes image classification model available

  Microsoft's release of a pre-trained vision model comes after Google and OpenAI also released open source vision models. The models may not have much enterprise use, though.

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Automated speech recognition gives CX vendor an edge

  An automated transcription service can help users train their sales staff and stop robocalls. A contact center software vendor included one for free in its platform.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  AI vendors may have to prove systems don't discriminate

  Washington state is considering a bill that would require vendors to prove their AI algorithms aren't biased. If enacted, the AI regulation could have far-reaching implications.

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Nvidia partners launch Nvidia-Certified Systems for AI

  According to analysts, Nvidia-Certified Systems' launch is a shrewd move for Nvidia, as the vendor looks to cement its lead in the AI hardware marketplace.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  Google launches a suite of retail AI products

  Google released AI products for online retailers as the tech giant increases its focus on industry verticals. The new products are designed for small and large retailers.

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Diverse talent pools and data sets can help solve bias in AI

  Bringing historically underrepresented employees into critical parts of the design process while creating an AI model can reduce or eliminate bias in that model.

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  The power and limitations of enterprise AI

  A panel at CES 2021, held virtually this year, discusses the areas in which modern-day AI and automation shine, and where they still struggle.

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  White House issues guiding principles for AI regulations

  While the recommendations for AI regulation in the White House memo are loose, they appear to show the government is beginning to embrace AI, and could be a start toward oversight.

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  Doubts about Trump video show how hard deepfakes are to detect

  Some Twitter users insist that a recent video of President Trump admitting his defeat in the election is a deepfake, although there's no proof. Deepfakes are difficult to detect.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Intel launches RealSense ID for facial authentication

  Amid a surge of facial recognition technology systems from vendors, Intel introduces RealSense ID, a system that Intel claims can accurately and quickly identify human faces.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  Conversation intelligence helps ChowNow meet online order demand

  Using RingDNA, online food ordering platform ChowNow can automatically surface insights about what works in sales calls to better coach its sales staff.

• December 18, 2020 18 Dec'20

  AWS digs into its new machine learning industrial products

  Amazon Monitron and Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to help industrial customers predict when their machines will break. Amazon's GM of machine learning and AI explains.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Emerging AI startups to look at in 2021

  AI startups in the legal, MLOps, NLP and data training markets make this year's list of emerging AI vendors to look out for.

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  DataRobot releases new feature to detect AI bias

  DataRobot is the latest AI vendor to address AI bias, releasing a new feature to help organizations detect and prevent bias in their models.

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Nuance CTO: Conversational AI is the 'next big step'

  Conversational AI has steadily grown more advanced over the past several years. Nuance CTO Joe Petro explains why the vendor is refocusing on the technology.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Sharing medical imaging data with AI apps raises concerns

  Opening the door to third-party AI apps is a double-edged sword for patients. Its potential for healthcare is promising, but privacy is still a work in progress.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  New, updated IBM AI tech bring better NLP, NLU to business users

  IBM is commercializing its AI governance tool, AI FactSheets, and bringing more natural language capabilities to some of its Watson products.

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Amazon SageMaker Clarify aims to mitigate bias in machine learning

  AWS looks to tackle machine learning bias with a new a new tool that works with Amazon SageMaker products to help developers and users better detect and eliminate AI bias.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Hundreds support former Google AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

  A prominent AI ethics researcher said she was unfairly fired by Google after sending an email to colleagues critical of the way Google treats women and people of color.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  AWS releases machine learning services for industrial clients

  AWS released a mix of hardware, software and cloud-based services to help manufacturing clients better manage workplace safety and machine health.

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  ServiceNow will acquire AI startup Element AI

  ServiceNow's acquisition of an AI startup based in Montreal marks the latest move by the cloud computing giant to add more automation and intelligence to its platform.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Courses teach automation to prepare students for the workforce

  At a California university, students in April Morris' class learn how to use RPA and analytics tools. They hope to use the skills to get jobs out of school.

• November 20, 2020 20 Nov'20

  Google AI art tool turns 2D creatures into 3D models

  These 3D chimera creatures are brought to you by Google's Chimera Painter, an AI-powered tool that turns 2D images into 3D creature models.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  New Nvidia, AMD GPUs deliver more memory and speed -- again

  Nvidia and AMD each delivered much faster GPUs for data scientists and corporate IT shops investing in hardware to run AI and data intensive workloads.

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  UiPath platform update makes it easier to deploy smarter bots

  A new platform upgrade for UiPath makes it easier for users to develop and use robots at scale, as well as makes the bots more resilient to UI changes.

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  DataRobot pre-IPO funding raises company valuation to $2.7B

  Amid the pandemic, Boston-based AI vendor DataRobot raised $270 million in a pre-IPO fundraising round. The company is likely to file for an IPO.

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Infosys applied AI launch follows IT consulting AI releases

  Infosys launched a new offering to help enterprises find and apply AI use cases at scale. The release is part of a wave of similar products from other big systems integrators.

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  AI might not have rights, but it could pay taxes

  Tax, liability and patent laws can't handle AI systems, which have grown steadily smarter. As AI becomes ubiquitous, the legal system may need to change to accommodate it.

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  AWS launches P4d instances for deep learning training

  AWS released its EC2 P4d instances, the tech giant's newest GPU-backed instances. The instances speed up AI training and supercomputing workloads.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Intel will acquire model optimization startup SigOpt

  Intel's acquisition of SigOpt, a startup vendor of an AI model optimization platform, will help accelerate Intel's AI software products for developers.

• October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20

  AI fraud detection tools can help fight rising e-commerce fraud

  As the coronavirus pandemic has forced more businesses online, e-commerce fraud has spiked. AI fraud detection and prevention tools, however, can help merchants.

• October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20

  Wordtune AI tool from AI21 Labs rewrites sentences using NLG

  A new product powered by AI and natural language generation can rewrite sentences. The tool could foreshadow the arrival of more AI-powered writing assistants.

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Insurance provider uses AI for legal to manage contracts

  The legal team at Asurion, a major insurance provider, kept its documents spread out across filing cabinets, hard drives and the cloud. It turned to an AI platform to better manage them.

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Google enters mortgage space with new Document AI tool

  Google's new Lending DocAI product can help users automate mortgage document processing. The product is Google's first specialized mortgage tool.

• October 19, 2020 19 Oct'20

  COVID-19 to drive more AI in retail for small retailers

  Retailers were hit hard by the COVID-19 economic fallout, especially small, local businesses. Amid a shift online, AI could help some retailers adjust to the new reality.

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  New AI system to give Microsoft Seeing AI a boost

  A new object captioning AI model from Microsoft strengthens the tech giant's accessibility services, which the vendor has championed for years.

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Establishing AI governance in a business

  It's hard to ethically manage data for AI models, but AI governance, as well as a strong ethics framework, can help enterprises effectively manage data and models.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Nvidia Jarvis, new conversational AI tool, now in open beta

  A speech recognition services vendor in Great Britain turned to Nvidia Jarvis, a new framework for creating conversational AI models on GPUs, to quickly build a product.

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Nvidia adds DPUs to GPU lineup for artificial intelligence apps

  Nvidia has rolled out a new chip technology that supplements its GPUs, along with a new development kit and architecture to create more capable AI-based applications.

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  IBM chatbot gives voting information to Idaho residents

  By turning to IBM Watson Assistant, the state of Idaho deployed a chatbot to help voters get information about the primary elections, which were mail-in only, back in May.

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  The deepfake 2020 election threat is real, but containable

  Disinformation could harm the 2020 presidential election, and technology simply isn't advanced enough to detect manipulated content, especially deepfakes.

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Google, Unilever partnership uses AI for sustainable sourcing

  Unilever says it will use Google Earth Engine, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery, as well as AI technologies, to create a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023.

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's GPT-3 language model

  Microsoft expanded its partnership with AI research organization OpenAI. The tech giant will exclusively license OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 language model.