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• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Nvidia, Arm deal creates AI, chip powerhouse

  Nvidia's acquisition of U.K. chipmaker Arm, if approved by regulators, will greatly expand Nvidia's reach in the CPU market, especially in IoT and mobile devices.

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  AI in transportation reduces employee workloads

  By using intelligent automation, a shipping company trimmed employee workloads, enabling employees to shift from document processing to customer service.

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  GCP powers AI in marketing at McDonald's

  McDonald's uses the Google Cloud Platform to drive its personalized marketing efforts, which has helped the company grow and know its customers better.

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Microsoft deepfake software combats election propaganda

  Ahead of the 2020 United States presidential election, Microsoft released Video Authenticator, an AI-powered tool to help identify deepfake images and videos.

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  IBM uses AI to power new US Open online features

  With AI and Watson Discovery, IBM is providing tennis fans with new ways to interact with each other online during this year's US Open, which will be held without live spectators.

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• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  It's been a slow road for AI in oil and gas industries

  Analytics and AI can help oil and gas companies better predict supply and demand, involuntary flaring and where to drill. But the companies struggle to get talent.

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  It's time to address AI ethics

  Enterprises need to focus on creating and adopting AI ethical guidelines, especially for emerging technologies such as facial recognition and home assistants.

• August 24, 2020 24 Aug'20

  AI in retail has helped retailers during COVID-19

  During the Ai4 2020 virtual conference, a panel of retail experts discusses how AI and analytics have helped retailers deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Automated document processing helps PPP applications

  Using its own AI models, as well as technology from Abbyy, PwC can rapidly and correctly file a large volume of PPP loan applications.

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  AI, robotics help businesses pivot supply chain during COVID-19

  Big enterprises such as Wayfair, UPS, Unilever and Siemens move to automate more of their supply chains with AI as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts business operations.

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Does technology increase the problem of racism and discrimination?

  According to a publication from the MIT Technology Review, technology promotes racism. Most facial recognition algorithms discriminate against the Black population. And even certain concepts or technological terminology tend to be offensive, ...

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Process automation in education helps school during COVID-19

  Using process automation, a school in Sydney helped keep classes going online by automating the daily roll call process. Organizations have increasingly turned to automation and AI during COVID-19.

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Google Cloud, Harvard release COVID-19 Public Forecasts

  Google Cloud, in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute, released public models that can predict new COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations 14 days out.

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Intuit AI, knowledge engineering help power Aid Assist

  The principal product manager at Intuit talks about the company's use of machine learning, natural language processing and knowledge engineering in its new Aid Assist tool.

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Salesforce's AI-powered Einstein Call Coaching now available

  Salesforce's Einstein Call Coaching has moved out of pilot testing, during which a steel building manufacturer saw a 60% reduction in time spent manually analyzing customer calls.

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  The state of AI in 2020 likely sees more adoption

  AI adoption has appeared to grow this year, as organizations deploy automation to augment dwindling workforces and help deal with growing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Nvidia, University of Florida building AI supercomputer

  Nvidia and the University of Florida have teamed up to build what they claim will be the fastest AI supercomputer in academia, capable of hitting 700 petaflops of performance.

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Accounts payable automation eliminates invoice backlog

  Purple, a mattress company, struggled each week to manually process its myriad invoices and bills. It found relief in automated accounts payable software from a startup vendor.

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Care provider uses automated machine learning in healthcare

  An assisted living and transitional care provider uses DataRobot to automate the process of building and deploying machine learning models, enabling it to deploy models quickly.

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  DotData Stream enables real-time predictions at the edge

  DotData opens the doors to new markets with DotData Stream, a new product that enables customers to create low-memory, low-latency models at the edge.

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  IBM acquires RPA vendor to enhance automation suite

  IBM bought a Brazilian RPA and chatbot vendor to expand its collection of automation products.

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Warehouse AI and robotics help train employees

  Workers at a logistics and transportation company learn on the job with an autonomous cart, Chuck. The robot teaches employees the layout of the warehouses and where items are.

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  IBM donates AI ethics tools to Linux Foundation

  IBM donates open source toolkits AI Fairness 360, Adversarial Robustness 360 and AI Explainability 360 to the Linux Foundation amid calls for more ethical AI.

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Bank modernizes with MLflow and Databricks

  With Databricks and MLflow, an Argentinian bank modernized its infrastructure, increased customer retention and better managed its machine learning models.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  RPA use cases expanding in large enterprises

  Robotic process automation veterans at Blue Prism's virtual conference talk business process automation strategies, obstacles and untethering bot deployments from cutting jobs.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Databricks acquisition of Redash boosts data visualization

  Databricks bought Redash, a data visualization vendor, to boost its own visualization capabilities. Databricks had largely relied on partnerships with other vendors for such tools.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Databricks AI in next-generation transportation

  Virgin Hyperloop turned to Databricks to horizontally scale out and speed up its processes as it works to create a new form of transportation.

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  DataRobot training aims to upskill citizen data scientists

  DataRobot unveiled a new data science training program, and enhancements to its enterprise AI platform, including a geospatial capability and automated time series anomaly detection.

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Amazon highlights distancing with Distance Assistant

  Amid a lawsuit over unsafe warehouse conditions, Amazon brings an AI-powered camera and monitor system to its warehouses to help employees maintain social distancing.

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Predictive maintenance vendor launches AI warranty

  A predictive maintenance vendor added a new warranty to its platform that pays customers $100,000 for repair if the AI-based prediction system fails to foresee a machine breakdown.

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  DataRobot partners with BCG, acquires its analytics software

  DataRobot's new partnership with Boston Consulting Group aims to bring the technical expertise of BCG to DataRobot's customers. The AI vendor also acquired analytics software from BCG.

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Microsoft replaces dozens of journalists with AI system

  In a cost-saving move, Microsoft is ending the employment of dozens of contract journalists in favor of AI systems. It's a risky move, though.

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Contact tracing apps seem effective, but have privacy concerns

  Contact tracing mobile applications appear to offer an easier, safer way to track where an infected person has been, but technology could cross a data privacy boundary.

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Enterprises should not neglect AI digital transformation

  Enterprises should focus on automation to augment their workforces as they recover from the COVID-19 economic downturn, and not lose sight of larger digital transformation projects.

• May 28, 2020 28 May'20

  AI in sales can make smart lead recommendations

  For one B2B sales tech company, a self-service AI startup founded by a former Google employee helps create lead recommendations using machine learning.

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Using data and IBM AI to make coronavirus economic predictions

  A major marketing firm has turned to IBM Watson Studio, and its data, to create an interactive platform that predicts the risk, readiness and recovery periods for counties hit by the coronavirus.

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  Pegasystems releases Ethical Bias Check to cut down on AI bias

  Pegasystems has embedded a new tool to combat AI bias in its Pega Customer Decision Hub. The tool can alert users to potential biases before they deploy system changes.

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  IBM Think 2020: AI, security, COVID-19 news, trends and analysis

  News at the IBM Think 2020 digital conference focused on paths to modernization -- including advanced AI and automation -- IoT, hybrid cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity.

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Nvidia unveils A100 GPU for demanding AI workloads

  Designed for demanding AI and data science workloads, Nvidia's new A100 processor is a powerhouse, but it's also power-hungry and high-heat-producing.

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Intel makes new investments in AI startups

  Intel reveals new investments in 11 startups focused on AI, automation and chip design as the tech giant ramps up its efforts in the AI hardware market.

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Facebook advances AI used to detect hate speech

  Facebook can now proactively find and flag hate speech better. Meanwhile, the social media giant's AI Research made BlenderBot, an advanced conversational AI system, open source.

• May 08, 2020 08 May'20

  Automated data governance vendor Immuta gets key update

  An update to Immuta's automated data governance enabled one of its users to better anonymize its consumers' data and control who has access to it.

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  AI in digital transformation vital for enterprises

  Without using AI, enterprises will not be able to compete effectively, according to the CEO of Box. Companies need to infuse AI into their digital transformation efforts now.

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  IBM's Watson AIOps aims to help networks run smoothly

  Launched during IBM Think 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, IBM's Watson AIOps aims to use AI to help CIOs more quickly and efficiently keep their networks running.

• May 01, 2020 01 May'20

  SBA bans RPA for PPP loan applications after bots clog system

  After a deluge of Paycheck Protection Program loan applications overwhelmed the SBA's electronic loan transfer system, the agency said it would no longer accept loans filed by RPA systems.

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Nvidia finalizes Mellanox deal to boost AI products

  The Nvidia acquisition of Mellanox will improve its GPU and AI infrastructure products, but it's not likely to give the company a significant edge in the competitive AI market.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  AI helping higher education during the pandemic

  By using AI and analytics, higher education schools can gauge how their students are faring at scale during the coronavirus pandemic.

• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  Safety vs. privacy in the age of coronavirus raises tech questions

  To slow the spread of the coronavirus, governments and organizations are using contact tracing and thermal imaging for fever detection, but these methods carry privacy concerns.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Atos acquisition of AI consulting firm looks promising

  Atos, a global IT services company, acquired a data science and AI consulting firm as more enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  PyTorch update from Facebook and AWS eases model building

  PyTorch 1.5 introduces TorchServe, a model serving library, and TorchElastic, a Kubernetes controller. Both applications are still in experimental mode.

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  Using ModelOps, a financial services company scales out

  Using model operations (ModelOps), a fintech startup was able to scale up its model deployment quickly, while also maintaining model governance at scale.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  Text search tool makes finding documents easier

  Using a visually appealing approach, Keeper.fyi enables users to search text documents, images, and graphs and charts quickly and efficiently.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  AI for supply chain can help companies handle disruptions

  Even faced with the unpredictability of the coronavirus pandemic, enterprises can generate some stability using AI and machine learning in their supply chains.

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  City of Knoxville deploys a web and SMS chatbot

  By using a chatbot from text messaging vendor Quiq, the city of Knoxville, Tenn. can give its residents information on the coronavirus, the 2020 census, and the city's social services.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  DataRobot layoffs come after years of growth

  Boston-based automated machine learning vendor DataRobot, a major player in the AI industry, has laid off employees amid the coronavirus pandemic after years of fast growth for the company.

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  AI in procurement creates searchable, sorted data

  Canadian startup Tealbook uses NLP and machine learning to automatically create sorted and searchable supplier data, enabling its customers to spend less time looking for data and more time using it.

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  AI in mining takes root in the industry

  Executives from data science vendors Kespry and Descartes Labs discuss the importance of AI in the mining industry, a sector that is still fairly new to AI technologies.

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Using automated machine learning for AI in insurance

  Using dotData, an automated machine learning vendor, one of the largest insurance firms in Japan built out an AI platform that provides a personalized experience to customers.

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Social media platforms ramp up automated content curation

  As the new coronavirus continues to disrupt the workforce, social media companies are increasingly using machine learning to automatically detect and remove harmful content.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Data Science Central co-founder talks AI, data science trends

  In a Q&A, Vincent Granville, executive data scientist and co-founder of Data Science Central, discusses how AI has changed the data science field and the ways in which it will continue to do so.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Advanced AI in financial services boosts fraud detection, efficiency

  Financial firms plan to invest more into R&D on AI and plan to deploy advanced AI, like deep learning, within the next two years, according to a new survey.

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  The pope, with Microsoft and IBM, calls for AI ethics

  The Pontifical Academy for Life has issued new guidelines for ethical AI that call for artificial intelligence technology to be explainable, trusted and secure.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Customer experience chatbot provides answers

  Upwork has slowly been rolling out a customer experience chatbot service from vendor Ada, which it uses in conjunction with Zendesk to help provide customers with support.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Forest fire sensors and AI help detect fires in Chile

  Entel Ocean uses DataRobot's automated machine learning platform, as well as IoT sensors, to automatically detect forest fires in Chile. The platform can detect fires faster than manual counterparts.

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  EU AI regulation guidelines worry vendors

  The EU released AI regulation guidelines that demand AI systems in high-risk areas are transparent and have human oversight. Some vendors are worried.

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Employee AI readiness is fairly low

  Enterprise employees are largely lacking in AI skills, and enterprises need to work to reskill or upskill employees to improve their skills and help reduce AI job loss fears.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Customer experience vendor benefits from AI in forecasting

  Using Anodot, customer experience software vendor Gainsight can automatically surface anomalies in its data and fix them, often before they become major problems.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  How the Clearview AI affair likely won't spur meaningful change

  An obscure AI vendor sparked controversy for scraping social media for data to power a facial recognition platform that it sells to law enforcement agencies around the world.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  IBM's Policy Lab calls for AI regulation

  Launched during the Davos World Economic Forum, IBM's Policy Lab seeks to unite governments and businesses on creating and adopting more regulation of AI.

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Social media marketing vendor uses sentiment analysis

  Falcon.io, a social media marketing vendor, turned to AI vendor Lexalytics to add automatic social media sentiment analysis capabilities to its platform.

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Intel AI hardware roadmap shifts away from Nervana

  Intel said it is ending development of its Nervana AI processors. The tech vendor will instead focus its efforts on its Habana Labs processors, which it acquired last year.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Microsoft launches AI for Health initiative

  Microsoft's new health AI initiative may do some good for partner nonprofit and academic healthcare groups, but it may raise some data privacy concerns as well.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  RPA in payroll automates finance processes for NYP hospital

  NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest hospitals in the U.S., looked to WorkFusion to automate some payroll processes, including filling out missed punch forms.

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  New IBM Power9 server adds Nvidia, Google chips for AI workloads

  Big Blue rolled out another member of its IBM Power9 server family targeted at corporate users who are ready to move beyond the training phase of their AI projects to the deployment phase.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  ServiceNow acquisition of Passage AI to boost chatbots

  ServiceNow will acquire Passage AI, a startup conversational AI vendor, in an effort to further develop existing conversation capabilities in its chatbots.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Eye transplant nonprofit turns to supply chain modeling

  Eversight, a nonprofit that recovers and transports eye tissue, turned to a supply chain management software system to better predict supply routes.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  GumGum uses machine learning annotation service Figure Eight

  Computer vision vendor GumGum gets its training data from Figure Eight, a machine learning training data vendor. Figure Eight uses crowdsourcing to annotate training data.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  AI in e-commerce helps product sales

  EBay uses AI to power tools and services it built in-house to attract and retain users, such as automatic translation, image recognition and photo cleanup.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Hair salon uses front desk AI to boost appointments

  A hair salon in Florida uses conversational AI to automatically engage clients over text. The bot answers questions and schedules appointments without human input.

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  U.S. restricts exports of geospatial AI software

  The Trump administration's move to limit export of AI-based geospatial imaging software extends U.S. restrictions on technology that foreign countries could use to develop weapons systems.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  AI vendors to watch in 2020 and beyond

  The past 10 years have seen a surge of new AI vendors, and the trend isn't likely to end anytime soon, as investors continue to pour money into artificial intelligence.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Intel acquisition of Habana Labs expected to enhance AI portfolio

  By purchasing Habana Labs, an AI hardware startup, Intel now has a more diverse AI portfolio in a quickly growing multi-billion-dollar hardware market.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  DataRobot acquisition of Paxata adds data prep to AI platform

  By buying data prep vendor Paxata, DataRobot plans to fill out its machine learning and AI platform with tools to automate data prep processes and provide an underlying data fabric.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  AI trends 2020 outlook: More automation, explainability

  Top AI trends for 2020 are increased automation to extend traditional RPA, deeper explainable AI with more natural language capacity, and better chips for AI on the edge.

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  AWS, NFL machine learning partnership looks at player safety

  A new AWS and NFL partnership aims to use AI and machine learning to reduce the risk of injuries to players. The partnership builds off of the companies' Next Gen Stats agreement.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  SageMaker Studio makes model building, monitoring easier

  New SageMaker tools from AWS to open up machine learning models by making it easier for non-expert developers make, run, monitor and debug machine learning models.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  New Amazon Kendra AI search tool indexes enterprise data

  With Kendra, a new cognitive search tool from Amazon, enterprise users can more easily query their data. The tool uses machine learning and NLP to understand context, according to AWS.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Vendor 3PM uses AI and analytics to prevent Black Friday fraud

  Using AI, analytics and Google Cloud tools, e-commerce intelligence vendor 3PM Solutions helps identify and take down counterfeit products for major e-commerce players.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  AI in advertising captures audiences with personalized ads

  Using AI technology, AdGreetz generates millions of personalized ads over the web and social media for its client Flipkart, an e-commerce vendor based in India.

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IBM AI executive talks AI adoption in the enterprise

  AI use in enterprises is generally low, largely because the technology is not understood, and organizations have problems with data, trust and lack of skills.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Medline streamlines workflow by automating accounts payable

  By using Abbyy for OCR and UiPath for RPA, Medline is automating accounts payable. This speeds up the filing of the 2,000 invoices the healthcare distributor receives daily.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Anaheim PD explores facial recognition for law enforcement

  Using a facial recognition platform from Veritone, the Anaheim Police Department can more quickly identify suspects captured on camera by comparing photos with booking photos.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  New FICO AI products aim for secure digital identities

  Two new FICO products, FICO Identity Proofing and the FICO Authentication Suite, aim to use AI to help keep users' digital identities and logins secure.

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Booz Allen releases Modzy AI platform and marketplace

  Booz Allen Hamilton introduced an AI platform and marketplace made for uploading, deploying and managing AI models across a scalable environment.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Microsoft Power Platform gets AI and RPA updates

  At Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant released new updates to ease RPA and AI building across its Power Platform, as well as new capabilities for Cortana within Microsoft 365.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Google releases TensorFlow Enterprise for enterprise users

  With the new TensorFlow for enterprises, organizations running previous versions of TensorFlow can get long-term support, including security updates and select bug fixes.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  The importance of AI for fraud prevention

  As fraudsters become increasingly more professional and technologically advanced, financial organizations need to rely on products that use AI for to prevent fraud.

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  DataRobot machine learning boosts MicroStrategy AI

  Under a new partnership, MicroStrategy customers can use automated machine learning models from DataRobot for predictive, AI-based analytics.

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  A chemical company simplifies workflows using RPA

  Software from Automation Anywhere, an RPA vendor, was easy for Eastman Chemical Company employees to use at a desktop level to automatically handle daily tasks.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  As more push for explainable AI, companies add features

  As businesses demand more explainable AI, vendors such as IBM and DarwinAI are introducing new features to help break down for business users how AI systems work.