Siri Microsoft hires former Siri boss for AI leadership roleVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzAfter leading Apple’s Siri team for six and a half years, Bill Stasior left the company for greener pastures elsewhere. Now he’ll be traversing Microsoft’s bucolic meadows, where The Information reports
Mobile Google open-sources gesture tracking AI for mobile devicesVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersReal-time hand shape and motion trackers are an invaluable part of sign language recognition and gesture control systems, not to mention a number of augmented reality experiences. But they’re often hobbled
Bandwidth Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2 trillion transistor chip for AIVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNew artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built. The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine has 1.2 trillion transistors, the basic on-off electronic switches
European Union Center for Data Innovation: U.S. leads AI race, with China closing fast and EU laggingVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienWhile the United States currently has an edge in the race to develop artificial intelligence, China is rapidly gaining ground as Europe falls behind, according to a report released today by the Center
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders wants to ban facial recognition use by policeVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put an end to police use of facial recognition software. Sanders called for the ban as part of a criminal justice reform plan introduced
Deepfakes The fight against deepfakesVentureBeat - Ben Dickson, TechTalksLast week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, the Democratic National Committee tried to raise awareness of the dangers of AI-doctored videos by displaying a deepfaked video of DNC
Jensen Huang Jensen Huang interview: Why AI is the single most powerful force of our timeVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNvidia CEO Jensen Huang proudly proclaimed on an analyst earnings call this week that artificial intelligence is the “single most powerful force of our time.” Nvidia reported Q2 earnings and revenues beat
Artificial Intelligence Google open-sources Live Transcribe’s speech engineVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiGoogle today open-sourced the speech engine that powers its Android speech recognition transcription tool Live Transcribe. The company hopes doing so will let any developer deliver captions for long-form
Play buttonBrain Implant AI Weekly: Humans shouldn’t relegate essential skills to AIVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonEarlier this month, AI startup DataSparQ introduced AI Bar, a system that automates the selection of who’s got next for drink orders. It’s being used at 5cc Harrild & Sons in London and has some initial
Amazon Web Services ProBeat: Breakthrough or BS, Amazon’s Rekognition is dangerousVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiLike all tech giants, Amazon is regularly criticized for various policies and practices. But no issue has been as contentious this year as selling its facial recognition tech Rekognition to law enforcement.
Play buttonOracle Oracle is using ‘intelligent automation’ to do far more than automate repetitive tasksVentureBeat - VB StaffWhile Forrester predicts that the market for RPA (robotic process automation) will reach $2.9 billion in 2021, and many companies are well down the road with it, not a lot of companies are using it correctly
Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO: AI is the single most powerful force of our timeVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI would drive long-term demand because it is the “single most powerful force of our time.” Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that beat analysts’ expectations as demand
Alexa Amazon launches Custom Interfaces for Alexa skills to deepen connections with games and gadgetsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonAmazon has maintained a steady focus on connecting home devices with its Echo smart speakers, from forging ties with more than 60,000 smart home devices to efforts to make Alexa a resource for gamers consoles
Nvidia Nvidia reports $2.58 billion in Q2 revenue as AI and graphics demand strengthensVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNvidia reported earnings and revenues that beat analysts’ expectations as demand for graphics and artificial intelligence chips picked up in the second fiscal quarter. Nvidia reported revenues of $2.58
Siri Google Assistant tops 2019 digital assistance IQ test, but every AI posts gainsVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzFollowing up on last year’s impressive comparison of personal AI solutions, Loup Ventures today released the results of its 2019 Digital Assistant IQ Test, and there’s good news if you enjoy giving voice
Drones AI startup Gather uses drones and computer vision for warehouse inventoryVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGather, a company that uses autonomous drones for warehouse inventory, launched out of stealth today. Founded in 2017, the company of about 10 employees is based in Pittsburgh. Gather’s founding team made
Technology Google Assistant now lets you assign reminders to other peopleVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonYou will soon be able to assign reminders to specific members of your household with Google Assistant on Android phones and Nest Home smart speakers and smart displays, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat
Artificial Intelligence AI researchers launch SuperGLUE, a rigorous benchmark for language understandingVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook AI Research, together with Google’s DeepMind, University of Washington, and New York University, today introduced SuperGLUE, a series of benchmark tasks to measure the performance of modern, performance
APIs Mux raises $20 million to simplify video streaming and analyticsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersVideo is among the internet’s most popular brand of media. It’s estimated that more clips are uploaded in a month than the major U.S. television networks have created in 30 years, and roughly 87% of online
Shopify Shopify launches web chat for merchant and customersVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonShopify’s cohort of more than 800,000 merchants and small business owners have a new way to speak to customers today with the introduction of Shopify Chat. The company’s first native chat client, Shopify
Alegion raises $12 million for data annotationVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAlegion, an Austin, Texas-based provider of labeling and annotation services for enterprise data science teams, today announced that it has secured $12 million in series A funding contributed by RHS Investments.
Verisim Life uses AI-powered biosimulations to replace animal drug testingVentureBeat - Paul SawersThe global drug discovery market is estimated to be worth at least $35 billion, a figure that could rise to $71 billion by 2025. But taking a drug from research and development to market is a long and
Facebook Facebook paid contractors to transcribe users’ audio from MessengerVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — Facebook has been paying outside contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company confirmed
Google AI Google devises conversational AI that works better for people with ALS and accentsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGoogle AI researchers working with the ALS Therapy Development Institute today shared details about Project Euphonia, a speech-to-text transcription service for people with speaking impairments. Researchers
Play buttonConstruction OpenSpace raises $14 million for AI platform that visually tracks construction projectsVentureBeat - Paul SawersThe global construction market will be a $12 trillion industry by 2022, according to a recent Construction Intelligence Center (CIC) forecast. However, the sector is not renowned for its efficiency — reports
Predictions Book review: ‘AIQ’ explains machine learning fundamentals using human historyVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonWhat do Joe DiMaggio and birth control pills have to do with AI? And what does a lost submarine have to do with the future of robotics? AIQ is a book written by two statistics professors who attempt to
Nvidia Nvidia trains world’s largest Transformer-based language modelVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonNvidia today announced that it has trained the world’s largest language model, just the latest in a series of updates the GPU maker has aimed at advancing conversational AI. To achieve this feat, Nvidia
Google Google’s next antitrust headache could be its AI-driven job searchVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienGoogle has hailed the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring greater efficiencies to job hunting. But the tools the company has created have put it in the crosshairs of rival job
Customers Uniphore raises $51 million to bring conversational AI to customer serviceVentureBeat - Paul SawersUniphore, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the customer service realm, has raised $51 million in a series C round of funding led by March Capital Partners, with participation
