VentureBeatBusiness Iguazio raises $24 million for AI development and management tools VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAI adoption levels are higher than they’ve ever been in the enterprise. According to a January survey conducted by Gartner, corporate use of AI grew 270% over the past four years. But developing, deploying,
VentureBeatTechnology Samsung’s VP of research on making Ballie mobile, personable, and nonthreatening VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDuring a keynote at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, Samsung unveiled Ballie, a small, autonomous rolling sphere with a built-in camera, microphone, and speaker. Details were tough
VentureBeatBusiness AI Weekly: Calls for facial recognition moratorium highlight need for protection from surveillance tech VentureBeat - Khari JohnsonThe debate over whether to ban or place moratoriums on the use of facial recognition started last year in cities like San Francisco, but the debate reignited this week when Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar
VentureBeatBusiness ProBeat: Why Google is really calling for AI regulation VentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiOn Sunday, the Financial Times published an op-ed penned by Sundar Pichai titled “Why Google thinks we need to regulate AI.” Whether he wrote it himself or merely signed off on it, Pichai clearly wants
VentureBeatBusiness Amazon’s AI automatically dubs videos into other languages VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersEver wish you could automatically dub foreign film dialogue into another tongue? Amazon is on the case. In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers from the tech giant
VentureBeatBusiness Aurora urges autonomous vehicle industry to adopt better safety metrics VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAmazon-backed autonomous vehicle company Aurora is in search of better metrics by which to compare driverless system safety. In a Medium post this morning, CEO Chris Urmson noted that the commonly used
VentureBeatBusiness raises $10 million for AI transcription tool VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersThere’s no shortage of competition in the audio transcription market, which is estimated to be worth $31.82 billion by 2025. But Otter.ai (formerly AISense) — the startup behind speech-to-text service
VentureBeatVirtual Reality Google schedules I/O 2020 for May 12-14 in Mountain View VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersIt’s official: For the fifth year in a row, Google will host its annual I/O developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. (The event previously took place in San Francisco.) The
VentureBeatBusiness Uber begins mapping Washington D.C. for self-driving vehicles VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersFollowing hot on the heels of rival Waymo, Uber announced that it’s bringing self-driving cars to a new city: Washington D.C. In a Medium post today, Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) — the skunkworks
VentureBeatBusiness Amazon explores a way to preserve privacy in natural language processing VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersCan privacy and security be preserved in the course of large-scale textual data analysis? As it turns out, yes. A team of Amazon researchers in a recently published study proposed a way to anonymize customer-supplied
VentureBeatAutos Waymo expands autonomous truck testing to Texas and New Mexico VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWaymo, the Google parent company Alphabet subsidiary whose autonomous vehicles have driven more than 20 million miles, is expanding its geographic footprint into Texas and New Mexico. In a tweet this Waymo
VentureBeatBusiness CloudKnox raises $12 million to protect cloud infrastructure from insider risks VentureBeat - Paul SawersCloudKnox Security, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies protect their private and public clouds from insider threats and poor security hygiene, has raised $12 million in a round of funding led
VentureBeatBusiness Hivebrite raises $20 million for community engagement and management tools VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersEngaging and managing online groups can be the stuff of nightmares, but it is generally worth it — communities on average generate a 6,469% return on investment for organizations, according to one report.
VentureBeatComputing Desktop-as-a-Service: Work from anywhere, on any device VentureBeat - Harold Bell, NutanixA new level of confusion hit the tech world when cloud computing became practical in the enterprise and the term “XaaS” was coined. XaaS, or anything-as-a-service, was used to describe the seemingly endless
VentureBeatBusiness GitHub now uses AI to recommend open issues in project repositories VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersLarge open source projects on GitHub have intimidatingly long lists of problems that require addressing. To make it easier to spot the most pressing, GitHub recently introduced the “good first issues”
VentureBeatBusiness Researchers use AI to deblur human faces in photos VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWe’ve all been there: You’re snapping pics with your phone — perhaps of a high-speed bike ride or of a hockey match — and don’t think to check whether the autofocus is in lockstep with the action. It as
VentureBeatBusiness Adobe’s AI lets you preview any item of clothing on a virtual body model VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersPlatforms that let shoppers virtually try on cosmetics, apparel, and accessories have exploded in popularity over the past decade, and it’s easy to see why. According to a survey conducted by banking Klarna,
VentureBeatBusiness Outlier raises $22.1 million to spot anomalies in business data with AI VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMachine learning algorithms aren’t just technological novelties relegated to tasks like picking out faces in crowded places. In the enterprise, they can surface patterns and relationships that would otherwise
VentureBeatBusiness Unito raises $10.5 million to unify disparate enterprise apps and services VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSynchronizing projects, tasks, and conversations among work management tools could lead to an enormous productivity boost within an organization. According to an IDC survey, 80% of business leaders report
VentureBeatBusiness ServiceNow acquires AI for IT startup Loom Systems VentureBeat - Khari JohnsonServiceNow today announced that it has acquired Loom Systems to strengthen automated insights for customers using the Now platform in order to help them quickly fix IT issues. Loom Systems CEO Gabby Menachem
VentureBeatBusiness raises $12 million to keep tabs on foot traffic in real time VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMeasuring foot traffic in real time is the pursuit of countless businesses seeking greater insight into buyer behavior. Startups like PlaceIQ, Factual, GroundTruth, Skyhook, and others have risen up to
VentureBeatBusiness Anchore raises $20 million to automate container security management VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersContainers — sets of self-contained executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files — are ubiquitous in cloud computing. According to a survey by managed service provider Diamanti, cloud-native
VentureBeatBusiness GTCI: AI offers significant opportunities for emerging markets, but skills are scarce VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWill the proliferation of AI and machine learning reinforce the worldwide digital divide? It’s one of the questions the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) and Global Cities Talent Competitiveness
VentureBeatTechnology GM’s Cruise rolls out Origin, an autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel VentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGM’s Cruise is launching the Origin electric autonomous vehicle and sliding doors today, the product of 3 years of work between General Motors, Cruise, and Honda. The Cruise Origin is designed without
VentureBeatBusiness IBM’s biology-inspired AI generates hash codes faster than classical approaches VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersEver heard of FlyHash? It’s an algorithm inspired by fruit flies’ olfactory circuits that’s been shown to generate hash codes — numeric representations of objects — with performance superior to classical
VentureBeatBusiness Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT VentureBeat - Khari JohnsonMicrosoft Research AI today said it plans to open-source an optimized version of Google’s popular BERT natural language model designed to work with the ONNX Runtime inference engine. Microsoft uses to
VentureBeatBusiness Facebook’s AI learns the relationships between physical places from first-person video footage VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersComputer vision systems generally excel at detecting objects but struggle to make sense of the environments in which those objects are used. That’s because they separate observed actions from physical
VentureBeatBusiness Berkshire Grey raises $263 million for industrial robots VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersIndustrial robots and warehouse automation are lucrative intermingling markets, as evidenced by Berkshire Grey. The Lexington, Massachusetts-based company, which combines AI and robotics to automate omnichannel
VentureBeatBusiness Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code VentureBeat - Paul SawersSnyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers find vulnerabilities in their open source applications, has raised $150 million in a round of funding led by New York-based private equity firm Stripes,
