Plus: Zuck wants machines to spot bad memes on Facebook Roundup The world of artificial intelligence keeps on turning: here's a summary of what's been going down.…
Lees meerTo facilitate global payments, which is surely of interest to an investor in Alibaba Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek holdings has joined the Facebook-led Libra not-a-cryptocurrency project.…
Lees meerExport of semiconductors built using US tools to Chinese giant banned without a license The Trump administration on Friday officially clamped down on the use of US technology worldwide to manufacture chips for Huawei, cutting off the mega-corp from …
Lees meerLawsuit filed by shareholders who thought chip biz was onto something long-term rather than serving a fad Nvidia has been accused of under-reporting sales of graphics processors for cryptomining in an effort to distance itself from the volatile mark…
Lees meerWay easier than getting humans to scour petabytes of images by hand, looking for faraway systems Astrophysicists have developed AI software to help scientists automatically detect and describe galaxies snapped by telescopes surveying the distant sky…
Lees meerNow is not the time for Hollywood 'zoom and enhance' fantasies Be wary of medical scans enhanced by AI algorithms: the software is prone to making tiny errors that could lead to incorrect diagnoses, a study has warned.…
Lees meerSocial isolation, meet real estate, hardware, HR savings Twitter on Tuesday said employees who are able to work from home can "continue to do so forever," a policy change that suggests the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, and resulting stay-at-home or…
Lees meerWhat was really behind Tesla CEO's reopening of factory while daring cops to arrest him? On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk dared the authorities in Alameda, where his factory is based, to arrest him for breaking coronavirus lockdown edicts by restartin…
Lees meerToo lazy to type out Python? But not too tight to pay $20 a month? Kite will today launch a subscription-based coding assistant that tries to help programmers craft stuff quickly and efficiently.…
Lees meerDamien Patton 'deeply ashamed' of drive-by synagogue shooting The CEO of surveillance AI upstart Banjo, Damien Patton, has quit the company he founded following revelations he was involved with the Ku Klux Klan in the 1990s and participated in the s…
Lees meerPlus: Waymo to resume self-driving car tests amid pandemic, and more Roundup Let's get stuck into another roundup of AI news beyond what we've already reported.…
Lees meerSmithers: If I really must go outside, can you arrange it so I encounter the smallest possible number of virus-laden humans? Singapore is trialing robot dogs to enforce social distancing in its parks, to assist the national coronavirus-control effor…
Lees meerML eggheads, devs get more bang for their buck, say OpenAI duo Machine-learning algorithms are improving in performance at a rate faster than that of the underlying computer chips, we're told.…
Lees meerPlus: Airbnb lays off 25% of workforce amid coronavirus pandemic lockdowns Ride-sharing app makers Uber and Lyft have been hit with a massive lawsuit from the US state of California for failing to recognize their drivers as employees.…
Lees meerBig Blue hopes solution in search of a problem might have finally found one Since it burst onto the scene as a Jeopardy-winning AI in 2011, IBM's Watson has been top of the league for interesting solutions in search of a problem.…
Lees meerCode available if you want to toy with similar camera-grabbing projects Video We've written a lot about academic research, startups, and internet giants making use of artificial intelligence. Sometimes source code is shared, and sometimes it isn't,…
Lees meerPlease phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities Latvia’s skies have been closed to long distance flights because a military-grade drone is “uncontrolled and lost” somewhere above the eastern European nation – and nobody knows w…
Lees meerAutonomous cars: hardware helps but you can't beat data Intel is being linked with the takeover of Israeli public transit startup Moovit for a cool $1bn, in order to beef up its portfolio in the mobility and transportation markets.…
Lees meerPlus: OpenAI's music-making software isn't bad, Banjo boss's KKK shame Roundup Welcome to another summary of AI-related news beyond what we've already covered.…
Lees meerSupply chain issues will be hit hard as workers get sick Analysis The US Department of Defense is building machine learning tools to help predict critical food and medicine shortages as America grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.…
Lees meerMotorcyclist had stopped to help with a separate traffic accident, say court docs Tesla is being sued by the widow and daughter of a man killed when an allegedly dozing driver let his Model X’s Autopilot feature steer it into a group of people.…
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