When AI is a tool and when it’s a weapon
Stories by Seth Colaner
AI Weekly: Introducing our ‘Power in AI’ special issue
Evolve Energy uses machine learning and analytics to save renewable energy customers money
Azure Cognitive Services gets speech, search, language, and security updates at Ignite 2019
Microsoft bolsters Azure Blockchain with managed tokenization service and updates
Modzy is a marketplace for enterprise AI software and models
Hiring platform Fountain raises $23 million to double down on automation
AI Weekly: UiPath wants you to know its job cuts are strategic, despite the optics
Tonkean loops humans into no-code, last-mile RPA with a $7.2 million seed round
Mira marries NLP with computer vision to create a rich, search-powered shopping experience
Why Google balked at Wi-Fi 6 for its Nest Wifi devices
Reshuffle aims to speed app development by handling the frontend, backend, and data
Google’s Nest Aware pricing plans and Home Feed tie the smart home together
Rep. Tlaib v Detroit PD, round 2, was a missed opportunity to bridge facial recognition debate gap
Amazon’s continued quest to put Alexa everywhere
AI Weekly: Hurray for boring AI
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) hits general availability
Flatfile pursues intelligent data importing with $2 million round
Lenovo rolls out Project Athena-powered laptops and smart devices
Picovoice’s voice assistant promises cloud-level accuracy on edge devices
AI Weekly: Detroit’s facial recognition battle is about the ends justifying the means
As RPA evolves, humans will increasingly take a back seat
Trustpilot: Building AI for your company means not falling in love
Ascend exits stealth with $19 million to create automated, intelligent dataflows
Intel-backed Mesmer emerges from stealth to automate mobile app testing
Telerobotic hands and fingers become your avatar at Amazon re:MARS
Meet Misty, an extensible robot empowered by Microsoft and Qualcomm technologies
Hypergiant uses satellites and AI to mine oil and gas data
Microsoft is addressing tough paradigms on the intelligent edge with Azure Data Boxes
Microsoft’s Sam George on Azure IoT, intelligent edge, and ‘early majority’ adopters
The Microsoft Graph is yours, not theirs
How Microsoft’s Fluid Framework flows
Facebook messaging app unification bodes well for chatbot makers
Microsoft launches fully managed Azure Blockchain Service
Amazon Managed Blockchain hits general availability
Facebook cares about privacy, for realsies, Zuckerberg swears
Snap returns to growth with 190 million daily users in Q1 2019
VentureBeat is looking for an edge reporter
How Wikimedia is using machine learning to spot missing citations
New Checkr security chief talks ‘fairer future’ with AI-powered background checks
