AI Weekly: Amazon went wide with Alexa; now it’s going deep
Allen Institute researchers find pervasive toxicity in popular language models
Google launches AI Platform Prediction in general availability
Amazon is embracing surveillance-as-a-service
Mugshots from U.S. Customs and Border Protection database leaked onto the dark web
Amazon launches Care Hub for family to monitor senior citizens
Amazon debuts new Ring products, including a mini home surveillance drone
Alexa will soon gain more natural-sounding speech and recognize when multiple people are speaking
Facebook’s Dynabench aims to make AI models more robust through distributed human workers
Nuvia raises $240 million to design Arm-based CPUs for datacenters
Wilson Logistics will put Locomation’s autonomous driving tech in 1,000 trucks
In facial recognition challenge, top-ranking algorithms show bias against Black women
How feedback platforms can improve product quality by 20% in 30 days (VB Live)
Baidu offers quantum computing from the cloud
Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI
Mastercard’s VP of AI talks bots, NLP, and why fintechs need AI for customer service (VB Live)
WhyLabs raises $4 million to grow AI and data monitoring platform
Intel details chips designed for IoT and edge workloads
Adobe’s Liquid Mode leverages AI to reformat PDFs for mobile devices
TuSimple expands self-driving trucks to Europe with Traton partnership
Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis
How Intel is aiming for a PC processor comeback
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
Microsoft’s Azure Communication Services handles enterprise video, voice, and text communications
Microsoft debuts new Search features and SharePoint Syntex
Microsoft unveils updates across Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning
Microsoft launches Cloud for Healthcare in general availability
Microsoft adds partners to pathogen-tracking Premonition project
Sidewalk Labs launches Mesa, an AI platform designed to help commercial buildings save energy
Google’s Area 120 launches Tables, a rules-based automation platform for documents
EasySend raises $16 million to automate repetitive business processes
DeepCube’s software-based solution accelerates AI on existing hardware
Aurora Labs raises $23 million to automatically detect bugs in car codebases
Is a smaller manufacturing process always better? Intel’s 10nm SuperFin suggests otherwise
Apparent racial bias found in Twitter photo algorithm
How U.S. tech policy could change if Democrats win back the Senate
Black tech organizations grow amid calls for racial justice
AI Weekly: Cutting-edge language models can produce convincing misinformation if we don’t stop them
ProBeat: Robots need to solve mobility before we find their killer app
