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Intel revenues drop 4% to $18.3 billion for Q3 2020 as competition heats up
AI researchers urge tech to go beyond scale to address systemic social issues
Researchers find high error rates in commercial speech recognition systems
Microsoft and MITRE release framework to help fend off adversarial AI attacks
IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy
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Motional resumes self-driving robo-taxi service with Lyft in Las Vegas
Amazon embraces end-to-end models to improve Alexa’s speech recognition
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TeleSense raises $10.2 million to monitor crops with AI and sensors
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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Landing AI launches product inspection platform for manufacturers
Data privacy startup Mine raises $9.5 million and expands to the U.S.
Kite expands its AI code completions from 2 to 13 programming languages
Sam’s Club expands autonomous floor-sweeping robots to all U.S. stores
Anyscale raises $40 million to launch a managed service for distributed computing workloads
Syte raises $40 million to bring visual search to online retailers
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a $160 million supercomputer in Finland
MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent
Microsoft researchers develop assistive eye-tracking AI that works on any device
U.S. Department of Justice files antitrust lawsuit against Google
Microsoft details T-ULRv2 model that can translate between 94 languages
Zest raises $15 million to reduce loan algorithm bias
4iQ raises $30 million for AI that attacks the trade in stolen digital identities
Adobe’s Photoshop Neural Filters use AI to change faces, recolor photos
PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images
Merck tests delivering temperature-controlled medicine via drone
DeepMind open-sources the FermiNet, a neural network that simulates electron behaviors
Apple invites Black founders and developers to 2021 Entrepreneur Camp
Google Assistant-enabled smart displays gain support for multiple accounts
Facebook’s open source M2M-100 model can translate between 100 different languages
AiFi raises $15 million to accelerate cashierless retail
Unit21 raises $13 million to turn AI into a fraud-fighting machine
Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI to streamline mortgage applications with AI
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