New Alexa skill development tools reduce pain points between businesses and customers
Facebook AI Research applies Transformer architecture to streamline object detection models
COVID-19 HPC Consortium pours 437 petaflops of compute power toward virus research
Orbita raises $9 million to develop conversational AI for health care
Mobileye demos self-driving car that uses cameras to get around
Optimus Ride begins delivering food to families in need in Washington, D.C.
Nuro partners with CVS to deliver prescriptions in Houston
Vesta raises $125 million to fight payment fraud with AI
Google’s federated analytics method could analyze end user data without invading privacy
Autonomous car company Aurora increases hiring amid industry struggles
Baidu open-sources Paddle Quantum toolkit for AI quantum computing research
SmartRent raises $60 million to manage connected buildings
Google AI researchers want to teach robots tasks through self-supervised reverse engineering
Microsoft’s Jeff Teper: Teams ‘will be even bigger than Windows’
SoftBank joint venture uses connected car data to improve U.S. roads
Facebook’s AI convincingly inserts people into photos
DefinedCrowd raises $50.5 million for AI data set curation
Alice&Bob raises $3.3 million to create the first fault-tolerant quantum computer
AI researchers say they created a better way to generate 3D photos
The Pentagon’s Joint AI Center wants to be like Silicon Valley
AI Weekly: Getting back to work under the watchful eye of technology
Autonomous delivery companies stress need for clearer rules on deployment
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ProBeat: Microsoft’s AI supercomputer was the best of Build 2020
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Researchers use predictive models to calculate more accurate COVID-19 case fatality ratios
Google brings new and updated accessibility tools to Android, Maps, and more
Evervault raises $16 million for ‘privacy cages’ that simplify data protection
Facebook leverages AI to improve kids’ safety in Messenger
Clara Analytics nabs $25 million for AI that expedites workers’ compensation claims
How Instacart remade its systems to handle a 500% jump in order volume
Waymo is using AI to simulate autonomous vehicle camera data
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