AI Weekly: Cutting-edge language models can produce convincing misinformation if we don’t stop them

Kyle Wiggers September 18, 2020 11:30 AM

France tries to salvage failed StopCovid tracing app as cases surge

Chris O'Brien September 18, 2020 5:31 AM

Mozilla sunsets Notes and Send to ‘tighten’ its product focus

Paul Sawers September 17, 2020 12:00 PM

Voice assistants are doing a poor job of conveying information about voting

Kyle Wiggers September 17, 2020 10:05 AM

RapidAI raises $25 million to analyze medical scans with AI algorithms

Kyle Wiggers September 17, 2020 6:00 AM

IBM’s Watson Assistant can now field election questions

Kyle Wiggers September 17, 2020 5:00 AM

AI-powered weight training startup Tonal raises $110 million amid home workout boom

Kyle Wiggers September 17, 2020 5:00 AM

Major pharma companies, including Novartis and Merck, build federated learning platform for drug discovery

Kyle Wiggers September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

Qualcomm details Cloud AI 100 chipset, announces developer kit

Kyle Wiggers September 16, 2020 6:30 AM

Aidoc raises $20 million more for its computer vision medical tools

Kyle Wiggers September 16, 2020 6:00 AM

Over 1,000 parents sign open letter protesting facial recognition in schools

Kyle Wiggers September 16, 2020 3:00 AM

JupiterOne raises $19 million to automate IT asset management

Kyle Wiggers September 16, 2020 2:20 AM

Google launches Kartta Labs to recreate historical maps in 3D

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 10:40 AM

Data.World raises $26 million to address data processing pain points

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 9:00 AM

Google Meet hardware promises AI features starting at $2,700

Emil Protalinski September 15, 2020 9:00 AM

ZenHub brings automation to GitHub project collaboration

Paul Sawers September 15, 2020 8:00 AM

Baidu debuts updated AI framework and voice platform, wireless earbuds

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 7:38 AM

Facebook rolls out automatic captions for Instagram TV

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 6:00 AM

Observe.ai raises $54 million to analyze call center conversations

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 6:00 AM

Varada raises $12 million to automate data lake management with AI

Kyle Wiggers September 15, 2020 6:00 AM

Buoyed by the pandemic, freelancer marketplace Fiverr launches subscription platform for businesses

Paul Sawers September 15, 2020 5:00 AM

Google plans to power its operations with carbon-free energy by 2030

Reuters September 15, 2020 1:59 AM

Analysis

As Xbox Game Pass Ultimate launches cloud gaming, it must solve the last-mile problem

Jeff Grubb September 14, 2020 5:16 PM

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As Sumo Logic readies for IPO, can it threaten Splunk?

Mahendra Ramsinghani, Secure Octane September 14, 2020 4:10 PM

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Nvidia/Arm will not make an easy marriage

Jack Gold September 14, 2020 10:15 AM

Idriverplus raises over $14.6 million for autonomous street cleaners and cars

Kyle Wiggers September 14, 2020 8:37 AM

Nvidia researchers detail AI-powered clinical speech transcription system

Kyle Wiggers September 14, 2020 7:15 AM

Airtable raises $185 million to grow its low-code app platform

Kyle Wiggers September 14, 2020 6:00 AM

Dashlane can now track employees’ password health over time

Paul Sawers September 14, 2020 5:00 AM

Twitter expands election misinformation rules to include posts that claim victory prematurely

Reuters September 11, 2020 1:11 AM

Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

Kyle Wiggers September 10, 2020 2:50 PM

Cruise’s AI enables driverless vehicles to navigate uncommon scenarios

Kyle Wiggers September 10, 2020 10:00 AM

DuckieNet lets developers test autonomous vehicle systems using toy cars

Kyle Wiggers September 10, 2020 8:58 AM

Intel and Samsung detail AI-powered fetal ultrasound tools

Kyle Wiggers September 10, 2020 6:00 AM

Descartes Underwriting raises $18.5 million for its data-driven insurance platform

Kyle Wiggers September 10, 2020 3:00 AM

NIST benchmarks show facial recognition technology still struggles to identify Black faces

Kyle Wiggers September 9, 2020 9:50 AM

Facebook and Dolby join Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative

Kyle Wiggers September 9, 2020 8:45 AM

XRSI releases VR/AR user privacy framework, citing ‘urgent’ need

Jeremy Horwitz September 9, 2020 7:03 AM

Researchers’ data set pinpoints challenges adapting speech recognition models to new hardware

Kyle Wiggers September 9, 2020 6:35 AM

Truepill raises $75 million to expand its telehealth and pill delivery platform

Kyle Wiggers September 9, 2020 6:00 AM