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January 19, 2021

What Biden, Democrats may mean for Tech and Investing

Changes in the White House and Congress could portend revisions to taxes, regulations and policies that may affect tech and investing in Silicon Valley and beyond.

January 19, 2021

Human-centered AI Design process — Part 1

Introduction to the role of Human-centered Design (HCD) in the development of AI-driven services. The design field has spread across several domains and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will not be an exception.

January 18, 2021

How Industries will move past the Pandemic and thrive in 2021 using AI

The response from COVID-19’s gradual recovery will be top of mind for nearly every firm and industry in 2021. Some businesses may become stagnant or never recover. Others will view the shakeup as an unprecedented...

January 17, 2021

The Social Dilemma in 2021: Personal Data Privacy

It's needless to say we are living in the digital era. Nowadays our life is not as difficult as it was before the age of technological advancements. We can connect to the world in seconds....

January 17, 2021

AI & ML in education: Real-life use cases

After all, that one term seemed to be the default correct answer for every question in MBA. I could relate to that as an analogy because during this pandemic, we can safely say that today,...

January 17, 2021

The Triangular Moving Average: Another way to find Support & Resistance Levels

Moving averages are a great way to provide support and resistance levels among other uses. There are many types of moving averages and in this article, we will discuss the Triangular Moving Average and some...

January 16, 2021

Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society

Technologies like artificial intelligence and human genome editing “reveal and reflect even more about the complex and sometimes dangerous social architecture that lies beneath the scientific progress that we pursue,” said Dr. Alondra Nelson today...

January 16, 2021

Why we might be looking at the Brain in the wrong way

The mind tries to understand the world in terms of concepts, most of which are dressed in language and in some cases, in mathematics. But our conceptual understanding of the world suffers from a chicken-and-egg...

January 16, 2021

The clash of the dark side and the bright side. What is human-friendly AI?

Is it time yet we thought of a “red safety button” in the event AI gets out of control? Or should we respond to our fear of an algorithmic armageddon more constructively by designing human-friendly...

January 15, 2021

“Don’t just beat the market – crush it”

When I was reviewing our new flagship SaaS TradersAlmanac.ai, I thought that the charts could use a little extra 'oomph' to make them do their conversion magic more powerfully. Indeed, in versions gone by of...

January 15, 2021

Facebook claims its AI can anticipate COVID-19 outcomes using X-rays

Researchers at Facebook and New York University (NYU) claim to have developed three machine learning models that could help doctors predict how a COVID-19 patient’s condition might develop. The open-sourced models, all of which require...

January 15, 2021

Voice AI in 2021 — will it finally speak out?

New year, new voice AI solutions? Well, why not? Artificial intelligence doesn’t laze around and constantly influences all of its fields of expertise. Although voice technologies are quite fresh, they found their own place on...

January 15, 2021

Oqton raises $40 million to apply AI to additive manufacturing

Oqton, a startup developing an operating system that integrates engineering software with manufacturing hardware, has raised $40 million.

January 14, 2021

Automated CI/CD platform Harness raises $115 million at a $1.7 billion valuation

Harness, an automated CI/CD platform for engineering and DevOps teams, has raised $115 million at a $1.7 billion valuation.

January 14, 2021

Swedish edtech startup Sana Labs bags £13M to redefine workplace training with AI

Sana Labs, a Stockholm-based online training platform, raised $18 million (approx £13.1 million) in a Series A round led by EQT Ventures. The funding round brings the total amount raised to $23 million (approx £17...

January 13, 2021

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Fire & Safety

Being a student secretary of the Fire and Security Association of India at my college, I have conducted various surveys and workshops on methodologies to avert the dangers caused due to fire. As an AI...

January 13, 2021

AI, Quantum patents soared in 2020

Machine learning was among the fastest growing technologies in terms of U.S. patent grants during 2020, an annual survey reveals. AI and machine learning ranked fourth in a list of patent applications and awards, followed...

January 13, 2021

Honing In on AI, U.S. Launches National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office

To drive American leadership in the field of AI into the future, the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office has been launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The new agency...

January 13, 2021

Nayya raises $11 million to guide employee health benefits decisions with AI

Nayya, an insurance benefits management platform, today announced it has closed $11 million in a series A round led by Felicis Ventures. Nayya says the funds will be put toward product research and development as...

January 13, 2021

Molecula raises $17.6 million for its AI feature store technology

Molecula, which is developing a cloud-based feature store for AI and machine learning workloads, today announced it has raised $17.6 million. The company says the proceeds will be put toward accelerating the launch of its...

January 13, 2021

Rapyd raises $300 million for its unified payments platform

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January 12, 2021

What this bald eagle and neural network depiction have to do with future U.S. AI strategy

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United...

January 12, 2021

Workato raises $110 million for its business workflow automation platform

Workato, which offers an integration and automation platform for businesses, today announced it has raised $110 million at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion. The company says it will put the funds toward product innovation...

January 12, 2021

M-Files raises $80 million for AI that automates enterprise information management

M-Files announced it has raised $80 million as the Finnish company develops AI that automates the messy process of organizing and tracking internal documents and data for enterprises. Bregal Milestone led the round, which included...

January 11, 2021

$400M in C2 funding raised by automotive AI Chip vendor Horizon Robotics

Horizon Robotics, a Chinese automotive AI chip startup that is developing specialized, complex chips for use in autonomous vehicles, has raised another $400 million in its latest C2 round of funding. That’s on top of...

January 11, 2021

Pegasystems acquires Qurious.io to apply speech analytics to customer service

Pegasystems announced today it has acquired Qurious.io, a provider of a cloud service that analyzes voice calls in real time to enable customer service representatives to better determine their next best course of action. Terms...

January 11, 2021

Komodo raises $44 million and acquires Mavens to bring data-driven insights to life sciences

Komodo Health, a company that is meshing big data, AI, and analytics to create a digital map of the U.S. health care system, announced that it quietly secured a $44 million cash injection last year...

January 11, 2021

Dina raises $7 million for its AI-powered at-home care platform

Dina, a Chicago-based startup developing an AI-powered at-home care platform, today announced it has raised $7 million. The company says the capital will be used to expand its products and support its mission to help...

January 11, 2021

Ambarella unveils 8K AI vision processor for car, drone, and robot cameras

Ambarella has unveiled the CV5 AI Vision Processor to handle 8K image processing for car, consumer, crone, and robot cameras. The new 5-nanometer camera system on chip (SoC) is the latest in the company’s CVflow...

January 11, 2021

Know more about IOT and Artificial Intelligence

Internet of Things or IOT is a newest and remarkable take on Internet itself. The Internet is a fantastic thing itself. The Internet ensures you to do things that were earlier admired impossible. Usually the...

January 10, 2021

The cosmetics and beauty industry could use an AI FaceLift

The size of the beauty and corrective industry is monstrous, with its valuation ascending as high as $532 billion USD. Notwithstanding, it actually hasn't seen the entrance of cutting edge innovations, even subsequent to having a...

January 10, 2021

Self-driving cars and the chicken that crossed the road

The fabled "chicken crossing the road" provides useful fodder for considering the advent of self-driving cars coping with erratic intrusions in the roadway.

January 10, 2021

Understand what drives your customer behavior in clicks

What drives your customers to churn? What leads to a wow experience? What makes them buy your product? In a nut-shell, understand the factors that drive a metric you’re interested in. Power BI makes excellent...

January 10, 2021

Automation and Artificial Intelligence in software engineering: Experiences, challenges, and…

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January 9, 2021

Microsoft releases Unadversarial examples: Designing objects for robust vision – a complete hands-on guide

In a recent work by Microsoft Research, a new framework is introduced which can address these problems of data models to create “unadversarial objects,” inputs that are optimized particularly for more robust model performance. This...

January 8, 2021

Equifax will pay $640 million for Kount’s AI-driven identity and fraud prevention tools

Equifax today announced that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive its fraud prevention and digital identity services. In a press release, Equifax executives said the...

January 8, 2021

Blue Prism launches venture fund to expand global use of cloud RPA

Last April, robotic process automation firm Blue Prism bolstered its own balance sheet with a $124 million financing round, enabling the maker of enterprise-class software robots to expand its suite of AI agents and dashboards....

January 8, 2021

Stanford researchers propose AI that figures out how to use real-world objects

One longstanding goal of AI research is to allow robots to meaningfully interact with real-world environments. In a recent paper, researchers at Stanford and Facebook took a step toward this by extracting information related to...

January 8, 2021

When will AI become superhuman?

In 2018, IBM released the world’s smallest computer — 1mm x 1mm. It has enough computing power to handle basic AI tasks, and can even work with blockchain. AI is now able to detect cancer...

January 8, 2021

This biotech startup just raised £5.15M to build the future of medicines with AI

Budapest-based private biotech company Turbine develops a simulation-based, AI-driven, scalable drug discovery platform. The company’s Stimulated Cell unlocks novel therapies for high unmet oncology. Turbine’s technology has been validated in several collaborations with pharmaceutical companies...

January 8, 2021

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