AI Technology & Industry Review
On April 19, Google Cloud and Siemens announced new cooperation to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions.
On April 12, Microsoft Corp announced the acquisition of Nuance for USD 19.7 billion, which is the largest acquisition after its LinkedIn deal for USD 26 billion in 2016.
A team from Facebook and Google has proposed LazyTensor — a technique for targeting domain-specific compilers without sacrificing define-by-run ergonomics.
Farmers Edge Inc, an AI startup to help growers increase crop yields, plans to go public on Canada’s largest Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FDGE”.
TuSimple has submitted listing documents and plans to list in the United States as early as next month.
Apple has laid out the design characteristics of a new generic system that enables federated evaluation and tuning (FE&T) systems on end-user devices.
On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA).
A Nepalese machine learning (ML) researcher has introduced a handy browser extension that lets users directly access videos related to research papers published on the popular preprint platform arXiv.
According to a report from Reuters, the Trump administration has notified Intel among others, that their supplier licenses to Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei have been revoked.
Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin have proposed a novel framework called Training-Free Neural Architecture Search (TE-NAS) for “training-free” neural architecture search.
Researcher from Toyota Research Institute announce joint efforts with Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab, to research on automotive safety improvements.
DeepMind, the UK-based AI arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has lost GBP 477 million in 2019 which is 1.5 percent increase from one year prior.
NVIDIA blog introduced company’s latest NeurIPS presentation: applying a novel neural network training technique, adaptive discriminator augmentation, to the popular NVIDIA StyleGAN2 model.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has established a new research and development division, the Biotechnology and Human Systems Division.
AMD announced the formal acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth US$35 billion.
Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence appointed AI guru and entrepreneur Usama Fayyad as the new executive director.
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
Volkswagen’s truck division Traton announced that it will cooperate with TuSimple, a Chinese self-driving technology start-up company headquartered in San Diego, to develop self-driving trucks.
At the Ignite 2020 virtual conference, Microsoft announced new updates for Azure AI.
The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.
On September 13th, NVIDIA announced the acquisition of UK-based semiconductor startup ARM for US$40 billion, unveiling the largest acquisition dealContinue Reading
Former Uber Chief Scientist and VP for AI Zoubin Ghahramani has joined Google Research as part of the Google Brain team leadership.
The EU and Canada are collaborating to explore how to explicitly leverage artificial intelligence to help the international community respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today unveiled the company’s new GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs.
Trump announced the 2021 fiscal year budget proposal on Monday, further flashing the budget for federally funded research projects, whereas research budgets of major scientific institutions have experienced double-digit cuts.
On August 15th, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for a neural network training computer project named “Dojo”.
US President Donald Trump released two executive orders to ban the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
Google’s Head of AI & IoT Strategic Business Development EMEA, has been appointed Chief Business Officer of Outsight.
Chinese AI company Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology filed a US$1.4 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Apple.
The industry-standard MLPerf benchmark today released the results of the third round of its ongoing ML Training Systems competition.
New York will suspend implementation of AI facial recognition technology in schools for two years on Wednesday.
The University of Florida (UF) and Nvidia University announced on Tuesday the plan to build the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia, providing 700 petaflops of AI performance.
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is eyeing the possibility of acquiring Arm, the chip design subsidiary of Japan’s Softbank Group.
According to the Verge, Amazon funded self-driving company Aurora will test a small vehicle fleet at the highways near Dallas-Fort Worth area in the next few weeks.
Leading US universities engaged in AI research have joined tech giants in backing legislation aimed at establishing a roadmap for the creation of a national AI research cloud.
Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from Twitter after getting involved in a long and often acrimonious dispute regarding racial biases in AI.
Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement today during his keynote speech opening the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2020).