AI Technology & Industry Review
Global AI Industry updates.
The UK government is investing approximately Β£200m over the next four years in public sector AI procurement, which facilitates the purchase of a wide range of AI services from various suppliers.
Thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and Internet of things (IoT) devices, many additional functions have been added to make the parent-pet connection stronger.
Open-source library for machine learning now gives the ability to evaluate which hyperparameters most affect performance.
US President Donald Trump released two executive orders to ban the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
Huawei states that as of July this year, 92 5G commercial networks have been deployed worldwide and China owns the most 5G spectrum and physical sites.
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba announced the investment of US$321 million to set up a new AI centre.
Googleβs Head of AI & IoT Strategic Business Development EMEA, has been appointed Chief Business Officer of Outsight.
Alibaba Cloud wraps up the deployment three data centres in Nantong, Hangzhou, and Ulanqab city, plans to add over one million servers to expedite regional infrastructure development.
PFRL succeeds ChainerRL as comprehensive library with cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning algorithms and features.
The industry-standard MLPerf benchmark today released the results of the third round of its ongoing ML Training Systems competition.
According to Chinese media Zhidongxi, from the second quarter of this year to July 23, public record shows 77 semiconductor-related financing activities in China.
On July 27, 2020, Alibaba Cloud Research Center and Accenture jointly launched the βThe Penetrative and Explosive Power of AI Dividendβ white paper, as part of the βChina Enterprise 2020β series report.
Chinese tech giant Tencent has proposed to acquire all of the Sogou’s outstanding ordinary shares for a cash price of US$9 per share.
New York will suspend implementation of AI facial recognition technology in schools for two years on Wednesday.
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is eyeing the possibility of acquiring Arm, the chip design subsidiary of Japanβs 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.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the set up of a 10 billion dollar βGoogle for India Digitization Fundβ to help accelerate Indiaβs digital economy.
South Korea government plans to introduce AI car insurance services next year to speed up post-accident handling.
Dubaiβs Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is implementing AI technologies to monitor the service provided by taxi drivers.
Research institution Strategy Analytics predicts that the smart home market will resume in 2021 and consumer spending will increase to USD 62 billion.
Google is investing USD 4 billion in Indiaβs Jio platforms, a subsidiary of conglomerate Reliance Group, to create affordable smartphones for the Indian market.
Chinaβs self-driving truck company TuSimple forges strategic partnership with US truck manufacturer Navistar to jointly develop L4 driverless trucks, striving for mass production by 2024.
News report that a Tesla Model S crashed into Arizona Department of Public Safety police vehicle on Tuesday in California.
Google officially released the 2020 Scholar Metrics list.
Cambricon Technologies, one of Chinaβs AI chip giant founded in 2016, has raised US $369 million in IPO at the Shanghai Stock Exchangeβs STAR Market.
Microsoft announced it would spin off its chatbot business XiaoIce, with all associated technologies licensed to a newly formed independent company.
NeurIPS desk-rejects (papers passed over without review) has become “a super noisy process,” complains a post in the Reddit Machine Learning group.
Insilico Medicine announced a spin-off of its aging biomarker and deep aging clock business.
Microsoft today announced it will divest its XiaoIce business into an independent company, with Harry Shum appointed as the Chairman of the board.
The post highlights perceived peer-review problems, the reproducibility crisis, and ethics and diversity issues.
The paper looks at the New Generation Artificial Intelligence (NGAI) Development Plan of China (2015β 2030), which was published in 2017 as a blueprint for the rapid construction of a complete Chinese AI ecosystem.
There are one trillion synapses in a cubic centimeter of the brain. If there is such a thing as General AI, it would probably require one trillion synapses.
Facing a shortage of seasonal workers and rising labour costs, kiwifruit growers may get some relief from robots equipped with a new AI-powered fruit detection system.
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.
Synced presents 13 comprehensive case studies and 74 use cases in five main application scenarios to demonstrate how AI has assisted and can continue to assist in efforts to roll back COVID-19.
GitHub recently introduced a series of free and open-source GitHub Actions that merge data science and machine learning workflows with a software development workflow.
Facebook and Kaggle are facing an online backlash after the apparent winners of the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) were disqualified.
Advanced computer vision technology is supercharging virtual and augmented reality, one of the latest milestones in video game design.
Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) hosts MLOps, Production & Engineering 2020 through an interactive conference to enable attendees the opportunity to virtually engage with speakers and establish a stronger network within the AI community.