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Facebook's parent company Meta has used AI to develop a new method of making concrete that it claims produces 40 percent less carbon emissions than standard mixes, and is already using it in its latest data center. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317122-meta-is-using-ai-to-create-low-carbon-concrete-for-its-data-centres/ What's happening Facebook's parent company Meta says it's working on a...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that some radiologists are unaware of the intended use of computerized triage and notification (CADt) devices and has issued a recommendation on the use of the imaging software for patients with suspected large vessel occlusion ( LVO) in the brain. https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/fda-issues-advisory-on-use-of-ai-and-machine-learning-for-large-ves...

With support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and DeepMind, SiteGround and $100 million from the Bulgarian government, a new institute will open in Sofia, Bulgaria in September to advance cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and computing at large and whole through open research. https://tech.eu/2022/04/11/aws-google-and-deepmind-back-ai-and-computer-science-institute-in-bulgaria/ Googl...

Developer of AI medical imaging applications, Oxipit, received Class IIb CE certification for its ChestLink autonomous AI imaging suite. https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=12850 IBM is updating its mainframe range, building an AI accelerator onto the processor and surrounding it with new cryptographic capabilities that the company says will help protect today's data from tomorrow's quant...

Expo-goers will also have the opportunity to walk the Boston Dynamics spot. https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-stretch-now-commercially-available/ Stanford researchers have developed an algorithm that can help identify if someone has autism based on brain scans. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/new-ai-driven-algorithm-can-detect-autism-brain-fingerprints About a year after a mechanical pr...

LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman has co-founded a new artificial intelligence startup company called Inflection AI with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and former DeepMind researcher Karén Simonyan. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/08/reid-hoffman-has-set-up-a-new-ai-company-with-deepminds-co-founder.html Two Stanford researchers have found widespread use of fake LinkedIn accounts created with a...

Meta, Apple, and a host of other tech companies are building augmented reality glasses with displays that computerize the world around you. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22991667/snap-buys-nextmind-brain-computer-interface-spectacles-ar-glasses Graphics chips are good at taking 3D scenes, such as video game battlefields or airplane designs, and rendering them as 2D images on a screen. https:/...

It took the drug-developing AI less than six hours to invent 40,000 potentially deadly molecules. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx The fleet-footed, four-legged robot called Mini Cheetah... well, doesn't move like anything in the animal kingdom. https://www.popsci.com/technology/machine-learning-robot-runs-its-fastest/ Nvidia this we...

A self-funded artificial intelligence startup is working with Microsoft to address a long-standing problem in the medical field: infections caused by centralized tubes placed in the body to deliver chemotherapy or other drugs. https://www.geekwire.com/2022/microsoft-and-portland-area-startup-pilot-ai-powered-tool-to-thwart-central-line-infection/ Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel artifici...

An AI tool developed by DeepMind can help historians recover ancient Greek texts with an accuracy of 72 percent and date inscriptions to 30 years of their true age https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311657-ai-can-help-historians-restore-ancient-texts-from-damaged-inscriptions/ Another European privacy commissioner has sanctioned controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI, which scrapes...

CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that his company should develop a device that uses artificial intelligence to reduce wait times at traffic lights. https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/03/26011950/tesla-ceo-elon-musks-latest-idea-an-ai-driven-device-to-shorten-traffic-light-agony By using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to formulate therapeutic proteins, a team led by Rutgers researchers has succes...

Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance is complete. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-completes-197-billion-acquisition-ai-giant-nuance It's hard to be a college student in the US these days. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-college-president-is-another-reason-to-drop-out-unlv-keith-whitfield When it comes to application acceleration, a deep understanding of the complex algorithms underlying most...

Even though there are currently no truly self-driving cars on the market, autonomous vehicles are on the way to the future. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-benz-drive-pilot-hands-free-driving-traffic-jam-assist/ Cerebras Systems, the San Jose, California-based startup that makes computers for processing deep learning algorithms and other large-scale scientific computing tasks, announce...

However, controlling nuclear fusion on Earth is difficult. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/16/1045470/deepminds-ai-can-control-superheated-plasma-inside-a-fusion-reactor/ Metaverse Virtual Beings developer Soul Machines has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. https://voicebot.ai/2022/02/15/virtual-beings-startup-soul-machines-raises-70m/ And the c...

An electronic chip that can be reprogrammed when needed could allow artificial intelligence to learn more continuously like the human brain does, researchers have discovered. https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q1/the-brains-secret-to-lifelong-learning-can-now-come-as-hardware-for-artificial-intelligence.html The day when a person can sit in a car and drive anywhere without a human opera...

Last year, the San Francisco-based research lab released OpenAI Codex, an AI model for translating natural language commands into app code. https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/02/deepmind-claims-its-new-code-generating-system-is-competitive-with-human-programmers/ Machine learning specialists are among the most in-demand talents in the technology space right now, with big companies like Snap, Zoom, an...

Boston Dynamics has won the first customer for its Stretch case handling robot. https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-delivering-fleet-of-stretch-robots-to-dhl/ Elon Musk announced that Tesla will shift its product development to make Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot also known as Optimus, a priority in 2022. https://electrek.co/2022/01/27/elon-musk-tesla-prioritizing-product-development-optim...

"What's so unique about the space resource is that we can see, measure and identify things from space that are extremely difficult to measure at ground level," Gore said Tuesday. https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/590663-al-gore-emissions-reductions-hinge-on-ai-measurements-from Advances in AI are coming out all the time, but they tend to be confined to a single area: For exampl...

The FBI signed a deal with Clearview AI on Dec. 30 for a $18,000 subscription license for the company's facial recognition technology. https://www.cyberscoop.com/feds-spending-on-facial-recognition-tech-continues-unmitigated-despite-privacy-concerns/ A new survey found that 80% of US firms had problems despite already conducting bias monitoring or algorithm testing. https://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

DeepBrain AI's industry-first approach to "humanizing" AI assistants provides users with a familiar, insightful, and accessible experience. https://gadget.co.za/ces-2022-deepbrain-humanises-ai-avatars/ It's amazing what we can do with AI these days. https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-upgraded-ai-art-tool-turned-my-obscure-squiggles-into-a-masterpiece/ IBM has revived its sale process for IBM Watson H...

Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that their Advancing American AI Innovation Act came into effect as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-rosen-bipartisan-legislation-strengthen-americas-artificial-0 Zeekr, the Geely Holding Group's premium electric brand, announced Tuesday that it...

Autonomous weapon systems - commonly known as killer robots - may have killed people for the first time last year, according to a recent UN Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. https://theconversation.com/un-fails-to-agree-on-killer-robot-ban-as-nations-pour-billions-into-autonomous-weapons-research-173616 As AI penetrates more and more facets of our life, there is also increasing scru...

By making this pipeline easily accessible, the researchers hope to inspire teachers, students and health care workers to explore how such tools can help them in their respective fields. https://news.mit.edu/2021/ai-generated-characters-for-good-1216 This may be remembered as the year the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic concern to a reality on the battlefiel...

Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company supported by Toyota, can no longer test fully self-driving vehicles in California, at least for the time being. https://www.engadget.com/california-suspends-ponyai-driverless-testing-permit-122914859.html?guccounter=1 Negotiators at the UN talks have been discussing the limits of lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are completely machine-controll...

China on Tuesday signed a United Nations pledge to prevent artificial intelligence from wreaking havoc on societies, including banning the use of AI for "social scoring" systems - a practice Beijing itself has for the past Popularized for years and currently used to rate Chinese citizens based on their perceived trustworthiness. https://www.politico.eu/article/china-artificial-intelligence-ai-ban-...