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"A job posted online today attracts tens to hundreds to thousands of applications, largely due to the power of the internet," said Laurie Cumbo, Democratic majority leader of the council and sponsor of the bill. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/technology/businesses-could-face-fines-new-york-city-crackdown-bias-ai-hiring-tools An AI tool can quickly suggest possible candidates for the chemical struct...

The two hubs are expected to create more than 500 new, high-quality data and digital jobs over the next three years. https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2021/10/26/PepsiCo-s-new-Digital-Hubs-to-develop-AI-and-machine-learning The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will examine how artificial intelligence tools "fundamentally change" employment decisions. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/d...

The venture capitalist, co-founder of big data company Palantir, said at an event in Miami on Wednesday that the way to AGI is going to get surveillance AI, which he called "communist totalitarian technology". https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/palantirs-peter-thiel-surveillance-ai-is-more-concerning-than-agi.html The cooperation between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the British Defense Scien...

We introduce Ego4D, a massive egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite. https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/ego4d-unscripted-first-person-video-from-around-the-world-and-a-benchmark-suite-for-egocentric-perception Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has partnered with Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics to identify use cases of legged robots for security, defense a...

"We always found that using the right permissions on data was always the bottleneck," said Ali Golshan, the CEO who co-founded the company with Alex Watson (CPO) and John Myers (CTO). https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/gretel-ai-raises-50m-for-a-platform-that-lets-engineers-build-and-use-synthetic-datasets-to-ensure-the-privacy-of-their-actual-data/?guccounter=1 The German automotive supplier ZF Fr...

Faster, More General Optimization: Loihi 2's greater programmability enables it to support a broader class of difficult optimization problems, including real-time optimization, planning, and decision-making from edge to data center systems. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-unveils-neuromorphic-loihi-2-lava-software.html#gs.er6abv The London-based research firm posted a p...

Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies work and promoting applications from enterprise asset management to construction site tracking and everything in between. http://blog.bostondynamics.com/spot-release-3.0-flexible-autonomy-and-repeatable-data-capture Covid-19-powered digital innovation has put AI and analytics at the heart of business operations. https://hbr.org/2021/09/ai-adopt...

Schools often use AI to identify students at risk of self-harm, violence against others, and bullying. https://www.businessinsider.com/school-students-communication-monitoring-ai-software-self-harm-suicide-risks-2021-9?IR=T Reduce the huge power consumption required to train deep learning models. https://thenextweb.com/news/deepmind-tells-google-no-idea-make-ai-less-toxic The UK government has ann...

Microsoft and Honor Sign Partnership to Develop "New AI and New Devices" Honor announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft in which the companies will work together to "create breakthrough AI and devices." https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-honor-strategic-partnership-new-ai-devices/ A team of international researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (A...

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have all hired and spent millions of dollars to develop their own computer chips from scratch with the aim of generating financial savings and better performance from servers that handle and train companies' machine learning models. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-develops-new-machine-learning-chip The center is led by Columbia Engineering, Columbia's...

China passed an important data protection law on Friday that sets stricter rules for how companies collect and handle their users' information. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/20/china-passes-key-data-protection-law-as-regulatory-scrutiny-increases.html If you need financial advice, ask an expert. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-identify-footprints-but-forensic-experts-wont-get-fired-syndication Autom...

The Chinese internet giant Baidu has unveiled its second generation artificial intelligence chip, its first “Robocar” and a renamed driverless taxi app, underscoring the importance of these new areas of technology for the company's future growth. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/baidu-launches-robocar-and-ai-chip-in-bid-to-diversify-business.html One of the many worrying developments in the tragedy...

The State of Data Science 2021 report looks at the growth of data science as a field, general trends in its adoption by commercial environments and academic institutions, and what students can do to prepare for the future. https://www.anaconda.com/state-of-data-science-2021 Samsung uses artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of developing state-of-the-art compu...

FedEx subsidiary FedEx Ground has implemented a new AI-enabled robotic system that handles thousands of small packages every day as it searches for new innovations to meet demand in e-commerce shipping. https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system Abacus.ai, the two-year-old San Francisco-based startup that develops commercial AI systems, anno...

A researcher from the Swiss Technical University EPFL won a $ 3,500 award for finding that a key Twitter algorithm favors faces that look thin, young and have lighter or warmer skin. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/twitter-ai-bias-contest-shows-beauty-filters-hoodwink-the-algorithm/ Google's Verily Life Sciences has announced that it is opening a research and development center in Israel that wil...

Microsoft has acquired Suplari, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and manage their spending. https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-acquires-seattle-startup-suplari-uses-ai-analyze-corporate-spending/ It also tarnishes the origins of certain records. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-d...

Singapore plans to invest $ 50 million in a program to support research on AI and cybersecurity for future communications structures, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Tuesday. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/singapore-to-launch-50-million-program-in-ai-cybersecurity-research-for-5g.html Woven Planet Holdings - a company founded by Toyota to invest in, develop, and eventually bring...

Walmart is equipping more than half of its regional distribution centers in the USA with a new robotics and automation solution for the supply chain. https://supplychaindigital.com/technology/walmart-announces-game-changer-warehouse-robotics-solution The four-legged robot resembles a dog that walks over sand, rocks and other difficult surfaces. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-teaches-ai-powered...

Autonomous driving systems developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $ 100 million Series D funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/ghost-raises-100m-series-d-for-autonomous-driving-and-crash-prevention-tech/ We first covered Traptic in 2019 when it took to the stage as a Battlefield finalist on Disrupt SF. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/after-8-4m-raise-straw...

In 2019, Facebook made AI Habitat available as open source software, a simulator that can train AI systems that embody things like a home robot to work in environments designed to mimic real-world environments like homes and offices. https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/30/facebook-updates-habitat-environment-to-train-embodied-ai/ Stephen Normandin spent nearly four years speeding through Phoenix as a...

SoftBank Group Corp is cutting jobs in its global robotics business and has ceased production of its Pepper robot, according to sources and documents verified by Reuters, as the group downgrades its industry ambitions. https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-softbank-shrinks-robotics-business-stops-pepper-production-sources-2021-06-28/ Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for impr...

In November 2020, Alphabet-owned AI company DeepMind announced that it had solved one of biology's toughest problems. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-alphafold-protein-diseases It's no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/walmarts-ai-is-getting-smarter-about-grocery-delivery Boston Dyna...

David Silver, head of the Reinforcement Learning research group at DeepMind, is awarded the honorary ranking of "Ninth Dan" for AlphaGo. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/18/computer-scientists-ask-if-deepmind-can-ever-make-ai-human-like.html Insilico Medicine, an AI-based drug development and discovery platform, announced Tuesday Series C funding of $ 255 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/22/a-i...

Ever wished you could mimic a font or handwriting by just taking a snapshot? https://www.engadget.com/facebook-ai-copies-photo-text-style-152032158.html A few new colleagues could soon join the warehouse workers at Amazon: Ernie and Bert. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/13/amazon-details-new-warehouse-robots-ernie-and-bert.html In 1620, 102 passengers on the original Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, E...

Task Force members will help develop a roadmap to democratize access to research tools that will fuel AI innovation and increase economic prosperity https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2021/06/10/the-biden-administration-launches-the-national-artificial-intelligence-research-resource-task-force/ The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute on Thursday announced $ 4.4 million in awards to re...