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The French government will use algorithms and artificial intelligence to identify small businesses at risk of collapse in the wake of the Covid pandemic and allocate up to € 3 billion ($ 3.7 billion) to protect them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/france-deploys-ai-in-eu3-billion-plan-to-save-small-businesses A state-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) institute in Beijing unve...

OpenAI is launching a $ 100 million startup fund, called the OpenAI Startup Fund, through which it and its partners will invest in early-stage AI companies dealing with big problems (and productivity). https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/26/openais-100m-startup-fund-will-make-big-early-bets-with-microsoft-as-partner/?guccounter=1 Is every federal agency now a monitoring unit? https://reason.com/2021/05...

Waymo and competitor Cruise of Alphabet Inc (togetL.O) have applied for permits required to bill for autonomous vehicle rides and deliveries in San Francisco's dense urban setting. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-waymo-cruise-seek-permits-charge-self-driving-car-rides-san-francisco-2021-05-11/ CEO Arvind Krishna said IBM is not building consumer-centric AI tools lik...

The US Senate Committee Chairs have worked out a $ 110 billion compromise over five years for basic and advanced technology research and science, and the creation of a White House production manager in the face of increasing competitive pressures from China. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/08/u-s-senate-committee-revised-a-draft-bill-to-fund-ai-quantum-biotech/ The Department of Defense is in full...

Clearview AI Inc. is fighting an "unprecedented" attempt by Illinois consumers to convince a court to block its facial recognition technology. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/clearview-ai-fights-consumer-push-to-shut-down-face-recognition Volkswagen plans to design and develop its own high-performance chips for autonomous vehicles along with the necessary software, CEO Herbert D...

Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR.O) announced on Monday that it would partner with Airbus SE (AIR.PA) to test technologies that could increase flight safety and ultimately enable autonomous flight with obstacle detection. " https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-lidar-maker-luminar-partners-with-airbus-test-autonomous-flight-tech-2021-04-26/ Ride-hail company Lyft sold its autonomous vehicle unit to...

Several U.S. banks have begun deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect people sleeping near ATMs, even if they remain aware of possible setbacks in increased surveillance, shared more than a dozen banking and technology sources using Reuters. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-banks-deploy-ai-123931469.html With online identity management...

Keine HAL 9000s oder Ultrons auf diesem Kontinent, vielen Dank. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-strict-rules-artificial-intelligence/ Das zweite jährliche FT https://www.ft.com/content/ac773779-98ba-442d-a1f2-a14f1a67ddfe SambaNova Systems, ein Silicon Valley-Startup, das Halbleiter für Berechnungen im Zusammenhang mit künstlicher Intelligenz herstellt, gab am Dienstag bekannt, dass es in e...

The challenge is that due to the high volume of pigmented lesions that often need to be examined for potential biopsies, it is difficult to find and prioritize SPLs quickly. https://news.mit.edu/2021/artificial-intelligence-tool-can-help-detect-melanoma-0402 To mark the 48th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, today two scientists working at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence ar...

President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan, released on Wednesday, includes $180 billion in new research and development spending on new technologies that will shape decades to come and drive military innovation. https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2021/03/31/bidens-infrastructure-plan-includes-billions-to-develop-emerging-tech-the-military-needs/ More than two years after the test pha...

Star Trek actor William Shatner is celebrating his 90th birthday by creating an AI version of himself that will live forever. https://www.pcmag.com/news/william-shatner-taps-ai-to-preserve-himself-for-future-generations The Council today adopted conclusions on the EU's cybersecurity strategy for the digital decade. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/03/22/cybersecurity-co...

Today we announce a project called "Learning From Videos" that will automatically learn audio, text and visual representations from the data in publicly available videos uploaded to Facebook. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/learning-from-videos-to-understand-the-world GM-backed Cruise announced today that it is acquiring Voyage after Bloomberg reported a potential deal in early March. https://venture...

A new approach is needed to address the bias in machine learning and AI systems, according to Oxford legal and AI ethics experts https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/new-approach-needed-to-address-bias-in-machine-learning-and-ai-systems-say-oxford-legal-and-ai-ethics-experts At Facebook Connect in 2020, Abrash stated that an always available, low-friction AR interface will be built on two techno...

Clearview AI Inc. is asking the Seventh Circuit to postpone the legal effect of its recent decision to admit a lawsuit under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act in a state court until the Supreme Court has a chance to decide whether to take the case. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/clearview-ai-will-take-bipa-standing-challenge-to-supreme-court A judge approved one of the larg...

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co launched an artificial intelligence pig farm on Monday. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3122215/huawei-turns-ai-pig-farming-chinese-tech-giant-explores-new-growth Amazon and MIT are working together to train machine learning models to predict delivery routes. https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-mit-team-up-to-add-driver-know-how-to-delivery-r...

Purdue University innovators have developed and are testing a new robotic construction system. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210210091126.htm Machine learning-based approach identifies drugs that could be re-used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-machine-learning-approach-treatment-options-covid-.html A new AI model built with the world's fastest...

The Indy Autonomous Challenge will feature driverless cars on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2021 https://www.autoweek.com/racing/indycar/a35202861/autonomous-indy-car-race-indianapolis-motor-speedway Chinese search giant Baidu in talks about raising money for a stand-alone artificial intelligence semiconductor company https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/10/baidu-in-talks-to-raise-money-for-a-standal...

Apple is close to an agreement with Hyundai-Kia https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/apple-and-hyundai-kia-driving-towards-deal-on-apple-car.html On average, data scientists produced 196 percent more strawberries by weight compared to conventional farmers https://qrius.com/heres-what-happened-when-ai-and-humans-met-in-a-strawberry-growing-contest/ Ireland will spend €193 million over six years in resea...

The Toyota Research Institute chose 13 additional academic institutions to engage in the next five-year period of its collaborative research programme. https://www.tri.global/news/university-collab/ The Federal Aviation Administration permits U.S. commercial drone manufacturer Robotics to test drones without on-site pilots. https://www.pymnts.com/news/regulation/2021/faa-oks-american-robotics-dron...