U.S. Department of Justice files antitrust lawsuit against Google

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The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Google carries out anticompetitive business practices and maintains monopolies in search and advertising.

Microsoft details T-URLv2 model that can translate between 94 languages

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Microsoft's T-URLv2 model can translate between 94 different langauges, falling just short of Facebook's recently announced M2M-100 model.

Stampli, an invoice management software startup, launches a payments product

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Stampli, a collaborative invoice management software company, introduced a payments product today called Stampli Direct Pay. The startup launched back in 2015 with a mission to simplify invoice management through collaboration (and a dash of AI). Interestingly, Stampli said it was uninterested at t…

Adobe Photoshop gets new AI smarts with neural filters, sky replacement and more

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Adobe is betting big on its Sensei AI platform, and so it’s probably no surprise that the company also continues to build more AI-powered features into its flagship Photoshop applications. At its MAX conference, Adobe today announced a handful of new AI features for Photoshop, with Sky Replac…

Adobe Lightroom gets a new color grading tool, auto versions, graphical watermarking and more

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At its MAX conference, Adobe today announced the launch of the latest version of Lightroom, its popular photo management and editing tool. The highlights of today’s release are the introduction of a new color grading tool that’s more akin to what you’d find in a video editor like …

Adobe Illustrator launches on iPad and Adobe Fresco comes to the iPhone

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Adobe today launched the first public version of its Illustrator vector graphics app on the iPad. That’s no surprise, given that it was already available for pre-order and as a private beta, but a lot of Illustrator users were looking forward to this day. In addition, the company also today a…

Intel is providing the smarts for the first satellite with local AI processing on board

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Intel detailed today its contribution to PhiSat-1, a new tiny small satellite that was launched into sun-synchronous orbit on September 2. PhiSat-1 has a new kind of hyperspectral-thermal camera on board, and also includes a Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit. That VPU is found in a number of…

Adobe’s Photoshop Neural Filters use AI to change faces, recolor photos

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Thanks to significant machine learning updates, Adobe is calling the new version of Photoshop 'the world’s most advanced AI application for creatives.'

Zest raises $15 million to reduce loan algorithm bias

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Zest AI has raised a $15 million round to develop loan decisioning software it claims is less biased than the industry standard.

4iQ raises $30 million for AI that attacks the trade in stolen digital identities

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Digital identity protection startup 4iQ today announced a $30 million round it will use to ramp up investments in its go-to-market activities.

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PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images

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Intel, the European Space Agency, and startup Ubotica collaborated to launch a machine learning-powered small satellite into orbit.

Tiliter bags $7.5M for its ‘plug and play’ cashierless checkout tech

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Tiliter, an Australian startup that’s using computer vision to power cashierless checkout tech that replaces the need for barcodes on products, has closed a $7.5 million Series A round of funding led by Investec Emerging Companies. The 2017-founded company is using AI for retail product recog…

Merck tests delivering temperature-controlled medicine via drone

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Drone maker Volansi is collaborating with drug maker Merck on a drone program to get 'cold-chain' medicines to people not in hospitals.

Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

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Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million. With 128 Technology…

DeepMind open-sources the FermiNet, a neural network that simulates electron behaviors

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Researchers at DeepMind have open-sourced the FermiNet, a neural network that simulates the positions and arrangements of electrons.

Apple invites Black founders and developers to 2021 Entrepreneur Camp

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As part of its $100 million commitment to radial equity, Apple has opened applications to an Entrepreneur Camp for Black Founders, to be held in early 2021.

A global collaboration to move artificial intelligence principles to practice

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Convened by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the AI Policy Forum is a global collaboration to move AI principles to practice.

Google Assistant-enabled smart displays gain support for multiple accounts

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Google Assistant has gained new features on smart displays, including support for multiple enterprise and personal accounts on a single device.

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Facebook’s open source M2M-100 model can translate between 100 different languages

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Facebook's M2M-100 machine learning model can translate between 100 different languages, ostensibly with state-of-the-art accuracy.

Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI, its first dedicated mortgage industry tool

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of Lending DocAI, its first dedicated service for the mortgage industry. The tool, which is now in preview, is meant to help mortgage companies speed up the process of evaluating a borrower’s income and asset documents, using specialized machine learnin…

Pimloc gets $1.8M for its AI-based visual search and redaction tool

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UK-based Pimloc has closed a £1.4 million (~$1.8M) seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Existing investor Speedinvest and other unnamed shareholders also participated in the round. The 2016-founded computer vision startup launched a AI -powered photo classifier service called Pholio …

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Unit21 raises $13 million to turn AI into a fraud-fighting machine

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Startup Unit21 has raised $13 million in funding for its no-code, machine learning-powered fraud monitoring tools complete with case management tracking.

AiFi raises $15 million to accelerate cashierless retail

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AiFi, a startup developing cashierless checkout technology, has raised $15 million in venture capital to expand its geographic reach.

Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI to streamline mortgage applications with AI

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Google Cloud today unveiled Lending DocAI, a specialized solution for the mortgage industry. In partnership with Roostify, it's available in preview.

From the ground up: Building your ideal game studio infrastructure (VB Live)

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To succeed, a new game studio needs the right tech infrastructure and a focus on security. Learn about the tech and security strategies you need to succeed.

Silent Eight leverages AI to detect and solve financial fraud

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Silent Eight, a startup leveraging AI to help detect and solve financial fraud, has raised $8.8 million to expand its reach.

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AI Weekly: U.S. lawmakers decry the chilling effect of federal surveillance at protests

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Members of Congress sent a letter to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board asking the agency to investigate federal surveillance at protests.

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The real promise of synthetic data

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A set of open-source synthetic data generation tools meant to expand access to data without compromising privacy has been made available to the public by researchers in the Laboratory for Information Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT.

Foursquare’s Marsbot for AirPods offers location-aware audio tips

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The location-aware social sharing platform believes the next frontier for AI assistants will be proactive sharing of context-specific audio via headphones.

Duplex, Google’s conversational AI, has updated 3M+ business listings since pandemic

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Google today offered an update on the status of Duplex, its A.I. technology that uses natural conversations to get things done — like making restaurant reservations, booking appointments, or updating a Google Business listing, for example. When the pandemic began, Google expanded its use of D…

Google launches a slew of Search updates

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Google today announced a number of improvements to its core search engine, with a strong focus on how the company is using AI to help its users. These include the ability to better answer questions with very specific answers, very broad questions and a new algorithm to better handle the typos in yo…

Google details how it’s using AI and machine learning to improve search

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During a livestreamed event today, Google announced new ways it's applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience. 

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Researchers detail LaND, AI that learns from autonomous vehicle disengagements

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LaND is a navigation system that learns from disengagements to help delivery robots successfully travel longer distances.

Cruise receives permit to test autonomous cars without safety drivers in San Francisco

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Cruise gained a permit from the California DMV that will allow it to test up to five vehicles without safety drivers behind the wheel.

New Oxford machine learning-based COVID-19 test can provide results in under 5 minutes

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Oxford scientists working out of the school’s Department of Physics have developed a new type of COVID-19 test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 with a high degree of accuracy, directly in samples taken from patients, using a machine learning-based approach that could help sidestep test supply limit…

Google’s Smart Fill autocompletes Sheets columns using AI

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The new AI-powered Smart Fill feature for Google Sheets draws on a range of data sources to automatically complete columns in files.

Whisper’s hearing aids use AI to boost speech and reduce noise

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Whisper, a startup founded by former Facebook employees, raised $53 million to develop a pair of AI-powered hearing aids.

Nvidia will supply hardware for Leonardo, a 10-exaflop supercomputer

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Nvidia announced it will supply the hardware for Leonardo, a supercomputer capable of achieving 10 exaflops of compute performance.

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Whisper announces $35M Series B to change hearing aids with AI and subscription model

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A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands of dollars on a medical device designed to improve his hearing, and in the process his quality of life, he wasn’t wearing them. Song’s co-f…

Nvidia will power world’s fastest AI supercomputer, to be located in Europe

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Nvidia is is going to be powering the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, a new system dubbed ‘Leonardo’ that’s being built by the Italian multi-university consortium CINECA, a global supercomutin leader. The Leonardo system will offer as much as 10 exaflops of FP16 AI perform…

Machine learning uncovers potential new TB drugs

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Using a machine-learning approach that incorporates uncertainty, MIT researchers identified several promising compounds that target a protein required for the survival of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.

River raises $10.4 million for privacy-preserving news recommendations

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River, a startup developing an app that aggregates news and events on the web, claims to preserve privacy with its machine learning approach.

Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights to the US

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Savana, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from Spain to the U.S., the company said. The investment was led by Cathay Innovation with participation from the Span…

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Sonrai Security raises $20 million to protect public clouds with automation

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Sonrai Security, a startup developing a security platform for public cloud customers, has raised $20 million in venture funding.

Balto raises $10 million to analyze call center conversations with AI

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Balto, a conversational AI startup targeting call centers, has raised $10 million in venture capital to accelerate its go-to-makret strategy.

Rosita Longevity wants to teach seniors how to live long, healthy lives

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Longevity, as far as startups are concerned, tends to be a moonshot-y space where technologies like biotech and AI are experimentally applied in a sort of modern day alchemical quest — and the great hope is to (somehow) ‘hack’ biology and substantially extend the human lifespan. O…

Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies

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After a year with the Partnership on AI, Access Now resigned from the 100+ member organization group citing a lack of change by corporate tech companies.

Google Analytics update uses machine learning to surface more critical customer data

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If you ever doubted the hunger brands have for more and better information about consumers, you only need to look at Twilio buying customer data startup Segment this week for $3.2 billion. Google sees this the same thing as everyone else, and today it introduced updates to Google Analytics to help …

Apple’s huge 5G and Siri bets risk user satisfaction and legal issues

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Apple's latest event raised questions about whether the Siri digital assistant or relatively new 5G technology are ready to deliver on years of promises.

Google’s breast cancer-predicting AI research is useless without transparency, critics say

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The coauthors of a commentary in Nature argue that a Google Health model that predicts breast cancer doesn't meet baseline transparency requirements.