Researchers find that debiasing doesn’t eliminate racism from hate speech detection models

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In a study, researchers find evidence that debiasing techniques don't make toxicity detectors trained on biased data any less discriminatory.

Twitter expands Google Cloud partnership to ‘learn more from data, move faster’

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Twitter is upping its data analytics game in the form of an expanded, multiyear partnership with Google Cloud. The social media giant first began working with Google in 2018 to move Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud platform as a part of its Partly Cloudy strategy. With the expanded agreement, Tw…

The AI industry is built on geographic and social inequality, research shows

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Researchers find that the AI industry is build on geographic and social inequality, but opportunities exist to change this.

Byte-sized learning

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For 50 years, MIT students have taken advantage of Independent Activities Period, a special mini-term, only four weeks long. This year, IAP looked different, as Covid-19 precautions led instructors to shift their classes online.

Machine-learning model helps determine protein structures

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MIT biologists have developed a computer modeling technique that lets them use cryo-electron microscopy to identify multiple possible structures that a protein can take.

Slync.io raises $60 million to automate supply chain processes

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, a startup developing supply chain automation technologies, has raised $60 million in venture capital funding.

Microsoft launches Viva, an AI-powered information hub for enterprises

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Microsoft today introduced Microsoft Viva, a hub of services designed to address digital workplace challenges.

IBM quantum computing development roadmap envisions applications running 100 times faster

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IBM predicts commercial applications for quantum computing within the next 5 years as hardware continues to advance.

Aflorithmic nabs $1.3M for AI-driven personalized audio-as-a-service

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London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 million in seed funding from Crowd Media Holdings, an Australia-based company focused on influencer-based ‘social commerce’ and marketing. It’s taking a 10% stake in Aflorithmic, per a press…

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Deep Science: AIs with high class and higher altitudes

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Researchers are using AI to analyze MRI scans and even track elephants using satellite photography.

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Researchers claim that AI-translated text is less ‘lexically’ rich than human translations

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Researchers at Tilburg University and the University of Maryland claim that AI-translated text is less 'rich' compared with human translations.

Microsoft launches Custom Neural Voice in limited access

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Microsoft today launched Custom Neural Voice in limited preview, a service that allows customers to create custom voices using AI.

Evinced raises $17M to speed up accessibility testing for the web

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Making and keeping the web accessible is a full-time job, and like any other development role, accessibility tools need to evolve to keep up with the times. Evinced is a startup that promises both richer and faster checks of websites in production or in progress, and it just raised $17M to take its…

Reverie Labs raises $25 million for its AI drug discovery platform

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Reverie Labs, a company leveraging AI for drug discovery, has raised $25 million in venture capital funding.

Garner raises $12 million to match employees with ‘high-performing’ doctors

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Garner Health, a startup developing algorithms that match employees with doctors, has raised $12 million in venture capital.

Researchers release dataset to expose racial, religious, and gender biases in language models

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Reseachers at Amazon and the University of California, Santa Barbara find evidence of biases in language models.

Community Health Network prescribes AI to combat COVID-19

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Community Health Network is employing an AI platform from Jvion to assign COVID-19 risk scores and drive an education outreach initiative.

Deepgram raises $25 million to build custom enterprise speech recognition models

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Deepgram, a startup developing custom voice recognition models for enterprise customers, raised $25 million in funding.

Granulate raises $30 million for AI that optimizes server workloads

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Granulate, a startup developing AI technologies to optimize server workloads, has raised $30 million in venture funding.

Tealium raises $96 million to automate customer tracking on the web

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Tealium, a startup developing technology to track customer behavior on the web, has raised $96 million in a venture round.

The Fusion Project aims to optimize data collection from vehicles

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The Fusion Project consortium looks to optimize data transfer between AI models and inference engines in vehicles.

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Alphabet reports record revenue for Q4 2020 as Google Cloud sales soar

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Google Cloud sales in Q4 2020 bolstered a second consecutive record quarter for its parent company, Alphabet.

Jeff Bezos announces plan to step down as CEO, as Amazon’s Q4 profit eclipses $100 billion

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Amazon recorded a record profit in Q4 2020 as Jeff Bezos, the company's CEO, plans to step aside for Andy Jassy.

The future of SaaS is on-demand: Use experts to drive growth and engagement

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Not having a gig economy strategy as we start 2021 is like missing the internet trend in 1990 or failing to get ahead of the mobile revolution in 2010.

Researchers’ Vx2Text AI framework draws inferences from videos, audio, and text to generate captions

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A grand challenge in AI is developing a conversational system that can reliably understand the world and respond using natural language. Ultimately, solving it will require a model capable of extracting salient information from images, text, audio, and video and answering questions in a way that humans can understand. In a step toward this, researchers […]

TrustLayer raises $6M seed to become the ‘Carta for insurance’

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TrustLayer, which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 million in a seed round. Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. Interestingly,…

HealthTensor raises $5 million for AI that augments and corrects medical records

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HealthTensor, a startup developing a platform that leverages AI to identify health care inefficiencies, has raised $5 million.

Case studies of successful AI startups

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Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence is a small part—albeit an important one—of a successful product management strategy.

HappyFox applies conversational AI to support requests made via Slack

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HappyFox applies conversational AI to resolve help desk support requests via a Slack communications channel.

Vfunction exits stealth to transform monolithic enterprise apps into cloud-native microservices

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Vfunction, which helps transform monolithic apps to microservices, has emerged from stealth today with $12.2 million in seed funding.

Superb AI raises $9.3 million to annotate training data

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Superb AI, a startup developing a suite of AI training data prep and verification tools, has raised $9.3 million.

Rescale raises $50 million to provide high-performance infrastructure-as-a-service to enterprises

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Rescale, a startup developing a high-performance compute for enterprises, has raised $50 million in venture capital.

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Brightloom raises $15 million to help ecommerce brands predict what customers want to buy next

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Brightloom helps brands use transaction data to predict what a customer may want to buy next and how much they may spend.

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Facebook researchers propose ‘pre-fine-tuning’ to improve language model performance

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Researchers at Facebook propose a new approach to training language models that they claim is highly data efficient.

UiPath raises $750M at $35B valuation

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RPA platform UiPathannounced that it has closed on $750 million in Series F funding at a post-money valuation of $35 billion.

RPA startup UiPath raises $750 million

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Robotic process automation startup UiPath has raised $750 million in a series F round valuing the company at $35 billion.

Databricks raises $1 billion funding round at $28 billion valuation

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Data analysis and AI company Databricks has raised a $1 billion funding round to bring its valuation to $28 billion.

Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools

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Weights & Biases, a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it’s raised $45 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight (acqui…

AI in health care creates unique data challenges

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AI algorithms are being applied to health. But they require training data, and challenges abound when it comes to health data management.

Telemedicine and chatbots are using data to transform health care

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The health care industry has rapidly embraced advances like telemedicine and health chatbots on a far greater scale to navigate the pandemic.

Confidence, uncertainty, and trust in AI affect how humans make decisions

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Health care applications of AI are growing fast, but there are obstacles to building robust, trustworthy systems.

Elder care, wireless AI, and the Internet of Medical Things

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Senior citizens are accustomed to constant probes by doctors, but wireless AI tech is enabling massive-scale, nonintrusive data monitoring.

We’re two steps away from democratized, on-demand health care

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Just as with services such as Uber, consumers shouldn't have to go out and seek health services; the services should be available on demand.

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Detecting 10 times more bots and stopping fraud with behavioral biometrics

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Alon Dayan and Dean Takahashi discuss the bots, fraudsters, and how bots will impact the future of mobile games and the metaverse.

Avaya expands its alliance with Google for AI for contact centers

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Avaya AI's alliance with Google leads to the creation of virtual agents that can verbally interact with customers.

Weights and Biases raises $45 million to advance MLOps governance

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Weights and Biases raises $45 million to advance MLOps governance and help improve overall AI explainability.

Forget user experience. AI must focus on ‘citizen experience’

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To ensure AI has a positive impact on society, we need to look beyond user experience to a new practice of 'citizen experience' design.

Here’s where AI will advance in 2021

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Advances in Transformer structures and GNNs will likely spur advances in domains that haven’t yet opened up to AI techniques and algorithms.

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What algorithm auditing startups need to succeed

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Algorithm auditing can promote the deployment of transparent and trustworthy AI. Here's what auditing startups need to succeed.

AI needs an open labeling platform

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Training data platforms are emerging as the best way to handle the collection, labeling, and feeding of data into supervised learning models.