After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal

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When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear. The current crisis could do the same for AI.

Google quietly expands Duplex to the U.K., Australia, and Canada

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Google Duplex, Google's AI voice reservation system, has seemingly expanded beyond the U.S. to the U.K., Australia, and Canada .

France is officially working on ‘Stop Covid’ contact-tracing app

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France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of COVID-19. The government is putting a stamp of approval on the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) p…

Researchers open-source state-of-the-art object tracking AI

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Researchers at Microsoft and Huazhong University open-sourced an AI model -- FairMOT -- that can track multiple objects with state-of-the-art performance.

Google releases API to train smaller, faster AI models

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Google's new Quantization Aware Training API supports the development of smaller, faster models that don't compromise on accuracy.

Google Cloud launches coronavirus response program with Contact Center AI

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Google Cloud's Rapid Response Virtual Agent program will enable access to free resources until July and COVID-19 related templates.

Facial recognition is no match for face masks, but things are changing fast

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Facial recognition for smartphones like Google's Pixel 4 can be rendered useless by face masks, but companies are working on ways to recognize masked faces.

Researchers fool deepfake detectors into classifying fake images as real

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Researchers demonstrate in a paper ways to fool fake media detectors by modifying only a small portion of images' pixels.

Box bolsters cloud security with automated malware detection

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Box is adding automated malware detection smarts to Box Shield, the company's machine-learning based content security platform.

Tonkean raises $24 million to automate enterprise workflows

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Tonkean, a startup that's developing a platform to automate enterprise workflows, has raised $24 million in venture capital.

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Intel, Mozilla, and others join pledge to make IP freely available to fight coronavirus

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A consortium of organizations including Intel and Mozilla have joined the Open COVID Pledge, an effort to make intellectual property freely available.

Google’s AI learns how to navigate environments from limited data

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In a preprint paper, Carnegie Mellon, Google, and Stanford researchers propose an AI framework for training environment-exploring agents with limited data.

Nuro obtains DMV permit to test driverless delivery vehicles in San Francisco Bay Area

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Driverless car startup Nuro says it has obtained a permit from the California DMV to test driverless vehicles in California cities without safety drivers.

Learning about artificial intelligence: A hub of MIT resources for K-12 students

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New website offers a combination of learning units, hands-on activities, and mentor guides to foster AI literacy.

RPA is helping health systems and governments respond to the coronavirus

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RPA providers including UiPath, Blue Prism, and Kryon are helping to deploy automation workflows around COVID-19 processes in health care systems.

Microsoft hires Apple 5G chief to develop new HoloLens and AI products

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A former Apple 5G wireless executive has joined Microsoft to lead engineering for future mixed reality and AI products, including HoloLens devices.

SourceDay raises $12.5 million for AI that predicts on-time delivery risk

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SourceDay, a startup providing a platform that matches manufacturers with suppliers, has secured $12.5 million in venture capital financing.

Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines

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In a preprint paper, a team of researchers -- some of whom hail from Microsoft -- propose an AI framework for spotting fake news.

Node raises $6 million to help businesses without AI expertise launch projects

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Node has raised an additional $6 million to grow its AI-as-a-service platform for businesses without much technical expertise.

MixMode raises $4 million to help companies fight AI-driven cyberattacks

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MixMode has raised $4 million as it develops artificial intelligence to help companies combat increasingly automated cyberattacks.

CyberMDX raises $20 million to protect connected medical devices with AI

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CyberMDX, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for health care systems, has secured $20 million in venture capital financing.

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Tenstorrent reveals Grayskull, an all-in-one system that accelerates AI model training

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Toronto, Canada-based Tenstorrent revealed its first product: Grayskull. It's an all-in-one system that accelerates AI workloads like model training.

CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment

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San Francisco, California-based app testing automation startup CircleCI raised $100 million in a series E round, it announced.

Glassbox raises $40 million to track customer journeys with AI

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Glassbox, which develops automated solutions to track customer journeys through apps and websites, has raised $40 million in venture capital.

Einride demos a single teleoperator taking control of multiple autonomous trucks

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Einride has showcased a new remote drive station that enables teleoperators to monitor and control multiple autonomous trucks.

Miso Robotics launches crowdfunding campaign for autonomous kitchen robots

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Miso Robotics announced the official launch of its crowdfunding campaign, which aims to raised $30 million in equity funding.

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Google launches Local Home SDK out of preview

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Google announced the launch of the Local Home SDK, which enables developers to run smart home device code locally on select Google Assistant-enabled products.

IBM’s AI classifies seizures with 98.4% accuracy using EEG data

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In a newly published preprint paper, IBM researchers detail an AI model that classifies various seizure types with state-of-the-art accuracy.

Why AI startups’ economics will likely improve over time

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We wound up talking to one VC, David Blumberg of Blumberg Capital, who had some interesting notes on AI margins to share from his portfolio.

Stanford researchers propose AI in-home system that can monitor for coronavirus symptoms

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Research on an at-home AI system originally designed to monitor seniors' health could be adapted to keep track of signs of COVID-19.

Apple’s Voysis acquisition will boost Siri’s IQ in a respected AI test

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Apple's purchase of an Irish voice AI company will help Siri become smarter in a key area of previously tested weakness: commerce.

Microsoft’s AI recommends lockdown strategies to curb coronavirus

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Researchers at Microsoft, the Indian Institute of Technology, and TCS Research developed an AI framework to predict the spread of COVID-19.

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DeepMind’s AI models transition of glass from a liquid to a solid

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The DeepMind team trained a graph neural network that outperformed physics-inspired baselines and state-of-the-art AI models in predicting glassy dynamics.

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R&D Roundup: Ultrasound/AI medical imaging, assistive exoskeletons and neural weather modeling

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In the time of COVID-19, much of what transpires from the science world to the general public relates to the virus, and understandably so. But other domains, even within medical research, are still active — and as usual, there are tons of interesting (and heartening) stories out there that shouldn&…

Accelerating data-driven discoveries

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Life science companies use Paradigm4’s unique database management system to uncover new insights into human health.

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Google research makes for an effortless robotic dog trot

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As capable as robots are, the original animals after which they tend to be designed are always much, much better. That's partly because it's difficult to learn how to walk like a dog directly from a dog — but this research from Google's AI labs make it considerably easier.

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Google’s AI teaches robots how to move by watching dogs

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Google researchers say they've developed a technique that enables robots in the real world to learn from motion capture data of dogs and other animals.

AI Weekly: Coronavirus chatbots use inconsistent data sources and privacy practices

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A review of several publicly available COVID-19 chatbots reveals that they're inconsistent when it comes to data collection and information vetting.

IBM makes AI tools and resources available to coronavirus researchers

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IBM made available a range of tools and resources to aid those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, including a molecule inspection interface.

Tech leaders highlight military AI and 5G investments they call essential to U.S economy and national security

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Executives from companies like Amazon and Microsoft are suggesting Congress and the president prioritize funding for certain 5G and AI projects.

98point6 raises $43 million to expand its AI-powered telehealth service

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Telehealth provider 98point6 raised $40 million from Goldman Sachs to expand its telemedical services as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier

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OctoML, a startup founded by the team behind the Apache TVM machine learning compiler stack project, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Amplify, with participation from Madrone Ventures, which led its $3.9 million seed round. The core idea behind OctoML and TVM i…

Blackbird.AI CEO: ‘COVID-19 is the Olympics of disinformation’

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COVID-19 disinformation campaigns have exploded, sowing fear and confusion at a time when verifiable information is a matter of life or death.

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Qcraft raises over $24 million to train autonomous vehicle systems in simulation

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Qcraft, a robotics startup developing a simulation platform for autonomous vehicles, has raised 'tens of millions' of dollars in a seed round.

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Using AI responsibly to fight the coronavirus pandemic

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Even in times of great crisis, we should strive to advance AI for good.

Q&A: Markus Buehler on setting coronavirus and AI-inspired proteins to music

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Translated into sound, SARS-CoV-2 tricks our ear in the same way the virus tricks our cells.

Activity-monitoring startup Zensors repurposes its tech to help coronavirus response

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Computer vision techniques used for commercial purposes are turning out to be valuable tools for monitoring people's behavior during the present pandemic. Zensors, a startup that uses machine learning to track things like restaurant occupancy, lines, and so on, is making its platform available for …

Mayo Clinic starts using autonomous vehicles to deliver coronavirus tests and medical supplies

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The Mayo Clinic says its branch in Florida is using autonomous shuttles to transport COVID-19 tests and medical supplies.

Google’s AI predicts physicians’ prescribing decisions 75% of the time

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In a study, Google claims that its AI system, which it developed with researchers at UCSF, anticipates physician's prescribing decisions 75% of the time.

Amazon and SenseTime detail OmniSource, a framework that scrapes web videos to train AI

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Researchers hailing from Amazon, SenseTime, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong detail in a new paper OmniSource, which scrapes web videos to train AI.