Google open-sources MT5, a multilingual model trained on over 101 languages
TechSee raises $30 million to streamline field service work with AR and computer vision
MIT CSAIL’s Roboat II is an autonomous platform large enough to carry human passengers
Ketos raises $18 million to monitor drinking water quality with AI
Uber drivers union asks EU court to overrule ‘robo-firing’ by algorithm
Automatic signature verification software threatens to disenfranchise U.S. voters
Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals
Researchers design virtual environment to spur development of helpful home robots
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Intel revenues drop 4% to $18.3 billion for Q3 2020 as competition heats up
AI researchers urge tech to go beyond scale to address systemic social issues
Researchers find high error rates in commercial speech recognition systems
Microsoft and MITRE release framework to help fend off adversarial AI attacks
IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy
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Amazon embraces end-to-end models to improve Alexa’s speech recognition
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TeleSense raises $10.2 million to monitor crops with AI and sensors
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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Landing AI launches product inspection platform for manufacturers
Data privacy startup Mine raises $9.5 million and expands to the U.S.
Kite expands its AI code completions from 2 to 13 programming languages
Sam’s Club expands autonomous floor-sweeping robots to all U.S. stores
Anyscale raises $40 million to launch a managed service for distributed computing workloads
Syte raises $40 million to bring visual search to online retailers
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a $160 million supercomputer in Finland
MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent
Microsoft researchers develop assistive eye-tracking AI that works on any device
U.S. Department of Justice files antitrust lawsuit against Google
Microsoft details T-ULRv2 model that can translate between 94 languages
Zest raises $15 million to reduce loan algorithm bias
4iQ raises $30 million for AI that attacks the trade in stolen digital identities
Adobe’s Photoshop Neural Filters use AI to change faces, recolor photos
PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images
