How does the US army deal with Artificial Intelligence? Two years ago it set up the “Rapid Capabilities Office”, RCO, to deal with emerging technologies and to focus on top modernization priorities, especially AI. As of November 2018, the RCO is led by COL John Eggert as the acting Executive Director. Eggert enlisted in the …
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Tokyo-based AI/ML startup ABEJA today announced a strategic investment from Google (series C extension). Google and ABEJA will collaborate on AI/ML solutions across various sectors, including ABEJA’s core service, the ABEJA platform. The platform is delivered as PaaS and leverages ML technology in data gathering, annotation, learning, deployment, inference and relearning in a variety of …
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Compass, a tech-focused real estate platform, just hired Microsoft’s chief tech and artificial intelligence leader Joseph Sirosh as new CTO, reporting into its COO. Sirosh will lead the engineering team to develop new AI-powered products for the entire real estate ecosystem and the 7000+ Compass agents. Compass is a unique beast: it was founded in …
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Is China the AI/tech leader of the world? Many governments and researchers still say no (most of them with biases), but they do concede that wherever we are today, China is catching up fast. Maybe the statement is true overall (for now), but in a number of specific fields, China definitely leads the way, impressively …
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MasterCard last summer bought Brighterion for an undisclosed sum to help accelerate its Artificial Intelligence capabilities, adding the San Francisco headquartered firm’s Smart Agent technology to its advanced AI suite of security products. Ajay Bhalla, president of enterprise risk and security for MasterCard sees “unprecedented use of artificial intelligence … to fully realize the promise …
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https://lnkd.in/eRUFTVm Robots are Hiring… WSJ’s Moving Upstream video of sci-if that’s already reality (used by Unilever, Hilton, et al). HireVue and its AI use of micro-expressions and tone of voice to assess, analyze and hire applicants, DeepSense assessing personality traits via social media analysis… questions remain around the law, regulations, ethics and more, and whether …
Netflix and chill? Heard of iQiyi? Last year Netflix announced a licensing deal with iQiyi to stream original Netflix content on the site. The service was launched eight years ago by Baidu and this March issued an IPO in the US, raising $2.25 billion. The Beijing-based video platform has over 500 million users and aside …
Amazon AWS re:Invent conference highlights: a managed blockchain offering; Amazon Quantum Ledger Database; AWS optimized TensorFlow, AWS Lake Formation (data lakes, that is); Inferential/Elastic Inference; AWS Ground Station, Control Tower, Security Hub; AWS Marketplace for ML and AI… … and here is the curriculum used to train Amazon’s developers and data scientists: https://lnkd.in/eTmPQ55 30+ digital …
500 million customers’ data exposed, including passport numbers, travel details, and other sensitive data – not a good day for Marriott/Starwood. Given the data hasn’t appeared on the dark web, government intelligence gathering is the most likely guess. Other than the obvious concerns, the length of the breach (starting in 2014 and up until now) …
GM President Dan Ammann (a former Morgan Stanley investment banker), will take over Cruise, the carmaker’s self-driving vehicle startup… (also see my recent post on Qualcomm Ventures and its Cruise early stage investment). Current CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt (33) will become CTO. https://getcruise.com A couple of AI related notes: 1. GM bought Cruise two …