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White House Launches “AI.gov”, with Financial Services Regulatory Focus

Leave a Comment / AI, Automation, Cybersecurity, DARPA, Governernment Agencies, Leadership, Talent / By Daniel Enskat

The White House this week launched AI.gov as “Artificial Intelligence for the American People”, with five pillars: Executive Order on AI AI for American Innovation AI for American Industry AI for the American Worker AI with American Values US President Trump last month signed the executive order on “maintaining American leadership in AI” which you …

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How To Become (Remain) Asset Management CEO? Artificial Intelligence

Leave a Comment / AI, Leadership, Talent, Technology / By Daniel Enskat

A focus on technology and research with an eye on AI is a good way to become CEO of a large European asset manager. Santander Asset Management in February 2018 appointed Mariano Belinky as new CEO. Belinky until February was the Managing Partner of Santander InnoVentures, which the bank set up in London as a $100 …

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Stanford launches Human-Centered AI Institute: Human – Augment – Intellect

Leave a Comment / AI, Automation, Deep learning, Investing, Leadership, Machine Learning, Silicon Valley, Stanford, Talent, Technology / By Daniel Enskat

Today Stanford is launching the Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), for interdisciplinary research including academia, regulators and industry on future and emerging tech. It will be called Stanford HAI – high indeed. The two directors are academia superstars: Fei-Fei Li, the former Google Cloud Chief Scientist that publicly led the Google discussions on …

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The SEC and Artificial Intelligence: The AI Czar & Hub for Innovation & FinTech

Leave a Comment / AI, Cybersecurity, Talent / By Daniel Enskat

While US government budgets have been tighter, the one area of dramatic expansion for the SEC has been around data science, technology and AI. In just a few years the commission has developed a strong tech and AI expertise. In June of 2018, the SEC made Valerie Szczepanik Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance …

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DARPA’s $2B Next AI – KAIROS – and AIE Campaigns to Generate Actionable Understanding of Real-World Phenomena

Leave a Comment / AI, Cybersecurity, DARPA, Deep learning, Governernment Agencies, Talent, Technology / By Daniel Enskat

DARPA wants to create KAIROS, a program to develop a schema-based AI capability to enhance reasoning about complex world events and generate actionable insights. KAIROS stands for Knowledge-Directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas. KAIROS seeks to create a schema-based AI capability to enable contextual and temporal reasoning about complex real-world events in order to generate actionable …

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BlackRock to Partner with Microsoft on Digital/Retirement; with Acorns on Next Gen Investors

Leave a Comment / AI, Talent / By Daniel Enskat

We use technology to think beyond what’s possible …. is how BlackRock, the largest investment manager in the world with $6.4 trillion in AUM, welcomes visitors to it’s homepage. This week BlackRock and Microsoft announced a partnership to create a retirement solution investment platform with digital financial planning tools, alongside a new generation of BlackRock …

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Apple Looks To AI in New Industries For Post iPhone Era, including Financial Services

Leave a Comment / AI, Deep learning, Google, Investing, Leadership, Machine Learning, Silicon Valley, Talent, Team liftout, Technology / By Daniel Enskat

In many ways, Apple is on top of the business world because of the iPhone. Technology and foresight allowed Apple to become one of the top three global companies by market cap thanks to the iPhone. Fourth quarter 2018 numbers showed $62.9 billion in revenues and the shipment of Apple’s 2 billionth iOS device, “with …

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Blackstone & AI: MIT’s Stephen Schwarzman College of Computing

Leave a Comment / AI, Cybersecurity, Leadership, Talent, Technology / By Daniel Enskat

Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t do things halfway… ten years ago, he donated $100 million to the NY Public Library, subsequently known as the the Stephen A. Schwarzman building. That was for books. In October 2018 he announced a $350 million grant to MIT to study artificial intelligence. His foundational gift – part of a $1 billion …

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Israel’s AI Startups Have Clout with the Cloud: Google, Microsoft & the War for AI Talent

Leave a Comment / AI, Deep learning, Google, Investing, Israel, Israel Intelligence, Machine Learning, Talent, Team liftout, Technology, Unit 8200 / By Daniel Enskat

Google just announced its intent to buy Alooma for cloud data migration and to grow its cloud footprint in Israel. Google’s VP of Engineering and Director of Product Management for the Cloud Platform commented that “one of the things we’re most excited about with Alooma is the deep expertise for both enterprise and open source …

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