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From $2.5B to $58B… Two Sigma’s AI Investment Strategy: Humans and Big Data Crowdsourcing

Two Sigma describes itself as “a systematic investment manager, founded with the goal of applying cutting-edge technology to the data-rich world of finance.” The SoHo, New York, based hedge fund was founded in 2001, by John Overdeck, David Siegel and Mark Pickard. Using AI, ML and distributed computing to invest, the fund has over $58 …

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

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

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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AQR hires star Head of ML from Guggenheim after lawsuit and team spin-out, then replaces him

Who says Machine Learning and computer/algorithmic investing can‘t be exciting? Prof Marcos Lopez de Prado in September 2018 joined AQR as their Head of Machine Learning/Principal with his team. „Our foundation in applied academia and our culture of intellectual curiosity mean we are always relentlessly looking for new data, signals and techniques to strengthen our …

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Warren Enskat Weekly AI Summary Jan 21, 2019 (WE-WAIS)

Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-21-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – Israel’s Innovation Authority … from startup nation to smart-up nation via AI: The State of Israel is facing significant challenges in the field of innovation during a period in which artificial intelligence is establishing itself …

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AI/Digital Startups within the US Government And the Hunt for AI Talent

In 2014, the president founded a startup in the US White House called the United States Digital Service, with the aim to gather the best technology, design and government talent to help tackle immigration, healthcare, and veteran’s benefits. For USDS, the MO is to recruit top designers, engineers, product managers, and digital policy experts and …

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AI Index 2018: Europe – China – United States; AI Outpaces CS

The 94-page AI Index 2018 tries to be a comprehensive resource of data & analysis for professionals and the general public to learn about artificial intelligence. Its steering committee includes top names from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, McKinsey, SRI International, Open AI, and Partnership on AI. Some of the highlights for 2018 are below: – Artificial …

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Amazon AWS re:Invent conference highlights

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 …

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500 million customers’ data exposed

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) …

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The Bureau of Industry and Security reviews controls for emerging technology

The Bureau of Industry and Security within the US commerce department is reviewing the controls for certain emerging technologies, especially AI, to see whether and how tech firms can or cannot export and sell their technologies abroad (an interesting angle to the US/China trade and cybersecurity issues and the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi …

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