Artificial Intelligence
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How SETI uses off-the-shelf AI to search for extraterrestrial life
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) is using off-the-shelf machine learning technology from Nvidia and Google to advance its mission…
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Etsy says what we all know: AI can have bias
It’s hard to imagine now, but the cofounders of Etsy — Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik — operated…
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Amazon brings Alexa and Echo devices to Spain and Italy
Amazon’s Alexa and Echo device lineup has officially landed in Spain and Italy. Months after the Seattle company announced that the voice…
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Ople raises $8 million for automated AI model design
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is on the upswing. More than 77 percent of marketers responding to a recent Blueshift survey…
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Customer service ‘behavioral pairing’ startup Afiniti quietly raised $130M at a $1.6B valuation
Artificial intelligence touches just about every aspect of the tech world these days, aiming to provide new ways of making…
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Pandora exec: We were late to the game with our premium offering
Pandora head of data science Siddharth Patil said he regrets that his company failed to introduce a premium on-demand music…
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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook to flag trust and humanity in major privacy speech
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to endorse the idea of a “comprehensive federal privacy law” for the U.S. in…
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Bright Machines raises $179 million for factory automation with robots
Bright Machines today announced the closure of a $179 million funding round and launched out of stealth. The company aims…
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Bright Machines lands $179M to bring smarter robotics to manufacturing
Robotics has had a role in manufacturing since the 1970s, but even today they are aren’t often driven by the…
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Oracle debuts Subscription Management and CX Unity, updates to HCM Cloud and Data Cloud
This week marks the 21st Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, and the company wasted no time detailing the updates…
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