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AI could be the key to ending discrimination in hiring, but experts warn it...
Employers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence-driven tools to carry out recruitment and hiring. Companies like Amazon, FedEx, Target, and Capital One have tested or used AI hiring...
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How police are using technology like drones and facial recognition to track...
Emerging tech is making it more efficient and inexpensive for police across the country to scale up their surveillance operations.Drones, facial recognition, and algorithm-driven policing are a few of...
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I spent a day at IBM's mysterious research hub north of NYC, where I met some...
IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, may be nondescript, but it houses some of the brightest minds working on artificial intelligence today. I spent a day there...
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Retired Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma now wants to teach children how to 'be a...
Since retiring in September, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has revealed he's turning his focus on education and that he hopes to travel to different schools across the world next year.At a conference on...
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CareerBuilder used artificial intelligence to figure out veterinary...
As with many other job functions, AI is changing how HR departments work. The technology can reduce bias in hiring and eliminate more mundane job tasks, but organizations can still be hesitant to adopt...
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A former app economy wunderkind is now aiming to disrupt the venture world...
John Meyer's upstart venture company is trying to upturn what he sees as a hidebound industry.With Starship Capital, Meyer aims to invest very early on in technologies and companies that have...
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Here are the top companies helping to automate the process of running...
Robotic process automation, or RPA, tools allow businesses use to speed up processes by automating the patchwork of applications and systems in their networks.RPA software can perform basic data entry...
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Comcast, a telecom giant with over $94 billion in annual revenue, uses 3...
Companies are accelerating efforts to create "innovation cultures" internally to, among other things, find out ways to use advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, to overhaul operations...
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Here are the 3 steps companies that are just pivoting to AI should take to...
Companies can have a difficult time separating out the hype around AI from the actual benefits the technology can have for their operations.The journey to adopt AI internally, however, is one that can...
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A medical algorithm affecting 200 million patients has steered black patients...
A new study in the journal Science just found a widely-used algorithm gave more complex treatment to white patients than sicker black patients.The study's findings point to one of the many risks to...
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Google says its cutting-edge computing breakthrough could be used to solve...
Google believes quantum computing could eventually be used to solve large-scale problems that "would otherwise be impossible," an engineer in the company's quantum research lab recently said to The...
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IBM’s global chief data officer explains why changing culture to support AI...
Alongside nontraditional tech firms like Walmart, industry behemoths like IBM and Microsoft have spent the past decade pivoting from their hardware and software product offerings to more cutting-edge...
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All the ways McDonald's is using AI to learn what you'll order — sometimes...
McDonald's is one of a slew of consumer-facing companies that are trying to harness artificial intelligence and machine learning to better understand customers.The fast-food chain is, among other...
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Facial recognition is on the rise, but artificial intelligence is already...
Facial recognition has made headlines this year for the rapid rise in companies and government agencies using it for tracking and surveillance — but it's not the only AI-driven surveillance...
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THE AI PIVOT: How the push to adopt the advanced tech is rippling through...
The rise of artificial intelligence is giving companies capabilities they've never had before to automate job tasks, recruit top talent, and better know their customers, among other applications. But...
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A former engineering director at Walmart Labs who jumped to the world of high...
In his new role as chief technology officer of Moda Operandi, Arpan Nanavati is hoping to use consumer data to solve one of the industry's core problems: understanding fashion taste.The role requires...
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The head of IBM’s Watson outlines how tech leaders can avoid the pitfalls...
Chief technology, data, and innovation officers are often managing enterprise-wide digital upgrade efforts.To succeed, the leaders need tech chiefs within respective business units — like logistics or...
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Popular organizational app Trello now has 50 million users — more than double...
On Wednesday, the work planning application Trello announced that it has reached 50 million registered users.When Trello became part of Atlassian in 2017 in a $425 million deal, it had 19 million...
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This VC has a deep technical background, and helped make VMware the giant it...
Steve Herrod thinks he has an advantage over other venture capitalists — he's got a deep background in technology.Herrod has a PhD in computer science and was the chief technology officer of VMware...
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The head of AI for Microsoft’s cloud says that its new tools will ‘make this...
Microsoft on Monday introduced new tools to make artificial intelligence easier for companies to use.The tools are improvements to the Microsoft Azure cloud's AI platform intended to make machine...
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