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An anonymous Microsoft engineer appears to have written a chilling account of...
An anonymous Microsoft engineer has claimed that managers working on a major oil-extraction project called Tengizchevroil, or TCO, proposed using tech to surveil staff working in their oil...
View ArticleA self-driving-car pioneer teamed up with a doctor to create a healthcare AI...
Nines Radiology is focused on using technology, including artificial intelligence, to help radiologists.Nines was founded by David Stavens, a self-driving-car pioneer, and Dr. Alexander Kagen, a New...
View ArticleThis robot 'dog' can climb ladders, a first for four-legged robots
Researchers successfully built a quadruped robot that's capable of climbing ladders.The robot was created by a team at Tokyo Metropolitan University and debuted earlier this month, IEEE Spectrum...
View ArticleA former world champion of the game Go says he's retiring because AI is so...
Lee Se-dol, a former Go champion, has announced his retirement, declaring that artificial intelligence has created an opponent that "cannot be defeated."Go, a strategic board game that originated in...
View ArticleThe Pentagon is doing AI innovation right by letting companies bring ideas...
The Department of Defense released its artificial intelligence strategy in February, writing that it is working toward "the creation of a force fit for our time." To accelerate the pace of innovation,...
View ArticleTHE 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...
View ArticleGoogle just added the cofounder of its DeepMind unit to its own AI team (GOOG)
Google has added the cofounder of its DeepMindartificial intelligence unit to its own internal AI team.Mustafa Suleyman, who cofounded DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, took a temporary...
View ArticleThe founder of $1 billion self-driving truck firm TuSimple says human...
The founder of self-driving truck firm TuSimple, Xiaodi Hou, says that truck drivers being required to work long hours on the road is a "tarnish on the glory of humanity."Hou was responding to a...
View ArticleDays after a Go champion quit because he couldn't defeat AI, Facebook says...
The impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce is a hotly debated subject. In the world of gaming, however, AI is already replacing humans.Facebook AI researchers say they built a bot that can...
View ArticleThe 2020s could be an apocalyptic decade for Wall Street as artificial...
Jobs in banking and the financial services industries continued to be among the most popular occupations of 2019.Despite their popularity, a report predicts that 1.3 million bank workers will lose...
View ArticleAutomation and artificial intelligence could save banks more than $70 billion...
North American banks could save $70 billion by 2025 by using technology such as automation and artificial intelligence to trim workers and boost productivity, according to a Thursday study from...
View ArticleHere's what you need to know about Grimes, the Canadian singer dating Elon...
Grimes, the Canadian singer, performed Thursday night at the Game Awards, the Oscars of the video game industry, which celebrated the year's best games.A notable face in the audience was Elon Musk, the...
View ArticleHow $132 billion brewery giant AB InBev is using AI to fight corruption and...
In 2010, Goldman Sachs was charged $550 million by the federal government for misleading investors ahead of the collapse of the housing market. The settlement shows just the extent to which compliance...
View ArticleThis VC says that the next wave in cloud software will use AI to help you get...
Emergence Capital's first investment was in a pre-IPO Salesforce, and the firm has made smart bets since on companies like Zoom and Gusto. Now Jake Saper, partner at Emergence, is ready to make a new...
View ArticleResearchers built AI technology that uses algae to fight climate change, and...
Algae are thriving in waters in record numbers thanks to rising temperatures, and are creating dead zones where a lack of oxygen suffocates fish and other marine life below.But like plants, algae...
View ArticleA look at how Descartes Labs is leveraging AI to alert fire managers of...
Descartes Labs uses artificial intelligence to detect wildfires, and they can correctly spot one in a record-breaking time of nine minutes. Devastating wildfires are occurring much more frequently than...
View ArticleFacial-recognition technology has a racial-bias problem, according to a new...
Facial-recognition algorithms are more likely to misidentify people of color than white people, according to a federal study published on Thursday.The study found that black people and Asian people...
View ArticleFacebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create...
Facebook and Twitter dismantled thousands of accounts and pages that were part of a global network seeking to push pro-Trump messaging. NBC News reported that the Facebook accounts had been identified...
View Article15 jobs no one knew about in 2010 that everyone will want in 2020
LinkedIn released its annual report of the 15 top emerging jobs in 2020.These jobs have seen high annual growth over the last five years.Many jobs — including full stack engineer and back end developer...
View ArticleThis VC says the cloud market is about to get 'harsher' as startups are...
The cloud market has grown rapidly in the last two decades, and Rory O'Driscoll, partner at Scale Venture Partners, thinks the market is about to experience a slowdown. As cloud increasingly becomes...
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