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Deloitte just laid off 200 people in Toronto, with cuts to AI, consulting,...
Deloitte's Canadian arm laid off about 200 people last week at its Toronto headquarters.The cuts affected the artificial-intelligence group, as well as auditing and consulting operations. The pandemic...
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How Boston Dynamics' robots from went from YouTube stars to actual tools for...
Boston Dynamics' lifelike robots have become famous for their almost uncanny, realistic movements in recent years.After years of hype mostly generated by their massively popular YouTube videos, Boston...
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Japanese tech giant NTT is making a $230 million bet on upending healthcare...
Japanese telecommunications company NTT is pouring $230 million into new Silicon Valley research labs, set to open this summer. One health-focused lab is working on a "digital twin" project that would...
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Check out the pitch deck children's language learning startup MyBuddy.ai used...
MyBuddy.ai – the firm using AI to help children around the world learning to speak English – has raised $1 million in seed funding. The online language learning market is projected to be worth more...
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Apple just bought another AI startup to help Siri catch up to rivals Amazon...
Apple has acquired AI startup Inductiv Inc. to improve Siri's intelligence, according to Bloomberg.The company's technology uses AI to correct flaws in data.The acquisition signals that Apple is taking...
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How police are using technology like drones and facial recognition to monitor...
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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The pandemic is accelerating industrial automation efforts and ushering in...
Business Insider Intelligence and eMarketer are now Insider Intelligence, a digitally-focused research company from Insider Inc. Learn more about what we offer.This story was delivered to Business...
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The 13 books Elon Musk says shaped his worldview and led him to business and...
No matter how busy executives seem to be, they always seem to have time to prioritize reading.Elon Musk follows this pattern. Instead of relying on self-help books or just nonfiction pieces, he reads...
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2 of the most important players in Lemonade's IPO are bots. Here's how the $2...
Lemonade, the online insurance company, says its chatbots helped insulate it from the coronavirus crisis.The company has two bots — AI Maya and AI Jim — that interact with customers; the former signs...
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The artificial intelligence company that Elon Musk helped found is now...
OpenAI, the AI company and research lab that Elon Musk helped cofound, is commercializing a sophisticated text-generation tool it previously said was too dangerous to release widely over fears of...
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Amazon is putting AI cameras in some of its warehouses to see if workers are...
Amazon is implementing a new AI camera system known as the "Distance Assistant" at some of its warehouses to make sure employees are following social distancing guidelines.The system is composed of a...
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Take this dystopian job interview with an AI hiring manager to experience...
Artificial intelligence already plays a major role in determining whether you get a job, and companies are racing to implement more AI hiring tools despite major concerns about their fairness and...
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Qualcomm just released a $500 kit to help individual inventors or...
Qualcomm released a new, $500 platform with artificial intelligence and 5G capabilities. The San Diego chip-maker says the chipset and developer's toolkit represents a breakthrough because it contains...
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C3.ai CEO Tom Siebel says that his hot AI startup did $160 million in revenue...
Tom Siebel disclosed his startup C3.ai brought in $160 million last year in an interview Thursday with Business Insider. Siebel also said C3.ai, a leader in the uncertain AI startup industry, does not...
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Smart AI-powered cameras that can tell how close you are to other people may...
Companies are investing in AI-equipped cameras to help enforce social distancing measures as the economy begins to reopen.Tech firms like Amazon and Motorola Solutions have developed camera technology...
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$6.2 billion AI startup Databricks, which is rolling out a new strategy this...
Ali Ghodsi, the CEO of artificial intelligence firm Databricks, was so paranoid about an economic downturn that the company raised two rounds of funding in under six months from the likes of Andreessen...
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Check out the pitch deck AI startup 7bridges used to win $3.4 million from...
AI logistics startup 7bridges has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round backed by LocalGlobe and Crane Venture Partners. The AI logistics market is expected to be worth more than $6 billion...
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AI startup 7bridges just raised $3 million in a seed round backed by...
AI logistics startup 7bridges has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round backed by LocalGlobe and Crane Venture Partners. The AI logistics market is expected to be worth more than $6 billion...
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Cyclica is already using AI to discover new medicines based on psychedelics....
Toronto-based biotech Cyclica on Wednesday closed a $17 million Series B funding round, led by Drive Capital.The startup uses machine learning to "flip the problem of drug discovery on its...
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How a room full of sweaty test subjects inspired AI startup Turing Labs to...
Turing Labs, a small Toronto startup, is doing research and development for multi-national corporations that have closed their testing labs during COVID-19. The startup harvests a company's historical...
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