Artificial Intelligence
AI can see through you: CEOs’ language under machine microscope
Chief Executives and others in senior management are increasingly coming under the microscope as some investors use artificial intelligence to learn and analyse their language patt...
China has won AI battle with US, Pentagon’s ex-software chief says
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the US and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon’s former software chi...
Samsung to invest $206 billion by 2023 for post-pandemic growth
Samsung Group will invest 240 trillion won (approximately $206 billion) in the next three years to expand its footprint in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, semiconducto...
British AI start-up Tractable becomes unicorn with latest funding
Tractable has raised $60 million in a late-stage funding round led by investors Insight Partners and Georgian, which values the British artificial intelligence start-up at $1 billi...
Artificial intelligence start-up DataRobot seeks to raise $500 million
DataRobot is in advanced discussions to raise fresh capital of about $500 million in a funding round that could value the machine learning start-up at more than $7 billion, accordi...
Skin in the game: Video chat apps tout ‘inclusive’ AI features
Video conferencing services have for years boasted that their technology is “intuitive” to use or “integrated” to function with other tools, but now vendors...
US Senate votes to open debate on China tech bill
The US Senate voted 86-11 Monday to open debate on a measure authorizing more than $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research over five years in the face of rising com...
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $676 million, valued at over $5 billion
SambaNova Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up that makes semiconductors for artificial intelligence related computation work, has said it raised $676 million in a funding round led ...
Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications for $16 billion
Microsoft Corp is in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about $16 billion, according to a source familiar with th...
UK’s cyber spies embrace the AI revolution
Cyber spies at Britain’s GCHQ say they have fully embraced artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover patterns in vast amounts of global data to counter hostile disinformation a...
Google fires second AI ethics leader as dispute grows
Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its December dismissal of AI ethic...
Google phone cameras will read heart, breathing rates with AI
Cameras on Google’s smartphones will be able to measure heart and breathing rates starting from next month, in one of the first applications of the groups artificial intellig...
Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher
An engineering director and a software developer have quit Google over the dismissal of artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the sear...
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refr...