Ecommerce, Search, Social… and Conversational Space?

When I look at the conversational space I think it’s going to have as much impact as ecommerce or search or social, says LivePerson CEO Rob Locascio. The conversational space is going to be just as big.

Microsoft Edge Brings Video Upscaling With to Low-Quality Videos

Microsoft Edge users are getting a useful new feature that will allow them to upscale old, low-quality videos

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Mozilla Acquires Pulse Team for Machine Learning Projects

Mozilla has acquired the Pulse team, a group of developers behind a popular Slack status update tool of the same name.

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Formula 1 Signs Up for a Second Round With AWS

Formula 1 (F1) has renewed and expanded its partnership with AWS for machine learning, AI, and cloud technologies.

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Meta’s No Language Left Behind AI Model Can Translate 200 Languages

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s latest AI model, a project called No Language Left Behind (NLLB), and it can translate 200 languages in real-time.

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Battle of the AIs: Walmart Takes on Amazon

Walmart is looking to challenge Amazon using a tool the latter already relies on: artificial intelligence (AI).

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AWS Launches CodeWhisperer, a Machine Learning Programming Companion

Amazon has launched a preview of CodeWhisperer, a programming companion that uses machine learning to assist development.

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A Google Engineer Claimed Its AI Is Sentient; Google Placed Him on Leave

Google’s problems with its AI team continue, with an engineer in the Responsible AI division claiming the company’s AI is now sentient and Google placing him on leave for how he handled it.

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Apple’s Top AI Exec Leaves Over Remote Work

Apple’s top AI exec, Ian Goodfellow, has reportedly left the company over its remote work policy.

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Programmers Beware: A New AI Can Program As Good As a Human

As if the programming landscape wasn’t competitive enough, a new AI, AlphaCode, could start giving some programmers a run for their money.

China Creates AI to Identify and Prosecute Crimes

China is claiming a world first with an AI designed to identify and prosecute a variety of crimes.

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Intelus, Founded by Former Microsoft & Salesforce Execs, Tackles No-Code AI

Intelus has emerged from stealth, hosting an open beta for companies interested in its no-code, Machine Teaching platform.

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Amazon SageMaker Canvas: A No-Code Machine Learning Service

Amazon has released SageMaker Canvas, the company’s no-code machine learning service.

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Salesforce Adds AI-Driven Improvements to Service Cloud

Salesforce has announced AI-driven improvements to Service Cloud, aimed at helping service agents and their customers.

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Linux Foundation Tackles Data Collaboration With Permissive License

The Linux Foundation has announced the CDLA-Permissive-2.0 license agreement to make it easier to share AI and ML data.

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Aisera Partners With Microsoft to Deliver AI Service Desk Solutions

Aisera has become member of the Microsoft for Startups program, partnering with Microsoft to deliver AI-based service desk solutions.

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HPE Buys Ampool to Improve SQL-Based Hybrid Analytics

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its acquisition of Ampool, in an effort to modernize the SQL stack.

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Autonomous Cars Harder to Develop Than Elon Musk Thought

Elon Musk has admitted developing autonomous cars is harder than he thought, as the timeline for the latest software update slips again.

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Zoom Acquiring Machine Translation Firm Kites

Zoom has announced it is acquiring Kites GmbH, a firm specializing in real-time Machine Translation (MT).

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Microsoft Releases OpenAI-Powered Code Completion Tool

Microsoft is leveraging its agreement with OpenAI to radically change the nature of low-code development with its first AI-powered code completion tool.