AI & Robotics

Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has been particularly outspoken since his retirement from Google earlier this year. He is credited with perfecting and popularizing “backpropagation,” a pivotal algorithm that enables multi-layer neural networks to correct their mistakes. This breakthrough has been instrumental in the success of deep learning technologies, which…

Sparta, a startup that provides live market intelligence and forecasting insight for commodity traders, has announced a series A funding round of $17.5 million. The funding round was led by technology venture capital firm FirstMark, alongside existing shareholder Singular. The startup has built a platform that aims to transform the way traders gather, process, analyze and interpret data to inform…

The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga. As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the company generate $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date. The game had 238 million monthly active users in the…

In a new Forbes report, high-flying AI chatbot startup Character AI, which is rumored to be in early funding talks at a whopping $5 billion valuation, is bringing its conversational characters to a new group chat function that allows users to talk to their favorite celebs, like Taylor Swift, with friends and family. Character AI started the AI character craze when it was launched in September…