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iRobot's Roomba 694 is on sale for $199 right now

October 6, 2022
Those who have a robot vacuum on their gift list this year can pick up a few iRobot machines for less right now. Arguably the best for most people is the Roomba 694, which is 27 percent off at Amazon (which now owns iRobot) and down to only $199. While this model has dropped to $179 in the past, this is the best deal we’ve seen on it since June. Also discounted are the higher-end Roomba j7+…
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Meta seeks to accelerate AI inference with open-source AITemplate

October 5, 2022
Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Without inference, an artificial intelligence (AI) model is just math and does not actually execute or forecast much, if anything. To date, AI inference engines have been largely tethered to specific hardware for which they are designed. That degree of hardware lock-in means…
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US set to impose more trade restrictions on Chinese AI and supercomputer companies

October 4, 2022
The White House is set to unveil rules that would further restrict access to advanced computing technology in China that could be used by its military, according to The New York Times. The new measures, which may be announced this week, reportedly aim to reduce Beijing’s ability to produce advanced weapons and surveillance systems.  The new rules would build on restrictions that block…
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Trustworthy AI is now within reach

October 4, 2022
Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. The artificial intelligence (AI) boom began in earnest in 2012 when Alex Krizhevsky, in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton (who…
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How will OpenAI’s Whisper model impact AI applications?

October 4, 2022
Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Last week, OpenAI released Whisper, an open-source deep learning model for speech recognition. OpenAI’s tests on Whisper show promising results in transcribing audio not only in English, but also in several other languages. Developers and researchers who have experimented…
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