AI & Robotics

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This week in AI, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, announced plans to invest $125 million into AI research through his philanthropic venture, Schmidt Futures. Part of an initiative dubbed “AI2050,” the funding will aim to support academics working on “hard problems” in AI, including how to…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Cambridge, Massachusetts headquartered Akkio, which claims to offer a no-code platform to help enterprises build and deploy AI in minutes, today announced notable product improvements including integration with major data platforms. The performance of an AI model is only as useful as the data it has been…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, today announced that it used AI to successfully control superheated matter inside a nuclear fusion reactor. The lab claims that the system, which is detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, could allow scientists to investigate…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. According to a new report by Speechmatics, more than a third of global industry experts reported that the COVID-19 pandemic affected their voice tech strategy, down from 53% in 2021. This shows that companies are finding ways around obstacles that seemed impassable less than two years ago. The last two…