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SiteAware, which leverages AI and drones to track construction site progress, nabs additional funding

January 26, 2022
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The metaverse – How close are we? Construction, particularly commercial construction, is expensive and time-consuming. In the U.S., the average commercial construction cost is around $490 per square foot, and most commercial buildings larger than 10,000 square feet take at least four months to build. As a 2020 survey…
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Anch.ai nabs $2.1M to accelerate ethical AI governance

January 26, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Sweden-based Anch.ai, a startup that offers a platform to accelerate responsible AI adoption within enterprises, today announced it has raised seed…
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Getting AI from the lab to production

January 25, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. The enterprise is eager to push AI out of the lab and into production environments, where it will hopefully usher in a new era of productivity and profitability. But this is not as easy as it seems because it turns out that AI tends to behave much differently in the test…
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Ethics and ownership of AI-powered identities

January 24, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. This article was contributed by Taesu Kim, CEO of Neosapience With the tremendous advances in how AI/ML technologies are being deployed, one of the…
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AI Weekly: Watson Health and semi-autonomous driving failures show the dangers of overpromising AI

January 22, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. This week in AI, reality came knocking — both for AI health tech and semi-autonomous driving systems. IBM agreed to sell the assets from its Watson Health business to investment firm Francisco Partners, following the division’s steeply declined performance. Meanwhile…
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Personetics, an AI-powered customer engagement and insights platform for banks, raises $85M

January 19, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Personetics, an AI-powered platform used by some of the world’s biggest banks to issue tailored advice and insights to customers, has raised $85 million. As banks and financial institutions grapple with digital transformation in a world that has rapidly transitioned to…
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