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Windfall nabs $21M for AI that aids nonprofit fundraising

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Windfall, a startup developing an AI platform to help nonprofits engage donors, today raised $21 million in venture capital. The company says the funds will be used to invest in product R&D, the expansion of its team, and the scaling up of Windfall’s marketing and sales operations. Securing donations…
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AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Facebook today published a blog post detailing Fairness Flow, an internal toolkit the company claims enables its teams to analyze how some types of AI models perform across different groups. Developed in 2018 by Facebook’s Interdisciplinary Responsible AI (RAI) team in consultation with Stanford…
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Cloudera Foundation merger strengthens data science and AI support for nonprofits

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Today, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Cloudera Foundation, software company Cloudera’s philanthropic arm, announced a merger that will launch an initiative to accelerate data and AI maturity within nonprofits. In a definitive agreement, Silicon Valley-based Cloudera Foundation will merge its…
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Reinforcement learning: The next great AI tech moving from the lab to the real world

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful type of artificial intelligence technology that can be used to learn strategies to optimally control large, complex systems such as manufacturing plants, traffic control systems (road/train/aircraft), financial portfolios, robots, etc. It is currently transitioning…
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