How will the world of work change in the near future? “Every business process will be collaborative, powered by data and AI, and will bridge the digital and physical worlds,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the opening keynote of his company’s Ignite conference this week.
Nadella and other Microsoft executives speaking at the event gave numerous examples of this. One implication of…
Notable aims to improve AI in health care with new $100M
November 3, 2021
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Notable, an intelligent automation company focused on health care, today announced it received a $100 million series B funding round. The investment, led by ICONIQ Growth…
Part of what Microsoft was determined to showcase at its Ignite conference, which kicked off Tuesday, is the extent to which Azure is maturing into an architecture for building scalable, AI-infused apps that also work in hybrid cloud and edge computing scenarios.
Microsoft…
New AI products from Microsoft include Context IQ and Azure Cognitive Services for Language
November 2, 2021
At Ignite 2021, Microsoft debuted a range of products across its cloud-powered lines of business that leverage AI to find patterns in — and made predictions from — vast stores of data. The highlight might be Context IQ, a Microsoft 365 technology that can predict, seek, and suggest information employees might need. Others have to do with tasks like translation and summarization, as well as…
During its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft unveiled the Azure OpenAI Service, a new offering designed to give enterprises access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model and its derivatives along with security, compliance, governance, and other business-focused features.
AI technology modernizes warehouse management
November 2, 2021
Like all other elements in the enterprise, the warehouse management stack is becoming increasingly automated and more intelligent by the day. Despite this, the technology is not only focused on the warehouse floor and the needs of an expanding robotics workforce.
Instead…
Machine learning deployment platform OctoML raises $85M
November 1, 2021
OctoML, a platform that helps enterprises optimize and deploy machine learning (ML) models, has raised $85 million in a series C round of funding.
While countless companies are dabbling with ways to leverage AI to improve their businesses and bottom line, transitioning AI projects beyond the pilot stage and into real-world production scenarios comes is no easy feat. Indeed, in its State of AI…
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In 2016, Dr. Peter Kim, founder of Activ Surgical, a digital surgery company, demonstrated a proof of concept of fully autonomous robotic surgery on soft…
AI Weekly: The perils of AI analytics for police body cameras
November 1, 2021
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In 2015, spurred by calls for greater police accountability, the federal government provided more than $23 million to local and tribal police agencies to…
Security AI is the next big thing
November 1, 2021
In the world of cybersecurity, speed kills. In less than 20 minutes, a skilled adversary can break into an organization’s network and start exfiltrating critical data assets, and as the volume of data modern companies produce increases, it’s becoming ever more difficult for human analysts to spot malicious activity until it’s too late. This is where cybersecurity AI can come to the…
