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Voice assistants enable enterprise automation, CRM, and data intelligence

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The enterprise is experiencing an uptick in voice technology adoption during the pandemic. In a recent survey of 500 IT and business decision-makers in the U.S., France, Germany, and the U.K., 28% of respondents said they were using voice technologies and 84% expect to be using them in the next year. Voice…
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Microsoft unveils Azure Percept, a family of edge devices optimized for AI

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. During its Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference this week, Microsoft unveiled Azure Percept, a platform of hardware and services aimed at simplifying the ways customers can use AI technologies at the edge. According to the company, the goal of the new offering is to give customers an end-to-end system, from…
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Kaskada launches platform to prep data for AI models

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Feature engineering, or the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from data, is essential to tuning AI and machine learning performance. It’s also typically…
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Quality Match raises $6 million to build better AI datasets

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Quality Match, a Heidelberg, Germany-based quality data annotation provider, today announced that it raised a €5 million ($6 million) seed round from LEA Partners. The company says it’ll use the proceeds to expand its team and accelerate product development. Training AI and machine learning algorithms…
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NortonLifeLock’s AI-powered smartphone app blurs out sensitive information in photos

With some regularity, sensitive information finds its way into smartphones and other mobile devices. Much of it comes from the estimated 3.2 billion images uploaded every day — people screenshot documents like tickets, tax forms, and medical prescriptions without thinking twice. This makes them susceptible to risks like identity theft and ransomware, among other problems. In 2019 alone, 14.4…
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