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SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai

December 10, 2020
Hyundai Motors is acquiring Boston Dynamics, according to The Korea Economic Daily. The publication says Softbank has agreed to sell the robot maker for 1 trillion won (US$917 million) and that the acquisition will be finalized at a board meeting today, December 10th. The companies have been discussing a sale since at least early November, based on a previous report by Bloomberg. Boston Dynamics…
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DataRobot raises $50 million more to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

December 9, 2020
Managed enterprise AI startup DataRobot today announced an additional $50 million raise from strategic investors Snowflake Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Together, the fresh capital expands DataRobot’s series F round led by Altimeter to $320 million at a $2.8 billion valuation. That’s up from $270 million at a $2.7 billion valuation as of November. The…
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Microsoft launches effort to fight corruption with AI and other emerging technologies

December 9, 2020
Microsoft today announced the launch of Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions (ACTS), an initiative it says will leverage cloud computing, data visualization, AI, machine learning, and other technologies over the next decade to “enhance transparency” and “detect and deter” corruption. With ACTS, Microsoft says it hopes to “bend the curve” of corruption by helping governments…
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Few researchers thoroughly test adversarial attacks on surveillance AI in the real world

December 8, 2020
Advances in machine learning, particularly in computer vision and facial recognition, have enabled systems deployed by governments and private corporations to erode expectations of privacy. Adversarial attacks, or techniques that attempt to fool models with deceptive images, videos, and text, are one way to combat surveillance. But in a new paper, researchers from Microsoft, Harvard, Swarthmore…
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