AI & Robotics

Microsoft this week launched an Office app that replaces Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Android and iOS. Merging three apps into one, while adding more features, is quite the achievement. The new Office app is not just for consuming content and maybe a little light editing on the side, but actually creating content on the go. Most interestingly, a lot of these features fundamentally require AI and…

Google Cloud AI is removing the ability to label people in images as “man” or “woman” with its Cloud Vision API, the company told VentureBeat today. Labeling is used to classify images and train machine learning models, but Google is removing gendered labels because it violates Google’s AI principle to avoid creating biased systems. “Given that a person’s gender cannot be inferred by…

More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from Stanford and New York University. “This is concerning because agencies will find it harder to realize gains in accuracy and…

SentinelOne has raised $200 million in a venture capital round that pushes its valuation past $1 billion as investors continue to bet big on artificial intelligence to bolster cybersecurity. The Mountain View-based startup has developed a platform that automates endpoint security using an AI engine. Its service focuses on detecting threats and responding to them by continually studying and…