While average people know Adobe mostly as the company behind Photoshop, their consumption of digital and printed content created by Adobe apps is incalculable, thanks largely to its Creative Cloud of increasingly AI-driven professional applications. So Adobe CIO Cynthia Stoddard’s fireside chat at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 digital conference was of special interest today, as the senior…
When enterprise data software company Cloudera looked into using conversational AI to improve its customer support question-and-answer experience, it didn’t want to go slow, said senior director of engineering Adam Warrington in a conversation at Transform 2020. When your…
As we launch into the first day of Transform 2020 (July 15-17), we’re thrilled to announce the nominees for the second annual Women in AI Awards. The Awards are part of our continuing commitment to diversity in AI, which kicks off shortly with the Women in AI Breakfast.
Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17.
Graphcore, a U.K.-based company developing accelerators for AI workloads, this morning unveiled the second generation of its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), which will soon be made available in the company’s M2000 IPU Machine. Graphcore claims this new GC200 chip will enable the M2000 to…
Abacus.ai, founded by Amazon and Google alums, raises $13 million to match projects with AI models
July 14, 2020
AI startup Abacus.ai today announced the close of a $13 million series A round for its cloud platform for AI services. The company was founded last year by a team with experience scaling AI projects at AWS and Google, including BigQuery cocreator Siddartha Naidu, former AWS…
Traceable raises $20 million for AI system that shields cloud app APIs from cyberattacks
July 14, 2020
Traceable, a startup developing an end-to-end cloud app security solution, today emerged from stealth with $20 million in funding. CEO Jyoti Bansal plans to focus on acquiring customers globally while growing Traceable’s team and accelerating R&D.
Cloud-native apps are…
Researchers at Zhejiang University and Microsoft claim they’ve developed an AI system — DeepSinger — that can generate singing voices in multiple languages by training on data from music websites. In a paper published on the preprint Arxiv.org, they describe the novel approach, which leverages a specially-designed component to capture the timbre of singers from noisy singing data.
The work…
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The past few weeks and months have presented unprecedented challenges to businesses. From those struggling to survive to those that have found their products and services to be in high demand, organizations have had to change everything from how they…
Comcast said investments in artificial intelligence software and network capacity have helped it meet internet traffic demand during the pandemic.
Elad Nafshi, senior vice president for next-generation access networks at Comcast Xfinity, said in an interview with VentureBeat…
Researchers from Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford recommend that AI practitioners draw on decolonial theory to reform the industry, put ethical principles into practice, and avoid further algorithmic exploitation or oppression.
The researchers detailed how to build AI systems while critically examining colonialism and colonial forms of AI already in use in a preprint paper released…
