AI & Robotics

Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate scenes, promise to ease the design burden somewhat. But barriers remain. That’s why researchers at Facebook, the University of Lorraine, and the University College London in a preprint research paper…

While much work in data science to date has focused on algorithmic scale and sophistication, safety — that is, safeguards against harm — is a domain no less worth pursuing. This is particularly true in applications like self-driving vehicles, where a machine learning system’s poor judgement might contribute to an accident. That’s why firms like Intel’s Mobileye and Nvidia have proposed…

Celonis today closed a $290 million series C round for its solution that uses AI-driven data and process mining to make companies more efficient. This round raised the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion. Today’s news follows a $50 million funding round in June 2018 that was led by Accel and 83North and raised Celonis’ valuation to $1 billion. Celonis sits on top of existing enterprise IT…

While Europe still faces a wide venture capital gap compared to Silicon Valley, the continent is nevertheless making big strides in positioning itself as an attractive hub for scientifically based startups. This is one of the key takeaways of “State of European Tech Report 2019,” released today at the Slush technology conference in Helsinki, Finland. The report is produced by venture capital…