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AI year in review: Opportunities grow, but ethics loom large

December 23, 2019
VentureBeat is excited to announce VB Transform 2020, to be held July 15-16 in San Francisco, California. Register now for an early bird 40% discount. Artificial intelligence garnered a lot of attention from the usual players — governments, tech giants, and academics — throughout 2019. But it was also a big year for business AI, with even more growth expected ahead. In a March KPMG survey…
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Hands-on: Adobe Photoshop Camera uses AI to redefine mobile photo editing

December 23, 2019
It’s nine in the morning on a rainy December 23, and my iPhone has just photographed a supermoon from my front door — no easy feat since the real moon is a distant and barely visible waning crescent today, and I’m shooting in pure daylight. Even by the latest and greatest smartphone camera technology standards, my device has captured an impossible image, yet when I look at my device’s…
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Samsung could unveil a Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite very soon

December 23, 2019
All signs point to Samsung launching two cheaper flagship phones, the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite, in the not too distant future. Both devices have been rumored for months and could, according to a report by The Korea Herald, be unveiled at CES next month. The publication doesn’t cite any sources, though, so we would take that particular tidbit with a pinch of salt (CES isn’t…
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How the ‘big 5’ bolstered their AI through acquisitions in 2019

December 23, 2019
The AI talent grab is real. This year alone, Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski jumped ship to Airbnb, while Pinterest hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King to head up its engineering team. Moreover, all the big tech companies, including Google and Apple, have for some time been vacuuming up AI talent through acquisitions — a recent CB Insights report noted 635 AI acquisitions since 2010, topped by Apple…
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