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Steam’s top 20 new games for March 2020

April 23, 2020

Valve Software is updating everyone about the top new releases on its Steam PC digital platform. Steam’s March 2020 once again illustrates its global reach. The games in the top 20 (and top 5 new free releases) come from 14 different countries. This ensures the developers from the around the world have access to players, but it also means that diverse audiences can find appealing content on…

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Granulate raises $12 million to optimize server performance with AI

April 23, 2020

Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million. The company’s products could reduce the time engineers spend fine-tuning the…

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QuillBot taps AI to rewrite and rephrase whole paragraphs

April 23, 2020

QuillBot, a startup developing AI tools that intelligently rewrite text, today announced that it raised $4 million in financing. Fresh capital in hand, the cofounders hope to make QuillBot’s platform a one-stop editing shop, with modules that will summarize information…

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H1 Insights raises $12.9 million for AI that helps companies find health care professionals

April 23, 2020

H1 Insights, a startup developing a platform that connects health care and life science professionals and companies, today announced that it raised $12.9 million. With the equity funding, the company plans to further develop its products, which tap AI and machine learning to identify thought-leading doctors in a given disease area. H1’s service was already lucrative — year-over-year revenue…

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StereoSet measures racism, sexism, and other forms of bias in AI language models

April 23, 2020

AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the…

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Google debuts AI in Google Translate that addresses gender bias

April 23, 2020

Google today announced the release of English-to-Spanish and Finnish-, Hungarian-, and Persian-to-English gender-specific translations in Google Translate that leverage a new paradigm to address gender bias by rewriting or post-editing initial translations. The tech giant…

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Google’s AI teaches robots to grasp occluded objects and adapt to new situations

April 23, 2020

In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first study details X-Ray, an algorithm that when deployed on a robot can search through heaps of objects to grasp a target object…

Steam’s new experiment is improving search results in the game store

April 23, 2020

Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine. Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use…

Researchers find actively exploited iOS flaws that were open for years

April 23, 2020

(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was…

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Maccabi to deploy AI that identifies patients at risk of developing COVID-19 complications

April 23, 2020

An HMO developing a platform for the discovery of clinical insights from medial information, Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services, plans to deploy an AI system that can identify people at risk of developing COVID-19 complications. The work is being done in partnership with the Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi Research and Innovation Institute and Medial EarlySign and looks at factors like preexisting…