AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: TikTok’s algorithm licensing signals China’s play for AI dominance

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. The Financial Times reports that customers can pay fees to use recommendation algorithms, real-time filters and effects, automated…
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MobileNews

How to watch Poirier vs. McGregor 3 on iPhone, Apple TV, web, more

The highly anticipated third fight between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor is set for Saturday, July 10 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT at the T-Mobile Arena. Here’s how to watch  on the web, iPhone, Apple TV, and more. With McGregor winning the first bout back in 2014 and Poirier taking the second in January this year, the two are ready to settle their trilogy in Las Vegas with UFC 264. Below…
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DefenseNews

Poland could purchase M1 Abrams tanks from US

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Defence Ministry is reportedly preparing to buy about 250 M1 Abrams tanks from the United States, two months after it announced plans to buy 24 Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. Two sources close to the deal told Polish news site Gazeta.pl that the ministry is negotiating the potential contract terms. “It has been rumored that something like this [acquisition] is…
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MobileNews

Google bringing TensorFlow Lite into Play services to encourage on-device ML in Android apps

On-device machine learning offers a number of benefits from speed (lower latency) to privacy. To help increase adoption on Android, Google is now adding an “Android ML Platform” — primarily TensorFlow Lite — directly to Play services. Google Play services is responsible for key user-facing features on Android and provides third-party app developers access to various tools. The latest…
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