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At the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion breakfast at VentureBeat’s AI-focused Transform 2020 event, a panel of AI practitioners, leaders, and academics discussed the changes that need to happen in the industry to make AI safer, more equitable, and more representative of the people to whom AI is applied.
The wide-ranging conversation…
eBay CTO: AI is now an ‘ecosystem’ for us
July 18, 2020
While eBay could have used any number of existing AI platforms to enhance its various products, the company instead elected to build its own AI system — dubbed Krylov — in-house and make it open source for anyone to use. That decision appears to be paying off.
The San…
Female leaders talk ethics, representation, and more at Transform 2020’s Women in AI breakfast
July 17, 2020
Presented by Capital One
At Transform’s second annual Women in AI Breakfast presented by Capital One and Intel, powerful women from tech companies across the industry gathered to talk about how women, particularly women of color, can take their seats at the table in the…
Microsoft is beginning to phase out its current generation of hardware. The company is ending production for Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. This comes as it prepares to launch the next-generation Xbox Series X this holiday.
Microsoft confirmed the discontinuation in a comment it sent to The Verge:
“As we ramp into the future with Xbox Series X, we’re taking the natural step of…
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…
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…
NBC Peacock: How to watch free on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, what’s available, how to cancel
July 16, 2020
The latest major streaming service has landed with NBC’s Peacock now available to everyone. Read along with our full guide on how to watch Peacock free on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the web, what’s available on the service, what you get with the paid plans, how to cancel, and more.
What is NBC’s Peacock TV?
Peacock is NBC’s streaming service that competes with Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+…
As the streaming wars continue to heat up, NBC Universal is today launching its option, Peacock TV. The new service will be the eventual home of hits like The Office and Parks and Recreation and now, it’s available on all of Google’s platforms. Here’s how to get…
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…
