Google's CEO isn't worried about making money on its most futuristic products...
Some of Google's biggest efforts in computing are developing better artificial intelligence and voice control. In fact, the company is implementing those efforts into every product it can, from search...
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“The world's first trillionaires,” Mark Cuban told a SXSW crowd in March, “are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of.”The...
View ArticleApple reportedly acquired an AI startup focused on 'dark data' for $200...
Apple has acquired artificial intelligence startup Lattice Data for $200 million, according to a report in TechCrunch. The deal closed a few weeks ago and roughly 20 engineers from Lattice have joined...
View ArticleWhat to expect from Google's biggest event of the year (GOOG)
Get ready for Google's AI show.Google I/O, the company's annual developers conference and biggest event of the year, is usually an Android event where we get a look at the latest features for the...
View ArticleElon Musk's $1 billion AI startup has developed a system that trains robots...
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company set up by Elon Musk, has come up with a new method for teaching robots — giving them a demo in virtual reality.The non-profit, which is funded to...
View ArticleHere's what happened during Google's biggest event of the year (GOOG)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that there are now 2 billion active devices based on the company’s Android software and touted the company’s new AI efforts as he took the...
View ArticleGoogle and Amazon are at war to control your home, and the effects will be...
Amazon and Google are currently in the early stages on an epic battle to control your home, the effects of which will be be felt for years to come.Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual assistants...
View ArticleHow Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff uses artificial intelligence to end internal...
Not only is Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff predicting that artificial intelligence will one day help run everyone's companies — he's already using it at Salesforce.He has a special, unreleased version of...
View ArticleFacebook, Microsoft, and Google are raising the bar higher than ever for...
We're coming up on the end of the busiest season in tech — the month-and-a-half stretch where the biggest companies in the market reveal their grand visions for the next 12 months at their annual...
View ArticleGoogle is getting ahead of itself in its quest to make the future happen now...
One of the the most unusual demos at Google's annual I/O conference last week was of a custom-built automatic cocktail maker powered by the company's artificial intelligence system, Google...
View ArticleGoogle DeepMind is edging towards a 3-0 victory against world Go champion Ke...
Google DeepMind has won its second game against world Go champion Ke Jie in China, winning the series and putting it one step closer to a 3-0 victory.The company's self-learning AlphaGo AI agent is...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg calls for exploring basic income in Harvard commencement speech
In his Harvard commencement speech on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg advocated exploring a system in which all people receive a standard salary just for being alive, no questions asked.The...
View ArticleApple is working on a chip to power artificial intelligence in future...
Apple is working on chips to power artificial-intelligence capabilities in its gadgets, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Friday.The chips would handle more advanced AI tasks, such as facial...
View ArticleI used software to analyse if my relationship is doomed to failure
Artificial intelligence can now take a guess at whether you and your partner can go the distance.An AI firm called DataRobot has built a tool based on Stanford University data that asks you six...
View ArticleThe $2,500 answer to Amazon's Echo could make Japan's sex crisis worse
Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is shrinking year after year, to the point where deaths are outpacing births.Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing.But let's be clear: Population...
View ArticleThis 'shopbot' allows you to find out where an outfit is from simply by...
Fashion lovers, rejoice — recreating the outfits you see on your social media feeds or even on the street is now as easy as taking a picture.Glamix, a chatbot created by Israeli startup Syte, allows...
View ArticleA hedge fund veteran is trying to bring quant trading to a new market —...
Sports trading company Stratagem raising a £25 million fund to bet on sports;Company set up by ex-hedge funder, run by former Goldman Sachs partner;Stratagem uses artificial intelligence to analyse...
View ArticleAlphabet tops $1,000 for the first time (GOOGL)
The internet giant just hit new highs.Class A shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, broke $1,000 in early trading Monday.Alphabet has gained about 25% so far this year. The S&P 500 is...
View ArticleA Stanford researcher is pioneering a dramatic shift in how we treat...
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and it can kill. But scientists know surprisingly little about it.We do know, however, that talking seems to help — especially under the...
View ArticleThis AI will turn your doodled self-portraits into horrifying nightmares
Artificial intelligence (AI) may one day be used to do everything from drive your car to help cure diseases.But for now, it's being harnessed for some truly bizarre experiments.The Dutch broadcaster...
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