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Facebook is reportedly close to buying a British AI startup to help it shut...
Facebook is close to acquiring London-based start-up Bloomsbury AI to help it combat fake news, TechCrunch reports.Bloomsbury AI develops natural language processing (NLP) technology, and has created...
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Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of the Uber/Waymo legal...
In 2017, Anthony Levandowski was in the middle of a scandal involving Uber, his employer at the time, and Waymo, his former employer. He was accused of stealing trade secrets from Google's self-driving...
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Facebook has hired the team behind UK startup Bloomsbury AI to help fight...
Facebook announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the team behind London-based start up Bloomsbury AI.Rather than a full acquisition of the company, Facebook has taken on Bloomsbury AI's team in...
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Why this top LinkedIn employee quit to start his own data analytics company
Adam Weinstein, a former senior employee at LinkedIn, quit last year to start his own data analytics company, Cursor.Cursor lets users inside a company search for data across different departments,...
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Oracle recently offered an artificial intelligence expert as much as $6...
In an effort to recruit top talent in artificial intelligence, Oracle offers pay packages worth $6 million, a source told Business Insider.In at least one instance, this was enough money to convince a...
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A former TV comedy writer learned three ways to succeed at impossible tasks...
Dr. Noam Slonim is the computer scientist who conceived of and helped build "Project Debater," an IBM computer that not only debates humans, it sometimes beats them. The effort to build Debater took...
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People love Sonos speakers so much they buy them again and again, but there...
Sonos, which filed to go public on Friday, has built up a respectable business.But the speaker market is undergoing a major shift to smart speakers, and Sonos runs the risk of being relegated to being...
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Artificial intelligence will create as many jobs as it destroys, according to...
Billionaires including Bill Gates and Elon Musk have argued that robots will basically replace humans at work.People are now worried about vast swathes of unemployment where a few wealthy people own...
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Meet the 29-year-old who founded a company that's using technology to find...
Alice Zhang started Verge Genomics in 2015 with Jason Chen to combine innovation in neuroscience, machine learning and genomics and apply it to the drug discovery process. The vision for Verge was to...
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A new study shows that tech CEOs are optimistic about the future, even if...
Tech industry CEOs are bullish on the future of their companies, the sector, and artificial intelligence.But they're worried about the spread of nationalism, cybersecurity — and millennials.Those are...
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Elon Musk and DeepMind's pledge to never build killer AI makes a glaring...
Tech leaders including Elon Musk and the cofounders of DeepMind signed a pledge last week to never develop "lethal autonomous weapons."The letter argued that morally the decision to take a life should...
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How this founder turned a hackathon project into a startup that's changing...
Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon in 2011 with his startup Talkdesk. Now, the company is one of the most recognizable names in the call center industry, with clients such as IBM, Peet's Coffee,...
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'The AI has no soul': China is working on a fleet of drone submarines to...
China is developing large, smart and relatively low-cost unmanned submarines that can roam the world’s oceans to perform a wide range of missions, from reconnaissance to mine placement to even suicide...
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Google Assistant tops Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa in a head-to-head...
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon are all developing competing voice assistants.In a test run by Loup Ventures on smartphones, Google Assistant was able to answer the most questions correctly....
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Some Google employees are confused and angry about a recent report that...
Google is facing backlash following a report that it plans to provide a censored search engine for China.Sen. Marco Rubio and even some Google employees are among those criticizing the company.Google...
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Facebook’s chief AI scientist says that Silicon Valley needs to work more...
Facebook's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that letting AI experts split their time between academia and industry is helping drive innovation.Writing for Business Insider, the executive and NYU...
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People in a new study struggled to turn off a robot when it begged them not...
A new study published this week in the journal PLOS found that humans may have sympathy for robots, particularly if they perceive the robot to be "social" or "autonomous."For several test subjects, a...
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How banks are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to...
This is a preview of the AI in Banking and Payments (2018) research report from Business Insider Intelligence. To learn more about the use cases, trends and future of AI in finance, click...
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One of America's largest healthcare companies wants to use AI to 'solve some...
Optum, the health services arm of America's largest insurer United Health Group, is trying to make the data it collects smarter using artificial intelligence. Using this data, Optum is seeing if it can...
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Samsung just unveiled its first smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, to take on...
Samsung announced its first smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, during an event in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday.The Galaxy Home will be powered by Samsung's artificial-intelligence voice assistant,...
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