The founder of an AI startup that just raised $30M explains why starting a...
People.ai raised $30 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and other VC firms.It's the second startup that CEO Oleg Rogynskyy has founded.The process of building a succesfull startup gets more...
View ArticleA 22-year-old Johns Hopkins dropout is pioneering a new way to treat drug...
22-year-old Shrenik Jain dropped out of a triple major at Johns Hopkins to create Marigold Health, a startup that offers a new kind of addiction treatment.Jain's startup recently got backing from...
View ArticleMilitary work is a lightning rod in Silicon Valley, but Microsoft will sell...
Microsoft announced Friday that it plans to sell artificial intelligence technologies to the military.The military is looking into using more artificial intelligence for its defense, as the Chinese...
View ArticleThe 3rd most powerful supercomputer in the world was turned on at a...
The third most powerful supercomputer in the world has been completed and unveiled: the Sierra.This supercomputer, which can do 125 quadrillion calculations in a second, will be used to create...
View ArticleMany companies are stumbling as they rush to adopt artificial intelligence —...
Companies that are rushing to embrace artificial intelligence technologies are running into big problems with their data.Some companies don't have enough data, others have it in disparate places, and...
View Article'Alexa, buy 10 shares of Facebook': A discount brokerage giant now lets Main...
TD Ameritrade last week rolled out a new offering allowing Main Street investors to place trades via Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa.It's the first instance of people being able to trade stocks through...
View Article10 of the biggest risks to humanity's survival in the next 50 years, from...
Some of the world's biggest challenges, including climate change and political violence, extend far beyond any one nation's borders.Global catastrophes can occur for a number of reasons, and the Global...
View ArticleLarry Ellison says that Oracle was once a week away from not being able to...
Every year, Oracle founder Larry Ellison hosts a cocktail reception for startup founders at his San Francisco home.At the reception last Wednesday, Ellison shared some of the struggles Oracle faced in...
View ArticleAmazon employees are reportedly gearing up to confront CEO Jeff Bezos at an...
Amazon employees have openly and publicly criticized the company for selling its facial recognition software, called Rekognition, to police.Amazon employees are urging their colleagues to ramp up the...
View Article19 of the coolest things your Google Home can do (GOOG, GOOGL)
The Google Home is in millions of households. Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had sold more than one Home smart speaker device every second since last October. According to our own...
View ArticleAI will match human intelligence by about 2062
An Australian expert says Artificial Intelligence (AI) is less than 50 years away from matching humans.Professor Toby Walsh from UNSW says he’s already getting nervous about where AI is going.The issue...
View ArticleAmazon's cloud CEO just pooh-poohed employee concerns about selling its...
At a company meeting Thursday, Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, addressed employees' concerns about the company's practice of offering its facial-recognition software to immigration and...
View ArticleAI could soon be all around us — here's how that could upend 8 different...
Some major industries could soon be shaken up by a new development in artificial intelligence— the technology's increasing portability.Chip manufacturers are making processors specifically for machine...
View ArticleHow an academic specialist in human memory created a chat app that’s helping...
Spot is a new chatbot that's designed to help victims of harassment and discrimination record and report their experiences.The service uses natural language processing to understand and respond to...
View ArticleMicrosoft is acquiring a Texas-based AI startup as it prepares for the next...
Microsoft announced Wednesday it would acquire an Austin-based software product design and development studio called XOXCO.XOXCO is known for Howdy, a bot for the popular Slack work chat app that helps...
View ArticleHere's why Walmart is betting on Microsoft's AI to challenge Amazon in online...
Walmart will partner with Microsoft to use artificial intelligence technology for the retail giant's e-commerce site, price adjustments, and expanding its online grocery program.Walmart also currently...
View ArticleThis robotic-accounting startup just raised $18 million, thanks to Google's...
Botkeeper, a Boston-based bot startup, just raised $18 million from Greycroft and Gradient Ventures, Google's investment arm.The idea for Botkeeper came from the shortcomings of a college business...
View ArticleTHE SOCIAL COMMERCE REPORT: How Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and other...
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.Social media is becoming increasingly...
View ArticleMicrosoft's CTO lays out the 2 tech trends he believes will change the world:...
Microsoft's chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, sees two big things coming down the pipeline in the tech industry, he told Business Insider.The first is an explosion of cheap, powerful silicon...
View ArticleThis 13-year-old scientist invented a safer way to treat pancreatic cancer,...
Pancreaticcancer survival rates are extremely low — around 9% for five years and around 1% for 10 years — and haven't improved significantly in the past 40 years. But 13-year-old Rishab Jain is...
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