Best Western is using AI to personalize ads, and the results are crushing the...
The online travel market is cut-throat, and brands struggle to keep people's attention.Best Western is trying to beat the odds, using artificial intelligence to personalize ads using IBM Watson...
View ArticlePeter Thiel slammed Google in a scathing New York Times op-ed, but failed to...
When The New York Times published an opinion piece by Peter Thiel this week, it failed to disclose his potential conflicts of interest.The piece, which was sharply critical of Google, describes him...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about TensorFlow, a Google-created project that's...
The artificial intelligence framework TensorFlow started within Google as an internal tool.In November 2015, TensorFlow was made available to the public as open source. Since then, TensorFlow has...
View ArticleThis IBM manager moved from Brazil, learned to code, and now leads a...
Gabriela de Queiroz, senior engineering and data science manager at IBM, leads a team of data scientists and software engineers to contribute to open source artificial intelligence projects.Outside of...
View ArticleThese are the 41 hottest AI startups worth at least $1 billion, across...
CB Insights compiled a list of artificial intelligence companies that have reached a valuation of at least $1 billion.These AI unicorns are using the technology across industries like cybersecurity,...
View ArticleThis founder's startup developed a super-efficient chip to help self-driving...
Recogni has designed a artificial-intelligence chip for self-driving cars that it says is hundreds of times more efficient than comparable processors.The company is relying on a data-compression...
View ArticleThe 12 books Elon Musk says shaped his worldview and led him to business and...
No matter how busy executives seem to be, they always seem to have time to prioritize reading.Elon Musk follows this pattern. Instead of relying on self-help books or just nonfiction pieces, he reads...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about PyTorch, the world's fastest-growing AI...
PyTorch, an artificial intelligence project started by Facebook engineers, has become the second fastest-growing open source project in the world, according to GitHub — and the fastest-growing AI...
View ArticleMicrophoneGate: The world's biggest tech companies were caught sending...
Over the past several months, we've seen a slew of reports about how audio recordings captured by voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana were sent...
View ArticleAn inside look at how research firm Morningstar is racing machine...
Research firm Morningstar is using Amazon Web Service's DeepRacer, a machine learning-powered model race car, as a training tool. That comes as Wall Street firms have been talking more about the public...
View Article'It's the art of the possible': How Walmart and Target are harnessing AI to...
Companies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, and the adoption of the advanced technology promises to further divide successful firms from those struggling to adapt to the new digital...
View ArticleElon Musk says the difference between human intellect and AI is comparable to...
Elon Musk is the CEO of three companies: Tesla, Neuralink, and SpaceX. The second of those three, Neuralink, is focused on human-computer interfaces for artificial intelligence in people.There's a good...
View ArticleElon Musk says humans communicate so slowly with computers that it will sound...
Elon Musk is the CEO of three companies: Tesla, Neuralink, and SpaceX. The second of those three, Neuralink, is focused on creating human-computer interfaces to connect artificial intelligence with the...
View ArticleThe Pentagon admitted it will lose to China on AI if it doesn't make some big...
The Pentagon admitted Friday that it faces certain disadvantages in the strategic competition with China to develop AI-enabled technologies and capabilities.China's AI programs benefit greatly from its...
View ArticleU-2 spy planes have lurked all over the world for 64 years — here's how the...
The U-2 spy plane has been operating all over the world for more than 60 years.The Dragon Lady's mission has remained the same over that time, but how it does it has changed considerably, and the Air...
View ArticleAccenture's head of artificial intelligence shares the 4-step plan every...
Artificial intelligence can result in cost savings and increased market share, and it can free up employees to tackle more complex tasks — but investing in the tech isn't necessarily the right choice...
View ArticleHealthcare companies staffing up on top tech talent should use Obama's...
Healthcare firms that are staffing up on top technology talent have important decisions to make on how to structure the various roles within the C-Suite. The industry should mirror the Obama...
View ArticleA fake interview with Vladimir Putin demonstrates how convincing deepfakes...
Deepfakes— videos manipulated with AI to make someone appear to say or do something they haven't actually said or done — have become a real concern, especially when it comes to spreading misinformation...
View ArticleA deepfake pioneer says 'perfectly real' manipulated videos are just 6 months...
Deepfake artist Hao Li, who created a Putin deepfake for an MIT conference this week, told CNBC on Friday that "perfectly real" manipulated videos are just six to 12 months away. Li had previously said...
View ArticleThe managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz explains why his firm is...
Scott Kupor is the managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, the venture-capital turned financial-services firm that was an early investor in tech successes including Facebook, Slack, and Airbnb.At the...
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