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Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from social media to build a facial...
A software startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube — is selling its tool to law enforcement agencies across the United States.The app...
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Hot automation startup UiPath brings on a veteran exec who was at Microsoft...
UiPath is bringing on industry veteran Ted Kummert as its new executive president of product and engineering. Kummert — who spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft and was most recently chief product...
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Microsoft quietly adds a chief scientific officer to its upper leadership in...
Microsoft promoted Eric Horvitz – a longtime technical fellow and Microsoft Research director – to chief scientific officer, a new C-suite role at the company.Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Healthcare,...
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How IBM turns flashy AI projects like a robot that can debate humans into...
IBM is known for its splashy demonstrations of new AI-powered research initiatives like 'Project Debater,' a robot that can debate humans, and IBM Watson. While those publicity stunts are helpful in...
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CEO Satya Nadella's decision to name Microsoft's first-ever chief scientific...
Microsoft quietly appointed its first chief scientific officer last week.It's the latest addition to Microsoft's C-suite, which analysts say includes other uncommon roles like executive vice president...
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The AI startup industry may be heading for consolidation and bigger problems...
The world of artificial intelligence startups has been an amusement park of innovation and investment during the economy's long bull run, but the roller coaster market threatens to go off its rails and...
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This startup is tracking the coronavirus through sewers and using AI to...
New studies show that the coronavirus is shed in stool, meaning that it's collecting in city sewers around the country. Biobot Analytics aims to take advantage of this distinctive data resource by...
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This San Francisco startup has raised $12 million for its speech-recognition...
Deepgram offers a speech recognition service that's built on deep-learning technology.CEO and cofounder Scott Stephenson got the idea for the service while monitoring a dark matter experiment two miles...
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Here are 14 AI startups that investors love, as uncertainty sweeps the entire...
While all kinds of gee-whiz artificial intelligence startups have received ample funding over the last few years, they may lose support in the midst of wild market volatility.With that atmosphere of...
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A top Google computer scientist says AI researchers are coming out in force...
COVID-19 has become a turning point that could see long-running predictions about how AI will forever change healthcare become a reality.Pundits have for years said that AI will find drugs and cures...
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15 jobs no one knew about in 2010 that everyone will want in 2020
LinkedIn has released the 2020 edition of its annual report of the 15 top emerging jobs.These jobs have seen high annual growth over the last five years, according to LinkedIn.Many jobs — including...
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The CEO of AI startup Node raised new funding during the coronavirus crisis....
Artificial intelligence startup Node raised $6 million in fresh funding from Mark Cuban, Canaan Partners, and others, and launched a new product amid the coronavirus crisis. CEO Falon Fatemi advises...
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The US government is in talks with AI startup Onfido to roll out immunity...
Buzzy AI security startup Onfido is in talks to help the US government roll out "immunity passports" for those that have recovered from COVID-19.On Friday, Dr Anthony Fauci said the federal government...
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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI security startup Onfido used to...
Buzzy AI security firm Onfido has raised $100 million in a funding round backed entirely by private equity firm TPG Growth, which has previously invested in Spotify and Uber.With more than 400...
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AI startup BioCatch raises $145 million to help banks change how they do...
BioCatch, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, pulls in $145 million at a time when much investment has been put on hold.The startup uses behavioral biometrics, in which AI monitors all kinds of gestures...
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Buzzy startup Chorus.ai analyzed millions of phone calls by sales teams from...
Jim Benton leads Chorus.ai, a San Francisco-based startup that analyzes sales meetings with artificial intelligence to find what approaches are working best to close deals. Hired March 16, a week after...
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Biometrics firm to help Colombia resume closed-door soccer matches amid...
A UK identity verification startup used by convenience stores and banks could help Colombian soccer resume behind closed doors.London-headquartered Yoti has been recruited to roll out its platform for...
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Now is the time for an economic stimulus in artificial intelligence — or the...
Congress has been working to provide financial lifelines to Americans and businesses amid the economic contraction spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.Including funding for research into artificial...
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This AI generates absurdist memes that are funnier than what most real humans...
The founder of a website used for creating memes, Imgflip, has harnessed AI technology to build a meme generator for 48 of its most popular templates.The technology used for This Meme Does Not Exist is...
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No, an artificial intelligence can't legally invent something — only 'natural...
AI systems can't legally be considered inventors on patents, the US Trademark and Patent Office announced Monday, as first reported by The Verge.A group of patent lawyers had argued that a "creativity...
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