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Google Touts Speedy Custom AI Chips That Trounce GPUs And CPUs
Chip boast – Google claims its own AI chips remove the need to increase the number of its data centres
Canada Ploughs £120m Into AI Research Institute
Canadian government joins business community for significant investment into research for artificial intelligence
Amazon Opens Up Free AWS Access For Alexa Developers
New Program so developers can build Alexa skills for free using the Amazon Web Services Platform
Google’s Deepmind NHS Data Deal Lambasted By Paper
NHS patient data sharing with Google Deepmind slated in paper, but Google and Royal Free Trust fire back at 'significant mistakes'
Facebook Releases Bryce Canyon Storage And Big Basin AI Design To Open Compute Project
Design specification released for Facebook's new storage platform, coupled with the new AI 'Big Basin' Design
Apple To Join Google, Facebook, IBM And Microsoft In ‘Partnership For AI’ Alliance
Apple set to join non profit 'the Partnership on AI' to collaborate on artificial intelligence research
Alphabet’s DeepMind Makes First Moves Into US
A DeepMind presence in the US will aid collaboration with parent company Google
US Government Believes AI Is Beneficial But Warns Of Job Risk
But AI will also present new opportunities for health, education, energy, and the environment
Microsoft Makes AI Move For Wand Labs
Reinforcements for malfunctioning Tay chatbot? Microsoft purchases AI app specialist Wand Labs
Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges
New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator
IBM’s Cognitive Storage Trains Computers To Act Like Brains
IBM researchers teach computers to decide how to store various types of data, just like our brain archives long-term memory but dumps irrelevant information
AI Is ‘Natural’ Advancement, Says Google Boss
Eric Schmidt hails next-generation intelligence following landmark AlphaGo victory
Apple Wants To Analyse Your Face To Read Your Emotions
Phonemaker reportedly buys artificial intelligence firm Emotient to get more in touch with its users
Wikipedia Brings In AI Editor
Wikipedia entries to face scrutiny from artificial intelligence tool in order to ease editor workload
Breakthrough Brings Insect Communication One Step Closer To AI, Self-Driving Cars
Computer scientists at University of Lincoln achieve breakthrough in pheromone-based swarm communications in robots
IBM Taps Nvidia Tesla GPUs To Speed Up Watson
Nvidia's Tesla K80 GPUs are helping IBM Watson rev up its cognitive computing capabilities
Google Launches Open Source Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow
Artificial intelligence from Google goes public to crowdsource dev expertise
AI Will Be The Future, Says Android Creator
Andy Rubin says he is optimistic about artificial intelligence and doesn't share fears of possible Skynet scenario
Apple Hires Engineers For Machine Learning
Siri upgrade? Battle for artificial intelligence heats up with iPhone maker hiring more AI boffins
Toyota Pumps £33m Into Smart Car Research
Auto maker teams up with Stanford and MIT researchers as it investigates how AI can help cut down on road accidents
Artificial Intelligence Helps Uncover Islamic State Military Tactics
US researchers publish study on using artificial intelligence algorithms to predict future threats from Islamic State extremists
Stephen Hawking And Steve Wozniak Warn Of Military AI Arms Race
Elon Musk also signs open letter along with hundreds of top robotic scientists pleading military powers to curtail plans for AI drones
Robot With Bacteria Brains Developed By Scientist
Forget artifical intelligence - scientist develops technique for bacteria to control the behaviour of robots
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Predicts AI Will ‘Treat Humans As Pets’
Steve Wozniak changes his mind about artificial intelligence and predicts benevolent machines
SoftBank’s Emotional Robot Pepper Goes On Sale
An 'emotional' robot that promises to be genuinely interactive will go on sale in America this weekend
Robots To Seize Control In 100 Years, Says Stephen Hawking
“Open the pod bay doors, Hal!” ... Humans have 100 years left before the robots take over, warns Professor Stephen Hawking
IBM Watson Hauls In 40,000 Developers With AlchemyAPI Acquisition
Purchase of Denver cognitive computing firm is "start of a new journey" for IBM Watson
Infosys Buys Automation Technology Firm For Enterprise Value Of £130M
Strategic pounce for automation to keep Infosys in the SaaS delivery race