Page 24 - Latest Updates on Artificial intelligence
Uniphore raises $140 million as demand for enterprise AI increases
2020 sped up digital imperatives for companies as it put focus directly on AI and automation to drive that transformation of what experts agree is projected to be a $500 bn-plus market opportunity
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The threats of 'Western Universalism'
Book review of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds
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Startup of the year: Freshworks aims to become a $1-bn company in 5 years
Freshworks has set its sights on increasing revenue to over $1bn inthe next five years as it prepares to take advantage of the vast untapped SaaS market
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Big Tech uses AI to arrest blindness among India's burgeoning diabetics
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness and vision loss in adults and tech giants such as Intel and Google are building AI-based innovations to address such problems
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Tech spend in 2021 to be better than last 2 years: Nasscom survey
Over 70 per cent chief executives expect global spend to grow over 4 per cent; recovery to be led by digital segment
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Robotic futures
Book review of GENIUS MAKERS: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
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VC investors to rely more on AI than a gut feel by 2025: Gartner
Gartner predicts that by 2025, the AI- and data-science-equipped VC or PE investor will become commonplace
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Can Vinod Dham-founded AlphaICs disrupt the AI-based chip market?
The firm operates in the mid-power segment worth $15-20 billion, and is designing a chip targeted for vision applications like surveillance, industrial automation and IoT
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A peek into the startup incubation drives of India's next-rung campuses
Not all great ideas are nurtured at IITs and IIMs; many enterprises with formidable products today have come from the country's deeper regions and have received parenting at lesser known institutes
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SoftBank's internet business to invest $4.7 billion in tech over five years
The focus will be on artificial intelligence
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McDonald's considers selling part of digital startup Dynamic Yield
McDonald's Corp is exploring selling part of Israeli artificial intelligence startup Dynamic Yield Ltd, which it acquired two years ago in an attempt to boost online marketing efforts, the firm said
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IRCTC's AI-based initiative 'ASK DISHA' to help govt bodies answer queries
The chatbot powered by artificial intelligence will enable those organisations to answer general queries of the customers and garner good will too
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'50% of Indian firms to deploy intelligent automation by 2024': IDC
Nearly half of all businesses in India will implement robotic process automation (RPA) by 2024, said an IDC study
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How technology is changing the silhouettes of fashion in Covid times
From omnichannel, to AI, to 3D technology, the fashion industry is in the middle of a digital revolution
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Adani forays into data centre business, sets up 50:50 JV with EdgeConnex
In addition to full-scale data centres, AdaniConneX will also develop a portfolio of Edge data centres strategically located across the country to address the need for more proximate capacity
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Amazon plans wall-mounted Echo as smart home command center: Report
Its Lab126 hardware division is designing the device to be a digital command centre, showing users calendar events, controlling accessories like lights and locks, and playing music and video
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This scientist is making roads safer with mobile telematics technology
Hari Balakrishnan of MIT has been working on inferring bad driving behaviour using sensor data from phones and other IoT devices in vehicles to help reduce thousands of road crashes each year
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Engineers at Google resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru
The resignations come as workers have demanded commitments to academic freedom and management change in Google's research organisation
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Amazon plans AI-powered cameras in delivery vans to improve driver safety
"This technology will provide drivers real-time alerts to help them stay safe when they are on the road," the statement added
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India turns to artificial intelligence for better and faster economic data
The country of 1.3 billion people, only 20 per cent of whom know how to use the internet, had to suspend field surveys during the lockdown, which led to gaps in reporting monthly retail inflation numb
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