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The iMerit ML DataOps Summit kicks off tomorrow, November 8. Don't miss your chance to gather online with more than 2,000 data scientists, engineers and top AI & ML speakers to learn about the latest in dataops solutions, connect and engage with attendees and expand your network. If you hav

A recently presented European Union plan to update long-standing product liabity rules for the digital age — including addressing rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation — took some instant flak from European consumer organization, BEUC, which framed the update as some

There are no sure bets in this — or any — business. Automation, agriculture and a climate-bent are green flags, but no category is immune from mounting economic headwinds on top of the already difficult task of launching a successful startup. While robotics has thus far seen a limited s

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology, believes virtual and augmented reality are going to replace the smartphone as the dominant way we interact with digital worlds and each other. And when that happens, we’ll need natural ways to be immersed in those spac

We've been keeping tabs on Labrador Systems since we caught a very early demo of its elder care-focused technology in a hotel suite several CESes ago. Today the California-based robotics firm announced that it's begun deploying its Retriever Pro system to a handful of early clients, includi

Don't miss the investor-focused session “Current and Future State of ML DataOps Landscape” at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit on November 8. As enterprises dive deeper into commercializing AI applications to improve business efficiencies, many realize the massive transformation and increasing

Sales teams, under pressure to — pardon the cliché — do more with less as inflation strains the economy, are increasingly turning to AI-powered software in search of a competitive edge. Vendors like Winn.AI provide AI assistants for sales calls that automatically track, capture and upd

Digital creation company Picsart is adding an AI Image Generator and an AI Writer to create images and ad copy, the company announced on Wednesday. Picsart says that as text-to-image generators are growing in popularity, it’s bringing one directly into its platform. As with other models, Pics

Fair warning, it's going to be a quick one from me today. I caught the thing again, roughly three months after the last time I caught the thing. They say, “third time's the charm,” and I now recognize that they were referring to chest pain and a general light-headedness. Turns out it do

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron, aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in, but not limit

Stock image giant Shutterstock has announced a major push into AI-generated imagery today in partnership with OpenAI, expanding on a strategic tie-up the pair announced last year. The partnership between Shutterstock and OpenAI will see the latter’s DALL-E 2 image-generating AI system integra

Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Unlike conventional chips, theirs was destined for devices at the edge, particularly th

Chinese luxury EV startup XPeng is moving forward on its plans to launch a robotaxi business. The company’s latest G9 SUV became China’s first mass-produced commercial vehicle to pass a government-led autonomous driving closed-field test, the company said Monday at its fourth annual 102

Organic chemist Manuela Oliverio was working on a new drug when he noticed that test results on mice weren’t consistent, because the molecule being administered was always different depending on the chemist who produced it. It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug d