Europe’s digital rules reboot could tame Facebook, whistleblower Frances Haugen tells EU Parliament

In her latest turn in front of a phalanx of lawmakers, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen gave a polished testimony to the European Parliament on Monday — following similar sessions in front of U.K. and U.S. legislators in recent weeks. Her core message was the same dire warning she’

Taking a production-centric approach to enterprisewide AI adoption

Most enterprises that implement AI solutions have learned a bitter lesson along the way: The path to organizationwide AI adoption is far from simple, intuitive or easy. Arguably, the hardest thing about it is the lack of clear guidance. There's no “how-to” handbook for enterprisewide AI ado

Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. The company, started by former Google and Baidu AI guru

Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai gets $1M seed after B2B pivot

Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a B2B pivot. Investors in the round include Cabra VC, Flyer One VC and some unnamed business angels. The U.S. startup, which was founded back in March 2019 by Artem Semyanov (the former head of the machine learning team at

Teaching robots to socialize

Politeness doesn't really amount to much when you're programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely they'll get along with the rest of us. “Robots will live in our world soon enough an

Cruise lays out its plan for ‘how’ it will make robotaxis a reality

The string of engineers who spoke Thursday night during a deep dive into Cruise’s autonomous vehicle technology never mentioned Tesla’s name. They didn’t have to, although the message was clear enough. GM’s self-driving subsidiary Cruise presented a technical and deployment

Mark Cuban and former Oculus CEO back 3D e-commerce startup VNTANA

As Facebook and Apple charge headlong into a more 3D future for the consumer web with big plans for mixed reality headsets, most web content out there is still firmly 2D. And while some are pushing for a completely separate “metaverse” where 3D content lives, that’s likely going t

Isomorphic Labs is Alphabet’s play in AI drug discovery

The field of drug discovery has been supercharged by the capabilities of AI, which several companies have applied in various ways to turn an enormous practical problem into a tractable information problem. The latest to do so is Google parent company Alphabet, which has established Isomorphic Labs,

A look at some of the AI and ML expert speakers at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit

Calling all data devotees, machine-learning mavens and arbiters of AI. Clear your calendar to make room for the iMerit ML DataOps Summit on December 2, 2021. Join and engage with AI and ML leaders from multiple tech industries, including autonomous mobility, healthcare AI, technology and geospatial

Propelo raises $12M for its AI-driven engineering excellence platform

The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software development processes. But most of the time, this data simply ends up in a dashboard for some scattershot analysis. Pro

Food for ‘bot

As I mentioned last week, I've been thinking a lot about agtech. It's honestly unavoidable when you spend as much time as I have lately digging into the world of vertical farming. As I learned pretty quickly, things balloon outward into the many facets of the food supply chain. All of the p

WhyLabs raises $10M Series A for its AI observability platform

WhyLabs, a machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute last year, helps data teams monitor the health of their AI models and the data pipelines that fuel them. Last year, the startup raised a $4 million seed round and today, the team announced that it has raised a $10 million

Sama taps into $70M to build 'first end-to-end AI platform' for training data

Products developed to manage artificial intelligence data are still largely fragmented, solving one problem at a time for developers, but not the entire life cycle. Enter Sama, a company providing high-quality training data that powers AI technology applications. CEO Wendy Gonzalez said the company

Neuro-ID takes in fresh capital to combat fraud from all of our taps, types and swipes

Much of our days are built around digital experiences, and companies are increasingly looking for ways to unlock conversion and optimize fraud screening. Today, a startup that has built a real-time behavioral analytics tool is announcing funding as it sees demand for its services increase. Neuro-ID