Digital Twins and AI Helping Industries Stay Flexible During COVID-19 Uncertainties
When COVID-19 clobbered all of humanity in early 2020, the resulting government lockdowns in countries and communities across the world negatively impacted entire industries and turned people's lives and ...Full Article
Startup Symbio Robotics Gets $30M Funding to Extend Factory Automation Using AI
The modern factory floor is increasingly automated, but manufacturers are looking for ways to make industrial robots more flexible. Symbio Robotics, a Bay Area startup, is aiming to solve ...Full Article
How AutoML is Democratizing Data Science — And What That Means For Data Scientists
“Data scientist” has been one of the most in-demand job titles of the past decade. But in another 10 years, that role will look very different, thanks to technologies ...Full Article
IBM Reportedly Looking to Sell its Unprofitable Watson Health Business
IBM’s Watson Health business brings in $1 billion a year in revenue, but because the unit still isn’t profitable, Big Blue is reportedly looking to sell it to focus ...Full Article
As Insurtech Sector Embraces AI, Startup Zelros Attracts Another $11M in Funding
Among the financial sectors embracing AI technology is the insurance industry, which is looking for more personal and efficient ways to promote its products and services while streamlining underwriting ...Full Article
Xilinx Brings ‘Unique’ Composability and Flexibility to its New Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
FPGA vendor Xilinx has debuted its latest SmartNIC model, the Alveo SN1000, with integrated “composability” features that allow enterprise users to add their own custom networking functions to supplement ...Full Article
FundGuard, AI Vendor for Fintech, Gets $12M in Additional Series A Funding
Financial platforms that often serve as harbingers for enterprise technology adoption are rapidly embracing AI-based components to help manage a wide range of investments in the fintech sector. Venture ...Full Article
IBM, Red Hat Integration Continues as IBM Mainstreams Power Systems in Pivot to Cloud
As it continues to pivot to the cloud, IBM has unveiled a new Power-based private cloud rack product line that is also porting Red Hat OpenShift capabilities to its ...Full Article
IBM’s Latest Prototype Low-Power AI Chip Offers ‘Precision Scaling’
IBM has released details of a prototype AI chip geared toward low-precision training and inference across different AI model types while retaining model quality within AI applications. In a ...Full Article
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars: Here’s How It Is Using AI
After its ambitious Feb. 18 landing on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is already getting critical help from the multiple onboard AI systems that are designed to guide its ...Full Article