IDC: AI Spending Expected to Double Globally to $110B by 2024
Global spending on artificial intelligence technologies will double to $110 billion by 2024 as AI use grows to bolster the competitiveness and digital transformations of more businesses and other ...Full Article
Fueling AI to Grow the Economy Is Goal of 5 New NSF AI Institutes
AI research by the National Science Foundation will expand to a broader range of businesses across the U.S. economy through five new NSF AI institutes being created at a ...Full Article
AI Emerges as US Priority in Budget Talks
Among a lengthy list of U.S. technology initiatives included in pending budget legislation is a proposed National Artificial Intelligence Initiative that would be managed across several science agencies. The ...Full Article
Investors Pour More Cash Into Dataiku AI Platform
Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform vendor, again made the case this week its collaborative approach to data science is gaining enterprise adherents, announcing a $100 million funding round. The ...Full Article
US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships
As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed ...Full Article
Op-Ed: Poor Countries Are Struggling to Industrialize Their Way to Growth – AI Can Help
While it is still too early to tell how severely COVID-19 will damage the world’s rich economies, some worry that the devastation will be far worse in poor ones, ...Full Article
CAD Shift to the Cloud Quickens
Graphics-intensive design and manufacturing workloads continue to migrate steadily to the cloud, making it easier for engineers, designers and architects to share and improve product development and manufacturing. Among ...Full Article
Continental Debuts the Fastest Supercomputer in the Automotive Industry – and It’s Built for AI
The automotive industry finds strong use cases for supercomputers, which can help industrial designers do everything from optimizing engines and aerodynamics to running virtual crash tests. Now, German automotive ...Full Article
IBM, Verizon Team on 5G for IoT
Responding to what they say is a wave of pandemic-driven automation, IBM and Verizon have announced an Internet of Things partnership that combines IBM’s AI, hybrid cloud and asset ...Full Article
Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
Moving neuromorphic technology from the laboratory into practice has proven slow-going. This week, National University of Singapore researchers moved the needle forward demonstrating an event-driven, visual-tactile perception system that ...Full Article
