Here’s An AI-Powered, Voice-Activated Backpack That Aims to Help Visually-Impaired People ‘See’
An open-source AI initiative has come up with a prototype system in the form of a voice-activated backpack that promises to help the visually impaired perceive and navigate their ...Full Article
Harqen.AI Helping Healthcare Sector and Grad Schools Screen for the Best Job, College Applicants
Choosing candidates to hire or admit to a competitive university graduate program can often be a subjective exercise. Resumes, recommendations and test scores aside, evaluators often act upon gut ...Full Article
Arteria AI Closes $11M Series A Round to Scale its Contract Management Technology
AI developers have been steadily segmenting the booming financial services technology sector with new tools aimed at automating business processes. Among the latest examples are fintech startups applying AI ...Full Article
Investors Bet Flex Logic Embedded FPGAs will Catch Edge AI Wave With $55M New Funding
Geoff Tate, CEO and cofounder of Flex Logix Technologies, told us several years back that edge AI inferencing would be the embedded FPGA vendor’s biggest market through about 2023. ...Full Article
California’s Sonoma County Adds AI to Wildfire Alert Network to Detect Destructive Blazes
California continues to prepare for another round of wildfires by deploying AI-based early-warning systems designed to spot outbreaks before they become infernos. Sonoma County is the latest to adopt ...Full Article
Google Cloud Nvidia A100 GPU A2 VM Instances Now Generally Available
Eight months after making its Nvidia A100 A2 VM cloud services available on Google Cloud as a beta service for customers, Google Cloud has announced that they are now ...Full Article
Healthcare Investors Target Enterprise Analytics, AI-Based Care Coordination
The uneven application of AI technology within the healthcare sector appears to be smoothing out as investors increasingly target analytics and AI-based systems for applications like coordinated patient care. ...Full Article
Micron Getting Out of 3D XPoint Memory, To Concentrate on Compute Express Link
After almost 10 years of investments and flagging progress, Micron announced today (Tuesday) that it is ending its involvement in 3D XPoint, the non-volatile memory technology it originally developed ...Full Article
AMD Partners Unveil Their Plans for Integrating New AMD Epyc CPUs in Servers, Services
Now that AMD unveiled its latest third-generation Epyc CPU product line for AI, HPC and enterprise workloads on March 15, the company’s server and services partners continue to announce ...Full Article
Torch.AI Secures $30M Series A Funding Round to Expand its Nexus AI Platform
Torch.AI, the profitable startup applying machine learning to analyze data “in-flight” via its proprietary synaptic mesh technology, announced its first funding round along with expansion plans. The Series A ...Full Article
