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IBM’s Latest AI Effort Targets Algorithms, Physics

Investment continues to flow into artificial intelligence research, especially in key areas such as AI algorithms that promise to move the technology from specialized tasks to broader applications that ...Full Article

AI-driven Diagnostics for Network of Boston-based Healthcare Providers

The Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), Boston, is at the confluence of major technology trends driving the healthcare industry: AI-based diagnostics of large volumes of medical images, shared ...Full Article

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Putin: Who Controls AI ‘Will Be Ruler of the World’

AI alarmism took on a geopolitical cast today as Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that whoever is first to build breakthrough artificial intelligence technology will have world domination. According ...Full Article

The Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU delivers artificial intelligence at the edge for drones, robotics, smart cameras, virtual reality/augmented reality solutions and more. Introduced on Aug. 28, 2017, Myriad X is the world’s first SOC shipping with a dedicated Neural Compute Engine to give devices the ability to see, understand and react to their environments in real time.(Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel Debuts Myriad X Vision Processing Unit for Neural Net Inferencing

Intel today introduced the Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU) which Intel is calling the first vision processing system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a dedicated neural compute engine to accelerate ...Full Article

Microsoft, Intel Unveil FPGA-driven ‘Real-Time AI’ in Azure

We know about the seeming light-speed processing power of FPGAs and the natural fit they pose for data-dense AI workloads. But we also know that FPGAs present usability and ...Full Article

Microsoft Bolsters Azure With Cloud HPC Deal

Microsoft has acquired cloud computing software vendor Cycle Computing in a move designed to bring orchestration tools along with high-end computing access capabilities to the cloud. Terms of the ...Full Article

IBM Scales AI with Distributed Deep Learning

IBM announced today an enhancement to its PowerAI software platform aimed at scaling AI models on today’s fastest GPUs. Scaling to 256 GPUs with its new distributed deep learning ...Full Article

Airlines Embracing AI Take Wing, AI Index Finds

Stock prices of airline companies – starting with Southwest and Hawaiian airlines – that have embraced AI look like the flight path of a plane just after take-off: steady ...Full Article

Advice to AI Startups: Lift Veil on Algorithms

The hardheaded folks who advise investors on what technologies show promise and which are mostly smoke and mirrors are beginning to weigh in on much-hyped approaches such as machine ...Full Article

Regulate AI? Musk-Zuckerberg Stand Astride the Divide

The future of AI – heck, the future of human civilization – is the hot tech industry topic this week, not only for the topic itself but for who’s ...Full Article

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