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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

AI-Driven ‘Digital Employees’ Will Replace Recently Embraced Chatbots

Customer service chatbots have quickly gained widespread adoption in the retail industry. But leading brands already are evaluating alternative, next-gen customer service technologies – namely, AI and cognitive computing ...Full Article

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Microsoft Unveils AI Chip

Microsoft said this week it is developing a new version of an AI-based coprocessor for implementing "deep" neural networks expected to be incorporated into augmented reality goggles. The second ...Full Article

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Intel Rolls AI Toolkit

Intel has begun rolling out AI hardware previewed last fall with the release of its Movidius Neural Compute Stick, billed as a self-contained AI accelerator in a USB format ...Full Article

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AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software

Enterprise software is often maligned as a legacy holdover from a previous age, a low-growth market dominated by stodgy software companies out to milk maintenance streams from hapless victims. ...Full Article

Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership

Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently announced 120 TFLOPS Volta GPUs to ...Full Article

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