On Nov. 1, 2018, iExec, a decentralized marketplace for computing power based in Lyon, France, released its end-to-end trusted execution environment. The developers of iExec describe the technology as “the first Intel SGX scalable solution for businesses to achieve privacy and security in blockchain-based computing.” What is Intel SGX? Intel SGX, or Software Guard Extensions, […]
Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying and application building faster. As for the funding, it includes $3 million in seed money they got when they started […]
Microsoft has revealed two new training programs to tackle the shortage of AI-related skills in business and academia. The first of the two programs, Microsoft AI Academy, will run face-to-face and online training sessions for business and public-sector leaders, IT professionals, developers, and startups. “The academy will be helping to develop practical AI skills, learning, […]
Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics lab near Geneva are investigating whether a bizarre and unexpected new particle popped into existence during experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Researchers on the machine’s multipurpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector have spotted curious bumps in their data that may be the calling card of an unknown particle […]
Deep learning has a DRAM problem. Systems designed to do difficult things in real time, such as telling a cat from a kid in a car’s backup camera video stream, are continuously shuttling the data that makes up the neural network’s guts from memory to the processor. The problem, according to startup Flex Logix, isn’t […]
In context: As robotics and artificial intelligence advances, certain jobs become displaced. It’s just the natural progression of things. One only has to look at the history of the auto industry to see automation in play. For certain tasks machines are just more efficient than humans. Most of the jobs that get displaced by computers […]
Schools have been removing bathroom doors, posting bathroom monitors, and even closing bathrooms in their struggles to handle the surging popularity of vaping among middle school and high school students. That has translated into steady business for a U.S. company offering AI-assisted school surveillance capable of alerting teachers and administrators to suspected vaping or bullying […]
With nearly 9 out of 10 organizations predicted to use multiple cloud services by 2021, the cloud would appear to have relegated all other forms of data computing and storage to the sidelines. According to Gartner, Inc., the cloud marketplace alone will reach $260.2 billion in market value by the end of 2018 as organizations […]
Chatbots have largely been a disappointing development up to now in the world of artificial intelligence applications, with too many mistakes made when the AI fails to address a user’s actual intent. But in the world of enterprise apps, there remain some interesting, adjacent opportunities: for example, where AI may not be used to underpin […]
The analysts at Wells Fargo said they now give the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile a 70% chance of happening, a figure up from 60% previously. “Our recent [Washington] DC checks make us more confident that the S-TMUS merger will be approved,” the analysts wrote in a note to investors this week. “Our checks […]
Once upon a time, IBM stood for International Business Machines, but the company hasn’t made any machines in years. Since it got rid of its hardware divisions, it’s been focusing on selling two things to business customers: software and services. Today, IBM took another big step in that direction: Big Blue’s spending $34 billion to […]
After months of work, a set of guidelines designed to protect humanity from a range of threats posed by artificial intelligence have been proposed. Now, a privacy group wants the U.S. government to adopt them too. The set of 12 universal guidelines revealed at a meeting in Brussels last week are designed to “inform and improve […]
