AI Runs Into Skepticism From Cybersecurity Experts
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
How effectively AI can be applied to cybersecurity was the subject of some debate at the RSA Security Conference held virtually from May 17-20.
The event featured a virtual...
Autonomous Vehicles Spurring Startups from Voice Assistants to AR
By AI Trends Staff
Innovations in the automotive industry, especially the move to self-driving vehicles, is spurring a bounty of startups intent on seizing their opportunity.
“The automotive industry will see more disruption in the next...
Autonomous Driving, AI System on a Chip, Drug Discovery Firms Among Top Funded
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
The top-funded companies on the recently-released list of top 100 most-promising AI companies to watch from CBInsights, a market intelligence company based in New York, include companies offering autonomous...
Three Finalists Selected in $4.5 Million Watson AI XPrize Competition
By AI Trends Staff
Three finalist companies have been named in the $5 million IBM Watson AI XPrize competition that aims to demonstrate how humans can collaborate using AI technologies to tackle some of the most pressing...
Startup: Mojo Vision Eyes a Future in Smart Contact Lenses
Wearable technology, including smart electronic devices in clothing or implanted in a user’s body, is a rising market first spurred by fitness tracking and more and more now by health concerns. The market is...
Cybersecurity Tools Gaining an Edge from AI
By AI Trends Staff
In 2021, more firms will employ AI to battle cyberattacks, trying to gain an edge in a game of one-upmanship with hackers and attackers. A survey of 20 cybersecurity experts recently surveyed by Forbes showed...
Google Move Into Healthcare Leveraging its AI Getting More Pronounced
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Google is making a more pronounced move into healthcare, leveraging its power to acquire companies and to use AI technology to disrupt the industry.
From an investment point of...
Startup: Truera Raising Money to Get AI Explainability Solution to Market
By AI Trends Staff
In the black box problem in machine learning, data goes in, suggested decisions come out, and how the model arrived at its suggestions may or may not be explainable. This problem...
First Harvest Selects Sea Machines to Launch Autonomous Hybrid Cargo Vessel
By AI Trends Staff
First Harvest Navigation, a marine transportation company that connects family farms to urban and suburban neighborhoods, has selected technology from Sea Machines of Boston to launch a hybrid cargo vessel, believed...
AI Applied to Aquaculture Aims for Improved Efficiency, Healthier Fish
By AI Trends Staff
Fish farmers in Norway are using AI models designed to cut costs and improve the efficiency of their efforts to raise salmon, one of the country’s major exports, thanks to efforts...
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