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How Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD are putting AI ethics principles into practice

Covariant raises $40 million to bring robots to low-tech industries

Microsoft Research’s VROOM combines life-sized AR avatars with robots

Apple and Google prohibit location tracking in new contact tracing guidelines

UC Berkeley researchers open-source RAD to improve any reinforcement learning algorithm

AI Weekly: Animal Crossing, ICLR, and the future of research conferences online

PwC’s workplace contact tracing app won’t share info with public health officials

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Nvidia apologizes and removes ‘Did it work’ meme tweet

Facebook apps now used monthly by more than 3 billion people

Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’

MIT researchers release Clevrer to advance visual reasoning and neurosymbolic AI

Pixel Buds with hands-free Google Assistant go on sale for $179

Apple and Google build more privacy and flexibility into Bluetooth contact tracing tech

Workplace from Facebook now lets employees draft posts for executives

Robots, AI, and the road to a fully autonomous construction industry

StereoSet measures racism, sexism, and other forms of bias in AI language models

Nvidia launches Project MONAI AI framework for health care research in alpha

Facebook partners with AWS on PyTorch 1.5 upgrades, like TorchServe for model serving

AI Weekly: When to ship or shelve a coronavirus solution

AI researchers propose ‘bias bounties’ to put ethics principles into practice

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MindsDB raises $3 million for open source automated machine learning

Clova AI Research uses unsupervised learning to deliver state-of-the-art image style transfers

Health care organizations use Nvidia’s Clara federated learning to improve mammogram analysis AI

OpenAI launches Microscope to visualize the neurons in popular machine learning models

Researchers challenge AI to give advice as well as humans on Reddit can

What privacy-preserving coronavirus tracing apps need to succeed

Apple and Google partner on Bluetooth interoperability for COVID-19 tracing apps

MIT announces Bluetooth breakthrough in coronavirus-tracing app for Android and iOS

Google Cloud launches coronavirus response program with Contact Center AI

Facial recognition is no match for face masks, but things are changing fast

Node raises $6 million to help businesses without AI expertise launch projects

Tech leaders highlight military AI and 5G investments they call essential to U.S economy and national security

Surveillance, AI, and saving lives top agenda at coronavirus conference

Slack launches Zoom and Microsoft Teams Calls integrations

Algorithmic Justice League protests bias in voice AI and media coverage

Folding@home crowdsourced computing project passes 1 million downloads amid coronavirus research

Microsoft’s AI-powered Editor can generate rewrite suggestions
