


Slack launches App Home in general availability

Samsung debuts Galaxy Buds+ with 2-way speakers and longer battery life

How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

White House’s proposed budget would increase investments in AI and quantum computing

Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model

Facebook launches 3D deep learning library for PyTorch

IEEE calls for standards to combat climate change and protect kids in the age of AI

Labelbox raises $25 million to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training

Andrew Yang warns against ‘slaughterbots’ and urges global ban on autonomous weaponry

Google researchers release audit framework to close AI accountability gap

Meena is Google’s attempt at making true conversational AI

Google’s AI powers real-time orca tracking in Vancouver Bay

AI Weekly: Calls for facial recognition moratorium highlight need for protection from surveillance tech

Kneron raises $40 million to grow edge AI chip design operations

CB Insights: AI startup funding hit new high of $26.6 billion in 2019

ServiceNow acquires AI for IT startup Loom Systems

GM’s Cruise rolls out Origin, an autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel

Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT

From Washington State to Washington, D.C., lawmakers rush to regulate facial recognition

World Economic Forum launches toolkit to help corporate boards build AI-first companies

Facebook launches PyTorch 1.4 with mobile customization and Java support

VCs double down on hot Seattle startup scene with $10 million Allen Institute AI Incubator investment

Apple acquires edge AI startup Xnor

Congress moves toward facial recognition regulation

GitHub launches Android app in beta

Facebook releases low-latency online speech recognition framework

Obama-era tech advisors list potential challenges for the White House’s AI principles

Google Assistant passes 500 million users, will get longform reading and deeper smart home integration in 2020

White House urges federal agencies and European allies to avoid overregulation of AI

AI Weekly: Celeste Kidd on how to close the AI research gender gap

Top minds in machine learning predict where AI is going in 2020

Google Health’s AI identifies breast cancer in mammogram imagery with fewer false positives

10 things to try with your new Google Nest smart speaker

10 things to try with your new Amazon Echo speaker

Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI

Skyryse raises $13 million to launch an autonomous helicopter platform

Yann LeCun: AR glasses will be the killer app of energy-efficient machine learning

AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change
