


AI Index 2019 assesses global AI research, investment, and impact

Microsoft Research’s Lin Xiao earns Test of Time award at NeurIPS

ELLIS launches $220 million initiative to keep AI talent in Europe

Why you can’t just take pictures at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS

Facebook’s Portal now lets you sing on an AR stage

Nvidia trains AI to transform 2D images into 3D models

Facebook’s Hanabi-playing AI achieves state-of-the-art results

Google Assistant can now share photos, search podcasts, and make notes with third-party apps

Microsoft using ‘Game of Drones’ AI racing challenge to improve trustable autonomy systems

Augtera raises $4 million for AI-driven network management

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Alphabet, too

AWS launches major SageMaker upgrades for machine learning model training and testing

Amazon debuts AWS Inf1, an AI inference instance

The Masakhane project wants machine translation and AI to transform Africa

Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others

Facebook confirms facial recognition app, says it was only for internal use

Google employees say they’re being retaliated against to silence dissent

McKinsey survey: AI boosts revenue, but companies struggle to scale use

Alphabet’s trash-sorting robots have reduced office waste contamination to ‘less than 5%’

Buttigieg and Yang say AI is essential to U.S. national security

Celonis raises $290 million for AI-powered process mining at $2.5 billion valuation

Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million

Microsoft for Startups and Nvidia’s Inception team up to accelerate AI startups

Brookings: AI will heavily affect tech and white-collar jobs

Nvidia and Microsoft launch Azure supercomputing instance

AI Weekly: How power and transformative tech reshape our world

GitHub launches Security Lab to protect open source code

Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI hits general availability

Bossa Nova unveils inventory robot for small stores

GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years

GitHub launches iOS app, Android app coming in 2020

Intel launches DevCloud for edge AI prototyping with OpenVINO

Facial recognition regulation is surprisingly bipartisan

AI ethics is all about power

Canada is denying travel visas to AI researchers headed to NeurIPS — again

The U.S. military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech

WhatsApp Business launches Catalogs to let small businesses share products

Nvidia unveils Jetson Xavier NX for edge AI
