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Walmart cancels inventory-tracking robots
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Ambarella launches computer vision chips for edge AI
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New benchmark measures gender bias in speech translation systems
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RPA startup FortressIQ raises $30 million
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Hailo partners with Foxconn to build edge device for AI inference
Groove raises $12 million to automate sales enablement
Symend raises $52 million to remediate consumer debt with data science
DJI debuts new enterprise drone and cameras
Dtex raises $17.5 million to detect cyberthreats with AI while preserving privacy
Smart device maker Wink demands customers pay up or lose features
Facebook’s AI ‘learns how to learn’ to transport payloads using a drone
Facebook cancels its 2020-2021 AI Residency program due to coronavirus
How Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD are putting AI ethics principles into practice
Runa Capital raises $157 million to back AI and deep tech startups
Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text
Ring’s new $99 Video Doorbell takes snapshots throughout the day
Health care at ICLR: AI tackles poor data, low resources, and black boxes
Luminar will supply lidar for Volvo’s driverless vehicle platform
Covariant raises $40 million to bring robots to low-tech industries
Emtrain raises $10 million to prevent workplace harassment with data analytics
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Before Intel’s $900 million bid, Moovit wanted to raise more money — then the pandemic hit
Epitopes.world taps AI to predict COVID-19 vaccine success
Microsoft Research’s VROOM combines life-sized AR avatars with robots
OpenAI begins publicly tracking AI model efficiency
Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh develop low-cost, modular ICU ventilator
GigaSpaces raises $12 million to accelerate AI workloads with in-memory computing
Omilia raises $20 million for AI customer service chatbots
EU robotics project gives maintenance workers a ‘second pair of hands’
IBM’s Watson AIOps automates IT anomaly detection and remediation
PlotMachines AI system writes long-form stories from outlines
Intel acquires urban mobility startup Moovit for $900 million
Allen Institute’s VeriSci uses AI to fact-check scientific claims
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