How mobility data could help governments track lockdown compliance
Google releases AI tool for processing Paycheck Protection Program loans
Canalys: Cloud spending hit record $31 billion in Q1 2020, but growth continues to slow
Google and Facebook: Digital ad market is avoiding coronavirus disaster
Google open-sources AI that searches tables to answer natural language questions
OpenAI’s Jukebox AI produces music in any style from scratch — complete with lyrics
Microsoft rebrands Visual Studio Online as Visual Studio Codespaces, cuts pricing by over 60%
Google’s AI can adjust voice emotion, pitch, and speed with 30 minutes of data
Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions
LinkedIn’s AI gives job candidates feedback on their interview answers
Duolingo’s AI drives its English proficiency tests
Google Duplex now speaks Spanish, starts calling businesses in Spain to update hours
Google open-sources faster, more efficient TensorFlow runtime
Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta with coronavirus exposure notification (Updated: Google too)
Twitter’s new data stream lets researchers and developers study real-time coronavirus conversations
AI models suggest that masks can ‘significantly’ reduce spread of coronavirus
Amazon bought cameras from Chinese company on U.S. blacklist to screen for coronavirus
Facebook open-sources Blender, a chatbot people say ‘feels more human’
Researchers propose ways to apply AI to agriculture and conservation
Current Health partners with the Mayo Clinic for remote coronavirus patient monitoring
Salesforce’s AI Economist taps reinforcement learning to generate optimal tax policies
Yandex deploys autonomous delivery robots in Moscow’s Skolkovo district
Rapid7 acquires cloud infrastructure automation platform DivvyCloud for $145 million
Yoshua Bengio: Attention is a core ingredient of ‘conscious’ AI
The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic
MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore
BrainBox raises $8.59 million to optimize HVAC systems with AI
How to watch GamesBeat Summit 2020
DJI’s Mavic Air 2 has a flight time of 34 minutes
Companies equip cameras with AI to track social distancing and mask-wearing
Researchers release data set to evaluate COVID-19 chatbots and search engines
Amazon’s AI uses a microphone array to localize multiple speakers in a room
Codota raises $12 million for AI that suggests and autocompletes code
GV joins $50 million round in Rome Therapeutics to research ‘junk DNA’ for cancer therapies
Australia launches controversial coronavirus contact tracing app
AI Weekly: AI models illustrate the importance of continued social distancing
Facebook launches Messenger Rooms, group calls for up to 50 people with no time limit
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