

Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: Self-supervised learning is the key to human-level intelligence

LinkedIn’s AI generates candidate screening questions from job postings

Opinion
ProBeat: Why surveillance drones may become a staple of daily life

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

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Knowing when to scale your SaaS business in a pandemic — and beyond (VB Live)

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%

Vida Health raises $25 million to treat chronic health conditions remotely

Google’s AI can adjust voice emotion, pitch, and speed with 30 minutes of data

How Draganfly brought a ‘pandemic drone’ to the U.S.

Duolingo’s AI drives its English proficiency tests

Microsoft Teams passes 75 million daily active users

Google Duplex now speaks Spanish, starts calling businesses in Spain to update hours

Google open-sources faster, more efficient TensorFlow runtime

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’

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

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

Google Meet one-ups Zoom with free 60-minute meetings for consumers

Yandex deploys autonomous delivery robots in Moscow’s Skolkovo district

Alphabet reports $41.2 billion in Q1 2020 revenue: Google Cloud up 52%, YouTube up 33%, and Other Bets down 21%

Rapid7 acquires cloud infrastructure automation platform DivvyCloud for $145 million

Market for stolen Zoom credentials is booming

Yoshua Bengio: Attention is a core ingredient of ‘conscious’ AI

MIT researchers release Clevrer to advance visual reasoning and neurosymbolic AI

The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic

MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore

Red Hat: Shift to Kubernetes and microservices is happening faster than expected

BrainBox raises $8.59 million to optimize HVAC systems with AI

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
