

Researchers develop AI that solves a matrix-based visual cognitive test

Researchers show that computer vision algorithms pretrained on ImageNet exhibit multiple, distressing biases

Alphabet’s Project Amber uses AI to try to diagnose depression from brain waves

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New benchmark measures gender bias in speech translation systems

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

GitHub launches Codespaces for browser-based coding

Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text

Ring’s new $99 Video Doorbell takes snapshots throughout the day

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

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

Apple’s virtual WWDC20 will begin on June 22

Google announces Web Vitals, user experience and performance metrics for websites

GigaSpaces raises $12 million to accelerate AI workloads with in-memory computing

Cockroach Labs raises $86.6 million to store enterprise data in multiple locations

Firefox 76 arrives with password management and Zoom improvements

Omilia raises $20 million for AI customer service chatbots

IBM’s Watson AIOps automates IT anomaly detection and remediation

PlotMachines AI system writes long-form stories from outlines

Apple and Google prohibit location tracking in new contact tracing guidelines

Intel acquires urban mobility startup Moovit for $900 million

Allen Institute’s VeriSci uses AI to fact-check scientific claims

Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro adds Magic Keyboard, 10th-gen Intel CPUs

India orders coronavirus tracing app for all public and private sector employees
