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AI Pioneers Hopfield, Hinton Win 2024 Nobel Prize for Neural Networks
artificial intelligence // October 08, 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to two pioneers whose work laid the foundation for today’s artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, even as one of the recipients has become a vocal critic of the technology’s potential dangers. The...

MIT’s AI Risk Database May Prompt Business to Change Processes
artificial intelligence // August 15, 2024

MIT researchers’ new artificial intelligence risk database could prompt companies to overhaul their AI strategies, potentially slowing adoption but enhancing safety in an era of rapid AI proliferation. The comprehensive “AI Risk Repository,” developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s FutureTech Group, catalogs 777 potential AI...

Google Consolidates AI-Building Teams Across Research and DeepMind
Google // April 18, 2024

Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind.  All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai...

British Government Investing $446 Million to Support ‘Future Industries’
Technology // March 06, 2023

The British government is investing £370 million (about $446 million) to support “future industries.” The new Science and Technology Framework provides government funding to improve infrastructure, investment and skills needed for growing technologies ranging from quantum and supercomputing to artificial intelligence (AI), the Department for...

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PayPal On Bringing Data Firepower To Bust Illegal Gun Trafficking

March 09, 2020
To ferret out crime, follow the money; to put a stop to crime, stop the money from getting to the bad guys in the first place. That’s easier said than done, perhaps, in the digital age, where money flows digitally, increasingly in real time. To that end, PayPal said last month that it would team […]

When Social Networks Become ‘Diversity-Aware’ Research Platforms

January 03, 2020
Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could...

Quick Reads
Google Consolidates AI-Building Teams Across Research and DeepMind

April 18, 2024
Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind.  All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai said in the note that this move will “scale our […]

British Government Investing $446 Million to Support ‘Future Industries’

March 06, 2023
The British government is investing £370 million (about $446 million) to support “future industries.” The new Science and Technology Framework provides government funding to improve infrastructure, investment and skills needed...

Baidu Offers High-Tech Route To Fighting Virus, Restarting Economy

May 12, 2020
California-based Baidu Research is leveraging its technology to work on a COVID-19 vaccine, widely regarded as the linchpin to returning the world economy to a normal state. The LinearDesign algorithm,...

Indian Gov’t Drafts Plan For National Blockchain Applications

November 28, 2019
India’s Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) has announced that the government is drafting a national framework to expand the deployment of blockchain use cases. “Ministry of Electronics...