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In IBM Executive Shuffle Just Before the July 4th Weekend, IBM President Jim Whitehurst is Out
Jim Whitehurst, the former Delta Air Lines COO who joined Red Hat in January 2008 and led the open source and Linux company as it was acquired by IBM in July of 2019, is now out at IBM. Whitehurst’s departure was one of a series of executive changes made by Big Blue on July 2 (Friday), just before the ... Full article
With ‘Dojo’ in the Future, Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
Tesla first made a cryptic reference to it's project Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing, in 2019. Later, in the summer of 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “Tesla is developing a training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data. It’s a beast! … A truly useful exaflop at de ... Full article
AI Career Notes: June 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Sam Alkharrat, Ed Cardon, and Tod Weber C3 AI, an enterprise AI software provider, welcomed three new executives to its leadership team. Sam Alkharrat joined C3 AI as its president and chief revenue ... Full article
AI Technology Leaders Often Lack Needed AI Ethics Understanding, Study Finds
If you are an AI technology leader and you often don't have answers on how AI makes decisions within your company's operations, you are not alone. Nearly two-thirds of C-level AI leaders can’t explain how specific AI model decisions or predictions are made, according to a new survey on AI ethics by credit report and analytics software vendor, FICO, ... Full article
For First Time, Microsoft Integrating GPT-3 Into Its Software
MICROSOFT BUILD 2021 – Eight months after licensing the GPT-3 natural language AI model from OpenAI last September, Microsoft is integrating the language generator into its Microsoft Power Apps software to make it easier for enterprise workers to build no-code applications. The news, which was announced May 25 (Tuesday) at the virtual Microsoft Build 2021 conference, marks the first ... Full article
AI Career Notes: May 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Mike Adler N-able (formerly SolarWinds MSP) appointed Mike Adler as its chief technology and product officer. Adler will be responsible for leading the N-able global technology and product organizations. He has held executive ... Full article
NSF, Partners Form ‘RINGS,’ a New Initiative to Catalyze Next-Gen Computing and Networking
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing a new public-private partnership aimed squarely at the development of next-generation technologies: the Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) program. RINGS will focus on accelerating research in the areas of wireless and mobile communication, networking, sensing, computing systems and global-scale services. “ systems are future versions of today’s cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite ... Full article
How AI Could Help Predict Destructive Wildfires
AI is already being used in early testing to detect the first glimmers of deadly wildfires in California, which each year destroy billions of dollars in property, kill innocent victims in their wake and leave communities devastated. But although wildfire detection is a start, it still doesn’t go far enough, says AI expert and futurist Neil Sahota. Instead, what ... Full article
AI Career Notes: April 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Pascal Bornet Aera Technology, a cognitive automation company, appointed Pascal Bornet as its chief data officer. Bornet brings over 20 years of experience, including founding the artificial intelligence and automation practices for McKinsey ... Full article
Deep Learning Being Used to Detect Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
The rise of precision medicine is being augmented by greater use of deep learning technologies that provide predictive analytics for earlier diagnosis of a range of debilitating diseases. The latest example comes from researchers at Michigan-based Beaumont Health who used deep learning to analyze genomic DNA. The resulting simple blood test could be used to detect earlier onset of ... Full article
Israeli AI Startup Razor Labs Bypasses VC Route, Instead Going Public on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
AI startups based in Israel have had little difficulty raising venture funding. Some are now following the lead of their U.S. counterparts by going public. Among the first is industrial AI specialist Razor Labs, which also raised $36 million while launching an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating with the ticker symbol TASE: RZR. It ... Full article
Training the Untrained Eye with AI to Classify Fine Art
Beauty, it is said, resides in the eye of the beholder. What if that beholder is a machine learning model being trained to describe and classify fine works of art? That’s what AI researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in China are attempting to find out by comparing the ability of different models trained on a growing list of ... Full article
LogicPlum Upgrades its Enterprise AI Platform for Times-Series Predictions and More
As barriers to entry are lowered, more companies are looking for ways to accelerate deployment and scaling of machine learning models. That is creating demand for MLOps tools and plug-play models used to accelerate data preparation and model creation. To fill those needs enterprise AI platform vendor LogicPlum Inc. has unveiled an updated platform that automates development of time-series, ... Full article
Here’s An AI-Powered, Voice-Activated Backpack That Aims to Help Visually-Impaired People ‘See’
An open-source AI initiative has come up with a prototype system in the form of a voice-activated backpack that promises to help the visually impaired perceive and navigate their surroundings. The project, which is sponsored by Intel Corp., draws not only on AI hardware and software but also on open-source development kits and critical input from potential users. Those ... Full article
Harqen.AI Helping Healthcare Sector and Grad Schools Screen for the Best Job, College Applicants
Choosing candidates to hire or admit to a competitive university graduate program can often be a subjective exercise. Resumes, recommendations and test scores aside, evaluators often act upon gut instinct. Given that reality, the evaluation technology company Harqen.AI is rolling out an AI-enabled automation service which the company says makes better decisions about hiring and college admissions than humans. ... Full article
Arteria AI Closes $11M Series A Round to Scale its Contract Management Technology
AI developers have been steadily segmenting the booming financial services technology sector with new tools aimed at automating business processes. Among the latest examples are fintech startups applying AI to the drafting and analysis of business contracts, a software service known as contract lifecycle management (CLM). A recent entry, Toronto-based Arteria AI Inc., announced an early funding round this ... Full article
California’s Sonoma County Adds AI to Wildfire Alert Network to Detect Destructive Blazes
California continues to prepare for another round of wildfires by deploying AI-based early-warning systems designed to spot outbreaks before they become infernos. Sonoma County is the latest to adopt AI technology in the Golden State’s ongoing efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of deadly wildfires that have previously scorched entire towns. County officials announced this week they have ... Full article
Healthcare Investors Target Enterprise Analytics, AI-Based Care Coordination
The uneven application of AI technology within the healthcare sector appears to be smoothing out as investors increasingly target analytics and AI-based systems for applications like coordinated patient care. Those applications could soon join established AI-based use cases such as medical imaging as market drivers, analysts say. A pair of funding announcements this week underscore how machine learning-based analytics ... Full article
Torch.AI Secures $30M Series A Funding Round to Expand its Nexus AI Platform
Torch.AI, the profitable startup applying machine learning to analyze data “in-flight” via its proprietary synaptic mesh technology, announced its first funding round along with expansion plans. The Series A round garnered $30 million, and was led by San Francisco-based WestCap Group. As its customer base expands, Torch.AI said Wednesday (March 17) it would use the funds to scale its ... Full article
Noogata Secures $12M Seed Funding Round for its No-Code Enterprise AI Platform
The combination of AI and no-code software development platforms are accelerating efforts to scale enterprise applications, including data collection, modeling and analysis. Those are among the goals of Noogata, a no-code AI startup targeting enterprise data analytics tools that can be built by non-programmers. The two-year-old startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel, announced a $12 million seed funding round ... Full article

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