Tencent Unveils Plans For Artificial Intelligence, Integration With Industries
Tencent unveiled a comprehensive blueprint for the development of its Artificial Intelligence technologies at the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Tencent introduced a white paper, “Tencent AI: Ambient Intelligence”, and announced the launch of the Light 2.0 Program and four new platforms including an AI pan-entertainment platform, an AI console for broadcasting …
Tools For Language Access During COVID-19
Translation services make it easier to communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language, whether you’re traveling abroad or living in a new country. But in the context of a global pandemic, government and health officials urgently need to deliver vital information to their communities, and every member of the community needs access to …
IBM To Acquire WDG Automation To Advance AI-Infused Automation Capabilities For Enterprises
IBM announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Brazilian software provider of robotic process automation (RPA) WDG Soluções Em Sistemas E Automação De Processos LTDA (referred to as “WDG Automation” throughout). The acquisition further advances IBM’s comprehensive AI-infused automation capabilities, spanning business processes to IT operations. Financial terms were not disclosed. In today’s …
Dynatrace Expands AI-powered Observability For Kubernetes Environments
Software intelligence company Dynatrace, today announced it has extended its Software Intelligence Platform to provide AI-powered observability into the infrastructure layer of Kubernetes environments to include every container, pod, node, and cluster. This is the latest enhancement to Dynatrace®, which already provides automatic distributed tracing and deep code-level insights into applications and microservices running in Kubernetes. …
Advancing Azure Service Quality With Artificial Intelligence: AIOps
“In the era of big data, insights collected from cloud services running at the scale of Azure quickly exceed the attention span of humans. It’s critical to identify the right steps to maintain the highest possible quality of service based on the large volume of data collected. In applying this to Azure, we envision infusing …
Anaconda and IBM Watson Team To Simplify Enterprise Adoption Of AI Open-Source Technologies
Anaconda, Inc., provider of the leading Python data science platform, and IBM Watson (IBM) announced a new collaboration to help simplify enterprise adoption of AI open-source technologies. By working together, the two companies plan to help fuel innovation and address the AI and data science skills gap that many enterprises face today. Today, we see …
Reopening The Economy: How AI Is Providing Guidance
As communities take various measures to reopen for business while reducing the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks, navigating the recovery is daunting. It’s a historic juggling of public health considerations with the need to revive the economy. Business and community leaders are struggling to pilot through a dense fog. Using AI-powered health and economic data, …
Dell Technologies Shifts AI Adoption Into The Fast Lane With Simplified Advanced Computing
Dell Technologies is the first IT company to embrace innovation that helps businesses run powerful artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in VMware environments. Designed to make AI easier to deploy and consume, new Dell EMC Ready Solutions based on VMware Cloud Foundation help companies gain AI insights with the combination of Dell EMC systems and new …
Giving Soft Robots Senses
One of the hottest topics in robotics is the field of soft robots, which utilizes squishy and flexible materials rather than traditional rigid materials. But soft robots have been limited due to their lack of good sensing. A good robotic gripper needs to feel what it is touching (tactile sensing), and it needs to sense …
Stanford Researchers Harness Satellite Imagery And AI To Help Fight Poverty In Africa
In combating poverty, like any fight, it’s good to know the locations of your targets. That’s why Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across Africa. The powerful tool they’ve developed combines free, publicly …