Alibaba announces super-powered AI chip Alibaba has unveiled its first self-developed artificial intelligence chip, boosting China’s drive towards home-grown AI solutions and superior cloud infrastructure services 112 0 Read More
Amazon unveils Alexa-powered ring and glasses Amazon aim to get Alexa out of the house by unveiling two new wearables, Echo Loop and Echo Frames. 114 0 Read More
Raiders of the lost art: Using AI to uncover the past Many are still yet to be convinced that artificial intelligence can be truly creative. Now, a new neural network is able to reconstruct lost artworks, making a case for AI art and redefining art history 125 0 Read More
Deepfake app Zao goes viral raising new privacy fears A new deepfake-style face-swapping app began trending on social media recently, topping app store charts and becoming an overnight sensation 108 0 Read More
How AI is revolutionising the fight against financial fraud Financial fraud is becoming an epidemic. Businesses are now facing even more sophisticated scams. Can AI be the best line of defence? 128 0 Read More
Amazon’s new technology allows customers to pay by waving Amazon is developing a payment system which works by simply waving your hand, eliminating the need for cash, a smartphone or a credit card when shopping 127 0 Read More
What is Reinforcement Learning and what is it capable of? Insilico Medicine created a drug in just 21 days: what usually takes eight years was reduced to three weeks with reinforcement learning. But how? 118 0 Read More
Could deep learning come to an end? Deep learning is one of the most exciting research fields in technology and the basis of so much AI: could its days really be numbered? 186 0 Read More
SpaceX: Humanity’s future or Elon Musk’s vanity project? Egotistical or exciting? Elon Musk is a headline-maker, for sure. Perhaps that means that some of the technological magic of SpaceX is lost in the media vacuum. 236 0 Read More
Black Mirror tech: how real is the AI in the show? How far away are we from uploading ourselves to the cloud? We asked AI expert Ian Rowan to break down five uses of AI in Netflix’s Black Mirror. 342 0 Read More
Check out the homemade AI shades this software engineer made Software engineer Nick Bild created sunglasses with a difference: these AI shades can react to motion gestures. We spoke to him to find out more about them. 187 0 Read More
How Tractable is revolutionising insurance with AI What if insurance claims could be made based on data drawing from millions of images? Meet Tractable, the AI company reimagining an industry with technology. 509 0 Read More
Facebook is teaching an AI Minecraft Researchers at Facebook are teaching an artificial intelligence to play Minecraft. 158 0 Read More
Elon Musk and Jack Ma met at the World AI Conference and didn’t quite see eye to eye Jack Ma and Elon Musk, two of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century, took to the stage to speak in front of a packed auditorium at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China. 560 1 Read More
Lip-reading CCTV will have a “suppressive effect” on the public Seventy years on from George Orwell’s 1984, an increased number of new CCTV surveillance technologies slip into use unnoticed, prompting calls for greater transparency 161 0 Read More
Monzo: how the bank of the future uses AI Monzo is changing perceptions of financial institutions, one pink card at a time. We speak to their machine learning lead on how AI is transforming banking. 896 0 Read More
Google translates hand gestures to speech with sign language AI Google has announced a new machine learning model for tracking hands and recognising gestures, giving once soundless sign language a voice. 554 0 Read More
LGBTQ+ group sue YouTube for algorithm discrimination YouTube has come under fire from the LGBTQ+ community. They claim that the video-sharing platform’s algorithm is unfairly biased against them. 220 0 Read More
Facebook pays contractors to transcribe users’ audio chats Facebook has claimed that it has paid external human contractors to listen to recordings of users without their knowledge. 585 0 Read More
NHS establishes AI lab to improve healthcare The NHS looks to AI for the future of healthcare, establishing an AI lab with new funding 265 1 Read More