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MIT Researchers Leverage Machine Learning for COVID Vaccine Research

Researchers at MIT are developing a new combinatorial machine learning (ML) system that could decrease the research time needed to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and make it more effective.

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Nvidia and University of Florida Collaborate on Super Computer

University of Florida and Nvidia plan to build the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer in academia.

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Microsoft's Project Bonsai Brings Deep Reinforcement Learning to AnyLogic

AnyLogic North America and Microsoft announced a new collaboration this week that will bring the deep reinforcement learning and machine teaching capabilities of Microsoft's Project Bonsai to AnyLogic's simulation modeling software for business applications.

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Amazon and Google Alums Launch Autonomous AI Service

San Francisco-based startup Abacus.AI, founded by former Amazon and Google alums, announced the general availability this week of its autonomous AI service.

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Microsoft Buys Orions Systems, Adds to AI Vision Capabilities in Dynamics 365

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Orions Systems last week to enhance the video AI and management capabilities of its Dynamics 365 Connected Store, an in-store retail optimization solution that uses computer vision and other sensor-based data analysis.

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Microsoft Uncovers Large-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Attack Against Kubernetes Clusters

Kubeflow, an open source machine learning (ML) platform for working with Kubernetes, was the target of a recent cryptocurrency mining attack in which a malicious container was deployed on tens of Kubernetes clusters within two hours.

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MIT, NYU Pull Tiny Images AI Training Dataset Due to Racist, Sexist Labels

Researchers at MIT and NYU took down the widely used "80 Million Tiny Images" dataset created to train machine learning systems because it was found to contain a range of racist, sexist and otherwise offensive image labels.

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AI Suite Alleviates Clinical Strain Due to COVID-19

The increasing demand for millions of chest X-rays (1.44 billion annually by one estimate) brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is straining the resources of radiology departments around the world.

Digital.ai Acquires Numerify for AI Analytics and Experitest for Continuous Quality

Digital.ai has added two more companies: Numerify, an AI analytics solutions firm, and Experitest, a continuous quality provider.

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Microsoft and Udacity Team Up on ML on Azure Training

Udacity collaborates with Microsoft to provide scholarships for new Machine Learning Nanodegree program in Microsoft Azure.

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VMware Powers AI/ML Applications via GPU Sharing

Virtualization kingpin VMware is updating its flagship VMware VSphere 7 offering, providing the ability to provision elastic infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications.

Hazelcast Enhances Its Jet Real-Time Event Streaming Engine for the Edge

In-memory computing platform provider Hazelcast is upping its edge-computing game again in the latest release of its real-time event streaming engine, Hazelcast Jet. In addition to some platform performance improvements, the company has added two new operators to simplify deployments within containers.

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