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IBM Watson Anywhere Updated to Overcome AI Roadblocks

IBM has announced new features for its Watson Anywhere approach designed to speed AI adoption and scale across any cloud and include multiple data sources.

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Study: Deep Learning Shifting from TensorFlow to PyTorch (Well, Kind Of)

According to The Gradient's 2019 study of machine learning framework trends in deep learning projects, TensorFlow is losing ground to PyTorch -- at least with academics.

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AI Speeds UI Testing in New Parasoft Solution

Development teams get an AI assist with Parasoft Selenic, a user interface UI testing solution based on the open source Selenium automated testing framework. 

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Automated Workload Management Comes to AWS Redshift via Machine Learning

Machine learning is being used to power the automatic management of workloads for the Amazon Redshift data warehouse.

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Google Open Sources Dialog Datasets for AI Assistant

Google has released its Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1 English dialog datasets to open source. The two collections of pairs of people engaged in spoken conversations are now available to developers of AI assistants as training material for modeling natural language.

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Kryon AI Booster Brings Machine Learning to Robotic Process Automation

Kryon, a leading provider of robotic process automation solutions, announced this month the launch of AI Booster, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) services based on Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service to be integrated into the Kryon Automation Suite later this fall.

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IDC: Annual Worldwide Spending on AI Systems to Reach $98 Billion by 2023

An International Data Corporation (IDC) report predicts that worldwide AI spending will grow two-and-a-half times from $37.5 billion to $97.9 billion between 2018 and 2023, a compound annual growth rate of 28.4 percent over the five-year period.

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Huawei Launches Ascend 910 AI Processor and MindSpore Dev Framework

Huawei Technologies has announced the commercial availability of the Ascend 910 chip, the long-awaited AI processor aimed at datacenters and designed to compete with top U.S. chip makers. The company also launched a new AI computing framework, called MindSpore.

2019 C-Suite Survey Illuminates AI Outlook

A recent survey of about 450 global executives and board members reveals that top executives are both excited and concerned about the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on business operations.

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Group Seeks Standards for Homomorphic Encryption

The 2019 Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop aims to develop standards around an advanced data encryption scheme that can revolutionize secure data storage.

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Neural Network Chips Bring Voice Activation to Battery Powered Devices

The universe of voice-enabled devices could be expanding, thanks to recent advances in ultra-low power microcontrollers that use deep learning to recognize common wake words.

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Intel and Lenovo Collaborate to Advance HPC and AI

Chip-maker Intel and leading computer manufacturer Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration to leverage the convergence of high performance computing and artificial intelligence.

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Microsoft Leverages Blockchain for AI Development

The Microsoft Research has taken a step toward "democratizing AI" with a project aimed at developing a new open-source framework that will leverage blockchain technology.

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