Hazelcast's Jet event stream processing engine for AI and ML deployments of mission-critical apps adds new app dev features to simplify the integration of an event-driven architecture.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 08/12/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches a new managed service designed to make it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 08/05/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Facebook has developed an open-source tool for translating archaic codebases into modern languages. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 08/05/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google announced the availability last week of a new set of tools for creation of Model Cards, which provide a structured framework for machine learning (ML) model transparency. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 08/05/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    OpenAI's GPT-3 neural-network-powered language model gets upgraded with a massive 175 billion training parameters, more than any other language model. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/29/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft expands involvement with Facebook's open-source PyTorch machine learning (ML) library, by taking ownership of the PyTorch build for Windows.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/29/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/29/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    University of Florida and Nvidia plan to build the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer in academia.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/22/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/22/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/15/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    San Francisco-based startup Abacus.AI, founded by former Amazon and Google alums, announced the general availability this week of its autonomous AI service.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 07/15/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.