Facebook Appoints New Head of AI Research
Facebook has appointed Jérôme Pesenti, a former IBM executive, as the new head of its Facebook AI Research (FAIR) division.…
Microsoft Launches New Machine Learning Tools
Microsoft, just like many of its competitors, has gone all in on machine learning. That emphasis is on full display…
Waymo Demands $2.6 Billion From Uber For One Allegedly Stolen Trade Secret
Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, is demanding $2.6 billion from Uber for the theft of trade secrets.…
SeaDrone: A New Version of the Underwater Drone
SeaDrone, the startup behind the simple, robust, and affordable underwater drone, has released an improved version 2.0 with several key…
iZettle Raises €36 Million From Europe Earmarked for AI and Other New Tech
iZettle, the startup based out of Sweden that competes against the likes of Square and PayPal to provide card transaction…
Facebook and Microsoft Collaborate to Simplify Conversions from PyTorch to Caffe2
Facebook and Microsoft are working together to simplify the conversion of machine learning models between PyTorch and Caffe2 using ONNX,…
Google upgrades its Street View cameras with high-resolution and AI focus
Google is upgrading the cameras used in its fleet of Street View vehicles. These cameras, which are sometimes seen with…
Elon Musk: AI Superiority Race Could Lead to World War 3
Elon Musk, the prolific technologist and entrepreneur, has warned that the race between countries for AI superiority could “likely” be…
8th Wall: Bringing Augmented Reality to More Smartphones
8th Wall, an augmented reality startup, is looking to change how we use our mobile devices by making AR accessible…
Facebook has adopted neural machine translation
Facebook has fully adopted neural machine translation, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to automatically translate…

