Google Maps introduced Gemini artificial intelligence features for its growing user base as HotelPlanner announced its automated voice assistant handles 10,000 daily hotel bookings, and Booking.com launched natural language search across its platform. The three companies added capabilities from location recommendations to automated reservations and...
Visa reportedly uses more than 500 generative artificial intelligence applications and is looking to add more. The company aims to gain the benefits of the technology sooner than others and keep up with the increasingly sophisticated threats the industry faces from fraudsters, The Wall Street...
Silicon Valley’s brightest minds gathered in San Francisco this month to tackle the down-to-earth challenges of artificial intelligence adoption rather than debate robot apocalypse scenarios. The annual TED AI conference signaled a maturing industry ready to confront pressing real-world issues. Leading technologists and researchers presented...
Tech giants’ investments in cloud infrastructure are reportedly paying off due to the demand for artificial intelligence. The momentum of cloud businesses began to slow in early 2022 as companies completed their migration to the cloud, but it has now picked up because companies need...
Major tech companies have spent over $30 billion acquiring artificial intelligence startups while facing mounting antitrust concerns, as states rush to fill the federal regulatory void with nearly 700 AI-related bills introduced in 2024 — an almost 400% increase from 2023. The flurry of activity...
Meta is reportedly creating an artificial intelligence-powered search engine to lower dependence on Google. The tech giant’s web crawler would be able to offer conversational answers to queries about current events on Meta AI, Reuters reported Monday (Oct. 28), citing a paywalled article by The...
Clinical artificial intelligence firm SmarterDX introduced a tool to help hospitals deal with payer denials. SmarterDenials helps hospitals craft stronger appeal letters using the company’s AI to identify evidence more quickly, according to a Monday (Oct. 28) press release. “The stakes are high,” the company...
Companies from corner stores to retail giants are discovering that pocket-sized artificial intelligence (AI) can ring up big savings, as nimble new language models match their hulking predecessors at a fraction of the cost. H2O.ai recently launched small models as just one example of a...
Cisco is betting that artificial intelligence (AI) can handle most customer service calls within a few years, as the tech giant unveiled a conversational AI agent that it claims will eliminate dreaded hold times and frustrating automated phone menus. The move reflects a broader push...
