MIT researchers’ new artificial intelligence risk database could prompt companies to overhaul their AI strategies, potentially slowing adoption but enhancing safety in an era of rapid AI proliferation. The comprehensive “AI Risk Repository,” developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s FutureTech Group, catalogs 777 potential AI...
Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai...
The British government is investing £370 million (about $446 million) to support “future industries.” The new Science and Technology Framework provides government funding to improve infrastructure, investment and skills needed for growing technologies ranging from quantum and supercomputing to artificial intelligence (AI), the Department for...
Depending on who ask and how you ask it, consumers are either feeling a bit more confident about the economy as the fourth quarter gets underway, or they’re not. Not to be flip, but with so many personal factors impacting their financial state of mind,...
March 09, 2020
To ferret out crime, follow the money; to put a stop to crime, stop the money from getting to the bad guys in the first place. That’s easier said than done, perhaps, in the digital age, where money flows digitally, increasingly in real time. To that end, PayPal said last month that it would team […]
January 03, 2020
Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could...
April 18, 2024
Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai said in the note that this move will “scale our […]
March 06, 2023
The British government is investing £370 million (about $446 million) to support “future industries.” The new Science and Technology Framework provides government funding to improve infrastructure, investment and skills needed...
May 12, 2020
California-based Baidu Research is leveraging its technology to work on a COVID-19 vaccine, widely regarded as the linchpin to returning the world economy to a normal state. The LinearDesign algorithm,...
November 28, 2019
India’s Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) has announced that the government is drafting a national framework to expand the deployment of blockchain use cases. “Ministry of Electronics...
