Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

IRS Ups Its Fight Against Tax Fraud Using Nvidia GPUs, Cloudera Data Platform, Spark 3.0

September 8th, 2021 (0)

As the U.S. Internal Revenue Service processes hundreds of millions of tax returns for individuals and businesses each year, there is much more to the task than just calculating taxes, refunds and balances that are due. Also critical to ...

Overcoming the Challenges of Machine Learning Models

September 6th, 2021 (0)

Organizations are always fighting to operationalize their machine learning models and get them into production to help their businesses. Data scientists build machine learning models, but they are typically unaware of the production aspects of deploying or scoring those ...

FedEx Ground Turns to AI Robotic Arms to Sort Small Packages in Time for the Holiday Rush

September 3rd, 2021 (0)

For the first time, FedEx Ground is using AI-enabled robotic arms in some of its package sorting facilities to increase the number of tougher-to-handle small packages that can be sorted and routed every hour, while also allowing hard-to-find workers ...

IBM Serving Aces to US Open Tennis Fans

September 2nd, 2021 (0)

Using AI, IBM Watson and hybrid cloud, IBM is expanding the real-time data insights available to fans of the US Open Tennis tournament so they can get even deeper, match-by-match details on their favorite players and rounds as the ...

Autonomous Enterprise Accounting Software Vendor Vic.ai Brings in $50M Series B Funding

September 1st, 2021 (0)

Vic.ai, a four-year-old enterprise accounting software company that uses AI to intelligently learn from user inputs and a customer’s historical accounting data, has secured another $50 million in Series B funding from its investors. The latest cash infusion will ...

Nvidia’s Strategy to Put a GPU in Every Server: A Conversation with Manuvir Das

August 31st, 2021 (0)

As the head of enterprise computing for Nvidia, Manuvir Das works with his team daily to help enterprises explore AI technologies and find new ways to use them in their businesses. Das is the GPU maker’s point person and ...

Looking for AI Success? It’s All About the Data

August 30th, 2021 (0)

As the number of industries integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations continues to grow, more organizations are scrutinizing their AI system design workflows, including the roles of modeling and data. Within the workflows, organizations are finding and confirming ...

AI Startups Continue to Rack Up Millions in VC Funding in August 2021

August 26th, 2021 (0)

Usually, August is the time of the hot, uncomfortable dog days of summer, but for a sampling of five AI startups, the last full month of summer has been anything but miserable. Instead, August 2021 has been a busy ...

IBM’s Upcoming Z Series Chip Gains On-Chip AI Acceleration and New Name: Telum

August 22nd, 2021 (0)

In a major refresh of its Z Series chips, IBM is adding on-chip AI acceleration capabilities to allow enterprise customers to perform deep learning inferencing while transactions are taking place to capture business insights and fight fraud in real-time. ...

UK Regulatory Agency Says Proposed $40B Nvidia Deal for Arm ‘Would Lessen Competition’

August 20th, 2021 (0)

Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm has hit a major roadblock after a report from a U.K. regulatory agency criticized the deal, saying it could “lead to a realistic prospect of a substantial lessening of ...