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Google’s AI Ethics Flap Widens
Google’s AI ethics mess continues to spread, with reports this week that the company is investigating a second AI ethicist for scanning company files in search of examples of ...Full Article
Edge AI Startup Kneron Attracts New Investors
Kneron Inc., the AI startup specializing in “on-device” edge inferencing applications, has raised additional funding in the form of investments by Taiwanese manufacturing powerhouses Foxconn and Winbond. San Diego-based ...Full Article
Red Hat Bolstering Its OpenShift Kubernetes Security with Acquisition of StackRox
Red Hat is bringing deeper security capabilities to its popular Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform through the acquisition of container and Kubernetes security vendor StackRox. The deal is ...Full Article
OpenAI Extends GPT-3 to Combine NLP with Images
A pair of neural networks unleashed by GPT-3 developer OpenAI use text in the form of image captions as a way of generating images, a predictive approach that developers ...Full Article
Proposed Expansion of Facial Recognition Use at U.S. Borders Slammed by ACLU
A proposed expansion in facial recognition technology use by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to screen foreign travelers coming in or out of the United States ...Full Article
Don’t Be Too Quick Trusting That 2020 Data in Your 2021 IT Planning
As companies approach their 2021 business planning after the current tumultuous, pandemic-decimated year, it might be a wise idea to use plenty of care when using 2020 business data ...Full Article
DeepMind, Google’s AI Unit, Reports Big Loss
DeepMind requires deep pockets. Reports surfaced this week that the London-based AI lab acquired in 2014 by Google parent Alphabet for about $600 million lost a staggering $649 million ...Full Article
Nvidia Moves Its Software Closer to Cloud Customers Through an AWS Storefront
Nvidia is making it easier for AWS cloud customers to find and integrate Nvidia software applications into their AI and deep learning projects through an all-new, all-in-one “storefront” in ...Full Article
DARPA Expands Access to Chip IP
The Pentagon’s premiere R&D agency is expanding an initiative designed to provide technology startups with broader access to semiconductor and other intellectual property in hopes of stimulating innovation. The ...Full Article
Improving Chaos Engineering in the Cloud with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
AWS re:Invent 2020—For a long time, it has been serious challenge for IT teams to adequately stress-test cloud applications to find and fix their weaknesses, especially at scale. But ...Full Article
