Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Friday, June 26, 2026
FPGA chip vendor Xilinx has been busy over the last several years cranking out its Versal AI Core, Versal Premium and Versal Prime chip families to fill customer compute needs in the cloud, data centers, networks and more. Now Xilinx is expanding its reach to the booming edge computing marketplace, unveiling seven new chips in ... Full article
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Sam Alkharrat, Ed Cardon, and Tod Weber C3 AI, an enterprise AI software provider, welcomed three new executives to its leadership team. Sam Alkharrat joined C3 AI as its ... Full article
It has been a busy seven months for AI chip startup Mythic AI. Seven months ago, the company unveiled its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing. Then one month ago Mythic AI announced a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring its chips to mass production and to develop its ... Full article
The following is an adapted chapter from the book, “Real World AI: A Practical Guide for Responsible Machine Learning,” by Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger and Wilson Pang. We all interact with AI almost daily—when we deposit checks through an app, when we talk to Siri and Alexa, when we scroll through our personalized social media feeds. ... Full article
AWS Machine Learning Summit 2021 – If business IT leaders want to use AI and machine learning to help empower and move their enterprises forward, they could not do much better than getting some direct advice from ML pioneer Andrew Ng. That is just what happened June 2 (Wednesday) at the virtual, one-day AWS Machine ... Full article
Nvidia is busy this week at the virtual Computex 2021 Taipei technology show, announcing an expansion of its nascent Nvidia-certified server program, a range of new Nvidia BlueField DPU-equipped server models and the coming availability of its Base Command Platform which will include a subscription option for its DGX SuperPods so customers can give them ... Full article
When it comes time to send humans to the moon again in the future for new explorations, humankind will certainly not send the next astronauts there accompanied by an old-fashioned NASA lunar rover. Of course not. Who wants them driving around in a lunar Model T from the 1970s in a time of Teslas and ... Full article
OpenAI, the research company behind the GPT-3 natural language generator, has unveiled a $100 million AI startup fund that will provide investment money to startups that are driving intriguing AI technologies. The fund, which was announced May 26 (Wednesday) at the Microsoft Build virtual developers conference, includes investment money from Microsoft, which already has a ... Full article
In December of 2020, consumer electronics giant LG quietly launched an LG AI Research division in South Korea to develop new kinds of AI technologies that can bring increased value and intriguing services to consumer and business customers around the world. LG AI Research was created with $180 million (200 billion Korean won) in funding ... Full article
With demands for AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing expanding daily, IBM is joining an initiative to build a Discovery Accelerator Institute at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana to drive new research and innovations in some of the fastest-growing fields of study. The collaboration also includes the State of Illinois in what is planned ... Full article
If you are an AI technology leader and you often don't have answers on how AI makes decisions within your company's operations, you are not alone. Nearly two-thirds of C-level AI leaders can’t explain how specific AI model decisions or predictions are made, according to a new survey on AI ethics by credit report and ... Full article
MICROSOFT BUILD 2021 – Eight months after licensing the GPT-3 natural language AI model from OpenAI last September, Microsoft is integrating the language generator into its Microsoft Power Apps software to make it easier for enterprise workers to build no-code applications. The news, which was announced May 25 (Tuesday) at the virtual Microsoft Build 2021 ... Full article
Entrepreneurs and investors regularly dismiss claims that artificial intelligence will replace people in the workplace. AI needs humans to function, they say, and AI doesn’t want to take the place of workers. This response rings hollow to critics, however, because the assumption remains that humans become an afterthought once leaders broadly deploy AI within an organization. ... Full article
GOOGLE I/O 2021 – Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at the Google I/O virtual conference this week, but it may have been the most important and awaited news from the event. With the new TPUs, which ... Full article
Google Cloud has been busy over the last few years building a wide range of AI and machine learning tools for developers to help them find real-world uses for AI and ML within their enterprises. But as the tools proliferated, the AI and ML workflows, modeling, experimentation and more began getting complicated. Something was needed ... Full article
With cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. In the latest moves, Toyota has signed on ZF and Mobileye to develop advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for several of its vehicle platforms in the next ... Full article
As Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to build out and test its beta Starlink high-speed, satellite-based internet services, Google Cloud has signed up as a partner to host ground stations within its data centers to link up with the fledgling satellite network. The deal will highlight some of the expertise of both companies – from SpaceX’s ... Full article
Six months after unveiling its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing, Mythic AI has just received a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring the chips to mass production and to develop its next hardware and software products. The new investment round, which was led by led by BlackRock and ... Full article
DataRobot unveiled several enhancements in its automated machine learning platform today, including the introduction of features like composable ML and continuous AI. The company, which is holding a virtual conference today and tomorrow, also bought Zepl, the data science notebook startup founded by the backers of Apache Zepplin. During a session at DataRobot’s AI Experience Worldwide virtual ... Full article
Only three months after emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding, Israeli AI startup NeuReality has revealed plans for its all-new NR1-P novel AI-centric inference platform, which the company claims will provide a 15X improvement in performance per dollar compared to the GPUs and ASICs from other deep learning chip vendors. NeuReality says ... Full article