Just in time for All-Star Game, MLB signs AWS as official AI provider

The cloud provider also expanded its cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence partnerships with 21st Century Fox and Epic Games.

By Alex Hickey • July 17, 2018

Salesforce grows marketing footprint with Datorama acquisition

The marketing intelligence and analytics platform will bolster Salesforce's data integration and AI capabilities — areas set for improvement for 2018. 

By Alex Hickey • July 17, 2018

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In search of productivity gains, IT leaders are making automation their top priority. But successful enterprise AI deployments depend on access to the right data sets.

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Can AI match human abstract reasoning capabilities?

Google's DeepMind unit developed an abstract reasoning test for neural networks based on human IQ tests. 

By Alex Hickey • July 13, 2018

Uncle Sam — and AI — need you

Including academia, industry and civil society in the process is important as legislators parse out what to do (or, perhaps more importantly, what not to do) for AI.

By Alex Hickey • July 12, 2018

How to level the playing field between the haves and have nots of AI

The sectors — industry, academia and government — are displacing AI talent and creating an uneven distribution of the technology. 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 11, 2018

PetSmart puts fraudsters in the dog house with AI

The company's fraud detection program saved $12 million last year, helped solve a murder and furthered a human trafficking investigation. 

By Alex Hickey • July 9, 2018

RPA is having a moment: What you need to know about the automation technology

Robotic process automation gained steam in the past few years as vendors worked to automate rote tasks, such as data entry or financial calculations.

By Naomi Eide • July 9, 2018

Industry creating a 'robot reserve army' with influx of automation, economists say

Technology has been a contributor to "modern economic growth" since the Industrial Revolution, but it's been met with "technological anxiety."

By Samantha Schwartz • July 5, 2018

IBM's AI debater doesn't get stage fright

Without having been trained on the topics ahead of time, IBM's system took on two accomplished human debaters in a live setting — and outperformed them. 

By Alex Hickey • June 20, 2018

Zara stocks up on AI, big data, analytics partnerships and investments

The push to incorporate technology is working. Last week, the fashion retailer's parent company, Inditex, posted record Q1 sales. 

By Alex Hickey • June 18, 2018

Why the FCC, EU are convening AI experts

Chairman Ajit Pai is looking to convene a panel of experts to examine the effects of AI and ML on consumers and the communications market. 

By Alex Hickey • June 15, 2018

What's going on underneath your AI?

From hiring to customer service, artificial intelligence rules many domains that once required the delicate human touch. 

By Alex Hickey • June 14, 2018

AI, blockchain top this season's companies to watch hot list

Both domains are surrounded by more hype than meaningful application, but early innovators are setting the standards and roadmap for the technologies.

By Alex Hickey • June 14, 2018

How viable is machine learning for cybersecurity?

Business professionals who have been riding the ML high may be in store for a "hangover" when the trough of disillusionment hits. 

By Alex Hickey • June 5, 2018

TIL how Reddit transformed its data culture and processes

Underneath the company's UX redesign was a shift in data culture and a back-end transition from legacy systems to leverage advanced technologies.

By Alex Hickey • May 23, 2018

Alphabet's investment arm sweetens deal with Google AI, ML expertise

By leveraging Google's AI expertise, CapitalG is trying to gain an edge over other funds competing for investment in promising technology companies.

By Alex Hickey • May 22, 2018

11 technologies set to shape smart manufacturing

Tools like 3D printing and AI have created a paradigm shift in technology and revealed a new world of supply chain efficiencies yet to be unlocked.

By Jordan Branch , Edwin Lopez • May 22, 2018

Microsoft boosts conversational AI with Semantic Machines acquisition

Conversational AI isn't just for customers. The enterprise is heading to a place where workers can have a conversation with a machine.

By Alex Hickey • May 21, 2018

Jeff Bezos: AI will create jobs, not kill them

Amazon's CEO recently sought to calm fears about the future effect robots and artificial intelligence will have on the retail workforce.

By Dan O'Shea • May 15, 2018

3 lessons from Talend Connect to drive technology innovation

With good data, AI and cloud, companies can build out the scalability, agility and compute power for continued digital transformation.

By Alex Hickey • May 15, 2018

Why the role of the CIO Is pivotal in the success of AI implementation

By leveraging new AI and ML tech, CIOs can add self-resolving and predictive capabilities to services they deliver to IT, HR, finance departments and more.

By Steve Stover • May 7, 2018

Why Cisco acquired AI firm Accompany for $270M

As AI M&A activity expands to more specific applications in industry verticals, new opportunities arise for companies like Cisco.

By Alex Hickey • May 2, 2018

UN CIO: Tech companies must take responsibility for new 'species of technology'

Companies can combat unintentional side effects of AI with careful preparation, starting with a focus on programmed biases and the underdeveloped AI workforce.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 1, 2018

Google Assistant outperforms Alexa, Cortana, Siri again

Will the gains in accuracy be the key to introducing more intelligent assistants to business settings?

By Alex Hickey • April 30, 2018

Walmart's courier, blockchain patents dig up data privacy questions

The issue was addressed once across the patents with a note that "user's partiality vectors can be locally stored and utilized ... [to] better comport with a particular user's privacy concerns."

By Alex Hickey • April 24, 2018