How AI is changing chips

Companies like Google and Microsoft are working on AI chips, and legacy chip makers don't want to be left behind

By Justine Brown • July 26, 2017

Three Square Market plans to microchip about 50 employees

The microchip will enable employees to do things like make purchases, unlock doors or share business cards.

By Justine Brown • July 26, 2017

IBM launches IoT security testing service

The Watson-enabled security service was announced but how are organizations using it?

By Justine Brown • July 25, 2017

Google AI leader: AI must include human intelligence

Demis Hassabis says improving AI will require better understanding of how the brain works.

By Justine Brown • July 24, 2017

Intel reduces developer hurdles, serves up AI on a stick

The goal of the device is to commoditize AI and make it easier for product developers, researchers, makers and hardware hobbyists to use the technology.

By Justine Brown • July 21, 2017

Frustrated with a chatbot? IBM feature allows recognition of tone

The service detects communication tones in conversations to indicate frustration, satisfaction, excitement, politeness, impoliteness, sadness and sympathy.

By Justine Brown • July 20, 2017

Study: 90% of employees, business leaders say AI could cut down on mistakes

Business leaders said that 10% to 40% of their time is spent doing mundane tasks that aren't core functions in their job description.

By Valerie Bolden-Barrett • July 18, 2017

IBM, Automation Anywhere want to automate rote, data-intensive tasks

The collaboration is intended help companies improve processes and free employees to focus on more creative aspects of their jobs.

By Justine Brown • July 14, 2017

IBM Watson takes on IT services

The new platform can provide IT staff with critical information to help them make faster, data-driven decisions.

By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017

Microsoft shares details on its AI lab

With an eye towards faster AI integration, the research and incubation hub is taking on the more challenging issues standing in the way of product and service advances. 

By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017

SAP's Leonardo aims to help companies manage collected IoT data

The tool could be an asset for companies attempting to track information in real time. For example, manufacturing companies could use it to help predict machine break-downs. 

By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017

Walmart wants to create the store of the future using machine learning

The retail giant has brick and mortar and virtual shopping operations, and can use tech to combine data from both for a more powerful user experience.  

By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017

Google looks to redesign the ways people interact with AI systems

The company's researchers want to figure out how and where to best use AI from a human standpoint.

By Justine Brown • July 11, 2017

The Big Brother you want: Finding the data privacy sweet spot

When it comes to personal data and privacy, businesses, policy makers and consumers are still trying to find the sweet spot, where all parties feel like the right balance between data privacy and data innovation is struck.

By Steven Hillion • July 11, 2017

IBM: 50% of global CEOs plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019

Respondents indicated their first priorities for cognitive computing are IT, sales, information security and innovation.

By Justine Brown • July 10, 2017

What's the global value of AI? $15.7 trillion by 2030, PwC says

Productivity improvements are expected to account for about 50% of those gains. 

By Justine Brown • July 7, 2017

Big Data — What you need to know

The advent of cloud computing and increased storage capacity made bulk data collection possible, but now organizations are trying to figure out how to use it.

By Naomi Eide • July 7, 2017

Alexa, how are we performing? Adobe brings analytics to virtual assistants

As part of the Adobe Analytics Cloud, companies can analyze voice data across all major digital assistant platforms.

By Naomi Eide • July 5, 2017

Saved by the cell? Quick service restaurants are looking to dial-in loyalty via mobile

At a time when it is increasingly difficult to convince consumers to devote smartphone real estate to apps, quick-service restaurants are investing in them, opening a new portal for businesses.

By Mary Catherine O'Connor • July 5, 2017

Medicaid, genomics and ATMs: 3 examples of Big Data in action

Institutions like the Smithsonian and the federal Medicaid program are tapping into data to create insight and better understand their work. 

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

Digital hoarding: Big Data by the numbers

Here are 10 numbers that put into perspective just how promising, and potentially challenging, the market will become. 

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

The rise of Big Data: Why companies are amassing information to drive insight

The payoff is in leveraging relationships from an array of data sets living across disparate systems. How did the enterprise get here?

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

Big Data obstacles — and best practices to overcome them

Experts often highlight the benefits of companies employing Big Data. But to take full advantage of collected data, companies have some obstacles to avoid. 

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017

5 trends driving Big Data in 2017

How companies are using data is changing, marking the advancement of tools and the executive buy-in for forecasting more parts of the business.

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017

AI and high-tech sequencing take on food safety

A consortium led by IBM is using AI to help identify food hazards in the global milk supply. 

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017