waymo Waymo Releases Massive Open Dataset to Advance Self-Driving Research Waymo launches the Waymo Open Dataset, offering researchers free access to high-resolution sensor data collected across 1,000 driving segments. This diverse dataset aims to accelerate machine learning innovations in autonomous vehicle perception and prediction.
google Google's Hate Speech Algorithm Shows Racial Bias Against Black Users Research reveals that AI hate speech detection tools, including Google's Perspective, disproportionately flag tweets from African-American authors as offensive. This bias highlights the significant risk of silencing minority voices if tech companies rely too heavily on automated content moderation.
preclusio YC Startup Preclusio Tackles GDPR Compliance With Machine Learning Preclusio deploys an on-premises machine learning platform to help companies automatically identify, classify, and monitor sensitive data for privacy regulation compliance.
cybereason Cybereason Secures $200 Million from SoftBank to Expand Cybersecurity Platform Boston-based Cybereason raises $200 million in new funding from SoftBank to scale its machine learning endpoint security platform. The company plans to use the capital to boost global marketing and advance autonomous security research.
scale ai Data Labeling Startup Scale AI Reaches Billion-Dollar Valuation Scale AI secures $100 million in Series C funding to expand its human-powered data labeling services for major tech companies. The round pushes the three-year-old startup past a $1 billion valuation.
miri MIRI Highlights AI Safety Research and Growing Need for Infosec Professionals The Machine Intelligence Research Institute releases a core paper on learned optimization and receives a massive Ethereum donation. Industry leaders also warn of a pressing need for information security experts in AI safety.
virginia Virginia Expands Revenge Porn Ban to Include AI-Generated Deepfakes Virginia officially updates its 2014 revenge porn law to criminalize the malicious distribution of AI-generated deepfakes and other manipulated explicit images. Violators now face up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
microsoft Microsoft Ships $399 Azure Kinect AI Camera to U.S. and China Microsoft's Azure Kinect developer kit, a business-focused sensor packed with depth cameras and microphones, is now shipping to customers. The device serves as an AI gateway for industries like healthcare and robotics.
ai New AI System SpoilerNet Detects Plot Reveals in Reviews Researchers at UC San Diego develop an AI tool called SpoilerNet that identifies spoilers in online reviews with impressive accuracy using data from Goodreads.
venturebeat VentureBeat Transform 2019 Promises Practical Enterprise AI Strategies VentureBeat's Transform 2019 conference in San Francisco brings together 200 speakers to explore practical enterprise AI applications across six critical tracks. The event features a new Conversational AI Summit and highlights key areas like computer vision, IoT, and organizational transformation.
deepfakes Beyond the Dangers: How Deepfake Technology Empowers Digital Creators While the threats posed by deepfake technology demand serious attention, these machine learning tools also offer significant creative benefits. Lower-cost synthetic media platforms give independent creators powerful new ways to produce and translate visual content.
faceapp FaceApp Surges to 30 Million Downloads Amid Rising Privacy Concerns A face-altering mobile app goes viral with 30 million July downloads, but its Russian origins and broad data policies spark user anxiety.
artificial intelligence Algorithmic Intelligence Tricks Us Into Forgetting Its Artificial Nature Linguist Geoff Nunberg explores how modern algorithmic intelligence mimics human behavior so well that people easily forget it is entirely artificial. He warns that this illusion of true understanding carries significant consequences for society.
argo ai Argo AI Pours $15 Million Into Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Vehicle Research Ford-backed Argo AI commits $15 million over five years to establish a dedicated autonomous vehicle research center at Carnegie Mellon University. The partnership focuses on advancing perception and decision-making algorithms for self-driving cars.
google Google Connects Kaggle Data Science Community Directly to BigQuery Google launches a new integration that allows data scientists to query BigQuery directly from Kaggle Kernels without moving data. This connection streamlines machine learning workflows and leverages the collaborative power of the Kaggle community.