mit MIT Commits $1 Billion to Launch New AI-Focused College of Computing MIT announces a historic $1 billion investment to establish a new college dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence and computing across all academic disciplines. The initiative represents the largest financial commitment to AI by any US academic institution.
ai art Inside the Controversy Over Christie's Record-Breaking AI Art Sale Christie's auctions the first AI-generated portrait at a major auction house for $432,500, sparking intense debate over originality and credit. Questions swirl around the French collective Obvious and their use of an open-source algorithm created by another artist.
amazon Amazon Abandons Biased AI Hiring Tool That Favored Men Over Women Amazon scraps an AI recruitment system after discovering it learns to discriminate against female candidates. The incident highlights how biased training data creates flawed algorithms.
amazon Amazon Scraps AI Recruiting Tool After It Learns to Discriminate Against Women Amazon abandons an experimental AI recruiting engine after discovering it automatically penalizes female candidates. The system learns this sexist behavior by training on a decade of male-dominated tech industry resumes.
amazon Amazon Abandons AI Recruiting Tool After Discovering Anti-Woman Bias Amazon scraps a secret AI hiring engine after discovering it systematically penalizes female job applicants. The system learns to prefer male candidates by training on a decade of male-dominated resumes.
pytorch Major Tech Firms Unite to Support PyTorch 1.0 Release Facebook unveils PyTorch 1.0 with backing from cloud giants and hardware makers to streamline the path from AI research to production.
openai OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeat Human Players Using Team Neural Networks OpenAI trains a team of five neural networks to defeat human opponents in the real-time game Dota 2. The system plays 180 years' worth of games daily to prepare for an upcoming esports championship.
microsoft Microsoft Acquires AI Startup Bonsai to Boost Azure Autonomous Systems Microsoft acquires Berkeley-based Bonsai to advance its reinforcement learning capabilities and integrate them into the Azure cloud platform. The deal aims to make artificial intelligence development more accessible to developers of all skill levels.
microsoft Microsoft Acquires AI Startup Bonsai to Boost Cloud Offerings Microsoft purchases Bonsai, a startup specializing in reinforcement learning, to enhance its Azure cloud platform. The acquisition supports Microsoft's ongoing strategy to commercialize artificial intelligence for enterprise customers.
artificial intelligence Major AI Facial Recognition Systems Show Significant Gender and Racial Bias A new MIT and Stanford study reveals that commercial facial-analysis software struggles to accurately identify the gender of dark-skinned women, with error rates reaching nearly 35 percent compared to less than one percent for light-skinned men.
mit MIT and IBM Train AI to Understand Dynamic Video Events The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab develops new methods to teach computers how to recognize and understand actions unfolding over time in videos.
google Google Unveils AI-Powered Android P Beta at I/O 2018 Google introduces the Android P Beta, featuring machine learning at its core to improve battery life and user navigation. The announcement highlights a major shift toward artificial intelligence across Google's ecosystem.
pytorch PyTorch 1.0 Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Production The PyTorch Developer Conference 2018 highlights the release of PyTorch 1.0, which introduces the torch.jit module to streamline the transition of models from research to production environments.
darpa DARPA Launches $2 Billion AI Next Campaign for Contextual Reasoning DARPA announces a $2 billion multi-year investment called AI Next to push artificial intelligence into a third wave focused on contextual adaptation. The campaign aims to transform machines from fragile tools into collaborative problem-solving partners for humans.
darpa DARPA Commits $2 Billion to Advance Third Wave Artificial Intelligence The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to spend $2 billion over five years to develop AI systems that learn and adapt. This massive scientific investment complements the Pentagon's newly established Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.