Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts
Column Nope, COVID-19 is not a catch-all excuse for backdoor deals
01 Mar 2021 | 67
AI + ML
GPUs for gaming, data-center servers continue to drive up Nvidia's revenues despite chip shortages everywhere
CEO Jensen Huang admitted his wunder-biz is 'constrained'
25 Feb 2021 | 5
Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir
Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party
24 Feb 2021 | 14
DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is
Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning
23 Feb 2021 | 5
I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted
In brief Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more
22 Feb 2021 | 30
Google calls in Women in Technology Hall of Famer to lead new Responsible AI group amid internal strife
Move follows ousting of ethics expert Timnit Gebru
19 Feb 2021 | 11
FortressIQ just comes out and says it: To really understand business processes, feed your staff's screen activity to an AI
Everything will be anonymised, promises vendor
18 Feb 2021 | 12
Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections
Next up: Clinical trials to test the code's suggestions
17 Feb 2021 | 12
Science of Love app turns to hate for machine-learning startup in Korea after careless whispers of data
In Brief Plus: Dodgy-looking AI coding bootcamp and a murderous conversation with OpenAI's GPT-3?
15 Feb 2021 | 13
Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan
Oodkind look even more terryfing
12 Feb 2021 | 53
Manhunt: 'Armed and dangerous' MIT AI scientist sought by cops probing grad student's gun murder
Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée
12 Feb 2021 | 11
Harmed by a decision made by a poorly trained AI? You should be able to sue for damages, says law prof
Let a thousand torts bloom
09 Feb 2021 | 31
SoftBank likens itself to a goose laying 'golden eggs' as Vision Fund boasts best results since 2017
What would that make WeWork then?
08 Feb 2021 | 4
Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
Plus: Check if your Flickr photos are in facial recognition engines and and the list of NSFW words for AI
08 Feb 2021 | 32
Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why
+Comment Another day in the world of the Bezos-built worker's panopticon
04 Feb 2021 | 37
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech
Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties
04 Feb 2021 | 18
AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias
With top research talent focused on commercial machine-learning goals, where do we go from here?
04 Feb 2021 | 19
Time to start taking machine-learning security seriously, Microsoft boffin insists
Enigma Forget academic adversarial attacks and imagine if ML were the weakest link in the chain
03 Feb 2021 | 3
AI-generated pixelated photo of AOC in a bikini pulled from paper highlighting danger of AI-generated pics
In brief Plus: Dead pop star brought back to life by ML, OECD develops effort to monitor AI power
01 Feb 2021 | 21
Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods
Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise
27 Jan 2021 | 33
AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
The cosmic ballet goes on
26 Jan 2021 | 30
Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
In Brief Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars
25 Jan 2021 | 51
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
Boffins develop improved image poisoning technique to preserve privacy
21 Jan 2021 | 20
Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president
As recommended by Peter Thiel
20 Jan 2021 | 131
US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends
In brief Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature
18 Jan 2021 | 30
Want to let an AI-powered doctor loose on patients? Try slapping a food-label-like sticker on it, says Uncle Sam
Action plan to regulate machine-learning software in 2021 revealed
13 Jan 2021 | 7
Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms
Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission
13 Jan 2021 | 21
Study: AI designed to detect diabetic eye disease blinks in the real world, makes more work for doctors
Some software errs on the side of caution too often, it is claimed
12 Jan 2021 | 24
Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill
In brief Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup
11 Jan 2021 | 61
UK's AI fairy tale sets out on its yellow-brick roadmap
But what Faculty lies behind the plans for adoption and economic expansion?
08 Jan 2021 | 20
OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description
Human art will still, erm, probably prevail
07 Jan 2021 | 17
You can be my wingbot any time – US military successfully runs AI system on spy plane
Plus: Video of drone swarm formation flying through a forest
20 Dec 2020 | 27
Search history can calculate better credit ratings than pay slips, says International Monetary Fund
And that’s not entirely terrifying, because plenty of people have good credit but struggle to prove it
18 Dec 2020 | 69
Alibaba admits it built facial-recognition-as-a-service to detect oppressed Uyghur minority in China
Repudiates the work, says it was never used by a customer. Which is just what Huawei said
18 Dec 2020 | 12
There's nothing AI and automation can't solve – except bias and inequality in the workplace, says report
RoTM Nope, it just makes them worse
15 Dec 2020 | 12
Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt
In brief Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher
12 Dec 2020 | 14
