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Image Source : FILE Google's 8th Startups Accelerator India Batch targeting AI and ML startups Google has announced the opening of applications for the eighth batch of its startup accelerator program in India, focused on nurturing startups leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The program, called Google for Startups Accelerator: India, aims…

A lot of big tech companies are betting big on AI. In the last few months, the likes of Meta, Google, Microsoft have all signalled their intentions about AI. Now, Intel is also set to join the AI bandwagon as indicated by the company CEO Pat Gelsinger. According to a report by The Verge, Gelsinger said that he sees AI driving workloads across “the full spectrum of applications.”During the investors’ call, Gelsinger said that Intel is “going to build AI into every product that we build”. He also said that, “whether it's a…

Ifeoma Ozoma was ousted from her role at Pinterest Inc. due to what she said was retaliation for speaking out about pay equity disparities. The experience didn't just cost her a job. She ended up leaving Silicon Valley entirely.For the latest episode of The Circuit With Emily Chang, I interviewed Ozoma on her farm in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Joining us there was Timnit Gebru, a former Google employee who left in 2020 after co-authoring a paper about the dangers of generative artificial intelligence, and Safiya Noble, author…

Transportation is responsible for one quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. While companies have touted electric vehicles and sustainable aviation fuel as ways to cut emissions from air and road travel, reducing the climate impact of rail transport has received relatively little attention. A Canadian startup wants to lessen that impact. Montreal-based RailVision Analytics has developed artificial intelligence-enabled software to help locomotive engineers make small adjustments in train driving that could lead…

Samsung Electronics Co. pledged to keep cutting memory chip production while forecasting a rebound in sales in the second half of the year, as AI demand helps global tech spending climb out of a post-Covid funk.Samsung, which on Thursday reported better-than-expected net income, said artificial intelligence will provide a boost to memory demand before the year's end. Korea's largest company plans to double its capacity to make high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a next-generation technique used to help train AI, by 2024. That…

In May, a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter. It was soon followed by images seeming to show explosions near the White House as well. Experts in mis- and disinformation quickly flagged that the images seemed to have been generated by artificial intelligence, but not before the stock market had started to dip.It was only the latest example of how fake content can have troubling real-world effects. The boom in generative artificial intelligence has meant that tools to create fake images and…

The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week that it could establish a new advantage by harnessing artificial intelligence.“We have the largest fleet of military hardware in the world,” Wang told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technology and Innovation. “If we can properly set up and instrument this data that’s being generated ... then we can create a pretty insurmountable data advantage…

Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow are two celebrity voices available from Speechify on the Artifact app, but there’s another 30 or so voices available including a ‘Dwight”’clone.Photo: Ronald Martinez (Getty Images)On Thursday, the Artifact news app announced it was adding speech-to-text features that will allow users to listen to articles with an AI voice powered by Speechify. The update should be available free for all iOS users, and the feature should be out on Android sometime in the near future.If An AI Reworks…

In the dynamic world of technology, the methods and processes we use to create software have undergone significant transformations. The evolution of software development methodologies is a testament to our continuous pursuit of efficiency, quality, and adaptability.  In the early days, software development was a linear and rigid process, often compared to constructing a building. This approach, known as the Waterfall model, was the first structured software development methodology. However, as the complexity and scale of…

Conversational AI and generative AI have both been growing in adoption and popularity: However, although these tools might often have overlapping functionalities with each other, they are distinct tools that should be differentiated. Given that 60%1 of organizations are concurrently implementing four or more hyperautomation initiatives, business leaders must understand the technologies they are investing in to avoid time and monetary waste. In this article, we will: Explain the top 3 differences between conversational…