As the pandemic continues to rage around the world, it’s becoming clear that COVID-19 will endure longer than some health experts initially predicted. Owing in part to slow vaccine rollouts, …
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a privacy-preserving technology that enables computational workloads to be performed directly on encrypted data. HE enables secure remote computation, as cloud service providers can compute on …
Palantir HQ. Picture Alliance/Getty Images Palantir stock surged as much as 25% on Friday to all-time highs of over $32 per share. The jump continues the big data company’s breakneck …
A recent paper from the Center for Applied Data Ethics (CADE) at the University of San Francisco urges AI practitioners to adopt terms from anthropology when reviewing the performance of …
Self-driving car startup Cruise has just gotten a $2 billion infusion from Microsoft, according to a joint statement Tuesday from Cruise, its owner General Motors, and Microsoft. The investment will …
As companies shift more of their operations to the cloud, security is becoming a greater priority even as it becomes potentially more complex. That’s leading to an increase in spending, …
Soci, a platform that helps brick-and-mortar businesses deploy localized marketing campaigns, has raised $80 million in a series D round of funding led by JMI Equity. The raise comes at …
There’s been an explosion in recent years of natural language processing (NLP) datasets aimed at testing various AI capabilities. Many of these datasets have accompanying leaderboards, which provide a means …
Voice-activated AI (VAI) is increasingly ubiquitous, whether in the form of conversational assistants or more generalized personal assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. Researchers to date have studied the …
Swapp, a company that leverages AI for construction planning, today announced that it raised $7 million in venture capital. The company plans to put the funds toward “continued market expansion” …