Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. After a 2019 research paper demonstrated that commercially available facial analysis tools fail to work for women with dark skin, AWS executives went on the attack. Instead of offering up more equitable performance results or allowing the federal government to […]
Blue Dot raises $32M for AI that helps companies comply with tax codes
Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for free or grab a discounted VIP pass today. Tax compliance platform Blue Dot (previously VatBox) today announced it has raised $32 million, bringing its total raised to over $96 million. The firm says it will put the funds toward product R&D and expanding the size of […]
AI Weekly: Here’s how enterprises say they’re deploying AI responsibly
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6Sense, which uses AI to power account engagement, raises $125M
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Account engagement startup 6Sense today announced that it closed a $125 million series D funding round led by Capital Partners, valuing the company at $2.1 billion post-money. 6Sense says that the investment will bolster its growth and product initiatives, particularly […]
AI Weekly: Facebook, Google, and the tension between profits and fairness
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. This week, we learned a lot more about the inner workings of AI fairness and ethics operations at Facebook and Google and how things have gone wrong. On Monday, a Google employee group wrote a letter asking Congress and state […]
Optibus launches new AI platform to help cities plan transit routes
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Real-time transit can be a dilemma for municipalities that lack scalable infrastructure. Tasks like routing, timing, and asset management are tough to optimize without a system for moving the necessary pieces into place. And with the number of heavy-duty transit […]
Ibex raises $38M for AI that diagnoses diseases
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Ibex Medical Analytics, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup developing a product suite for clinical decision-making and pathology laboratory workflows, today announced that it raised $38 million in funding. The global big data analytics market for health care was valued at $16.87 billion […]
Nvidia and Harvard develop AI tool that speeds up genome analysis
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Researchers affiliated with Nvidia and Harvard today detailed AtacWorks, a machine learning toolkit designed to bring down the cost and time needed for rare and single-cell experiments. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the coauthors showed that […]
Building AI for the Global South
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Harm wrought by AI tends to fall most heavily on marginalized communities. In the United States, algorithmic harm may lead to the false arrest of Black men, disproportionately reject female job candidates, or target people who identify as queer. In […]
Pinterest details the AI that powers its content moderation
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Pinterest this morning peeled back the curtains on the AI and machine learning technologies it’s using to combat harmful content on its platform. Leveraging algorithms to automatically detect adult content, hateful activities, medical misinformation, drugs, graphic violence, and more before […]