Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! A week after snatching up startup BoxBoat, IBM today announced another acquisition to expand its portfolio of data, cloud, and analytics services. With Bluetab, IBM aims to further advance its hybrid cloud and AI strategy across Europe, Latin […]
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IBM is acquiring Turbonomic to advance AIOps agenda
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. IBM announced this week that it is acquiring Turbonomic, provider of application resource management (ARM) and network performance management (NPM) software infused with machine learning algorithms. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The […]
IBM proposes AI chip with benchmark-beating power efficiency
IBM claims to have developed one of the world’s first energy-efficient chips for AI inferencing and training built with 7-nanometer technology. In a paper presented at the 2021 International Solid-State Circuits Virtual Conference in early February, a team of researchers at the company detailed a hardware accelerator that supports a range of model types while […]
IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy
Pfizer and IBM researchers claim to have developed a machine learning technique that can predict Alzheimer’s disease years before symptoms develop. By analyzing small samples of language data obtained from clinical verbal tests, the team says their approach achieved 71% accuracy when tested against a group of cognitively healthy people. Alzheimer’s disease begins with vague, […]
IBM enters esports, Team Vitality opens facility in Stade de France | ESI Digest #13
Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. This week on ESI Digest, we cover Team Vitality’s new facility in Stade de […]
IBM enters esports with Overwatch League data and sponsorship deal
Global technology and data services firm IBM has entered into an analytics and sponsorship deal with Overwatch League, which runs through the 2022 season. The deal is IBM’s first foray into esports and kicks off with the company presenting this weekend’s in-progress Overwatch League Grand Finals competition. RELATED: Data startup PandaScore raises €5 million Series A […]
IBM joins NIH effort to diagnose schizophrenia using AI
IBM today announced that, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Stanford University, and the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, it will undertake a new initiative funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to investigate whether AI can be used to better identify people at risk […]
IBM walked away from facial recognition. What about Amazon and Microsoft?
IBM’s choice to end commercial sales of facial recognition may increase pressure on Amazon and Microsoft to halt contracts with law enforcement agencies. Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) founder Joy Buolamwini said she already sees signs pointing in that direction. On Tuesday, the same day George Floyd was laid to rest, news emerged that more than 250 […]
IBM makes AI tools and resources available to coronavirus researchers
IBM today announced the launch of services intended to furnish researchers with resources to fight the novel coronavirus. The company made molecules identified by AI as therapeutic candidates available under an open license, and it introduced a free version of its Functional Genomics Platform to support genome features discovery. Additionally, it provided free access to […]