Machine learning deployment platform OctoML raises $85M

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. OctoML, a platform that helps enterprises optimize and deploy machine learning (ML) models, has raised $85 million in a series C round of funding. While countless companies are dabbling with ways to leverage AI to improve their businesses and bottom line, transitioning AI projects beyond the pilot stage […]

Top 10 Slot Machine Wins of All Time

Slot machines are probably the most popular way of gambling and the easiest ones. There are very few people on the earth that haven’t at least once played slots and found them interesting or appealing. Slot machines, although easy to play, can give back huge sums of money to those who play on them. Believe […]

Apple will focus on machine learning, AI jobs in new NC campus

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Apple on Monday said it will establish a new campus in North Carolina that will house up to 3,000 employees, expand its operations in several other U.S. states and increase its spending targets with U.S. suppliers. Apple said it […]

4 reasons to learn machine learning with JavaScript

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. In the past few years, Python has become the preferred programming language for machine learning and deep learning. Most books and online courses on machine learning and deep learning either feature Python exclusively or along with R. Python has become very popular because […]

Major flaws found in machine learning for COVID-19 diagnosis

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. A coalition of AI researchers and health care professionals in fields like infectious disease, radiology, and ontology have found several common but serious shortcomings with machine learning made for COVID-19 diagnosis or prognosis. After the start of the global pandemic, […]

Machine translation startup Language I/O raises $5M

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Language I/O, a startup providing AI technologies for real-time, company-specific language translations, today announced that it raised $5 million. The company says it plans to put the funding toward customer acquisition as it expands the size of its workforce. In […]

Why machine learning struggles with causality

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. When you look at a baseball player hitting the ball, you can make inferences about causal relations between different elements. For instance, you can see the bat and the baseball player’s arm moving in unison, but you also know that […]

Mobile Slot Machine Game Coin Master Surpasses $2 Billion In Revenue

Coin Master, developed by Moon Active, has officially seen more than $2 billion in lifetime player spending. Much of its growth was accelerated by global lockdowns, as the title earned nearly $550 million in 2020 alone. First released in 2015, the casual title saw its best-ever month last December when it earned $118 million – […]

Fintech Machine Learning Leader Attunely Secures $9M in Funding

New capital will support expansion of team; Attunely technology helps financial and creditl institutions better manage revenue recovery and the consumer experience SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 24, 2020– Attunely Inc., a pioneer in deploying machine learning to maximize revenue recovery and enhance the consumer experience, today announced $9 million in financing. The new capital includes an earlier […]

How Amazon is using machine learning to eliminate 915,000 tons of packaging

Presented by AWS Machine Learning Amazon’s 2019 Climate Pledge calls for a commitment to net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040. Since then, the company has reduced the weight of their outbound packaging by 33%, eliminating 915,000 tons of packaging material worldwide, or the equivalent of over 1.5 billion shipping boxes. With less packaging […]