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EU to Invest €6 Billion to Build a Single European Data SpaceThe EU plans to invest €6 billion to build a single European data space, reports EURACTIV. The envisioned space will house personal, business, and “high-quality industrial... |
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Dutch Court Halts Use of AI for Detecting Welfare FraudIn a landmark ruling, a Dutch court has ordered an immediate halt to the government’s use of an automated system for detection of welfare fraud. |
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Databricks and Immuta Partner to Provide End-to-End Data Governance for Machine LearningDatabricks, a data processing and analytics platform with a strong focus on AI and ML, has partnered with Immuta to deliver automated end-to-end data governance for AI,... |
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CognitiveScale Named One of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2019 by The Silicon ReviewCognitiveScale has been named one of the 50 Smartest Companies of the Year 2019 by The Silicon Review. The recognition is for “transforming customer engagement and lifetime... |
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Facebook Will Pay Illinois Users $550-Million Settlement Over Its Use of FRTFacebook agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of users in Illinois over its use of facial recognition technology (FRT) to tag... |
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BlueDot Scans the World With AI for Outbreaks of Infectious DiseasesAI has been making headlines in healthcare for some time, and the current outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, (with cases now in other parts of the world) – or,... |
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Starts Performance Benchmark Race With Amazon RedShift and Google BigQueryMicrosoft claims its newly announced Azure Synapse Analytics service is four times faster than Amazon Redshift and 75 times faster than Google BigQuery. This announcement... |
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Google Founders Are Stepping DownGoogle founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as CEO and President of Alphabet, respectively. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as Alphabet’s CEO. Both... |
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KPMG Ignite – the Swiss Army Knife of AI?I recently had an opportunity to speak with a KPMG partner in the Canadian risk consulting practice and with the head of data science for Canada about several things,... |
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SAS Looks to Leverage AI to Feed the WorldSAS is creating a new agricultural technology business unit and has partnered with the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative to help next-generation farmers and... |
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