Hailo, a Tel Aviv-based AI chipmaker, today announced that it is now sampling its Hailo -8 chips, the first of its deep learning processors. The new chip promises up to 26 tera operations per second (TOPS), and the company is now testing it with a number of select customers, mostly in the automotive industry. Hailo first appeared on the radar last year, when it raised a $12.5 million Series A round. At the time, the company was still waiting for the first samples of its chips. Now, the company says that the Hailo-8 will outperform all other edge processors and do so at a smaller size and with fewer memory requirements.

The nature of work has changed dramatically since the 1950s. In that glorious post-war period, work was primarily a man's purview, while women did so-called "invisible" work - taking care of children, maintaining the home and cooking. It wasn't unusual for a man to retire 40 years laterfrom the same employer he started with. That employer picked up the worker's health and life insurance, and some employers even paid school tuition for their workers' children. There was a sense of continuity.

NASCAR will use the breadth and depth of AWS technologies to build cloud-based services and automate processes, including a new video series on NASCAR.com The video series will debut heading into the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway, sharing the greatest historical moments in NASCAR racing with viewers. NASCAR is migrating its 18-petabyte video archive to AWS, and will leverage Amazon Rekognition--an AWS service that adds intelligent image and video analysis to applications--to automatically tag specific video frames with metadata, such as driver, car, race, lap, time, and sponsors so they can easily search those tags to surface the most iconic moments from past races. By using AWS's services, NASCAR expects to save thousands of hours of manual search time each year, and will be able to easily surface flashbacks like Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s 1987 "Pass in the Grass" or Denny Hamlin's 2016 Daytona 500 photo finish, and quickly deliver these to fans via video clips on NASCAR.com and social media channels. NASCAR will leverage AWS services to enhance its full range of media assets including websites, mobile applications, and social properties for its 80 million fans worldwide.

In this May 22, 2019, photo, a customer waits for a coffee in front of a robot named b;eat after placing an order at a cafe in Seoul, South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea – Are robot baristas the future of South Korea's vibrant coffee culture? The company now has 45 robot-equipped outlets in shopping malls, company cafeterias, schools and an airport. Coffee is just one of many industries that could be transformed by automated services in this tech-forward nation, a notion both exciting and worrisome as jobs become scarcer. South Korean industries, including restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, banks and manufacturers, are relying increasingly on robots and other automation.

Speculation within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party over a possible extension of the current regular Diet session, a move that could result in a double election this summer, has grown ahead of the scheduled end of the 150-day session on June 26. The speculation has grown because the government is moving to submit a bill to revise the law on national strategic special zones in order to realize "super cities" where cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence will be fully utilized. It's believed that it will be difficult to pass the legislation during the ongoing session without an extension. The move and the possible extension is apparently aimed at setting the stage for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to dissolve the House of Representatives and arrange an election for the same date as that of a triennial election this summer for the House of Councilors. Opposition parties, as well as Komeito, the coalition partner of the LDP, are cautious over the possibility of a double election.

In October of 2018, Christie's auctioned off the first work of art ever created by an algorithm. The painting, titled Edmond de Belamy, was a portrait of a gentleman dressed in black. It was expected to sell for around $10,000, and instead garnered a staggering $432,500. Just a few months before that, Nature Morte, a contemporary art gallery in New Delhi, held an exhibition that featured seven artists working with artificial intelligence. AI-written novels, choreographers predicting dance sequences, and other forms of machine learning are also being readily explored within the creative arts.

Furniture giant, IKEA, is looking to court gamers and people living in cramped spaces with a new wave of robotic furniture and niche e-sport accessories. The Swedish furniture and home accessory giant has always been known for its clean modern aesthetics, but for customers in Hong Kong and Japan that modern style will also be functionally futuristic. Rognan, as the company has dubbed it, is a robotic storage unit that can move from side-to-side using a remote touch pad and is able to dispense space-consuming furniture on-demand, including a couch, a bed, and a desk. IKEA's new robot storage unit is designed to help people maximize space in urban apartments -- many of which are not known for their ample room Aside from adding a bit of sci-fi flare to one's apartment, the unit, which was developed in partnership with furniture startup Ori Living, is actually designed to solve a problem in many urban apartments -- space, or the lack thereof. 'More and more people are living and moving into cities where approximately an extra 1.5 million people join the urban population every week,' said IKEA. 'With Rognan as a robotic furniture solution for small space living, people will be able to turn small spaces into smart spaces that have all the comfort and convenience of a home.'

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently than other designs that require pre-processing the 3D tensors into 2D matrices. NovuMind portrayed its advantages in low-resolution and high-resolution environments, while typical (Resnet 50) benchmarks target medium resolution algorithms common in datacenters (where NovuMind has a smaller advantage). Now, recent customer wins and trial deployments may provide the trump card in the debate. Let's take a look at the company, its first product, and some case studies that seem to bear out NovuMind's dramatic performance/watt claims.

Arvind Gupta, Partner and Head, Management Consulting, KPMG in India, explains why HR functions are still reluctant to use AI, the co-effect of workplace culture and digital transformation on each other and the CIO's role in all of this. Edited excerpts: What factors are causing reluctance in adopting AI in HR functions? One of the main challenges that see's reluctance is the fact that employees' data are not present in one single location. In most cases, the data is distributed over many different data sets; and often the absence of one set in the analytics could lead to a totally wrong estimation. Another challenge is that the world of HR is not one where black and white decisions work.

Kolkata: Ayuvedic beauty and wellness products makers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to create highly personalised products. Actually, the beauty and wellness industry seems to have come a long way since the ages of ayurvedic inheritance to the present times of AI. AI has made it possible to create personalized beauty products. And the trend is fast catching up. AI can take all the details and differences into account, including personal allergies, medical condition, past history, past treatments and current treatments, country, climate, skin colour, ethnic background and so on.