China's state-run press agency has welcomed its first female AI anchor who will join its growing team of virtual presenters. The female AI newsreader will make her professional debut during the upcoming meetings of the country's national legislature and top political advisory body in March, according to Xinhua at a press conference on Tuesday. Modelled after the agency's flesh-and-blood journalist Qu Meng, the AI newsreader was jointly developed by Xinhua and search engine company Sogou.com China's state-run press agency Xinhua on Tuesday unveiled its first female AI anchor, Xin Xiaomeng, who will join its growing team of virtual presenters The female AI anchor is modelled after agency's flesh-and-blood journalist Qu Meng. 'Hello everyone, I am the world's first female AI presenter developed by Xinhua News Agency and Sougu.

Technology has rapidly evolved over the years and has transformed every industry vertical. Healthcare, which is a complex and regulated industry, has also evolved in critical synchronisation with technology. Since the digital age has dawned upon the world, it has become crucial to address the elephant in the room, and direct the evolution of healthcare technology. According to Deloitte, the global healthcare expenditure is going to increase to $10.059 trillion by 2022. The IBEF has also speculated the Indian healthcare market to reach $372 billion by 2022.

THE most distractingly unrealistic feature of most science fiction--by some margin--is how the great soaring cities of the future never seem to struggle with traffic. Whatever dystopias lie ahead, futurists seem confident we can sort out congestion. If hope that technology will fix traffic springs eternal, history suggests something different. Transport innovation, from railways to cars, reshaped cities and drove economic advance. But it also brought crowded commutes.

Europe is awash with talent and technology in the AI space. Here are 10 European start-ups to watch in 2019. There is a growing belief that the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution could be even more profound than the internet revolution. While the technology is often characterised as a threat to traditional job security, if you look closely at this crop of European start-ups, their use of AI is about improving outcomes in everything from health and safety to better communications and creativity. In other words, AI as a subject is very broad with a myriad of uses, and therefore could be put to work to augment human capabilities or solve big world problems.

YouTube is being used by a community of potential child abusers to congregate, hidden in plain sight, it has emerged. Many of the biggest companies in the world have pulled their advertising in response to the scandal. And YouTube has promised that it will remove any such comments or other content. But they are proliferating across the site, and such videos are thought to have been watched millions of times. The videos themselves are entirely innocent, of the kind that parents might shoot of their children and upload to be shared with friends.

Next-generation 5G technology is only just making its way to market after a decade of development, but Donald Trump is already demanding the rollout of 6G in the United States. The US President did not elaborate on what 6G might involve, with even his understanding of 5G appearing basic in a series of tweets on Thursday. He described it as "far more powerful, faster and smarter" than current 4G technology, while also revealing his concerns that the US is lagging behind in the deployment of 5G. "I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible... American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind," Trump tweeted. His comments come just days after the founder of Chinese technology giant Huawei – who are widely regarded as one of the pioneers of 5G – said the US risks falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to 5G rollout.

News that Gong.io has acquired $40M to add their existing funding shows they are well on their way to transforming CRM systems with the use of artificial intelligence. Gong.io is relatively new on the scene but is already making big moves in the CRM industry. Their AI-assisted Conversation Intelligence and account analytics platform removes the conjectures and unknowns to assist sales and marketing teams to formulate winning sales strategies. Founded in 2015 by Amit Bendov, CEO, and Eilon Reshef, CTO, the San Francisco and Israel based company has two very successful people at the helm. Both founders have impressive resumes with proven track records in the growing, selling, and IPOing of startups.

Major Japanese and Chinese e-commerce companies Rakuten Inc. and JD.com Inc. said Thursday they will tie up and commercialize an unmanned delivery service in Japan to save time, cost and labor of parcel shipments in the wake of the explosive growth of online shopping. Rakuten will employ drones and unmanned ground vehicles of JD.com, which already operates them in commercial services in China, as it prepares to introduce autonomous delivery in Japan. The Tokyo-based firm has been conducting experiments and trial services of autonomous parcel delivery since 2016, seeing it as an effective solution to the "last mile" issue of cutting the time and cost of shipping packages from transportation hubs to consumers' doors. JD.com, also known as Jingdong, launched the world's first commercial drone delivery in 2016 in China and is aiming to expand its service abroad. JD.com Vice President Xiao Jun said there are "many opportunities" in Japan for drone deliveries in mountainous areas and remote islands.

As Singapore currently has one of the highest rates of card fraud in the world, in order to combat this, in 2017 Singapore's financial industry came together to commit to data analytics as a means of fighting financial crime. As such, Featurespace's technological platform uses machine learning to detect anomalies in individual behaviour for fraud and risk management, and it was developed by computer scientists in the laboratories of Cambridge University. The real-time ARIC platform uses Adaptive Behavioural Analytics to self-learn and continuously respond to new customer data. By understanding the behaviour of each individual banking and credit card customer, ARIC identifies new and known attacks, while blocking fraud at the moment it occurs. ARIC reduces false positives, by 70%, increasing revenue, and reducing customer friction.

These are just a few ways the world's top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them? There's no way around it -- artificial intelligence is changing human civilization, from how we work to how we travel to how we enforce laws. As AI technology advances and seeps deeper into our daily lives, its potential to create dangerous situations is becoming more apparent. A Tesla Model 3 owner in California died while using the car's Autopilot feature. In Arizona, a self-driving Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian (though there was a driver behind the wheel). Register for the live briefing to find out about the top AI trends expected to reshape industries and economies this year. Other instances have been more insidious. For example, when IBM's Watson was tasked with helping physicians diagnose cancer patients, it gave numerous "unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations." Some of the world's top researchers and industry leaders believe these issues are just the tip of the iceberg. How might that redefine humanity's place in the world?