JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Intuition Robotics, an Israeli developer of artificial intelligence robots for use by the elderly, said on Tuesday it raised $14 million in an early stage funding round led by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI).

Got It has a new use for artificial intelligence. The startup uses AI to find human experts who can help with complex problems. Got It calls this on-demand knowledge-as-a-service (KaaS). The platform helps professionals, learners, and consumers quickly and affordably get personalized, interactive solutions to their questions. You can think of it as a Google search, but one that is so complex that you really have to find an expert for it.

If you look at PC penetration, it's single digit today, he mentioned.Prakash Mallya, recently appointed managing director at Intel India, is back in his homeland after 12 years. A 17-year veteran at Intel, the Lucknow-born Mallya says Intel wants to democratise artificial intelligence by making it as inexpensive as possible. In his first interview after taking over in February, Mallya also tells ET about the scope for PCs in India, and opportunities for Intel. Edited excerpts: What is the work done by Intel on the artificial intelligence (AI) front in India? There are a few barriers we are trying to break through in AI globally and in India.

AI is learning parkour, Amazon's huge sale is upon us and we see how technology is replacing painkillers. What happens when AI teaches itself parkour? Come for the reinforcement learning, stay for the GIFs. Amazon Prime Day is upon us, have you bought your Echo? It's hard to say what counts as a'real' holiday these days, but discounts are discounts.

Russian visitors to Pornhub now have to sign in with their personal details and their passport. The Russian government has gradually been looking to make it more difficult for people in the country to access pornographic websites. That has followed shutdowns and criticism of the website, which state regulators said was distributing materials that were harming the development of children. The rules followed that complete shutdown of Pornhub, the world's biggest adult website, in September last year. That ban was lifted just months ago, when Pornhub committed to check the age of anyone who visits it. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that, we're seeing a rise of startups that are building innovating ways to combat malicious hackers. In the latest development, Darktrace -- a cybersecurity firm that uses machine learning to detect and stop attacks -- has raised $75 million, giving the startup a post-money valuation of $825 million, on the back of a strong business: the company said it has a total contract value of $200 million, 3,000 global customers and has grown 140 percent in the last year. The funding will be used to expand the company's business operations into more markets. Notably, Darktrace also separately (not in its funding release) announced today that it is now in a strategic partnership with Hong Kong-based CITIC Telecom CPC, a telecoms firm serving China and other parts of Asia, "to bring next-generation cyber defense to businesses across Asia Pacific." We're asking if CITIC, which owns the strategic partner, has also invested in Darktrace as part of this partnership.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomy are central to the future of American war. In particular, the Pentagon wants to develop software that can absorb more information from more sources than a human can, analyze it and either advise the human how to respond or -- in high-speed situations like cyber warfare and missile defense -- act on its own with careful limits. Call it the War Algorithm, the holy grail of a single mathematical equation designed to give the US military near-perfect understanding of what is happening on the battlefield and help its human designers to react more quickly than our adversaries and thus win our wars. Our coverage of this issue attracted the attention of Capt. In this op-ed, he offers something of a roadmap for the Pentagon to follow as it pursues this highly complex and challenging goal.

Google's AI program, AlphaGo, went up against -- and defeated -- Chinese Go champion Ke Jie (on the left) at the Future of Go Summit in May in China. The match took place a year after AlphaGo bested Lee Sedol, world number two Go player. AlphaGo may have defeated humans at board games, but its creators really just want us to be buddies. In a new project named the People AI Research Initiative (PAIR), Google's researchers are looking at the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence in the hopes of making the latter more useful to the former, the tech giant announced on its blog on Monday. The company says it'll rethink AI on three levels: How we can use it as a tool in everyday life, how professionals in all fields can use it to make their jobs easier and how practical AI development can be taught to engineers.

China's leading technology companies are on fire, heavily investing in artificial intelligence and building true global presences. McKinsey recently reported that academic and research institutions in the country publish more cited research papers than the US, UK, or any other global leader in AI, producing nearly 10,000 papers in 2015 alone. Backed by strong government mandates and billions of dollars of both private and public investments, China is challenging the US for position of global AI leader. Fearful of competition, the US government is considering placing restrictions on Chinese investments in AI and technology in the United States. In many sectors, such as healthcare, China may already be ahead of America in applying AI to critical public issues.

An employee uses a facial recognition device as she swipes her badge to enter the assembly line area at a Pegatron Corp. factory in Shanghai, China, on Friday, April 15, 2016.(Photo Would you want to have your face tracked by ever present cameras so others can know your identities and whereabouts? While the answer is likely to be no for many in the west, the scenario is becoming a reality in China. Facial-recognition technology, once a staple of Minority Report-style movies, is quickly inserting itself into the daily lives of more and more people in the country. Unfettered by privacy regulations, China's largest internet companies are scooping up hundreds of millions of photos from their online apps to teach computers to analyze facial features.