A lot of companies are trying to make it easier to use artificial intelligence, but few are making it as simple as Lobe. The startup, which launched earlier this year, offers users a clean drag-and-drop interface for building deep learning algorithms from scratch. It's mainly focused on machine vision. That means if you want to build a tool that recognizes different houseplants or can count the number of birds in a tree, you can do it all in Lobe without typing a single line of code. Company co-founder Mike Matas told The Verge that Lobe isn't designed to compete with software used by machine learning professionals (tools like PyTorch and TensorFlow).

The last ten years have been a rough time for many bank employees in Spain. The country's lenders have laid off 89,500 workers on the back of narrowing margins, industry consolidation, mass closures of branches and gathering digitization. In 2008, when the financial crisis struck, Spain was home to some 278,000 banking professionals; today there are just 195,000. Another 3,000 redundancies are expected in the coming months, as Santander and Bankia plan to further streamline their businesses, pushing the total number of layoffs close to 95,000. The job losses are unlikely to end there. In fact, they could accelerate, especially if a potential new threat to traditional branch and front-office jobs materializes: artificial intelligence (AI).

It's Tuesday, which means the E3 show floor is now open. It also means we're finally at the end of a four-day slog of press conferences from some of the gaming world's largest publishers. While Activision Blizzard still doesn't do its own pre-E3 event, just about everyone else does, which means these 96 hours have been a deluge of announcements and reveals that we did our best to get our arms around. We didn't even cover them all: the Square Enix press conference was basically devoid of new information, and the PC Gaming Show, while compelling, was mostly a long list of indie game announcements--some of which we'll be getting to later this week. So, for now, here's everything you need to know about every press conference you need to know about.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) affords a tremendous opportunity not only to increase efficiencies and reduce costs, but to help rethink businesses and solve critical problems. Yet for all the promises AI holds, there's an equal amount of anxiety, across economies and societies. Many people feel that advanced technologies will bring profound changes that are predestined and inevitable. As AI becomes more sophisticated, it will start to make or assist decisions that have a greater impact on individual lives. This will raise ethical challenges as people adjust to the larger and more prominent role of automated decision making in society.

It sure is fascinating to watch Assassin's Creed reinvent itself. A series that was by and large stagnant for years--even going so far as to return to older design tropes with Unity--it now seems determined to evolve into something entirely new. Something that, if we're being honest, quite resembles (at least on the surface) The Witcher 3. Last year's Assassin's Creed: Origins was the first step in this process, removing the series from the cities it had outgrown and putting it in a vast, detailed recreation of Ptolemaic Egypt, and then filling Egypt with mysteries big and small. It continues in 2018's Assassin's Creed: Odyssey ($60 preorder on Amazon), as for the first time ever the series adds dialogue trees. Ubisoft is determined to turn Assassin's Creed into a full-fledged RPG, and damn it's exciting.

In addition to awarding Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees, the Allen School recognized two 2018 Alumni Impact Award recipients, Yaw Anokwa and Eileen Bjorkman.

Most workers globally want to use artificial intelligence, according to a survey of 7,000 workers in the U.S., Asia and Europe in the Automatica Trend Index 2018. Most (64%) workers want to use AI for human-machine collaboration and 73% assume that artificial intelligence makes it easier for people to assign the machine new tasks, such as by voice command or touch pad. The majority of workers globally are worried about how their training can keep up with the pace of the working world, with 64% seeing as positive the fact that robots can help them handle hazardous materials. About a quarter of employees are convinced that training and development already plays a role in the workplace of the future. In the U.S., 74% expect that robotics automation will provide added motivation to further their training, with most expecting the number of higher-skilled and higher paid jobs to rise in the future with new human-robot teams.

Citigroup's investment bank could automate as many as 10,000 jobs within the next five years, a chilling forecast warns. Technology and operational positions were the'most fertile for machine processing,' according to Jamie Forese, chief executive officer of the bank's institutional clients group. Forese suggested to the Financial Times that the company would shed up to half its 20,000 operational positions as machines supplant humans at a faster pace. 'We've got 20,000 operational roles. Over the next five years could you make it 10,000?'

The longevity and biotechnology industries are focusing on aging in a big way, and it's beginning to show. The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and regenerative medicine are putting their money on combating aging and age-related diseases, and the benefits are likely to be immense. While biotechnology and AI are relatively new concepts, the announcements of funding and collaboration yesterday by and between three companies are bringing those concepts that much closer to the forefront of medicine. Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based next-generation AI company specializing in the application of deep learning for target identification, drug discovery and aging research, yesterday announced a collaboration agreement with WuXi AppTec, a leading global contract research outsourcing provider based in Shanghai, China, serving the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. "It's a big step not only for Insilico Medicine but for AI and the pharmaceutical industries," said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, CEO of Insilico Medicine, Inc.

Fortnite, the world's biggest game, is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch. The game will soon arrive online, Nintendo announced. As with every other platform, the game will be available for free and can be downloaded through the Switch's online store. Fortnite's arrival on Switch was the breakout news from the latest Nintendo Direct, during which the company shows off updates about existing games and reveals new ones. During the same broadcast – which came as the E3 conference opened – it also showed off new details about the upcoming Super Smash Bros Ultimate, the new Pokemon games and more.