The committee said it had called Aleksandr Kogan from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge to discuss his relationship with Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political firm also accused of improperly accessing data.

Few people know artificial intelligence better than Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria. The Spanish entrepreneur has engineering degrees and diplomas from MIT, Harvard Business School and the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, the largest city in Spain's Basque Country. He is even nearing a master's degree in architecture, is a mentor at Oxford University and has won numerous awards for his work in the tech world. Uribe-Etxebarria is also a proven company-builder. He was studying for a natural language processing PhD in 2009 when he built his first firm, ANBOTO, a virtual assistant for chat and email responses. But Uribe-Etxebarria wasn't finished, and in 2012 founded Sherpa, a predictive, virtual personal assistant based on AI algorithms.

Late on the night of October 4, 1957, Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was at a reception at the Mariinsky Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine, when an aide called him to the telephone. The Soviet leader was gone a few minutes. When he reappeared at the reception, his son Sergei later recalled, Khrushchev's face shone with triumph. "I can tell you some very pleasant and important news," he told the assembled bureaucrats. "A little while ago, an artificial satellite of the Earth was launched."

You wouldn't normally think of a 177-year-old company as one that would be on top of digital transformation and emerging data analytics trends. But Dun & Bradstreet has always been a data business, way back in 1841 as the Mercantile Agency, a credit information bureau. Today the new technologies are a little different than they were in the 19th century. But the mission is the same -- to provide data and analytics services for business. As Dun & Bradstreet's Global Leader of Data Innovation, Saleem Khan is helping navigate the company's efforts as it creates new data and analytics services to offer its customers.

Futurist Sophie Hackford returned to the Condé Nast International Luxury Conference for the fourth consecutive year this morning to share the key technology developments that will help shape tomorrow's luxury landscape. In her previous talks, Hackford encouraged delegates - many of whom are the world's top luxury CEOs and designers - to get on board with the internet's new future and not repeat what she saw as the collective mistake of the early Noughties, when the industry did not get online and on-board with e-commerce quickly enough. Today, she expanded her theory that the world is becoming a computer, and delved into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The language of the future, Hackford explained, is the language of machines. But after 60 years of disappointments, in which a lot was promised by AI but not much of it seen, how will it actually transform our lives?

It's no secret that the insurance industry is fundamentally changing thanks to innovations in Artificial Intelligence. With predictions for 2018 showing that insurance data will grow by 94%, 84% of which will be in unstructured documentation, technology is being introduced that is revolutionizing the industry in its entirety. Taking inspiration from groundbreaking technologies like IoT, Big Data and especially AI, investments are at a peak for insurtech companies all over the world. In a recent report by Willis Towers Watson, since 2016, 36 percent more investment, or the equivalent of 2.3 Billion Dollars has been invested across 450 start-ups during the course of last year alone. AI solutions in the insurance sector are gaining popularity – and as a start-up or developer, it's one of the most dynamic and promising business-areas to be active in.

NEW DELHI: Bennett University launched an artificial intelligence (AI) initiative in association with 50 zonal partners to set up research groups across the country. The project was inaugurated by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Anil Sahsrabudhe at the Bennett University campus on Tuesday. The zonal partners will be doubled to 100 with AICTE support. Each zonal partner will work in the area of deep learning to create useful products and innovations. Each will act as a hub for 10 more institutions, thus adding up to a total of 1,000.

Google estimate human-level AI will be reached by 2029, with 16% of employment positions in the US estimated to be lost to AI networks over the coming years. Gartner, the research company, have calculated that 33% of all occupations could be undertaken by robots by 2025, predominantly in logistics, finance, customer service, health care, and manufacturing. With such large numbers of jobs at stake, it's hard to ignore how the rise in AI will affect the accounting world and, specifically, accounting practices. Applications can handle data, produce reports and generate statements quicker and with more precision than a human, but does this indicate the end of the accounting profession? Many fear job losses, but to give a little context, many of the current in-demand-jobs (posts that technological and societal shifts brought rise to) had not been created ten years ago and the World Economic Forum estimates that 65% of children currently in primary school will hold positions that are yet to be imagined. The same fears of job losses were discussed in the mid-nineteenth century with the advent of the first industrial revolution - those fears quickly subsided - as we sit on the advent of the fourth industrial revolution similar fears are coming to the fore again.

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Britain is pledging £14m for a four-year technology partnership with India that it hopes will generate thousands of new jobs across the UK. The technology alliance, which will initially focus on developing driverless cars, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, follows on from the success of the UK-Israel Tech Hub, which generated £62 million worth of deals over the past five years. The ambitious agreement will see British universities and businesses partner with states in India, working with the British High Commission in New Delhi, the Indian government and private sector to increase tech investment, exports and research and development. Businesses will be able to exchange staff, develop...