Raise your glass to outstanding women in advertising, marketing, and media in the U.K. and continental Europe. Advertising Age and Women in Advertising & Communications London (WACL) recognize an inaugural class of female executives who are changing the marketing landscape. Amazon.com is testing a new service that will make it easier for businesses to run artificial intelligence software on computers rented from the company, people familiar with the situation said, stepping up competition with Alphabet unit Google, Microsoft and International Business Machines. Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud business, rolled out a limited offering in this area last year. The new service will let businesses run a wider range of AI software on Amazon's computers, leading to more powerful applications capable of tasks like pattern recognition and speech transcription.

Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt, left, talks AI alongside Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, center. Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt has hit back at suggestions by Tesla boss Elon Musk that Google's artificial intelligence initiatives should be feared. If you're terrified by artificial intelligence outsmarting and then wiping out humanity, you've watched too many movies, Schmidt told a panel at Symposium Stockholm on Thursday. Asked about how such a scenario could be stopped if it occurred, Schmidt replied: "Don't you think humans would notice this happening? And don't you think humans would then go about turning these computers off? But then a virus starts relocating itself to other computers and then it's a mad race for the last computer, and you can't turn it off and then it destroys humanity. It's just speculation," Schmidt said.

Just last week Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that he was only worried about the work of one AI company, which many read to be Google. Musk and his fellow worriers should feel a little more at ease to know that Google and DeepMind are thinking about ways to ensure full human control. In an academic paper, DeepMind's Laurent Orseau and Stuart Armstrong of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford have established a framework for interrupting an AI's course of action. "Now and then it may be necessary for a human operator to press the big red button to prevent the agent from continuing a harmful sequence of actions," reads the paper. Of course, this isn't much use if the clever-clogs AI (shall we just call it Skynet?)

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Apart from its Russian engines, the J-20 is completely made and designed in China. And even then, future J-20s will be flying with a more powerful domestic engine, the WS-15, by 2021. In line with its increasingly sophisticated domestic arsenal, China's arms exports have become much more technically competitive in the last ten years; the 2015 U.S. Defense Department's Annual Report on the PLA even stated that China's ground systems in particular are globally competitive or nearly globally competitive. With selling points of low cost and affordable service, lack of geopolitical strings and upgrade packages, China has become the world's third largest arms exporter behind the US and Russia. With a series of recent contracting wins against Russian firms, it looks to expand its market share.

Amsterdam's quarterly AI summit for applied artificial intelligence calls for all AI enthused product, business and tech people to its first edition at the Zoku Amsterdam on June 15th at 6pm. Focused, hands-on talks on the impact of AI and related technologies on product development, design and the business aspects, also providing an outlook on related industry technology trends. We're proud to announce our selected speakers at Amsterdam.AI's first edition on June 15th: The event aims to build a community, share expertise and support the application of machine learning and related technologies around web app developers, product designers, founders entrepreneurs, project team leaders, and anyone who is related to the aspect of developing products. As we're all on a tight schedule, the summit is going to start and end on time. All participants will be invited to a Slack Channel to further exchange and stay in touch.

Queuing to check-in luggage is often one of the most stressful parts of travelling. But new advancements in robotics, currently being trialled at Geneva Airport, could mean these lengthy waits are a thing of the past. With the help of a robot named Leo, passengers at the Switzerland airport have had their bags checked-in for them. Swiss air transport specialists SITA teamed up with robotics firm BlueBotics to create the robot, which is programmed to dodge obstacles in its path, namely passengers in busy airports. It also has the ability to weigh bags, print baggage tags and carry two suitcases weighing up to 32kg. Read more: 'Robot doctor' helps solve health problems at click of a button with latest artificial intelligence invention The autonomous check-in assistant greets passengers at the airport's terminal, who can use its touch screen to scan their boarding passes and drop off their luggage.

The website kickoff.ai was launched on June 7 by three PhD students at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and is targeted at football lovers. "All three of us are football fans and we wanted to apply machine learning to a new data set," Victor Kristof, one of the brains behind kickoff.ai, While several other football results prediction models exist, kickoff.ai The first one is modelling individual players' performances, which ensures more variables are incorporated when predicting an outcome of a match. Most traditional models only take into account the performance of the entire team and not that of its constituent team members separately.

Speaking at the University of Oxford last May at the annual Silicon Valley comes to Oxford event, Bostrom said: "I personally believe that once human equivalence is reached, it will not be long before machines become superintelligent after that. It might take a long time to get to human level but I think the step from there to superintelligence might be very quick. I think these machines with superintelligence might be extremely powerful, for the same basic reasons that we humans are very powerful relative to other animals on this planet. It's not because our muscles are stronger or our teeth are sharper, it's because our brains are better."