On Friday, King Salman of Saudi Arabia issued a royal decree to establish a National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in KSA to drive innovation and the digital transformation of the country, as declared by Abdullah Al-Sawaha from the Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

RealtyAds is a digital marketing platform that is using AI to help the commercial real estate industry more successfully market their buildings, brokers, and brands to key, target audiences. Trevor Marticke: After graduating from Colgate University with a focus in Political Science and Economics, Trevor moved to Chicago and began his real estate career. He worked as a Tenant Advisor for Transwestern Commercial Services representing companies looking for office space. After 3 years, Trevor and his team were recruited to Cushman & Wakefield to grow their practice globally and continue representing firms as their real estate advisors. Over his career Trevor worked on transactions as far reaching as Sydney, Australia and sourced / executed more than $350mm in total transaction value.

The rise of financial technology has drawn the attention of regulators to FinTech firms and how they function. FinTech companies like any other regulated institutions are required to comply with a growing set of regulatory rules. One of the latest examples is the FCA's roll-out of Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) for e-commerce transactions. This will mean that card issuers, payments firms, and online retailers will have to follow more stringent authentication steps for European online payments over €30. However, the real regulatory pain for FinTech's is felt when scaling fast whilst entering new markets. Catering to new obligations from different jurisdictions places further regulatory scrutiny on their operations, ensuring that they are compliant with the various nuances of different regulators' rules.

Soon, physicians may be able to apply artificial intelligence to electrocardiogram (EKG) data in order to measure overall health status, according to new research published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, a journal of the American Heart Association. While it's known that a patient's sex and age could affect an EKG, researchers hypothesized that artificial intelligence could determine a patient's gender and estimate their'physiologic age'--a measure of overall body function and health status distinct from chronological age. Using EKG data of almost 500,000 patients, a type of artificial intelligence known as a convolutional neural network was trained to find similarities among the input and output data. Once trained, the neural network was tested for accuracy on the data of an additional 275,000 patients by predicting the output when only given input data. "While physicians already consider whether a patient'appears [their] stated age' as part of their baseline physical examination, the ability to more objectively and consistently assess this may impact healthcare on multiple levels," says study author Suraj Kapa, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director for Augmented and Virtual Reality Innovation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

This article is part of our collection about the 2019 state of IT. A CIO has always been busy running the IT and computer systems that support an enterprise. Now with artiificial intelligence (AI) turning every company into a data company, a CIO's job is more central and more complicated than ever before. A recent Gartner survey found that some of the world's biggest companies plan to double the number of AI projects within the next year, with four AI efforts already in place on average. Additionally, companies plan to spend more on AI, in the neighborhood of $77 billion in 2022, up more than 3x from the $24 billion spent in 2018, according to IDC.

NEW DELHI: A team of students at IIT Madras has developed a drone technology that can help in rescue and relief operations, especially after natural disasters. "The solution is beta-ready and can be deployed. It is currently being tested and would reach the commercialisation phase within six months," said Ayush Parasbhai Maniar, student member, UAVs for Disaster Management, Centre for Innovation (CFI) -- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. "The iterations to improve every feature would continue. The team's artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution is used in combination with drones that use swarm intelligence to collect data and analyse it in real-time. The project is being executed with data inputs from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will have a software that will be compatible with standard drones available in the market. "Thus, for the physical drone we would be partnering with a drone company," Maniar said. This IIT team has also won. 10 lakh in funding from the Indian Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP 2.0) University Challenge, a programme conducted by the department of science and technology along with global defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corporation and Tata Trusts. "This solution is based on innovation based on futuristic disruptive technologies.

Criminals have impersonated a chief executive's voice using artificial intelligence-based software to deceive an unnamed UK-based CEO into making a fraudulent transfer of £200,000 according to a report in the WSJ. WSJ's Catherine Stupp reported that: "The CEO of a UK-based energy firm thought he was speaking on the phone with his boss, the chief executive of the firm's German parent company, who asked him to send the funds to a Hungarian supplier. The caller said the request was urgent, directing the executive to pay within an hour, according to the company's insurance firm, Euler Hermes Group SA. Euler Hermes declined to name the victim companies." Rüdiger Kirsch, a fraud expert at Euler Hermes, a subsidiary of Munich-based financial services company Allianz SE was reported as saying that the UK CEO recognised his boss' slight German accent and the melody of his voice on the phone.

Researchers launch and retrieve drones from a boat to photograph humpback and minke whales in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. BEAUFORT -- The swift pace of technological development has given researchers tools that can collect more data in less time and with fewer resources than a decade ago. Lightweight tags with long-lasting batteries can track animals as small as insects and measure the conditions around them. DNA sequencing technologies have decoded the genomes of thousands of organisms from the loblolly pine to the black bear. Drones can quickly photograph landscapes and animals in locations that may be inaccessible or unsafe for people.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Artificial Intelligence Chip Market: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global artificial intelligence chip market size was valued at $6,638.0 million in 2018, and is projected to reach $91,185.1 million by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 45.2% from 2019 to 2025. At present, North America dominates the artificial intelligence chip market owing to technological advancements. Ongoing R&D activities in autonomous vehicles, healthcare, cyber security, and security & access control are expected to fuel the market growth. In addition, increase in penetration of head-up display screens in luxury cars, smart wearables, and growth in venture capital investments propel the adoption of AI solutions in this region, followed by Europe.

Silicon Valley has long sought to disrupt virtually every aspect of modern life. Now comes technology's final frontier: old age. Tech that's specifically designed for seniors is a growing market, fueled by inexorable demographic trends – about 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. Senior tech is increasingly showing up in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. A company called It's Never Too Late proffers a massive 70in high-definition touchscreen computer that provides older people with little prior tech experience easy access to everything from travel videos and music playlists to a library of college lectures.