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In the past month, workers in Silicon Valley have demanded that the large tech companies where they work stop doing business with federal agencies associated with the ghastlier policies of the Trump administration and local governments--and in some cases it's worked. Google said it would not renew a contract with the Pentagon to build an A.I. system for military drones after thousands of employees signed a petition and dozens quit in protest. Orlando, Florida's police department dropped Amazon's facial-recognition tech after a public outcry that included criticisms from Amazon employees opposed to the activity. Microsoft is keeping a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite demands from more than 100 of its employees who believe doing so signals a complicity with the administration's hard-line immigration policy. This activity has been facilitated by the Tech Workers Coalition, a volunteer group of professionals in the tech industry that has worked on a number of labor, justice, and equality issues in recent years.

According to SIIA, CODiE Award recipients produce the most innovative businesses technology products around the world. The award spotlights the unique innovation associated with Max, Apttus' applied AI for Apttus Omni, the company's Intelligent Middle Office Platform. Max utilizes an intelligent conversational user interface that proactively delivers insights and recommendations to help sales, legal, operations and financial professionals maximize revenue and other critical business outcomes. The resulting actions accelerate and optimize Apttus' CPQ, CLM, E-Commerce and Revenue Management solutions that comprise Apttus Omni. Max's success stems from an overwhelming customer need for speed and efficiency in executing revenue operations and managing commercial relationships.

One of the top universities in China, Tsinghua University, established an institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Thursday, June 28. The newly-established institute, according to a report by Chinese news outlet Netease Technology, aims to make fundamental innovations in both theories and key technologies of AI, and broaden the influence of Tsinghua University. Professor Zhang Bo from the school's Department of Computer Science and Technology, who is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be the head of the institute. Chinese computer scientist Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, who won the most prestigious award in computer science -- the Turing Award, in 2000, will be the director of the institute's academic committee. Additionally Jeffrey Dean, head of Google.ai--Google's

Apttus, the global Middle Office leader, today announced its applied artificial intelligence offering, Max, has been named the best AI Solution of 2018 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. According to SIIA, CODiE Award recipients produce the most innovative businesses technology products around the world. The award spotlights the unique innovation associated with Max, Apttus' applied AI for Apttus Omni, the company's Intelligent Middle Office Platform. Max utilizes an intelligent conversational user interface that proactively delivers insights and recommendations to help sales, legal, operations and financial professionals maximize revenue and other critical business outcomes. The resulting actions accelerate and optimize Apttus' CPQ, CLM, E-Commerce and Revenue Management solutions that comprise Apttus Omni.

Earlier this month, a workforce rebellion involving artificial intelligence (AI) happened in the hallways of one of Silicon Valley's greatest companies. It was angry employees railing against management for letting the Pentagon tap Google's AI technology to potentially improve drone strike targeting. The Pentagon's program, called Project Maven, has become a flashpoint for the ethical use of AI. Companies, too, have to weigh the advantages of AI with cultural implications. AI can transform businesses and industries, make customers' lives much more convenient, improve worker productivity, and boost the bottom line in ways never seen before.

It's been a busy few months at Sinequa, and we are ending June on a high note having been selected as the Best Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform in the AI Breakthrough Awards! The AI Breakthrough Awards recognize today's top companies, … Continue reading

It's been a busy few months at Sinequa, and we are ending June on a high note having been selected as the Best Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform in the AI Breakthrough Awards! The AI Breakthrough Awards recognize today's top companies, … Continue reading

A recent Refinery29 piece by lifestyle editor Cait Munro confirms what we seasoned homebodies have always known: Staying at home is cool. That declaration is based on a recent survey from market research firm Mintel that suggests almost three in 10 young millennials (people aged 24-31) prefer drinking at home because it takes too much effort to go out. And they're not alone--55 percent of Americans of all ages would prefer a night in with a glass of rosé over a bar crawl. The survey participants cited everything from wanting to drink in a relaxing environment to a desire to save money as the impetus behind their general aversion to bars and clubs, but the millennials Munro interviewed herself offered another rationale for the shift from the streets to the sheets: online dating. What Munro calls the Netflix-and-Chill factor can be accurately described by this quote from Jenifer Golden, "a self-proclaimed'older millennial' and one half of the duo behind the podcast It's Complicated" who says, "It's the whole dating idea of Netflix and like, I'm going to sit on my couch, watch all of the things that I could possibly watch and drink all my wine from Trader Joe's. Why would I leave my house? I can invite somebody over to hang out with me."

IN THE MODERN FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, all roads seem to lead to three researchers with ties to Canadian universities. The first, Geoffrey Hinton, a 70-year-old Brit who teaches at the University of Toronto, pioneered the subfield called deep learning that has become synonymous with A.I. The second, a 57-year-old Frenchman named Yann LeCun, worked in Hinton's lab in the 1980s and now teaches at New York University. The third, 54-year-old Yoshua Bengio, was born in Paris, raised in Montreal, and now teaches at the University of Montreal. The three men are close friends and collaborators, so much so that people in the A.I. community call them the Canadian Mafia. In 2013, though, Google recruited Hinton, and Facebook hired LeCun. Both men kept their academic positions and continued teaching, but Bengio, who had built one of the world's best A.I. programs at the University of Montreal, came to be seen as the last academic purist standing. Bengio is not a natural industrialist. He has a humble, almost apologetic, manner, with the slightly stooped bearing of a man who spends a great deal of time in front of computer screens.