Artificial intelligence is changing the game for cybersecurity across several industries by providing cutting-edge security technologies that analyze massive quantities of data. AI technology uses its ability to improve network security over time. Today, several organizations are increasingly implementing AI-powered intelligent security solutions & services to understand and reuse threat patterns to identify new coercions. AI technology provides wider security solutions and simplifies complete recognition and acknowledgment procedures related to cyberattacks. Thus, there is a growing demand for AI-based solutions in the end-use industry for cybersecurity.

Walmart has tapped Argo AI and Ford to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Austin, Miami and Washington, D.C., the companies said Wednesday. The service will allow customers to place online orders for groceries and other items using Walmart's ordering platform. Argo's cloud-based infrastructure will be integrated with Walmart's online platform, routing the orders and scheduling package deliveries to customers' homes. Initially, the commercial service will be limited to specific geographic areas in each city and will expand over time. The companies will begin testing later this year.

Global pandemic limitations have had a direct influence on traditional real estate processes – and for the better, unexpectedly. Thousands of businesses, realtors, appraisers, mortgage lenders, and others have been forced to manage the crisis by incorporating rapidly emerging PropTech, and with good cause. Real estate AI apps can manage predetermined data flows, learn user behavior, streamline and speed operations, and allow more accurate assessments and market forecasts in the short term. Real estate AI apps are being embraced by homeowners, potential renters, and purchasers, and investors are aware that real estate is the world's greatest asset class. These top 10 AI apps help real estate professionals interact with prospects more rapidly, boost sales, manage renters and properties, and more.

There are a number of autonomous boats under development, but we've seen few commercial self-driving ships plying waterways. Now, a company called Sea Machines has announced that it will send an autonomous, remotely commanded tugboat on a 1,000 nautical mile (1,150 mile) "Machine Odyssey" voyage around Denmark. The tug ("Nellie Bly") will have "full onboard vessel control managed by autonomous technology," but be operated under the authority of officers located in the US. The aim is to show "global companies that operate the fleets of cargo ships, tugs, ferries, and the many other types of commercial workboats that they can integrate autonomous technology into their vessel operations for a host of technology-driven benefits." The tug will be steered by Sea Machines' SM300 autonomous system equipped with long-range computer vision. It's a "sensor-to-propeller" system that employs "path-planning, obstacle avoidance replanning, vectored nautical chart data and dynamic domain perception" to control a voyage from start to finish.

Artificial intelligence could one day organize the world. As if in anticipation of this, a maritime platform developer called Orca AI has just begun a research trial of new safety systems for autonomous ships, equipping a vessel with artificial intelligence that recognizes other ships to safely guide it through busy sea traffic, according to a recent press release from the company. Orca AI was founded in 2018 by a pair of naval tech experts, and designs software platforms with extreme specificity for maritime vessels. The firm blends existing safety systems with sensors to enhance the navigation and safety of vessels making their way through crowded (and sometimes dangerous) waterways. Orca AI is headquartered in Israel, and aims to link sea-bound vessels with 24/7 land-based AI insights.

Perfect Corp., the world leading augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) beauty tech solutions provider and developer of the YouCam Suite of Apps, integrated a new hyper-realistic facial aging simulation feature into its award-winning YouCam Makeup app. The new experience, named YouCam Time Machine, allows users to travel forward in time to see what they might look like in the future, or go back to revisit their younger selves. This press release features multimedia. The ultra-realistic results are achieved thanks to the newest developments in the AI Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) technology. The advanced functionality enables users to choose any age between 12 and 70 by simply moving the slider.

Qare Inc., today announced the launch of ASGARD, the first, comprehensive, cloud-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution that removes all barriers to safely return to work post-Covid-19. Using the AI software, all organizations, from large enterprises to small businesses and schools to health care providers, can fully verify, track and manage vaccinations to prevent, control and mitigate Covid-19 in the workplace. Employees of these institutions no longer need to fear Covid-19 and can now safely return to work and live life as it was meant to be. Even with tremendous progress in vaccinations, an unbiased examination of the data will reveal that there is still much reason to fear in the here and now. There are more weekly infections now than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, excepting the peak period of Dec and Jan.

DeepLearning.AI's Andrew Ng recently announced the launch of the NeurIPS Data-Centric AI workshop. The workshop is expected to showcase some of the best academic research work related to data-centric AI. Academic researchers and practitioners can submit their research papers on or before September 30, 2021. This will be the premier event for academic research on Data-Centric AI. Deadline for research article submissions is Sep 30th.

We live in a time when it's never been easier or less expensive to sequence a plant's complete genome. But knowing all a plant's genes is not the same thing as knowing what all those genes do. Michigan State experts in plant biology and computer science plan to close that gap with the help of artificial intelligence and a new $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Ultimately, the goal is to help farmers grow crops with genes that give their plants the best chance to withstand threats such as drought and disease. To get to that point, though, researchers still need to reveal the fundamental role of many of the genes found in plants.

Four trends on the Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2021 are driving near-term artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. These trends include responsible AI; small and wide data approaches; operationalization of AI platforms; and efficient use of data, model and compute resources. "AI innovation is happening at a rapid pace, with an above-average number of technologies on the Hype Cycle reaching mainstream adoption within two to five years," said Shubhangi Vashisth, senior principal research analyst at Gartner. "Innovations including edge AI, computer vision, decision intelligence and machine learning are all poised to have a transformational impact on the market in coming years." The AI market remains in an evolutionary state, with a high percentage of AI innovations appearing on the upward-sloping Innovation Trigger (see Figure 1).