SANTA CLARA, CALIF., Nov. 30, 2020 – ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Element AI, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company with deep AI capabilities and some of the world's brightest AI minds. Element AI will significantly enhance ServiceNow's commitment to build the world's most intelligent workflow platform, enabling employees to work smarter and faster, streamline business decisions, and unlock new levels of productivity. A pioneer in the AI industry, Element AI has world‑class scientists and practitioners who will bring expertise in applying modern AI to text and language, chat, images, search, question response, and summarization and will accelerate AI innovation natively in the Now Platform. Element AI Co‑founder and Lead Fellow, Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a winner of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to modern AI, will serve as a technical advisor for ServiceNow. With the acquisition of Element AI, ServiceNow will create an AI Innovation Hub in Canada to accelerate customer‑focused AI innovation in the Now Platform. The new investment deepens ServiceNow's commitment to the Canadian market, which has long been a leader in AI research and represents one of the world's most significant locations for AI talent.

For the first 125 years of medical imaging, technological advances focused primarily on new modes of imaging as technology progressed from the discovery of the X-ray in 1895 to ultrasounds, MRIs, PET and CT scans in the late 20th century. Now, arguably, the most notable advances are being made in how images from those technologies are securely shared, managed, stored and assessed. These advancements are largely due to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to imaging systems and data platforms. Automation is improving virtually every stage of the imaging workflow, but there is a lot of hype concerning AI and ML in the marketplace. Companies have underestimated the challenge that complexity presents, and predictions of the end of radiologists have proven false multiple times.

Agfa announced the launch of its SmartXR portfolio at RSNA, being held virtually. SmartXR uses a unique combination of hardware and AI-powered software to lighten radiographers' workloads and provide image acquisition support. This newest member of Agfa's DR portfolio offers key assistance during the radiology routine, which has proven to be very important during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as beyond. The SmartXR portfolio brings intelligence to digital radiography (DR) equipment at the point of care. Integrated sensors and cameras combined with powerful AI software, 3D machine vision, deep learning and machine intelligence, support the radiographer with first-time-right image acquisition.

Chinese tech giants Baidu Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. announced today that they're teaming up to build an open artificial intelligence ecosystem for mobile devices. The two companies said they want to create platform that fosters the development of mobile AI that "knows you better." The new ecosystem will combine Baidu Brain, which is the catch-all term for Baidu's various AI tools, with Huawei's HiAI mobile computing platform. The project will also take advantage of the AI-focused hardware components that Huawei installs in its latest smartphone models. "The future is all about smart devices that will actively serve us, not just respond to what we tell them to do," Richard Yu (pictured, right), chief executive of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said in a statement.

Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc. (OTCPK:AITX) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) has received an order from a global top 20 medical devices company with over 50,000 employees for what RAD expects as the first of several Wally HSO (Health Screening Option) units to be deployed at one of the client's manufacturing facilities. Wally HSO is a self-contained, artificial intelligence-driven security, concierge and health screening solution capable of performing touchless temperature assessments on personnel entering a facility. Wally HSO is also designed to detect and document those wearing, and not wearing a face mask as they enter a facility. If the user's temperature is outside of the acceptable range, Wally HSO will not allow entry, the incident is digitally documented, and the unit will provide further instructions either audibly or visually which may include summoning an on-site, or remote security guard. Wally HSO mounts easily on a wall in a lobby or a building entrance and does not require any networking resources or installation and instead connects to the cloud via an enhanced cellular connection or WiFi.

BEGIN ARTICLE PREVIEW: Teleoperated Robots, in recent years, have come to prominence in various spheres of applications like space, underwater exploration, military, and more.  Worldwide sales of service robotics exceeded $17 billion (approx £13 billion) in 2019, and this rapid and exponentially growing market is forecast to top $55 billion (approx £41 billion) by 2023, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR.org) These robots are used in two scenarios – First, in situations where it is unsafe to place a human and secondly when it is hard to program a robot to autonomously perform complex tasks. Right now, there are lots of firms working on it, and one notable startup is Extend Robotics.  Human-like, VR-controlled robotics arm at low cost Recently, Extend Robotics, UK-based tech company announced the launch of its low-cost, human-like, virtual-reality (VR)-controlled robotics arm. As per the robotic SaaS company, it has use cases in

Moscow, Russia, 2020-Nov-27 -- /Travel PR News/ -- Sergei Konyakhin, Director of the Production Modeling Department of JSC Sheremetyevo International Airport, gave a presentation at the Artificial Intelligence Systems 2020 on November 24 conference showing how Sheremetyevo International Airport uses artificial intelligence (AI) systems to effectively manage the airport. The conference was part of the online forum TAdviser Summit 2020: Results of the Year and Plans for 2021. The discussion among of top managers of large companies and leading experts in the IT industry centered on issues related to the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in the activities of Russian enterprises. Sheremetyevo Airport has developed and implemented systems for automatic long-term and short-term planning of personnel and resources. As a result, the planning system was calibrated based on real processes and its previous weaknesses were eliminated; recommendation systems were implemented allowing dispatchers to manage resources taking into account future events; and the company was able to significantly optimize expenses.

Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) has received an order from a global top 20 medical devices company with over 50,000 employees for what RAD expects as the first of several Wally HSO (Health Screening Option) units to be deployed at one of the client's manufacturing facilities. Wally HSO is a self-contained, artificial intelligence-driven security, concierge and health screening solution capable of performing touchless temperature assessments on personnel entering a facility. Wally HSO is also designed to detect and document those wearing, and not wearing a face mask as they enter a facility. If the user's temperature is outside of the acceptable range, Wally HSO will not allow entry, the incident is digitally documented, and the unit will provide further instructions either audibly or visually which may include summoning an on-site, or remote security guard. Wally HSO mounts easily on a wall in a lobby or a building entrance and does not require any networking resources or installation and instead connects to the cloud via an enhanced cellular connection or WiFi.

Cardio-focused digital health company AliveCor landed FDA clearance for its new suite of interpretive ECG algorithms, dubbed the Kardia AI V2. This news comes just days after the company announced a $65 million Series E funding round. The new clearance will is able to capture sinus rhythm with premature ventricular contractions, sinus rhythm with supraventricular ectopy and a sinus rhythm with wide QRS. The algorithm works on AliveCor's KardiaMobile and KardiaMobile 6L devices, which even before this latest FDA clearance, have been able to take 30-second ECGs, and are hooked up to a corresponding app. According to the company's release, the algorithm will also reduce the number of unclassified readings, and has improved sensitivity and specificity on the company's normal and atrial fibrillation algorithms. Users will also have new visualization tools that let them see heart beat average, PVC identification and tachogram.

IPI, the digital contact centre specialist, announced the launch of IPI Cloud AI, a SaaS-based portfolio of IPI's own self-service applications teamed with AI capability from the world's leading vendors. The applications are seamlessly integrated to customers' existing contact centre infrastructures – whether they are on premise or cloud based – providing next-generation AI capability, enabling customers to harness the power of cloud-based self-service functionality simply and cost-effectively, within their existing contact centre system. The initial solutions available include IPI's premier self-service apps: Send Me, which directs customers away from the contact centre to an alternative digital channel; Q4 Me, IPI's own patented end-to-end call-back application; Tell Me, IPI's speech interface for relaying information back to the customers; and ID Me, IPI's ID&V with voice biometrics solution. Alongside this are native integrations to Google Dialogflow CX, Amazon Lex and Microsoft Cognitive Services to support full NLP and intent capture – regardless of channel. "Our research and development team has spent a long time developing a best of breed solution that takes our robust self-service applications and fuses them with next generation AI capabilities from the world's leading vendors," said Steve Murray, Solutions Director at IPI. "We feel that IPI Cloud AI strikes the right balance between cutting edge capabilities and ease of adoption all within an unmatched commercial model. It really is a gamechanger for the market."