Accenture ACN, 0.40% has invested in and formed a strategic alliance with Quantexa, a leading data analytics firm that provides technology solutions to uncover new intelligence. The minority investment made by Accenture Ventures will help Quantexa accelerate the development of its AI-powered entity resolution and network analytics technology working with Accenture Applied Intelligence. The new collaboration will help clients uncover new actionable insights across multiple industry use cases including fighting financial crime. As part of the alliance agreement, Accenture plans to build new capabilities that combine its technology and risk expertise with Quantexa's network analytics platform. The collaboration aims to develop multiple AI-enabled solutions addressing business challenges in areas including anti-money laundering, credit risk and customer insight.

Mazda Motor Corp. is considering offering mobility services using technologies such as the internet and autonomous driving, its president and chief executive officer, Akira Marumoto, said. Providing such services is "an option" for the automaker, Marumoto said in a recent interview. "Collaboration with nonautomotive sectors such as telecommunications is possible," he said, signaling Mazda's readiness to team up with other companies to obtain know-how about the new services. Automakers globally have been racing to join forces with technology companies to provide new transportation services, such as ride-hailing, using mobile and other technologies. Toyota Motor Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. last month announced a partnership to offer new mobility services using automated driving technology.

On October 10, 2018, Huawei officially released a full-stack all-scenario AI solution. 'Full-stack' means the solution provides powerful and cost-effective computing power, as well as low-barrier application development platforms that make AI data modeling, model training, and application development simpler, more agile, and more efficient. As an'all-scenario' solution, it is able to drive pervasive intelligence across various device, edge, and cloud scenarios. Ascend 310 is the industry's most powerful AI SoC chip for edge computing scenarios. Currently, the most typical edge computing scenarios are security and protection, autonomous driving, and smart manufacturing.

Why do some mobile in-app ad campaigns succeed, while others fall flat? In part, it's because the creatives used are just ineffective. Too often, ads go unseen -- and unclicked. In the second quarter of 2018, Moat's average valid and viewable rate was around 60 percent, while the average viewable rate noted by IAS in the same time frame was less than 50 percent. That means two of every five ads will never be seen in full by a real person. The average click-through rate of an in-app ad is just over 1.5 percent.

CEO Riley Doyle discusses how Desktop Genetics applies machine learning techniques to the complex world of CRISPR genome editing. The company is building an AI to provide best-in-class genomic services for the design of customised CRISPR libraries.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To solve humanity's most complex and demanding problems ranging from creating sustainable global food production and preventing infectious disease epidemics to ensuring the safety of our planet and natural resources is the HPC community's next grand challenge. HPC and AI are revolutionizing how we untangle and solve global threats and humanitarian crises. The SC18 plenary session will examine the potential for advanced computing to help mitigate human suffering and elevate our capacity to protect the most vulnerable. This plenary session will hear from innovators who are redefining how we predict and prevent humanitarian crises by leveraging advanced computing. The session is the kick-off event, which immediately precedes the Exhibitor Opening Gala.

The digital landscape is changing. What media companies once took for granted – channel loyalty, captive audiences, and scaling on the back of a portfolio full of tangible products – has fallen by the wayside. In place of Thursday night programming blocks and CDs, we now have streaming services and custom content experiences. Behind it all lies artificial intelligence designed to catapult business into the upper echelons of intelligent enterprise. The question is what all of this means for media companies looking to stay on the cutting edge of innovation while still speaking to their core audiences.

Today, we're happy to announce our newest white paper, "The Inevitability of AI Law & Policy: Preparing Government for the Era of Autonomous Machines," by Public Knowledge General Counsel Ryan Clough. The paper argues that the rapid and pervasive rise of artificial intelligence risks exploiting the most marginalized and vulnerable in our society. To mitigate these harms, Clough advocates for a new federal authority to help the U.S. government implement fair and equitable AI. "Any individual can be misjudged and mistreated by artificial intelligence," Clough explains, "but the record to date indicates that it is significantly more likely to happen to the less powerful, who also have less recourse to do anything about it." The paper argues that a new federal authority is the best way to meet the profound and novel challenges AI poses for us all. "As artificial intelligence begins to transform our daily lives, it is critical to build an accountability structure that enables the marketplace to harness the vast promises of this technology, while also empowering the public, safeguarding our autonomy and fundamental rights, and protecting against discriminatory mistreatment of historically-vulnerable groups. By establishing an expert authority that coordinates federal engagement on behalf of citizens, we can begin to build public confidence in this technology and its enormous potential benefits, without opening the door to systematic disempowerment and exploitation."

Israel's Airobotics today announced it has raised a $30 million round of funding as the company continues to build out its U.S. operations. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a commercial pilotless drone that self-deploys and then returns to its base, where robotic arms handle chores like changing the battery and various components. No human intervention is needed. The drones have proven to be particularly popular with mining companies, but are targeting a wide range of industries such as utilities and warehouses. In late September, the company announced it was opening a North American headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona to oversee its business in South America and Central America as well.

Waymo just became the first company allowed to test fully self-driving cars--the kind with no carbon-based beings behind the wheel--in the state of California. The outfit that started life as Google's self-driving car project has been running driver-free cars in Arizona for almost a year, where the state testing rules are far more lax than in California, and where it plans to launch a commercial robo-taxi service by the end of the year. But securing the right to do the same in its home state is still a milestone, and evidence it can win over even comparatively wary regulators to the way of the robot. To begin, the truly driverless cars will test only at up to 65 mph in the southern Bay Area, in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and Palo Alto. The company said it will inform local governments before expanding its tests any further.