WIRE)--Oct 4, 2018--Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has announced that it is partnering with BuildingFootprintUSA to provide unprecedented, accurate geocoding and address matching to users of Esri's ArcGIS platform in the United States and Canada, as well as a comprehensive training dataset used to improve Esri's machine learning and artificial intelligence. Users in any industry--including government, telecom, insurance, utilities, real estate, and retail--can benefit from the increased geocoding accuracy that comes from using building footprints. Building footprints for the United States and Canada will be available for use by ArcGIS users by the end of the year, closely followed by data for the United Kingdom and Brazil. Esri will also provide the data for advanced geocoding needs through ArcGIS World Geocoding Service, StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS North America, and ArcGIS World Geocoder. This press release features multimedia.

H2O.ai, the open source leader in AI, has been named a "Top 3 Vendor" in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in its latest report titled "EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)," based on the innovations of its enterprise-ready automated machine learning platform, H2O Driverless AI. The new report from EMA provides guidance for enterprises on how to optimally leverage today's AI and ML capabilities depending on their individual situation and priorities, specifically highlighting the top three enterprise software products in the industry it recommends should be included in product evaluations. Each of the Top 3 Vendors EMA were chosen based on end user research, market analysis, technical product reviews and expert interviews to provide enterprise customers with pragmatic guidance to optimally benefit from AI and ML. In the EMA report, H2O.ai is specifically recognized for "its vision of creating an AI and ML tool that ultimately aims to allow almost everyone within the business to create their own predictive models," and how that vision is executed in H2O Driverless AI. The automated machine learning platform empowers data scientists or data analysts to work on projects faster and more efficiently by using automation and state-of-the-art computing power to accomplish tasks that can take humans months in just minutes or hours by delivering automatic feature engineering, model validation, model tuning, model selection and deployment, machine learning interpretability, time-series, NLP and automatic pipeline generation for model scoring.

RENO, Nev., Oct. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via OTC PR WIRE -- China Food and Beverage Company (OTC:CHIF), announced today that its healthcare division in cooperation with Shanghai based, American Medical Care and Insurance (AMC Shanghai) has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software program based on a Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Decision Support System (TCM CDSS). The system is an AI assisted diagnosis and treatment cloud platform. In addition, the system integrates various functions such as centralized medical research, analysis and statistics, quantitative calculation, chart analysis, intelligent auxiliary diagnosis, medical record interpretation, and prescription matching. The TCM CDSS Cloud Platform is part of the Company's continued commitment to transform healthcare in China and around the globe. Among the goals of the platform are to keep patients out of hospitals, early detection of life threatening diseases and major clinical research studies of diseases such as diabetes and cardio vascular disease, both of which have reached the epidemic stage in the world's largest country.

Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, said that the world is at an inflection point and beginning to move on "an exponential curve," something that she called "Watson's Law." In a 2017 IBM Super Bowl commercial, actor Jon Hamm said "it is one of the most powerful tools our species has created. It helps doctors fight disease. It can predict global weather patterns. It improves education for children everywhere. And now we unleash it on your taxes."

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 4, 2018--Lemonade, the insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, today announced the appointment of Jorge Espinel as its Chief Business Development Officer, reporting directly to Lemonade CEO and cofounder Daniel Schreiber. Espinel comes to Lemonade from Spotify, where he ran business development worldwide. His main focus at Lemonade will be to grow Lemonade's product offering and reach through strategic partnerships and corporate development initiatives. "For years we've admired how Spotify achieved spectacular growth through innovative partnerships. Few people and few companies have accomplished what Jorge did with Spotify," said Shai Wininger, Lemonade COO and cofounder.

LOS ANGELES – Japanese carmaker Honda has joined forces with the General Motors tech start-up Cruise to develop autonomous vehicles as the race to market self-driving cars heats up, the companies announced Wednesday. Honda's investment promises broader market access for the new cars once they are ready for the public. The Japanese government hopes to showcase self-driving cars when Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics in 2020. With a $2.75 billion commitment in equity and shared development costs over 12 years, Honda joins Japanese conglomerate SoftBank in backing the GM venture to create a multi-purpose vehicle that can be manufactured in high volume for use worldwide, the U.S. auto giant said. Major automakers, start-ups and tech firms are racing to develop truly autonomous vehicles, which the industries see as the next frontier in personal mobility. Honda's announcement comes on the heels of Toyota's move in August to invest $500 million in the ride-hailing service Uber to collaborate on a similar venture to mass-produce self-driving vehicles.

Cruise, the self-driving car arm of General Motors, has an unexpected new ally in its bid to keep its corporate master at the forefront of an industry enduring its greatest period of change in generations: Honda. In a deal announced today, the Japanese automaker will help San Francisco-based Cruise and its Detroit owner develop and mass produce a new sort vehicle for a world in which human drivers are no longer needed. Honda is opening its checkbook too, pledging to spend $2 billion on the project over 12 years, and immediately putting a $750 million equity investment into Cruise. For Honda, the partnership offers entree into a self-driving space where it has thus far spent little time and effort. For Cruise and GM, the newcomer adds engineering know-how, especially with regard to interior design.

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering customer engagement at the world's leading enterprises, today announced the results of a new survey that revealed how consumers perceive their insurance companies. While the majority are very satisfied with their insurers (59 percent), this does not always equate to customer loyalty – 71 percent said simply receiving a lower price quote ranked as the top reason to change insurers. A Pega-commissioned survey of more than 1,000 US-based consumers revealed just how price-driven they are: 63 percent of respondents ranked price as the most important factor when first selecting an insurer. Curiously, only 13 percent ranked customer service as their top factor, but with so many consumers willing to switch providers as soon as they see a better price, the onus is on insurers to provide the kind of proactive customer service that will give them an edge to secure long term customer loyalty. For insurers to create meaningful customer relationships that encourage long-term loyalty, they need to better understand three key areas surrounding customers' current needs and preferences: Insurers aren't providing experiences to promote loyalty When it comes to insurer satisfaction, there's still room for improvement.

BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm focusing on Applied AI and based in Silicon Valley, announced today the 4th annual Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held in San Francisco on April 18, 2019. The BootstrapLabs Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference (#AAI19) has grown to become one of the top AI events in the U.S. Mentioned in publications such as Forbes, TechCrunch and Fortune, and selected by Business Insider as one of the top 20 AI conferences to attend, the exclusive conference has brought together over 2,000 professionals and is considered by many AI leaders to be the best forum to learn, network and discover the latest Applied AI technologies. The one-day conference will focus on the latest and future impacts of AI applications across a breadth of sectors including Transportation, Logistics, Healthcare, Energy, FinTech, the Future of Work, IoT and Cybersecurity. The conference will take place in downtown San Francisco and will feature keynotes from Artificial Intelligence leaders who will share practical wisdom and methodologies on how to take advantage of AI's powerful potential. Many CTOs, CIOs and AI/ML experts from top tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Uber, MasterCard, Unity, Airbnb, Linkedin, Intel, Samsung, Tesla, JP Morgan, Comcast, Microsoft, IBM, Walmart and many others, including top AI founders and government officials, have been participating during past conference editions.

PeriGen, an innovator of perinatal early warning systems, today announced that ProMedica, a not-for-profit integrated health care organization serving 30 states, plans to deploy the company's PeriWatch Vigilance, an artificial intelligence-based maternal-fetal early warning system (EWS), in all of its labor and delivery hospitals. Vigilance is designed to help clinicians identify troubling trends earlier and more consistently than manual assessments and creates a common language for nurses and physicians to assess cases. The artificial intelligence-driven technology, developed by PeriGen, is the latest chapter in ProMedica's commitment to lead improvement in Ohio and Michigan's infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rates, which currently rank near the bottom of the nation. The software is designed to be implemented in a matter of weeks and brings an unprecedented level of monitoring to the labor and delivery floor. It does not require replacing any current systems already in place.