AI start-up Gamalon raised $20 million with lead investor Intel Capital joined by .406 This brings the total investment in US-based AI firm to more than $32 million including the largest single investment by the US Government in next-generation machine learning over the past five years. Existing investors Boston Seed Capital, Felicis Ventures and Rivas Capital also participated in the Series A round. According to Gamalon, it's the first artificial intelligence system that can process natural language and then explain what ideas are present and how they are organized. The first application of technology will be for enterprises to read, understand, and interact with billions of customer messages and provide individual responses.

On Wednesday the Department of Transportation announced the launch of a pilot program that will lead to new regulations. On Wednesday the Department of Transportation announced the launch of a pilot program that will lead to new regulations. Here's a hypothetical: How tolerant would you be of a drone flying over your head or zooming through your backyard, if it were carrying life-saving medicine to the scene of a hard-to-reach accident? The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to collect the answers to questions like this, and a slew of other data, in a new test project called the Integration Pilot Program. After combing through 149 applications from state, local and tribal governments seeking to partner with some of the world's leading technology companies, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the winners Wednesday.

The conclusion of the round is the latest in a series of recent highlights for conDati, including receiving an award for applying machine learning to marketing ROI and bringing multiple customers into pre-launch deployments. The completed financing positions the company for commercial launch of its Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) solutions for digital marketing later this spring. "We already have companies in e-commerce, higher education, B2B and digital media actively using our solution," noted CEO and founder Ken Gardner in an interview. "Our momentum is building, and we are eager to get to the broader market and help companies improve their return on marketing. The complete and current visibility we deliver in conDati Marketing Analytics gives marketers entirely new abilities to understand, predict and improve the financial performance of all their digital marketing campaigns."

Schlage announced today that users of its Sense and Connect smart locks will now be able to unlock them with Alexa. Users have been able to lock and check the status of their smart deadbolts with Amazon's digital assistant since October, but unlocking them still required a phone. Now Sense and Connect owners can use any Alexa-enabled device to unlock their doors for them. The feature will have to be enabled -- it's disabled by default for security purposes -- through the Amazon Alexa app and users will be required to create a PIN in order to use the feature. That PIN has to be spoken before Alexa can unlock the door and three wrong attempts will cause the voice control feature to be disabled.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company ThoughtSpot, whose technology enables sophisticated searches of corporate data, has raised $145 million in fresh funding, underscoring investor appetite for technology that promises to automate tasks once done by humans. The company announced the new funding on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer Ajeet Singh said in an interview that the round was more than double what he had set out to raise and would likely be the final private fundraising before an initial public offering in as little as two years. The funding values the company at $950 million, up from $450 million after its last fundraising, according to venture capital data firm PitchBook Inc. ThoughtSpot sells businesses software that uses artificial intelligence - teaching computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence - to make queries and deliver answers from a massive set of data. Company employees can search corporate data much the same as making a query using Google Search.

One of the biggest challenges for recruiting teams is accurately predicting when a role will be filled, to better anticipate and sidestep the costs of a slow hiring process. Using machine learning, Greenhouse Predicts helps forecast candidate offer acceptance and new hire start dates, allowing Talent, Operations and Finance teams to more easily see around corners, make informed decisions, and effectively communicate timelines. "Greenhouse Predicts helped the recruiting team at Workfront provide better data to the Finance team on our time-to-fill metric," said Greenhouse customer Jana Johnson, Manager of Talent Acquisition for Workfront, which has been part of the beta since the beginning. "As a fast-growing SaaS company, it's especially important that we're able to accurately forecast headcount spend. Before we had Greenhouse Predicts, each recruiter was sharing their'best guess' on when they thought the position would be filled; this method was far less accurate than the algorithm built in the tool."

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in our daily use of artificial intelligence. Nowadays, AI systems are being used in leading newsrooms around the world. I recently detailed AI's current roles in journalism, and the new possibilities they present. With these new possibilities come questions regarding ethical use of AI in newsrooms and the factors that should be considered when judging the moral application of AI in today's news. Here, we're going to examine the emerging ethics surrounding AI use in journalism as media professionals face new challenges never before met in the modern newsroom.

As part of its plans to set out a roadmap for artificial intelligence (AI) in the country, Indian government think-tank Niti Aayog said that it will be working with tech giant Google to develop AI-based solutions aimed at improving the overall economic productivity of the nation. The move is aimed at fostering growth for India's nascent AI and machine learning (ML) ecosystem, said Niti Aayog. Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Niti Aayog, said: "Niti's partnership with Google will unlock massive training initiatives, support start-ups and encourage AI research through PhD scholarships, all of which contributes to the larger idea of a technologically-empowered New India." Under the aegis of this programme, Google will train and incubate Indian AI start-ups in an accelerator program. These start-ups will be mentored and coached by Google and its affiliates to enable them to better leverage AI in their respective business models, said a statement from Niti Aayog.

DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named the Tech Chair of "Smart Cities IoT IIoT" track of CloudEXPO's 10-Year Anniversary Event which will take place on November 12-13, 2018 in New York City. Chris Matthieu is the President & CEO of Computes, inc. He brings 30 years of experience in development and launches of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. His most recent venture was Octoblu, a cross-protocol Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network platform, acquired by Citrix. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of Teleku, a communications-as-a-service cloud platform which was acquired by Voxeo.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just wrapped up the keynote at the company's big developer conference, Microsoft BUILD. This year, the keynote was a wild ride through the future of what Microsoft thinks the world will look like, but in between the philosophy quotes and visions of dystopias where you have Skype embedded in your car dashboard, Microsoft actually did reveal a few new projects and products. This year is all about software, AI, distributed computing, and the "multi-device" experience. In case it wasn't clear before, Microsoft wants to make it clear that it doesn't care if you're using a Windows PC, a Mac, an Android phone, or anything else that can access the internet. It just wants you to be using its platform and its software to do so, and that's at the core of everything the company announced today.