Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to have a game changing effect on Consumer Products, Business Services, Advertising, Finance & Investment, Media & Entertainment and Defense Applications around the world. According to a research report by Markets and Markets, the global artificial intelligence landscape could reach a value north of $190 billion within the next seven years. AI is asserting itself as a transformative technology that can heavily influence the global economy with trillions in contributions in various subsets of the economy. The most significant factor influencing the explosive growth of this market is the investment by businesses, as leaders across numerous industries are spending billions to develop advanced AI platforms. Active companies in the markets this week include Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTC: GOPH), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), ON Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: ON), Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV).

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a leader in cloud data integration solutions, has been named to the 2018 CRN Big Data 100 list, a brand of The Channel Company. This annual list recognizes vendors that have demonstrated an ability to innovate in bringing to market products and services that help businesses work with one of the most dynamic, fastest growing segments of the IT industry - Big Data. As a result of Talend's inclusion in the CRN Big Data 100, Solutions Review selected Talend Open Studio for Data Integration and Talend Cloud among its list of "7 Data Integration Tools We Recommend". The data explosion in recent years has fueled a vibrant big data technology industry. Businesses need innovative products and services to capture, integrate, manage and analyze the massive volumes of data they are grappling with every day.

STRATA DATA -- Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, today announced new innovations to help businesses operationalize data insights faster by making data scientists and data engineers more productive. New machine learning capabilities make it easier for data scientists to quickly train and deploy models with higher confidence and lower risk. Massive increases in performance, scale and capacity of Cloudera's modern data platform help organizations keep pace with the explosive growth and diversity of data in their business. These new capabilities enable data teams to collaborate more effectively and deliver models to production faster, enabling secure access to enterprise-scale, high-performance data and compute, both on-premises and across public clouds. Click to tweet: NEWS: @Cloudera empowers enterprises to propel their digital transformation with updates to #cloud and #datascience offerings: http://bit.ly/2Izoqjc

The team of specialists at the AI training center will work on developing a range of future capabilities to help increase police efficiency and efficacy, including software to enable vehicle, speech and critical event recognition. Initially, the team will focus on training the AI algorithm for automatic license plate recognition to aid law enforcement in automated data analysis. Today, without the purchase of expensive, specialized hardware, officers must go through the process of manually viewing license plates and physically typing them into a system to match against a database. "Officers spend, on average, two-thirds of each shift sitting behind a keyboard doing paperwork," says Moji Solgi, Axon's Director of AI and Machine Learning. "Our team is applying AI, machine learning and data science to common policing problems and eliminating pain points for agencies, including manual paperwork. The ultimate goal of the AI training center is to help accelerate the introduction of AI-powered capabilities for public safety."

The Basware Assistant uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to create a new and simplified way for people to interact with Basware's e-procurement solution. They can communicate with the Basware Assistant like they would with a person, to search for orders and purchase requests using vendor and item names, as well as ID and document numbers. By giving people the ability to specify what they are looking, it eliminates the need for having to navigate a series of screens to reach their intended purchase. Through its natural language processing and AI capabilities, the virtual assistant improves system usability, taking another step in streamlining the overall procurement experience. Not only does it help people find purchase orders and order requests more quickly and save them time, it also reduces the training required for new people to buy with Basware.

While the chief data science officer role is common at technology firms, it's not standard at accounting and consulting firms. "I'm excited for this opportunity and the commitment from Crowe to push forward into this area," said Bass, who joined Crowe in 2015 as the firm's only data scientist. "With a team of world-class data scientists, we've already set the groundwork and incorporated machine learning into a few solutions in a very short amount of time." Bass has extensive experience applying advanced analytic, automation and machine learning techniques to a variety of industries. He is a continual learner, as shown through five combined degrees in aerospace engineering, statistics and finance from the University of Michigan, Purdue University and the Pennsylvania State University.

The local authority, Council of Agriculture (COA), guided seeds manufacturers to improve F1 hybrid seed collecting techniques that resulted in superior harvest performance of cruciferous vegetables, watermelons and cherry tomatoes. The featured exhibitors invited to showcase at the pavilion of Taiwan Seed Varieties this year include Besgrow Seed, Ching Long Seed, Agronew Trading, Taiwan Banana Research Institute, Known-You Seed and Sing-Flow Seed Trading. One of the exhibitors - CH Biotech, developed'Weather Mend,' a product to regulate plant gene expression system with non-genetically modified active components, which is seen as a crucial solutions for crops in facing extreme climate change. This product aims to increase plant survival rate and helps steady food supply. Not only will it initiate plants' defence mechanism in advance, but also reduce losses caused by severe weather.

SANTA CLARA l MUMBAI, April 27, 2018: Digitate, a software unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), today announced that its cognitive automation solution, ignio, won an award for the first use of machine learning within the workload automation (WLA) analytics industry from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Connecting organizations across a common automation language, WLA builds skills that reduce errors, speed development and remove highly repetitive work, which increases productivity and reliability in defining automated tasks. As WLA continues to evolve, digitization increases and IT accelerates the integration of new technologies such as machine learning. In its quarterly WLA Radar Summary Report, EMA recognized ignio for Batch, underscoring how it keeps business processes running smoothly, reducing the time required to plan and make changes with impact analysis in minutes. Workload automation for batch jobs execution is critical to the proper operations for enterprises that have large numbers of transactions within banking and financial services, retail and manufacturing industries. For services running over 100,000 batch jobs on a daily basis, any failure could lead to business downtime the next day.

Lately, there has been more and more talk of Kepler Technologies, a young and ambitious startup that has been receiving excellent ratings from all leading ICO-review websites. Multiple experts on sites such as ICO Bench (4.9/5), CoinGecko (5/5), Track ICO (5/5) and Token Lion (5/5) all agree that this is the most revolutionary and interesting crypto project at the moment. Team, vision, and product all seem to have left long-lasting impressions on experts and analysts – but what is it all about? Kepler Technologies is trying to bring together some of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century, namely Robotics, AI, and Blockchain. The goal is to introduce a platform, Kepler Universe, on which developers, investors, and innovators from all around the world can finally connect to work together on revolutionary projects and ideas.

Called Interests, the new eBay app feature is able to curate products to users based on their personal wants and needs. The Interests feature on the eBay apps works by having users answer a few questions, like "What's your style?" and "What are your favorite activities?" Answering these questions will help the app figure out what kinds of products the user will actually want to buy. Additionally, Interests will also match products based on the user's browsing patterns to deliver personalized recommendations. The company said that it is able to curate products using machine learning and algorithms.