Omnidya, the new platform making history by being the first to enable live negotiating in the service industry, will be exhibiting at Collision 2018. Omnidya uses artificial intelligence to create win-win scenarios between enterprises and consumers for deals on insurance, travel, wireless services, and more; enabling consumers to spend less time finding the most cost-effective option. Omnidya also takes customer care seriously, and aims to enhance customer engagement through AI. Their intelligent chatbot, Omnibot, provides around-the-clock assistance, answering questions and addressing concerns to provide the most positive experience possible for consumers. After a successful time exhibiting at SXSW, the company (which has been bootstrapped thus far) is looking forward to their initial fundraising round and forging more partnerships at Collision.

The telecommunication service provider industry is one of the biggest businesses in the world. It also has historically been a capital-intensive industry with high fixed costs, which has put pressure on telecom operators to control their variable costs, particularly human capital. This tension surrounding profitability is intensifying. Many telecom operators crossed the point where revenue per bit is lower than cost per bit in 2017. Telecom operators are threatened by fast and highly-efficient web-scale companies and are straining under the challenge posed by digital transformation.

"Our guiding principles are: Innovation, Collaboration, and Excellence," said Joel Amoussou, Founder and Director of Atlantic AI Labs . Mr. Amoussou has over 23 years of experience in providing consulting services to Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada and is a member of the US-based Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The use of AI in healthcare will help alleviate the shortage of specialist physicians in Africa. For example, cancer incidence and mortality rates in Africa are increasing rapidly. AI can be used to analyze patients' clinical data and automatically deliver personalized care recommendations based on globally accepted evidence-based clinical practice guidelines while leveraging the widespread use of smartphones in Africa.

Zong Qinghou, the CEO of one of China's largest companies, announced plans to set up a research center at the University of Haifa focusing on artificial intelligence. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will also be a research partner.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today announced a new capability designed to enhance protection against Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this innovation will be integrated into multiple products to raise the alarm when emails are suspected of impersonating an executive or other high-profile user. "This is the first time I've seen email writing style analysis launched in our industry," said Michael Osterman at Osterman Research. "This is a compelling demonstration of AI being used for essential cybersecurity protection against today's most financially impactful attack vector – email." Trend Micro Writing Style DNA is a new layer of protection against BEC attacks, which uses AI to "blueprint" a user's style of writing, employing more than 7,000 writing characteristics.

Baidu Inc. has raised more than US$1.9 billion for its newly spun-off financial services division from TPG, Carlyle Group and other investors, creating one of China's best-funded fintech companies. Taikang Group and other backers also joined the funding round for the newly formed company, which will be called "Du Xiaoman Financial" and use artificial intelligence to provide short-term loans and investment services. Baidu Senior Vice President Zhu Guang will run the business as an independent entity, according to a statement Saturday. The news comes a day after Baidu said it planned to sell a majority stake in the business, without providing a timetable. Baidu turns to AI to police online content, but is the technology reliable?

Lattice Engines, a provider of account-based marketing tools driven by artificial intelligence, on Thursday announced the launch of Lattice Atlas, positioning it as the first customer data platform for ABM. The new platform synchronizes all customer data across a single, integrated view, the company said, making it easier for customers to see their data, no matter the source. Customers often have to view data across multiple tools and workflows -- for example, in order to compare data with existing versus new customers, noted Nipul Chokshi, vice president of product marketing at Lattice. "We realized that our customers needed a customer data platform that unifies all data," he said, one that "enables AI-driven audience creation as well as omnichannel activation and personalization all in one centralized place, and provides enterprise grade marketing governance." The new platform employs the ABM identity graph, using patent-pending adaptive match technology to resolve identities by matching first-party to third-party data in Lattice Data Cloud, which has more than 20,000 curated insights, Chokshi added.

The developments in Google's Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas. Google has been ramping up their Cloud Platform quite aggressively in recent months. Just a few weeks ago, the Google Cloud Platform opened its newest zone in Tokyo, increasing the total number of regions they are present in to six - three in the US and one each in Belgium and Taiwan and Tokyo. Not long ago, the company announced its acquisition of Orbitera, a cloud commerce company. The developments in Google's Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas.

Written on 06 October 2017. If you believe its cheerleaders, such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, we're at the start of a new industrial revolution, with boundless productivity growth ahead. If you believe the naysayers, including Tesla founder Elon Musk, then computer super-intelligence is humankind's largest existential threat. Whatever the future holds, an AI-powered world will have huge consequences for investors – the trouble is working out which companies will prosper, and which will be left in the history books. Here, though, I want to make the case that shareholders as a group will do very well.

Waze has struck a data-sharing agreement with Waycare, an artificial intelligence-based traffic management startup, the two companies announced today. The deal will allow them to combine anonymized navigation information crowdsourced from the 100 million drivers who use Waze with Waycare's proprietary traffic analytics. The collaboration is now active in Nevada, Florida, California and Nevada, with plans to expand over the next year. It is part of Waze's Connected Citizens Program, which gives cities around the world access to anonymized driver data to help them manage traffic and road infrastructure. A representative told TechCrunch that data supplied by Waycare to Waze will be incorporated into the app's usual interface, while data from Waze will be added to Waycare's platform alongside its other data sets. Founded in 2016, Waycare is a cloud-based platform that enables municipalities to gather data from many sources, including on-board devices, navigation apps, sensors and road camera feeds, and analyze them using proprietary deep learning algorithms to figure out how to improve traffic and road conditions.