IBM (NYSE:IBM) is in the middle of reinventing itself from a hardware company that sells servers to businesses, to a services company that provides platforms, analytics, and cloud computing to its customers. Sure, it still sells hardware, but IBM is continually looking ahead to a world where service revenue dominates its top line. To that end, IBM recently made an announcement about a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform it's launching, called Cloud Private for Data. The name doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but IBM says that this new data science and machine learning platform will make it easier for its customers to make data-driven decisions. "Designed to help companies uncover previously unobtainable insights from their data, the platform is also designed to enable users to build and exploit event-driven applications capable of analyzing the torrents of data from things like IoT sensors, online commerce, mobile devices, and more," the company said in a press release.

Tempo AI, a startup focused on increasing productivity through your calendar, has raised a new $10 million Series A round of funding, the company announced today. Tempo AI's main product is the Tempo Smart Calendar iOS app, which aims to help people organize their calendar of events, appointments, and the like using an artificial-intelligence technology. If you're part of a company full of people with different schedules that get shared with others, you know how crazy your calendar can appear at any give time. Tempo AI's tech wants to sift through all that data -- including how you interact with it -- to anticipate where you need to be and what tasks take priority over others. The startup said it plans to use the new capital to advance its artificial-intelligence technology for the Smart Calendar app and possibly other services as well.

DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Maria Horton joined the faculty of CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by FTC, CUI/DFARS, EU-GDPR and the underlying National Cybersecurity Framework suggest the need for a ground-up re-thinking of security strategies and compliance actions. This session offers actionable advice based on case studies to demonstrate the impact of security and privacy attributes for the cloud-backed IoT and AI ecosystem.

Inefficiency in management of a business is one of the top reason for business failures. Efficient management in the business organization is one of the key reasons for success of the organization. While it is easier for large scale organizations to have multiple teams overlooking various departments, multiple levels of audit committees, the situation is quite different for Small and Medium Scale Organizations. Having a dedicated team for every department, allotting tasks through software, monitoring tasks automatically and keeping the employees motivated and automated incentivising based on performances is just a dream for startups and small-scale organizations. "OBIZCOIN creates Smart Process Automation BOT Based on Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain Technology to automate business operations" OBIZCOIN Bot will help organizations in designing the procedures and policies framework based on which the entire organization will function.

KITCHENER, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miovision, a global leader in smart city technology, today launched the next generation of traffic technology. Using a type of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning, Miovision SmartSense brings AI to the roadside to help cities sense and understand what's happening at the intersection in real time. SmartSense can detect the presence and movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists and use this data to improve congestion and safety. The new Miovision SmartSense technology completes the company's TrafficLink solution, which also includes a 360-degree fisheye camera and an IoT connected hub that allows traffic professionals to remotely access the intersection. Together, these components make up a powerful AI toolkit that uncovers insights about the intersection.

Founded by Hollywood film composers Drew Silverstein, Sam Estes, and Michael Hobe, Amper Music is for anyone around the world who uses, consumes or creates music. Amper is especially appealing to content creators and developers. Using Amper, content creators can simplify their workflow and avoid the time, budgetary, and licensing frustrations of stock music. The music created with Amper receives a global, royalty-free, and perpetual license, eliminating the many legal and financial hurdles of traditional music licensing. Users can select a mood, genre and track duration, then customize the track with a multitude of easy-to-use editing functionality.

The ethics of artificial intelligence will be critical to the success of AI going forward, a Microsoft leader and a keynote speaker at the AI Day event in Auckland next week says. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft's AI Business, says that given AI has the potential to reshape not just industries and governments, but society as a whole. "Working on the ethics of the use of AI, from the beginning, in key areas like transparency, accountability, privacy and bias will be crucial to the success of AI going forward. "There is a strong focus on the ethical implications of the AI systems that are being built and deployed." The European Commission's group on ethics in science and new technologies recently warned that existing efforts to develop solutions to the ethical, societal and legal challenges AI presents are a'patchwork of disparate initiatives'. It added that uncoordinated, unbalanced approaches in the regulation of AI risked ethics shopping, resulting in the relocation of AI development and use to regions with lower ethical standards. AI Day on March 28 is being organised by NewZealand.AI and the AI Forum NZ, which is part of the NZTech Alliance, bringing together 14 national tech communities, more than 500 organisations and more than 100,000 employees to help create a more prosperous New Zealand underpinned by technology. Guggenheimer says one important element around the adoption of AI is the focus on having AI help to amplify human capabilities and allow them to do more versus simply replacing people and functions. "As AI is adopted by various organisations we are starting to see a few trends occurring.

Board to help MOV37 find, develop and nurture the new wave of young talent revolutionizing investment management. New York, March 8, 2018 – MOV37, the research and investment platform for Autonomous Learning Investment Strategies (ALIS), has assembled an Advisory Board to help find, develop and nurture the young talent that will revolutionize investment management. "The Advisory Board's primary role is to push us outside our intellectual comfort zones," says Adil Abdulali, Chief Science Officer and President at MOV37. The Board will partner with MOV37 in exploring how technology is fundamentally changing investment management and identifying and supporting the young ALIS managers at the forefront of that disruption. Raphael Douady earned his math PhD in Hamiltonian systems in Paris and holds the Robert Frey Endowed Chair for Quantitative Finance at Stony Brook, New York.

IBM today announced the launch of its new Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) program for AI developers. With DlaaS, users can train neural networks using popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Caffe without buying and maintaining costly hardware. The service lets data scientists train models using only the resources they need, paying only for GPU time. Each cloud processing unit is set up for ease-of-use and prepared for programming deep learning networks without the need for infrastructure management from users. Users can choose from a set of supported deep learning frameworks, a neural network model, training data, and cost constraints and then the service takes care of the rest, providing them an interactive, iterative training experience.

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., – (March 08, 2018)–Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU), a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that accelerates business outcomes for its clients,has been included in Gartner'sMarket Guide for Data Science and Machine Learning Service Providers. The report, published on October 31, 2017, states: "Data and analytics leaders looking for support for their data science and machine learning projects should use this research to identify and engage with candidate service providers to fill the analytics deficit and augment their existing data scientists with specific skills." According to Gartner, "the growing demand for DS&ML as a competitive differentiator is forcing organizations to acquire an even wider portfolio of skilled resources – from statisticians and data scientists, to chief analytics officers. However, there is a shortage of data science skills in the market, making it difficult to source the right skills." "We feel that we are one of the most visible DS&ML service partners worldwide and are proud to be recognized in Gartner's Market Guide," said Kumar Ramamurthy, senior vice president and global head, Data & Analytics, Virtusa.