Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today unveiled a series of intelligent and comprehensive connected radiology solutions at the 2016 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA), beginning November 27 through December 1 at McCormick Place in Chicago. At the Philips booth (#6735), RSNA attendees will experience a new portfolio of digital imaging systems, intelligent software and services to enhance diagnostics, improve patient care and operational efficiencies. Radiology is at the center of the majority of healthcare decisions, driving the timely detection and accurate diagnosis and treatment of disease at its earliest stages. As health organizations continue to move toward value-based care, they need intelligent solutions to meet the challenges they face in improving outcomes, lowering cost of healthcare delivery and enhancing patient satisfaction. "Radiologists are playing a pivotal role in determining the right path to the right treatment," said Robert Cascella, CEO, Diagnosis and Treatment, Philips.

Tech giant Intel has announced a new strategy focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and based on a new portfolio of technologies centered on its recent acquisition of AI company Nervana Systems. The new portfolio will include products and services for everything from network edge to data center use cases to help accelerate the growth of AI technologies. "Intel sees AI transforming the way businesses operate and how people engage with the world," the company said in a statement yesterday. "Intel is assembling the broadest set of technology options to drive AI capabilities in everything from smart factories and drones to sports, fraud detection and autonomous cars." Dubbed Intel Nervana, the new platform comes courtesy of the company's acquisition of the two-year-old Nervana Systems announced three months ago.

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.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwired - Nov 14, 2016) - SC16 -- To help companies join the AI revolution, NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate AI in the enterprise. Using the first purpose-built enterprise AI framework optimized to run on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in Microsoft Azure or on-premises, enterprises now have an AI platform that spans from their data center to Microsoft's cloud. "Every industry has awoken to the potential of AI," said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "We've worked with Microsoft to create a lightning-fast AI platform that is available from on-premises with our DGX-1 supercomputer to the Microsoft Azure cloud. With Microsoft's global reach, every company around the world can now tap the power of AI to transform their business."

IBM wants to make the connected products, robots, and other gizmos of the future as smart as they can be -- and it's Jeopardy!-champion That's why the company announced last week that Watson will be made available to more developers than ever thanks to Project Intu. If people take advantage of this program, Watson could make sure their supposedly "smart" products aren't quite as elementary as they are now. Watson has already been used to do everything from enable robot concierges to help a professor at Georgia Tech manage the online forums of his A.I. course. Project Intu is supposed to expand Watson's influence even further.

Big Blue is bringing its Watson artificial intelligence tools to the enterprise world in a big way, with new tools announced this week for marketing, commerce, supply chains, and human resources. IBM also rolled out a new hybrid cloud database solution, cognitive capabilities for iOS apps, and services for developers using the Slack collaboration platform. The company announced the new products and services at its World of Watson event taking place this week in Las Vegas. The conference is dedicated to promoting IBM's artificial intelligence technologies. One of the key themes of this year's conference is how Watson can help business professionals.

The same Microsoft technology currently used by healthcare organizations and yes, robots, is now being tested throughout the summer months by Cricket Australia, making it the first cricketing nation to integrate the company's team and player performance platform into its decision-making processes across fitness, game strategy, player recovery and team selection. As part of the new deal with Microsoft, Cricket Australia is now one of a few sports organizations worldwide experimenting with the new platform. At the recent Microsoft Australia Developer Conference, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said he was "glad" with how Cricket Australia was planning to integrate "machine learning" into its overarching strategy. "Cricket is one of the richest sports when it comes to using machine data. But how could you harness the power of data to even start having a more intelligent informed conversation about performance of teams, performance of players?"

Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc and YMK Photonics, Inc announced today a research collaboration and business cooperation to develop photonics quantum computing and accelerated deep learning techniques for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research. On the 15th of November, 2016 in the presence of over 800 YMK employees, customers, partners and investors, the Chairman of YMK Holdings, Mr. Kim Young Mo, the CEO of Insilico Medicine, Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD and Head of Insilico Korea, Professor Youngsook Park signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue mutual benefit in deep learning and cognitive photonics computing. "YMK is pursuing a very big vision. Extending healthy human longevity is not only the most altruistic cause, but a pressing socio-economic necessity. Insilico Medicine made substantial advances in applying deep learning techniques to drug development and aging research, but to accelerate the process and simulate entire human bodies and populations or generate optimal molecular structures, they could really benefit from our expertise in quantum computing. This collaboration is the first step towards cognitive quantum photonic computation for drug discovery and longevity research", said Mr. Kim Young Mo, the Chairman of YMK Holdings.

New analytics engine for users allows anyone to receive fast, accurate imaging analysis for key clinical conditions, by simply uploading their scans to Zebra's online system Zebra Medical Vision (https://www.zebra-med.com/), the leading machine learning imaging analytics company, is launching Profound (http://profound.zebra-med.com) The company's new service allows people to upload their medical imaging scans such as CTs and Mammograms to Zebra's online service, and receive an automated analysis for key clinical conditions. This Smart News Release features multimedia. "We are all anxious about our health. Undergoing an imaging scan such as a CT or a Mammogram is stressful for many people, often compounded by a long wait for results, with additional follow-up tests and examinations." said Elad Benjamin, co-founder and CEO of Zebra Medical Vision.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PIQ, a leading French start-up in sports wearables today unveiled a breakthrough innovation with the introduction of a genuine Artificial Intelligence interface dedicated to sports activities. After 2 years of R&D and €13m investments, PIQ's 50 engineers developed a revolutionary technology, protected by 10 international patents allowing to identify athletes' Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. From a world where connected sports were limited to the capture of basic data, PIQ's two cutting edge innovations are opening new horizons to the Sport Wearables industry: The combination of GAIA and PIQ ROBOTTM enables athletes to identify their Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. GAIA – GAIA is the first Artificial Intelligence system that autonomously understands sports movement. GAIA is capable of breaking down and analyze sports movements via specific motion-capture algorithms.