Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his company is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software, one week after the company's first Internet chat bot in the U.S. was so manipulated by users that it had to be pulled down within a day of its introduction. "It's a simple concept yet it's very powerful in its impact it is about taking the power of human language and applying it more pervasively in all our computing," Nadella said about the strategy the company has dubbed conversation as a platform. The CEO was speaking Wednesday at the company's Build conference for software developers in San Francisco. Later, in a keynote speech, Nadella will outline the company's strategy for conversation-based products working with bots, which are pieces of software that use artificial intelligence to automate or accomplish tasks, as well as tools for developers to create their own. Nadella has been trying to expand Microsoft's reach and influence in AI, emphasizing how the technology can augment products in the mobile and cloud-computing markets.

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 30, 2016) - EverString, the fastest-growing predictive marketing SaaS company, today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered platform is now integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The new integration empowers users to optimize the prospect-to-customer journey by enabling sales and marketing teams to prioritize existing prospects and also identify net new, high-quality leads using the power of predictive marketing. "Predictive Marketing is quickly becoming an integral piece of an intelligent customer engagement solution and we are excited to offer this powerful technology through our partnership with EverString," said Jujhar Singh, general manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. "With EverString's predictive marketing technology, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online customers can improve sales outcomes not only by prioritizing prospect conversations but also by filling their pipeline with high-value accounts." Delivered as a SaaS platform, the EverString integration provides marketers with the ability to analyze and validate their entire addressable market of prospects, then proactively select and target the optimal audience based on data from their Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and more than 20,000 external signals. EverString's predictive marketing technology leverages applied data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to find and analyze patterns in the pipeline of all prospects and customers existing in a user's instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

Lutron announced today that its Caseta wireless lighting systems are now compatible with Amazon's Alexa voice-control system, enabling owners of Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, or Amazon Fire TV to control Caseta-connected lighting fixtures with voice commands. "Caseta users who also own Alexa-capable devices can now dim, brighten, and control individual lights or groups of lights using their voice," Lutron product manager Neil Orchowski said in an embargoed briefing last week.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digitisation will change the future of cars, challenge traditional business models and create immense potential for innovation. In future, cars will be cognitive not only will they recognize voices and be able to optimise the journey, they will also incorporate other cognitive technologies of AI - computer vision, machine learning, rules based systems as well as planning and scheduling. It is around these subjects that Frost & Sullivan's Intelligent Mobility event - taking place in London on the 28th and 29th of June - will evolve. Today, there are 4.4 million taxis globally. In 2020 this number is expected to reach 5.5 million.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digitisation will change the future of cars, challenge traditional business models and create immense potential for innovation. In future, cars will be cognitive not only will they recognize voices and be able to optimise the journey, they will also incorporate other cognitive technologies of AI - computer vision, machine learning, rules based systems as well as planning and scheduling. It is around these subjects that Frost & Sullivan's Intelligent Mobility event - taking place in London on the 28th and 29th of June - will evolve. Today, there are 4.4 million taxis globally. In 2020 this number is expected to reach 5.5 million.

Lutron announced today that its Caséta wireless lighting systems are now compatible with Amazon's Alexa voice-control system, enabling owners of Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, or Amazon Fire TV to control Caséta-connected lighting fixtures with voice commands. "Caséta users who also own Alexa-capable devices can now dim, brighten, and control individual lights or groups of lights using their voice," Lutron product manager Neil Orchowski said in an embargoed briefing last week. Lutron's Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge and Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge Pro can control up to 50 Caséta lighting-control devices, using Lutron's proprietary Clear Connect technology. The company's Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge Pro is also compatible with Apple's HomeKit platform, and the company has partnered with Nest (participating in the Works With Nest program), Comcast (it can be integrated into Xfinity Home systems), and several smart thermostat manufacturers (including Honeywell, Carrier, and Ecobee). The Caséta line also includes in-wall switches and dimmers.

Shares of graphics chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) are down 6 cents at 35.69, following yesterday's annual meeting with analysts. A webcast replay of presentations CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and other executives, and the Q&A, can be viewed from the company's investor relations page. Huang made the pitch that with new frontiers of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Nvidia "are no longer a co-processor," meaning a handmaid to the PC microprocessor. "There is no workload we run," said Huang, such as a video game. Instead, he said, with the company's programming technology, "CUDA," "we run an application that a developer writes on top of it."

Channel Mark Ventures announced today that it will be launching Inteladesk through their technology development and sales company CenturySoft Ltd. This next generation customer helpdesk management solution is powered by a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) platform. "Inteladesk's AI-based engagement solution is the ideal complement to our insight-driven approach of sales acceleration for our clients at their specific domain level," said Dan O'Shea, CEO at Channel Mark Ventures. In discussing their Inteladesk product O'Shea explained that "Inteladesk essentially drives a personalized sales experience. Inteladesk helps companies perfect their knowledge base by explaining misstep queries or missed opportunities to improve FAQs. Combined with the technology, Inteladesk users will have the ability to reduce incoming customer service emails and calls. With Inteladesk at work, new processes will emerge as the technology helps companies introduce new service enriching CRM processes not previously possible or financially feasible. In turn, employees can take on higher-level roles to formulate new ways to enrich customer service. We are beyond thrilled at the prospects here. There is nothing like it available on the market today. The Live Agent learns as it works and provides high-quality responses consistently, every day of the year, in every language your customers speak. Cognitive Code's technology is truly game-changing."

Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor, Transport at Greater London Authority will be a keynote speaker at the event of 28th June, hosted at The House of Lords. Dedring will explore how policies have to change in order for cities to be able to adapt to these changes in an ideal way. To download the brochure and to attend the Intelligent Mobility event, please visit http://frost.ly/78. The two major concerns connected to cars are accidents and pollution – which will be significantly reduced or even eliminated, once electric vehicles and autonomous driving work together. AI enabled automated driving also has the potential to eliminate traffic jams, as Frost & Sullivan Senior Partner Sarwant Singh explains: "Today, when you are caught in a traffic jam, it is already too late. In future, AI combined with data analytics could predict a traffic jam, avoiding not only you getting into the traffic jam but preventing congestion in the first place."

SAN JOSE, Calif.?Nvidia Corp. is stepping up plans to expand beyond computer graphics into the field of artificial intelligence, unveiling an unusual processor for the purpose and a computer that uses it to solve scientific problems at extremely high speed. The company on Tuesday said the new Tesla P100 chip, designed for use in corporate data centers, achieves very high performance by packing 15 billion transistors on a piece of silicon. That is roughly twice as many as Nvidia's prior high-end graphics processor and some new server chips Intel Corp. announced last week. "It's the largest chip that has ever been made," said Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, during a speech kicking off the company's annual technology conference here. He predicted the chip would initially be purchased by unidentified cloud computing services and next year would begin arrive in servers sold by other companies.