The company is set to buy TCGplayer -- an online marketplace for trading card games -- in a deal valued up to $295 million, it announced today. Launched in 2008, TCGplayer specializes in trading cards from popular franchises like Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Digimon and more. The site will operate independently after the acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. The pandemic drove a surge of interest in collectible trading cards that has only recently started to slow down. Last year eBay sold a trading card every two seconds, noted The Athletic.

Self-driving vehicles could soon be whizzing around on Britain's roads, after the Government announced plans to allow cars, coaches and lorries with self-driving features to be used on motorways in 2023. Only features such as lane-keeping technology will be legal initially, with fully autonomous self-driving cars – where motorists can check emails or watch TV behind the wheel – not allowed until 2025. Nevertheless, it would still signify a major milestone in the continued development and rollout of the technology. Many experts have welcomed the Government's desire to embrace self-driving technology, claiming it could improve road safety and better connect communities. But critics have questioned the safety of such vehicles.

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Waterdrop Inc. ("Waterdrop", the "Company" or "we") (NYSE: WDH), a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact, recently announced that it officially launched its first digital employee "Waterdrop Assistant". "Waterdrop Assistant" is a human-like virtual employee that was developed based on Waterdrop's business processes and is powered by multiple technologies, including robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI). "Waterdrop Assistant" can help the online insurance service team with numerous tasks, including data processing and analysis, online user management, and customer services, thus improving the response time, quality, and scope of the Company's customer service team. Mr. Mingxing Huang, Head of AI at Waterdrop, commented, "The introduction of digital employees is our latest exploration to continue promoting the digital transformation of the insurance industry, to reduce operating costs, and improve the efficiency of insurance services. Specifically in our case, 'Waterdrop Assistant' has helped shorten the response time, lower operating costs, and unleash the potential of our staff. Our analysis shows that since its launch, 'Waterdrop Assistant' has processed 86% of the user sessions with a 97% accuracy rate for intention recognition, helping free up 37% of the customer service manpower and effectively increase the policy renewal rate. Currently, 'Waterdrop Assistant' is responsible for highly repetitive and labor-intensive tasks, however, it has also undergone constant system iterations and architecture upgrades through ongoing machine learning. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2021, Waterdrop Assistant completed 20-plus system iterations and 3 architecture upgrades accumulatively. Our next goal is to enable'Waterdrop Assistant' to independently complete tasks for more complex and interactive scenarios and play a bigger role in the process of sales inquiry, underwriting review, risk control, and claim settlement."

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SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 15, 2022 /CNW/ -- Artificial intelligence (AI) will create new revenue and growth opportunities for start-ups and global information and communication technology (ICT) companies, finds Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market. The adoption of AI technologies across industries unleashes innovative business models, drives operational efficiencies, and creates strategic differentiation. Additionally, the pace of digital transformation and AI adoption has accelerated as organizations explore new means of creating sustainable business models and driving customer value. "The move to large-scale AI adoption requires a holistic AI strategy coupled with an ethical and responsible framework to ensure sustainable and long-term adoption," said, ICT Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "Going forward, deploying AI technologies and operationalizing an ethical AI framework within an organization and throughout the AI development and management life cycle will require a well-defined approach and business as well as the alignment of all technology stakeholders."

Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in None Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness IoT (Internet of Things) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, we now employ more than 1,800 people globally and have over 1.5 million active devices. Samsara also went public in December 2021 and we're just getting started. Recent awards we've won include: • #2 in the Financial Times' Fastest Growing Companies in Americas list 2021 • Named as a Best Place to Work in Built In 2022 • #19 in the Forbes Cloud 100 2021 • IoT Analytics Company of the Year in 2022's IoT Breakthrough Winners • Forbes Advisor named us the Best Solution for Large Companies – Fleet management software for 2022! We're driving change in industries that are yet to fully embrace digital transformation. Physical operations make up a massive slice of the global economy but haven't benefited from innovation and actionable information in the way that other sectors have.

Argonne scientists are building systems to streamline operations and maintenance at reactors. Nuclear power plants provide large amounts of electricity without releasing planet-warming pollution. But the expense of running these plants has made it difficult for them to stay open. If nuclear is to play a role in the U.S. clean energy economy, costs must come down. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are devising systems that could make nuclear energy more competitive using artificial intelligence.

LEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuclear power plants provide large amounts of electricity without releasing planet-warming pollution. But the expense of running these plants has made it difficult for them to stay open. If nuclear is to play a role in the U.S. clean energy economy, costs must come down. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are devising systems that could make nuclear energy more competitive using artificial intelligence. Nuclear power plants are expensive in part because they demand constant monitoring and maintenance to ensure consistent power flow and safety.

Inspiration for the ads came from an unlikely source: artificial intelligence. Kayak worked with New York advertising agency Supernatural Development LLC, whose internal AI platform combines marketers' answers to questions about their business with consumer data drawn from social media and market research to suggest campaign strategies, then automatically generates ideas for advertising copy and other marketing materials. Supernatural's AI found that Kayak should target its campaign largely toward young, upper-income men, who it said would respond to humor about Americans' inability to agree on basic facts in politics and pop culture, said Michael Barrett, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Supernatural. CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals. "That gave us a good amount of license to zig where the category was zagging and to be more relevant, more provocative," Mr. Clarke said of the AI findings.