Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, said Thursday that she would re-enter the Iran nuclear deal and end sanctions in response to Iran's involvement in drone attack against Saudi Arabia oil facilities if she was president. "What I would do is, I would re-enter the Iran nuclear deal to prevent Iran from continuing to move forward in building a nuclear weapon that puts us and the world further at risk," Gabbard said on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." Every day that we don't do this, every day we continue down this failed strategy Iran gets closer and closer to a nuclear weapon. U.S. officials told Fox News on Tuesday that Iranian cruise missiles and drones were both used in the attack on the two Saudi Arabian oil facilities, and that they were fired from inside southwest Iran this past weekend. Gabbard called the attack a "retaliation" against "extreme sanctions."

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), a newly formed AI arm of the Department of Defense, plans to hire an AI ethicist to help address AI ethical concerns and guide the DoD in researching and deploying these technologies. Walmart recently created and filled a digital citizenship role to advise the retail corporation on issues associated with emerging technologies, data governance and privacy. Data and AI ethics are becoming increasingly important to organizations across many industries, as organizations look to get ahead of potential AI ethical concerns. "All organizations aspire to behave ethically and for their employees to behave ethically," said David Schatsky, managing director at Deloitte. "It's not that suddenly ethics is important and it wasn't before."

Maria Bartiromo, host of "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street" on Fox Business Network will host at documentary on the future of artificial intelligence. On a recent Friday, Maria Bartiromo, the financial television icon, offered a visitor a tour of her new corner office in the News Corporation Building in midtown Manhattan. The office, lined with floor-to-ceiling windows, is furnished with a cognac leather sofa, chairs and a large desk. Bartiromo, who has been with Fox News and Fox Business for more than five years, extended her tenure with the networks with a multi-year deal earlier this week. By 10 a.m., she'd already logged four hours of on-camera work.

A viral app which claims to'honestly' classify selfies using its in-built artificial intelligence has been spewing out vile and racist labels. Furious users say their pictures have been slapped with offensive and racist terms such as'negro', 'slant eye' and'rape suspect' by the app which was developed at Princeton University. Developers say causing offence was exactly the intention and it was intended to be deliberately provocative to draw attention to the in-built prejudice and discrimination in many forms of machine learning. But many users are still furious that their images have played a seemingly unwitting part in the controversial project. One MailOnline staffer who tried the app was dubbed a'rape suspect' when he uploaded his selfie.

More and more, federal agencies are looking to integrate artificial intelligence and automation into their day-to-day workplace functions, particularly to implement internal controls and compliance measures to counteract fraud and improve efficiency. At a Sept. 18 Association of Government Accountants (AGA) event, experts in AI and robotic process automation from public- and private-sector organizations stressed that automating lower-level functions, such as data processing claims, would free up employees to work on higher functions that require more analytical skills and mission-specific duties. "Artificial intelligence operates in real time to enable personalized experiences," said Dan Chenok, executive director of IBM's Center for the Business of Government and a former government official. Comparing AI to the chat boxes that often accompany internet users when they're shopping online, Chenok pointed out that such technologies are constantly building upon themselves to improve users' experiences and stamp out common problems that users may encounter when using a government website. AI and RPA also allow workers to identify patterns of potential fraud or other misuse, according to Jennifer Main, the chief operating officer for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy is gathering agencies' tech leaders next week to hear about the use of artificial intelligence in government. A "broad range" of federal IT officials -- including chief information officers, chief data officers and chief technology officers -- have been invited to the White House for a summit Monday to highlight current AI use cases across government and discuss future applications. The meeting will be led by OSTP staff, namely U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios and Director Kelvin Droegemeier, in support of the Trump administration's American AI Initiative. The agency has also invited members of academia and tech companies focused on AI to attend. Lynne Parker, OSTP assistant director for AI, said Wednesday at the Billington CyberSecurity that the summit will highlight "a number of the key ways that government is actually making good use of AI" in improving services and delivering solutions to complex challenges.

Walgreens is getting its wings. The pharmacy chain has teamed up with Alphabet's drone delivery service Wing to bring food and beverage, over-the-counter medication and other items to consumers. This'store to door' testing is set to begin next month in Virginia and will offer more than 100 products and pre-built'packs' for purchase in the Wing app. Walgreens has teamed up with Alphabet's drone delivery service Wing to bring food and beverage, over-the-counter medication and other items to consumers The partnership between Walgreens and Wing aims to further explore the future of health and wellness products and retail delivery through the air, offering product availability and home delivery minutes after placing orders via the Wing app. 'Walgreens continues to explore partnerships to transform and modernize our customer experience and we are proud to be the first retailer in the U.S. to offer an on-demand commercial drone delivery option with Wing,' said Vish Sankaran, chief innovation officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., in a press release.

Amazon's controversial Rekognition computer vision technology is now being used to rid food sites of surprise dick pics. The London-based food delivery service Deliveroo has a definite content moderation challenge. It seems that when there's a problem with a food order, Deliveroo customers often send in a photo of the food with their complaint. Or they arrange the food into the shapes of private parts. Deliveroo's employees, it turns out, don't necessarily want to see stuff like that. So the company uses Rekognition to recognize unsavory photos and blur or delete them before they reach human eyes.

Many consumers of geospatial and financial data spend hours each day processing, cleansing, and validating the data sets they use for analysis and model-building. This is true of many complex data sets that are highly relevant for global agricultural analysis, particularly those associated with weather, crop health (e.g. At Gro Intelligence, we manage those steps so our users are free to quickly develop models and insights without the delay of pre-processing and quality-checking the relevant data. Global Forecasting System (GFS), a weather model produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is a data source newly available in Gro. The complexity of GFS highlights how our platform can quickly download and process vast amounts of data.

Amazon recently announced that its voice assistant Alexa can now sign business agreements with health providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. "Alexa, I want to make a political contribution." Starting in October, users of Amazon's voice-controlled home assistant, Alexa, will be able to verbally make a political contribution between $5 and $200 to a participating 2020 presidential candidate, the company announced Wednesday. In order to use the new Alexa Political Contributions feature, users must have voice purchasing enabled in their Alexa settings, as well as valid default payment method in their Amazon accounts. "Alexa, donate [amount] to [candidate name]" is another phrase users can say to support a preferred political hopeful.