Just as the US government released a new batch of declassified documents last month regarding the JFK assassination, Microsoft began using Machine Learning and AI to make sense of handwritten documents. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. Tens of thousands of documents are now available through the US National Archives portal, Archives.gov, However, many documents are handwritten, and searching through them to find keywords and subjects of interest can be an extremely laborious task when done manually. According to the Microsoft Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team, "One of the great advantages of the shift from physical to digital documents is the fast and effective search and knowledge extraction methods now available. Gone are the days of reviewing documents line-by-line to find particular information."

The Fed's censure, according to the Journal, stemmed from concerns about Deutsche Bank's procedures for measuring its exposure to its clients and for valuing the collateral backing its loans. Regulators require efficient and accurate controls so that banks can assess their financial strength and the risks they face, especially through difficult times in the economy. Subpar controls could hamper Deutsche Bank's ability to pass two crucial upcoming tests in the U.S. The first is the Fed's stress tests, which are used to determine whether large banks can survive a severe economic downturn. Until now, only Deutsche Bank's small U.S. trust bank had gone through the tests – and even that failed. Commenting on the 2016 test, the Fed slammed the subsidiary for continuing "to have material unresolved supervisory issues that critically undermine its capital planning process." The entity did not get tested last year because of a rule change.

Spanish police are introducing an artificial-intelligence system to detect liars.Credit: SubstanceP/Getty If you live in southern Spain, last June was not a good time to lose your smartphone and, as a way of getting an insurance payout, falsely claiming that you had been mugged. Ten police forces in Murcia and Malaga had some extra help in spotting your deceit: a computer tool that analysed statements given to officers about robberies and identified the telltale signs of a lie. According to results published in the journal Knowledge-Based Systems, the algorithm was so good at pointing officers towards false claimants that detection of such offences in one week was an impressive 31 and 49 for the respective regions, up from an average of 3 and 12 closed cases over the entire month (L. The government in Madrid is now rolling the system out across the country, and its developers are trying to apply its machine-learning methods to help detect other types of crime. In this case, the algorithm flagged up suspicious wording (based on a training set of statements known to be true and false), and left it up to the police to question suspects and get them to confess.

What will artificial intelligence do to us and the way we do business? It depends on who you ask, and the overall context. Henry Kissinger -- yes, that Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State -- just penned a piece in The Atlantic suggesting that AI is unleashing dark forces onto our world. "Automation deals with means; it achieves prescribed objectives by rationalizing or mechanizing instruments for reaching them," he writes. "AI, by contrast, deals with ends; it establishes its own objectives. To the extent that its achievements are in part shaped by itself, AI is inherently unstable."

Artificial intelligence has become so smart and commonplace that most people accept computer-generated restaurant recommendations or movie suggestions without blinking an eye. Underneath the virtual surface, however, much remains mysterious in the realm of machine learning, where systems attempt to mimic the remarkable way humans learn. Machine learning capabilities aren't yet up to the task of handling highly complex, rapidly changing or uncertain environments, and artificial intelligence can easily be tricked by false information from a clever adversary -- critical situations for national defense. In an effort to build the next generation of machine-learning methods to support its needs, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory have awarded $5 million to establish a university center of excellence devoted to efficient and robust machine learning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The center also includes researchers from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC).

In early 2017, we published the German AI Landscape, and later in 2017, we created the European AI Landscape. We determined that London, Paris, and Berlin were strong individual hubs for Artificial Intelligence. However, we wanted to know how cumulative Europe compares to the global AI landscape. We started by collecting a list of over 7,500 companies claiming to build Artificial Intelligence solutions. We cleaned the data, sorted, and analyzed it.

From the moment that Donald Trump set foot on the Trump Tower escalator, the promise of mass deportations for undocumented immigrants was a pillar of his presidential campaign. This is one promise that the current administration has managed to keep, with ICE enforcement efforts skyrocketing since Trump took office in January 2017. While the president's executive orders on immigration have played well with his political base, they've caused havoc with a number of US industries, from tourism to construction. But nowhere are the detrimental effects of these policies more clearly illustrated than in the agricultural sector. What's more, the current state of agricultural automation appears woefully unprepared to fully supplement the loss of migrant labor.

With the growth of the unmanned aerial vehicles in the different sector and especially in the military department, the Navy plans to establish a command devoted to aviation drones. According to OPNAV instruction, Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Four (UX24) will come into existence at Webster Outlying Field in Maryland, and this mission would be involving aspects like providing research, testing, development and other major support for Navy and Marine Corps drone systems. "The mission is currently performed by Naval Test Wing Atlantic, but growth in the field requires a command solely focused on the aviation drone mission," states OPNAV. Under the sea drone will also very soon come into existence.

NASA is diving deep into the ocean near Hawaii to learn more about exploring deep space. The idea is to use environments on Earth that are similar to environments that exist in places like Saturn's moon Enceladus. Not too long ago the NASA spacecraft Cassini took pictures of the distant moon that showed plumes of water shooting out into space from beneath the surface. These plumes show that somewhere beneath the surface of the moon is geologically active. The combination of heat and water makes this location one of the most likely to support life.

Apple has prevented Telegram from updating its app ever since Russian authorities ordered its removal from the App Store, the CEO of the popular messaging app has revealed. Telegram has been banned in Russia since April after the app refused to provide decryption keys to the country's security agencies, which would have allowed them to monitor the communications of Telegram users. "We believe we did the only possible thing, preserving the right of our users to privacy in a troubled country," Telegram boss Pavel Durov said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday, 31 May. While Russia makes up only 7 per cent of Telegram's user base, Apple is restricting updates for all Telegram users around the world since mid-April." Mr Durov added that issues with features like stickers were unable to be fixed, despite an update being available. The inability to update the iOS app also means that Telegram is unable to properly comply with GDPR for its users in the EU, Mr Durov said.