Uber's efforts suffered a major setback when one of its autonomous cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last week. On Monday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey suspended Uber's self-driving vehicle testing privileges, stating in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised concerns about the San Francisco-based company's ability to safely test its technology in Arizona.

In recent years, the cybersecurity landscape has changed a lot. The threat has always been present but has now become a critical concern for businesses, as attacks have grown more sophisticated and seemingly indiscriminate. As the methods and the technology used by cybercriminals get smarter, so should our response to the threat. How do businesses stay protected against an ever-changing and increasingly complex cybersecurity situation. It might come as a surprise to some that artificial intelligence – specifically, machine learning – is one of the most promising solutions that we have.

From there, we heard from two very exciting and innovative emerging technology companies that are each using AI to accomplish amazing things within the enterprise. The first was Astound, which is using AI to help make constituent and employee service more efficient and effective. The second was Cylance, which spoke to us about how AI can help secure networks and fight cyber threats. These are two exciting companies doing exciting things. And that's something that the federal government should be extremely excited about.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new medical imaging technique based on artificial intelligence designed to enable clinicians to acquire higher quality images without having to collect additional data. The AI technique--called AUTOMAP (automated transform by manifold approximation)--produces high-quality images in less time with MRI or with lower radiation doses with X-ray, CT and PET. And, as a result of its very quick processing speed, the approach could help in making real-time clinical decisions about imaging protocols while the patient is in the scanner, according to MGH researchers. A description of the technique, published last week in the journal Nature, shows dramatic differences between images reconstructed from the same data with conventional approaches compared to AUTOMAP. "What we did was condition a neural network through machine learning to recognize what makes an image an image," says Matthew Rosen, director of the Low Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory and co-director of the Center for Machine Learning at MGH's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), is raising questions at the ethics watchdog for the world's biggest wealth fund. In particular, the threat posed by weapons systems guided by AI brings ethical "challenges," according to Johan H. Andresen, the chairman of the Norwegian Council on Ethics. "It won't necessarily only have to do with weapons, but many other applications," he said in an interview in Oslo. "It's hard to program empathy– we can't demand that– but everything we're looking at is under human control and humans are making the decisions, so both people and companies can be held responsible." Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund has been stepping up the scrutiny of its portfolio and has banned a swathe of companies, including nuclear weapons and cluster bomb producers as well as tobacco and coal companies.

Arizona governor Doug Ducey suspended Uber's self-driving vehicle testing privileges on Monday in the wake of a pedestrian fatality in a Phoenix suburb last week. Mr Ducey said in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage showed the company's'unquestionable failure'. The crash raised concerns about the San Francisco-based company's ability to safely test its technology in Arizona, he warned. He said he expects public safety to be the top priority for those who operate self-driving cars. Arizona governor Doug Ducey suspended Uber's self-driving vehicle testing privileges on Monday in the wake of a pedestrian fatality in a Phoenix suburb last week (stock image) 'The incident that took place on March 18 is an unquestionable failure to comply with this expectation,' Mr Ducey said. The move by the Republican governor marks a major step back from his embrace of self-driving vehicles.

As you have probably heard or read, IBM's Marketing Cloud recently published that "90% of world's data today has been created in the last two years alone." Growing daily at 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily, this number will only explode over the next few years. This may seem impressive, but much of it is simply raw data. Nonetheless, you may point out that with all this data we are advancing technology, improving outcomes, enriching lives and making better decisions. However, how vastly improved these outcomes could be if all this data was enriched?

"The 2008-09 financial collapse led to a Federal Reserve directive that banks with consolidated assets over $50 billion have additional risk assessment frameworks and budgetary oversight in place. To assess a bank's financial foundation, the Federal Reserve oversees a number of scenarios (company-run stress tests). Referred to as the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) process, these tests are meant to measure the sources and use of capital under baseline as well as stressed economic and financial conditions to ensure capital adequacy in all market environments." As Ayasdi reports, Citi consistently struggled to pass its annual stress test, failing two of the first three stress tests. The bank was in need of a way to rapidly create accurate, defensible models that would prove to the Federal Reserve that they could adequately forecast revenues and the capital reserve required to absorb losses under stressed economic conditions.

It hasn't even been a month since Donald Trump held a meeting about violence in video games in an attempt to distract from gun control, but the industry is already making efforts to reach out to the administration (and, indeed, to Republicans generally). It's nothing new for video game companies to play up their product's educational qualities whenever they're criticized for depicting violence, but generally speaking, bespoke educational games are reserved for the military. It seems designed not only to educate Trump administration officials about the industry they've been maligning, but also to teach them practical, real-world skills they'll soon need. As we've all seen over the past year, there are several reasons Trump administration officials are having a hard time achieving their personal and professional goals: A Way Out cunningly addresses all three problems. As one of a pair of convicts, players learn planning, cooperation, and, above all, how to escape from prison.

Google has just started to fund computer software which will write local news. A short story written by Japanese computer software made it to second rounds of national literary prize. And an artificial intelligence company called deep mind has created software that can generate music by listening to music. All these foregoing flashy news stories are evident of the benefit and popularization of Artificial Intelligence in the modern world. Earlier, the computer generated works relied heavily upon the input provided by the programmer, the software was very much like a tool or a mechanism like brush or canvas.