B2B publishing and services company 1105 Media today (16 November) announced the launch of a new machine learning system that is designed to predict the purchasing intentions of businesses. The new operation called Beyond Ordinary Lead Delivery (BOLD) features a patented algorithm that analyses up to 10bn reader interactions designed to assess what organizations buy when. It is not restricted to the company's own data bases which cover sectors such as computing, infrastructure and public sector. In what CEO Rajeev Kapur claims is a first the system will draw data from a wide network. "This is the largest big data project in the world of b2b," he told the Business Information and Media Summit in Florida.

The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) from a multidisciplinary perspective. "Artificial intelligence agents will impact every part of our lives in every society on Earth. Technology and commerce will see to that," says Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which is among those supporting the initiative. Initially funded with $27 million from the Knight Foundation; LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman; the Omidyar Network; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; and Jim Pallotta, founder of the Raptor Group, the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund's mission is to catalyze global research that advances AI for the public interest, with an emphasis on applied research and education. The fund will also seek to advance public understanding of AI. "AI's rapid development brings along a lot of tough challenges," explains Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab.

The healthcare headlines this year have been dominated by the imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, against the backdrop of a long-term transition to value-based care (VBC), a handful of emerging technology initiatives are quietly making news in advancing precision medicine in healthcare. The promise of precision medicine requires complete access to all available data about an individual. Over the past few years, digitization of health records through the implementation of EHR systems has covered the vast majority of hospitals and physician practices. Efforts to unlock value from unstructured data are already under way using natural language processing (NLP) technologies.

Federal regulators have closed the investigation into the crash that killed a Tesla driver in May, saying Thursday that officials found no defects in the semiautonomous Autopilot system being used at the time. But while investigators with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found no flaws in the software or braking systems, a broader federal review of dozens of Autopilot crashes did point to industry-wide challenges as drivers -- sometimes inattentive ones -- increasingly rely on cars to do more of the driving for them. In this case, the driver had seven seconds to react to a danger ahead but did not do so, investigators found. Autopilot is not the same as "self-driving," though some Tesla drivers have tried to treat it that way. It is instead a more limited set of features, such as cruise control that can gauge the speed of cars up ahead and some automatic steering.

Artificial intelligence can now outperform humans on a standard intelligence test. A new computational model scores within the 75th percentile, better than the average person, on a test known as Raven's Progressive Matrices. Researchers say this demonstrates that it can take on abstract visual reasoning tasks, and is a major step toward AI that can see and understand the world the way we do. Using Raven's Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal standardized test that measures abstract reasoning, the team found that their model is not only on par with humans, but performs better than many. In this example, participants choose which shape should come next in the sequence.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands by his offer to go to the USA now that Chelsea Manning is being released, he told a press conference. Mr Assange had previously committed to hand himself in and face any possible extradition to the US, should Barack Obama offer clemency to Ms Manning. But when that happened, his lawyers suggested that he wouldn't actually fulfil that commitment – arguing that Ms Manning wasn't being released quickly enough. Now Mr Assange has said that he will stand by the offer. He said that there will be "many discussions" on his future before Ms Manning leaves prison in May.

Tesla won't have to recall any vehicles despite a crash that left a man dead when his car hit a truck. Officials have finally brought a close to a six-month-old investigation that followed the high-profile crash, exonerating Tesla. The controversy and worry emerged after a man's vehicle ran into a truck while using Tesla's "Autopilot" software, which allows to car to operate semi-autonomously. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that it hadn't found evidence of a defect that would require it to ask for a recall of the cars. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

A Model S instrument panel illustrates the road ahead using Tesla's Autopilot technology prior to the company's 8.0 software update. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ended a six-month review of Tesla's Autopilot system spurred by a fatal Florida crash and other incidents involving the semi-autonomous driving feature, finding no specific flaw in the technology and taking no action against the carmaker led by Elon Musk. "Our investigation was thorough, evaluating every aspect of the Tesla Autopilot system including the automatic emergency braking system," Bryan Thomas, NHTSA's communications director, said in a conference call on Thursday. "Our investigators have concluded that a safety-related defect trend has not been identified and further examination is not necessary at this time." Along with the May 7 crash that killed 40-year-old Joshua Brown who was using Autopilot when his car slammed into a truck that crossed his path on a divided highway near Williston, Florida, NHTSA investigators also reviewed a rollover accident that injured a Tesla owner inPennsylvania in July, Thomas said.

FILE - In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board via the Florida Highway Patrol, a Tesla Model S that was being driven by Joshua Brown, who was killed when the Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode on May 7, 2016. A source tells The Associated Press that U.S. safety regulators are ending an investigation into a fatal crash involving electric car maker Tesla Motors' Autopilot system without a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration scheduled a call Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, about the investigation.

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