In Phoenix, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are barking commands at tiny machines, with the machines responding. On our smartphones, apps can now recognize faces in photos and translate from one language to another. Artificial intelligence is here -- and it's bringing new possibilities, while also raising questions. Do these gadgets and services really behave as advertised?

In Phoenix, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are barking commands at tiny machines, with the machines responding. On our smartphones, apps can now recognize faces in photos and translate from one language to another. Artificial intelligence is here -- and it's bringing new possibilities, while also raising questions. Do these gadgets and services really behave as advertised? How will they evolve in the years ahead? How quickly will they overhaul the way we live and change the way we do business? The Times is exploring these matters this week at our annual New Work Summit, featuring technology executives, A.I. researchers, investors and others. Here are some of the key moments coming out of the conference, plus a rundown of some of our recent A.I. stories. -- Cade Metz A month after the Chinese electronics giant Huawei suffered a big setback in its quest to sell its high-end smartphones to Americans, the company's chief for consumer devices, Richard Yu, said he was still optimistic about Huawei's prospects in the United States. "We have won global consumers' trust, in over 170 countries," Mr. Yu said at the New Work Summit. "We very strictly protect consumers' privacy."

Apple's technically impressive HomePod has literally been hacked into pieces, we get a taste of Qualcomm's potent smartphone chip (coming soon) and strap an editor into an Iron Man toy mask in the interests of Journalism with a capital'J'. You may not like the thought of paying Apple a pretty penny to fix the HomePod, but you might have to -- it definitely isn't meant for DIY repairs. An iFixit teardown has revealed a clever design that makes good use of a tiny space, but also nigh-on inaccessible. It appears you can pull the fabric mesh off with a drawstring, but almost everything else requires tearing things apart. Many elements are glued on (including the top and bottom), and there's one seam so thoroughly sealed that iFixit needed a hacksaw and ultrasonic cutter to get in.

LG Electronics has officially announced that it's next smartphone will arrive with a new AI camera feature. The company also confirmed that the new AI camera will be included in the "2018 version of the LG V30" and that it will be first shown off during Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona later this month. LG calls its new software as Vision AI, which the company claims makes the camera on the V30 even smarter and easier to use. Vision AI will be able to automatically analyze objects and recommend the best shooting mode. Vision AI will have eight shooting modes: portrait, food, pet, landscape, city, flower, sunrise, sunset.

Amsterdam, Netherlands – February 8, 2018 – Etiya, the leading independent software vendor providing AI and catalog driven BSS/OSS, will showcase its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven customer experience management and self-care solution at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As announced in December 2017, Etiya and Openet are jointly providing a Telco as a Service (TaaS) solution, which has been built on the AI-driven end-to-end Digital Business Platform. The two companies now plan to demonstrate TaaS together at Mobile World Congress. TaaS is a cloud-based, modular solution that helps MVNOs and'digital first' sub-brand operators develop their businesses and manage costs predictably. Its subscription model also reduces the risk of an upfront investment.

Today's wireless networks are hugely complex already, and will acquire new layers of sophistication as the industry launches 5G services. Network operators require more dynamic methods to get the best from their infrastructure and services. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) afford traditional telecoms providers a rare opportunity to reinvent themselves for the new digital age. This webinar considers how operators are already using AI-based applications in marketing, sales and operations, as well as how AI-based technologies can help them to embrace unknowable opportunities presented by the rise of 5G and the internet of things (IoT).

Big Data enabled AI will begin to change the game for online marketing and website presence – and amazing tools are being launched now to democratize access. While it is easy to get blasé about the impact of cheaper data in general, consider this: In 2017, online shopping finally came online en masse in India thanks to technological advances in the domestic telecommunications network and a drop in the price of data transmission. This means that India last year began to see a world that western audiences, in particular, have now grown blasé too. Except that there are 700 million Indians. That means a country several times the size of the United States is able to go shopping online for the first time. And boy, has that made a difference.

Saudi Gazette A world without smartphones, passwords, and flying cars might seem like a sci-fi movie but it's not very far off and might come into reality "in a blink", according to predictions made by leading networking company Cisco that considers itself shaping the Internet since the 1980's. One prediction is that by 2027, texting by thinking will be a form of communication. Dubai's plans to launch the first self-driving drone taxi in a couple of years from now aims to lead the way to flying automobiles. Complete simulations by the human brain will be possible before the 2030's where new jobs will be common such as avatar manager, body part maker, climate change reversal specialist and nano medic, to name a few. The 2040's will look dramatically different when the average home PC will have the computing power of one billion brains, virtual telepathy will dominate telecommunications and artificial intelligence could become smarter than humans.

Investors know that robotics and artificial intelligence (NYSE:AI) are disrupting traditional paradigms. But they may be surprised by just how much disruptive technologies are impacting our daily lives. I know that I was a little taken aback when I looked at my day. Typically, I wake up and check my smartphone to see what's going on in the world through social media (SOCL). I get my caffeine fix via a Wi-Fi enabled coffee maker (SNSR).

"ML techniques, so far, are more or less related to prediction, classification and decision-making in the networking area," says Qiang Cheng of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association of the China Academy of ICT. Cheng was highlighting the current state of play in Machine Learning's contribution to ICT networking at an ITU workshop in Geneva, 29 January 2018. The workshop brought together experts in machine learning and ICT networking to discuss the challenges and opportunities on the agenda of the new ITU Focus Group on Machine Learning for 5G, which met for the first time from 30 January to 2 February 2018. Looking to the future, Huawei, KT, ZTE and Deutsche Telekom see great potential for Machine Learning to assist the design, operation and optimization of 5G networks. Machine Learning is expected to assist the ICT industry in meeting the challenges brought on by 5G and IoT, shifts representative of considerable increases in network complexity and the diversity of device requirements.