Google Voice is great for a number of things, in particular differentiating between the contacts worthy of your regular number and those you aren't quite there with yet. But as has become apparent recently, it's not great at sending text messages, especially from Android Auto, Android Wear and Assistant. Fortunately, help could soon be on the way in the form of a new voice command. Multiple users have complained that Google Voice forgoes defaults to send text messages through their standard SMS app -- and subsequently, from their carrier number. For example, set your Google Voice number as the default SMS number in Hangouts, then set Hangouts as your default SMS app, and when you say "OK Google, send a text", it ignores everything and sends it as a regular message.

Telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. looks set to join the increasingly competitive artificial intelligence sector, following in the footsteps of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. [NYSE:BABA] and tech juggernaut Tencent Holdings Ltd. [HKG:0700]. Huawei will team up with Nvidia Corp. [NASDAQ:NVDA], a world leader in visual computing, to build a public platform for artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. The telecoms giant is likely to unveil the details of the partnership at Huawei Connect 2017, which is being held in Shanghai from Sept. 5 through Sept. 7. Huawei positions the platform as one that will provide a revolutionary cloud experience by uniting with other industries and building a public cloud AI engine. China has a fairly large market which is home to a number of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, Ashok Pandey, vice president of Nvidia said about the firm's partnership with Alibaba Cloud, which began last year. Nvidia can't cover every corner of the market, but teaming up with Alibaba helps cover a greater audience, he added.

Huawei aims to use artificial intelligence-powered features such as instant image recognition to take on rivals Samsung and Apple when it launches its new flagship phone next month, a top executive said on Saturday. Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei's consumer business, on Saturday revealed a powerful new mobile phone chip Huawei is betting on for its upcoming flagship Mate 10 and other high-end phones to deliver faster processing and lower power consumption. Huawei will launch the Mate 10 and its sister phone, the Mate 10 Pro, in Munich on Oct. 16, Yu confirmed. He declined to detail new features, but the phones are expected to boast large, 6-inch-plus full-screen displays, tech blogs predict. Artificial intelligence (AI) built into its new chips can help make phones more personalized, or anticipate the actions and interests of their users, Yu said.

The telecommunications industry is on the verge of a major transformation through the use of advanced analytics and big data technologies like the MapR Converged Data Platform. The MapR Guide to Big Data in Telecommunications is designed to help you understand the trends and technologies behind this data driven telecommunications revolution. In this week's Whiteboard Walkthrough Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect at MapR, explains in detail how to use streaming IoT sensor data from handsets and devices as well as cell tower data to detect strange anomalies. He takes us from best practices for data architecture, including the advantages of multi-master writes with MapR Streams, through analysis of the telecom data using clustering methods to discover normal and anomalous behaviors. I'd like to talk a little bit about data processing in the context of telecom.

Huawei launched the latest mobile Kirin 970 chipset that has its own AI processor built-in. The announcement was made during the ongoing IFA tech show in Berlin. The Kirin 970 chip is powered by an octa-core CPU and the latest generation 12-core GPU. The Chinese smartphone company says the mobile chipset will be built using on a 10nm manufacturing process, similar to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 and Samsung's Exynos 8895 chipsets. It will also support HDR 10, and 4K video recording at 60 frames per second (fps).

Huawei has unveiled an artificial intelligence based chipset -- the Kirin 970 which would be featured in its upcoming Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones. The company claims that its processor will outperform offerings from major smartphone companies such as Samsung and Apple. "Compared with Samsung and Apple, we have advantages. Users are in for much faster (feature) performance, longer battery life and more compact design," Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business said in an interview at IFA 2017 in Berlin on Sunday. Huawei's model will use AI-based features such as image recognition and will make phones more personalized and more importantly -- efficient.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the next big thing for communications service providers (CSPs), but it's not clear yet exactly how they will use it or where it will have the biggest impact on their business. "Let's break it down a bit – it can be misleading," Telefónica Global Group's CIO, Phil Jordan, told attendees at the Executive Summit during TM Forum Live!. "We see clear use cases and value in cognitive and machine learning. Any decision we take in a systemic way, I have asked for a plan for when and where does that become a machine-learned activity? "It's the next transformation wave that is going to hit all of us – converting decision-making into something that isn't static rule-based," he adds. "I don't think that's a technology problem – it's here or it's coming." But is Telefónica making extensive use of AI today? "We made no use of it in the transformation," Jordan emphasized in discussing the company's massive digital transformation. "AI isn't a magic trick," he says, and it won't be useful unless operators transform their existing IT systems first. Indeed, that's the message we've been hearing from many of our members: AI is promising but it isn't reality – yet. In November we will publish an extensive Trend Analysis Report on AI and machine learning, analyzing the results of our surveys of CSPs and suppliers (choose the right one for you). Take the survey and you'll be entered into a draw for a $250 Amazon gift voucher. Certainly, new virtualized network functionality and new operational and business support systems are needed to take advantage of AI and machine learning (a form of AI), in customer facing applications such as virtual agents and chatbots and for end-to-end network and service management. "You have to teach it; you have to give the machine context all the time," Jordan explains. "You have to have a business that is ready and able to understand outcomes and go back and feed it into machine learning.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Huawei [HWT.UL] aims to use artificial intelligence-powered features such as instant image recognition to take on rivals Samsung and Apple when it launches its new flagship phone next month, a top executive said on Saturday. Richard Wu, chief executive of Huawei's consumer business, on Saturday revealed a powerful new mobile phone chip Huawei is betting on for its upcoming flagship Mate 10 and other high-end phones to deliver faster processing and lower power consumption. Huawei will launch the Mate 10 and its sister phone, the Mate 10 Pro, in Munich on Oct. 16, Wu confirmed. He declined to detail new features, but the phones are expected to boast large, 6-inch-plus full-screen displays, tech blogs predict. Artificial intelligence (AI) built into its new chips can help make phones more personalized, or anticipate the actions and interests of their users, Wu said.

A big part of Huawei's multi-year push to improve its image has been improving the hardware it builds to go inside them, and its latest processor is more than up to the challenge. Unveiled today at IFA 2017, the Kirin 970 chipset goes beyond the initial machine learning implementation of previous designs and is ready to be an AI processing powerhouse. Earlier this year Huawei introduced "the intelligent phone" with its Mate 9 (pictured above), but the new hardware could help fix some annoying AI-related drawbacks of the device. While AI work done in the cloud is one thing, on-device AI computation will continue to grow, with the need for sensors to operate without waiting to send any information back and forth over wireless connections. Native AI processing will enable faster image and voice recognition, as well as "intelligent photography." A few people first spotted some specifications at the company's IFA booth, showing that it's sticking to last generation's octa-core setup with four 2.4Ghz Cortex-A73 processors and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A53 cores, but produced using an improved 10nm process instead of the old 12nm.