Fear is holding back small businesses from trading internationally, according to a report from HSBC late last year. Specifically, a lack of international business knowledge and experience has small suppliers reluctant to step onto the global stage. Stepping onto the international market means exposure to new types of risk, including the risk of non-payment from a foreign, unfamiliar corporate client. Euler Hermes is just one company aiming at this space, providing businesses with trade credit insurance. Earlier this month the company launched a partnership with analytics-as-a-service company Flowcast to integrate artificial intelligence into the trade credit insurance process.

When IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivered the opening keynote at HIMSS17 she effectively set the stage for artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning to be prevalent themes throughout the rest of the conference. Healthcare IT News asked our readers where they stand in terms of these initiatives. And we threw in a bonus question to figure out what their favorite part of HIMSS17 was. Some 70 percent of respondents are either actively planning or researching artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning technologies -- while 7 percent are rolling them out and 1 percent have already completed an implementation. A Sunday afternoon session featuring AI startups demonstrated the big promise of such tools as well as the persistent questions, skepticism and even fear when it comes to these emerging technologies.

MobilEye is one of the big players in autonomous cars and was an early partner with Tesla on its AutoPilot technology. Now Intel has snapped up the firm for $15.3 billion after the two teamed up on tech for BMW's iNext platform, expected to debut in 2021. MobilEye's expertise is in the computer vision and machine learning that helps self-driving cars figure out where to go, and Intel wants to make that a piece of its "automated driving solution." PS4 on your PC.PlayStation Now will add streaming PS4 games soon Sony has been streaming games from the cloud with PlayStation Now since 2014, but so far, that has not included games for its latest console. Now, the company says PlayStation 4 games will join the subscription service, with a "private test" starting in the next few weeks.

Near the end of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Dick the Butcher offers a simple plan to create chaos and help his band of outsiders ascend to the throne: "Let's kill all the lawyers." Though far from the Bard's most beautiful turn of phrase, it is nonetheless one of his most enduring. All these years later, the law is still America's most hated profession and one of the least trusted, whether you go by scientific studies or informal opinion polls. But advances in artificial intelligence may diminish their role in the legal system or even, in some cases, replace them altogether. Here's what we stand to gain--and what we should fear--from these technologies.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla was recently quoted saying: "There will be fewer and fewer jobs a robot cannot do better." In his impassioned speech he asked what meaning humans will have without jobs. This follows others including Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, who have made comments on the dangers of robotics and AI "destroying jobs". Musk argued that if humans want to add value, they should embrace a "merger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence". Although this might sound like a sci-fi movie in the works, Musk's suggestions really do extend to the symbiosis of man and machine.

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The CB Insights team has published more than 2,000 research briefs on this blog. We see our data and infographics shown at conferences, in the media, and even framed on office walls. After a client requested copies of all our recent market maps, we decided to take it a step further. Below you'll find a collection of all our CB Insights market maps and unbundling/disrupting graphics. Following each map you'll find a link to the original research brief.

Want to learn about deep learning neural networks, or simply want to try and crash an AI-powered car? You can do both with the "Self-Driving Cars In A Browser" project. German software engineer Jan Hünermann watches two autonomous cars -- one colored pink, the other turquoise -- race around a track. There are various obstacles set up to confound them, but thanks to the brain-inspired neural networks that provide them with their intelligence, the cars smoothly navigate these obstacles with the confidence of seasoned pros. From time to time, Hünermann throws a new obstacle in their path, and then watches with satisfaction as the cars dodge this new impediment.

For many firms transforming business operations via technology means improving how they interact with -- and meet -- customer needs. In fact, customer experience represents the single best opportunity financial services firms have to deliver on their priorities, according to a survey by Econsultancy. What's more, 45% of respondents indicated that making the customer experience as personalised and relevant as possible is their key focus. CEOs around the world are not asking if digital disruption will occur, but instead, what it means for their business. So the questioned asked in this article, is how can financial institutions leverage digital transformation to advance their competitive position, strengthen customer engagement and improve performance?