AI Clouds: Lego blocking cloud based services with developer kits, large general purpose AI companies are enabling developers to deploy algorithms via SDKs within their cloud hosted platforms. From Microsoft Azure AI platform all the way to Amazon's AWS AI Offerings, these organizations provide pre-trained models, GPUs and storage that are necessary for more effective continuous deployment, testing and quality assurance (QA). AI Languages: Beyond software applications to onboard users onto AI platforms, companies are standardizing new languages to familiarize developers to continually build using their libraries. Uber's AI Labs, for example, released their own probabilistic python offshoot programming language, Pyro. Wit.ai is another language for developers to build cross device applications.

What do animals and galaxies have in common? The similarity is now helping conservationists monitor endangered animals that are often targeted by poachers. By deploying small drones with infrared cameras attached, scientists are developing tools for wildlife officials to watch these wild animals without disturbing them. At night, when poachers are most likely to strike, wildlife guards have a difficult time spotting animals in the dark. But on infrared cameras, they're impossible to miss.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) or better called drones have been seen in search and rescue operation. Moreover, UAV's have become an efficient helping tool for first responders that various companies have begun to develop drones that target at public safety. Alongside providing a bird's-eye view, drones are becoming a game-changer for fire fighters. In the last eight years, over 19% agencies in public safety that purchased the drones were fire departments. This ratio clearly defines that drones are becoming an essential and popular aerial tool in the industry.

Thousands of Google employees have signed an open letter asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military. Project Maven involves using artificial intelligence to improve the precision of military drone strikes. Employees fear Google's involvement will "irreparably damage" its brand. "We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," says the letter, which is addressed to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai. "Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled, and that Google draft, publicise and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology."

The purpose of a consumer drone remains nebulous these days. Depending on who you ask, you'll get a different answer. Drones are great for sophisticated aerial photography and video, but they're also adept at surveying empty lots of land and crowded real estate, or measuring agricultural yield and helping climate model the Arctic. Even as drones get more sophisticated, cheaper, and smaller, there isn't an easy answer beyond the fact that unmanned aerial vehicles are cool gadgets and fun to fly -- granted, where and when the Federal Aviation Administration deems it legal to do so. But what if a drone was smart enough to handle itself, in any and all situations? What if the drone didn't need to be flown at all, because software did it for you?

More than 3,000 Google employees have penned an open letter calling upon the internet giant's CEO to end its controversial'Project Maven' deal. Calling the deal'business of war', they said Google boss Sundar Pichai should'cancel this project immediately'. It was revealed last month that Google is allowing the Pentagon to use some of its artificial intelligence technologies to analyze drone footage. Google employees were reportedly outraged by the project from the beginning, but took their opposition a step further by publishing the open letter. Google employees penned a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to step away from'Project Maven,' where the Pentagon using TensorFlow software to identify objects in drone footage Project Maven involves using Google's artificial intelligence software to analyze aerial surveillance video to look for patterns that can help military intelligence analysts. Work on the project began last April.

New reports show that Google has ten times the personal information stored on you as Facebook. Tony Spitz has the details. More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter asking management end the company's involvement in Project Maven, a Defense Department drone surveillance project. The employees, in a letter addressed to company CEO Sundar Pichai, say Google's assistance in developing the artificial intelligence-powered system to detect vehicles and other objects in video captured by military drones betrays the company's motto of "Don't Be Evil." Google counters the employees' arguments saying, in a statement, the company's involvement is for "non-offensive purposes" and is used "to flag images for human review and is intended to save lives and save people from having to do highly tedious work."

A postal drone in Russia crashed into a wall and smashed into pieces during its maiden flight. The unmanned aerial vehicle took off to deliver a small package to a village near Ulan-Ude, a city in Siberia, but hit a three-storey building shortly after lifting off from a mini launch pad in front of a crowd of spectators. The drone had been touted as a new way to deliver post in the rural Buryatia region, located more than 2,700 miles from the Russian capital Moscow. Video footage of the crash showed the vehicle taking off before veering into the apartment building and showering onlookers with debris. No one was harmed in the incident.

Back in 2013 an event caused million of damage across two countries. In its aftermath, Dr. Italo Subbarao, Associate Professor at William Carey University's College and Dr.Guy Paul Cooper Jr., studied the interactions and noticed that the latter had trouble reaching people in need. "What if we could take drone-based technology and put an advanced medicine kit on it? What if it was sophisticated enough to provide lifesaving medications before first responders can arrive?" says Subbarao. Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority (REMSA) and Drone Delivery Service Flirtey also intend to use drones to deliver medical equipment before first responders can arrive.

With the drone craze increasing, it has stepped out from the infancy stage of deployment, and is emerging out as flying taxi. Lately, three experts discussed the future of transportation and passenger-carrying drones. "So it's been a long time coming, this idea of cars flying around. It's not a new concept, and now we've got the technology," said Mark Zannoni, Research Director for Smart Cities and Transportation for International Data Corp. Uber is also looking forward to the VTOL technology and wants to offer an autonomous aircraft that could carry four to five passengers.