NASA and IBM are building an AI model for weather and climate applications, combining their knowledge and skills in earth science and AI. They say the foundation model (more on that in a bit) should offer "significant advantages over existing technology." Current AI models, such as GraphCast and FourCastNet, are already generating weather forecasts more quickly than traditional meteorological models. As IBM notes, those are AI emulators rather than foundation models. AI emulators can make weather predictions based on sets of training data, but they don't have applications beyond that.

There's a lot to keep track of while you're a student. Lecture notes, exam dates, essays and group projects -- it's more than most human brains can handle on their own. If you're the type of person that struggles to stay organized or who wants to finesse an already-robust productivity system, read on. We've broken down the best organizational tools that can help you stay on top of academic life, including note-taking apps, calendars and to-do list software. If you have a personal favorite that hasn't made our shortlist, let us know in the comments.

Last year, I started writing about my experiences taking courses on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big, unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I've found that many online courses say you don't need much mathematics fundamentals to be a programmer, but inevitably, even in beginner courses, the underlying math was important to understand what was going on. The need for remedial math seems widespread enough that even a simple Google search for'calculus and artificial intelligence' turns up a bunch of blogs and additional courses on how to understand the math underlying these assignments. After spending a lot of time online trying to sort through this haystack of do-it-yourself calculus blogs, college class PDFs, and other resources, I came away with two websites that were outstanding for teaching basic calculus and linear algebra: Khan Academy and an on-demand tutoring service called Yup.

At a meeting here in Austin, Evernote CTO Anirban Kundu showed Engadget an early version of Spaces, which is meant to facilitate easier collaboration, but also uses AI to deliver better search results and suggest relevant tasks. Evernote said the demo is slow, though, and that the eventual version should perform faster. The note-taking app uses a method that feels similar to what Google Inbox does, by scanning the text in your documents to look for action items like, "Terrence should remind writers to send their drafts by Monday." I typed "Taylor needs to go see a doctor tomorrow" into an early version of the text editor, and within seconds a star icon popped up on the left of my sentence. Despite Evernote's warning about speed, it already seemed pretty quick during my preview.

Last year, the Seattle startup, which initially released its writing-analysis tools in 2015, grew its client base--including Nvidia, CVS, and Evernote--by more than 200%. "We're at the point where there are enough customers using Textio that they can prove out the results," says CEO Kieran Snyder. Johnson & Johnson, for example, reported an additional 90,000 female applicants (a 9% increase) in its pipeline last year after using Textio to refine its job postings. Nvidia now fills jobs twice as quickly, and Evernote's apply-through rate on Glassdoor's online job boards tripled. With a recent $20 million funding round, Snyder plans to apply Textio to recruiting emails, which take up gobs of hiring managers' time and often go unanswered.

AI is one of the buzzwords of the moment in the world of tech, with startups coming at the concept from all angles -- computer vision, machine learning, unstructured data inference and natural language processing being just a handful -- in a wider effort to create more intelligent machines. Now comes a new organization that hopes to find and foster the next wave of AI businesses and products, co-founded by the ex-CEO of Evernote, Phil Libin (pictured above), who has left his role as a managing director at General Catalyst to build it (but he tells me he'll stay on as an advisor). All Turtles, as the new company is called, is not your traditional startup incubator. In an interview with TechCrunch earlier, Libin (whose other co-founders are Jessica Collier (Product Design) and Jon Cifuentes (Research and Operations) described it as "startup studio", more akin to Netflix's push to develop original content than to 500 Startups. It will start out with locations in San Francisco, Tokyo and Paris.

Phil Libin, the cofounder and former CEO of note-taking app Evernote, has launched a new venture capital (VC) fund called All Turtles in San Francisco, The Financial Times reports. The All Turtles "studio" will reportedly be used to back entrepreneurs developing products that are underpinned by artificial intelligence. The money will come from General Catalyst, Digital Garage, and a number of prominent investors from France, Japan and the US. Instead of backing companies like normal VCs, Libin reportedly wants to back "products" as he believes entrepreneurs shouldn't have to start a new company each time they want to try a new idea. Referring to Silicon Valley VC land, he said: "You're not allowed to work on something unless it could be a $10 billion company. Obviously there are a lot of products that could be worth a couple of hundred million."

"Its just a computer program designed to help individuals (customers) without the burden of having a customer service team". The only reason why it was wrong because the implication behind it was that of a'customer support' function. While the truth is -- Chatbots are, or at least they can be, much more than that. Consider the typical chatbots today. Bots that will raise support tickets for you, allow you to leave your concern, feedback etc. so that their team can get in touch with you later.

NEW YORK--The blurry line between Android and Chromebooks is about to get blurrier. Exhibit A arrives with the Samsung Chromebook Pro that I've been checking out for a couple of weeks. Google calls this upcoming $549 convertible laptop/tablet, and a sibling model, the $440 Chromebook Plus, the first Chromebooks to be "designed for Android apps." Google worked closely with Samsung on the machines, which were initially showcased during last month's CES trade show. These Samsung models come with an embedded pen that you can use, among other purposes, to write or draw directly on the screen, a first for the Chromebook ecosystem.

Evernote decided last year that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note-taking service. On Wednesday, it announced that the lion's share of the work is done, save for some last user attachments. The company signed up to work with Google, and as part of the migration process, the tech titan sent a team of engineers (in one case, bearing doughnuts) over to work with its customer on making sure the process was a success. Evernote wanted to take advantage of the cloud to help with features based on machine learning that it has been developing. It also wanted to leverage the flexibility that comes from not having to run a data center.