Oslo based SaaS company ADLINE is a marketing platform that promises to streamline digital marketing and advertising,and eliminates the exhausting task of monitoring several channels separately for a thorough analysis and overview of effective marketing. Adline will fit in with everyday marketers or business owners, marketing teams or agencies looking for a simple system for all their digital marketing – from analysis to traffic and conversion. All designed to help brands get targeted visibility and brand awareness. Adline's mission is to simplify digital marketing and make it easy and accessible to everyone. Budgets are precious in today's marketing and advertising world and relevant allocation, efficiency and conversion is crucial to stay ahead of the game.

The announcement follows an executive order that President Donald Trump signed in February to increase AI research and development. The order calls for more training in the form of apprenticeships, skills programs and STEM education, with a focus on computer science. Georgetown joins at least two other U.S. colleges with big plans in AI. In October, MIT revealed its new, $1 billion College of Computing, which will integrate AI, computer science and data science throughout the institution. And in February, the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, in Albany, announced a $2 billion investment from IBM to create an AI research center on the campus.

SHANGHAI (Xinhua) – US tech giant Microsoft yesterday signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) Insider Lab, the first of its kind in Asian-Pacific Region, in Shanghai. The memorandum was signed between the company and Shanghai's Pudong New Area. The lab is expected to open in April. It will be Microsoft's third and largest AI & IoT Insider Lab in the world, after the company set up the first two in Seattle and Munich. The lab is set to enhance deep integration of AI and IoT, and help digital transformation across industries including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and the public sector.

The universe of exchange-traded funds dedicated companies involved in artificial intelligence and big data technologies continues growing. On Tuesday, Global X introduced the Global X Future Analytics Tech ETF (NASDAQ: AIQ). The latest ETF from New York-based Global X tracks the Indxx Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index. AIQ "holds a basket of companies that are generating vast amounts of data and developing proprietary AI systems to derive actionable insights from that data," according to a statement from Global X. While old guard technology ETFs provide some exposure to the booming AI and big data themes, an increasing number of funds are zeroing in on these investment opportunities.

The DeepBrain Chain Foundation, the organization overseeing the DeepBrain Chain artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform powered by blockchain technology, has unveiled plans to launch an AI and Blockchain Research Center in Silicon Valley. The foundation plans to invest as much as US$100 million over the next three years in the new research center, which will focus on finding breakthroughs in areas that include mining and training, deep-learning algorithm, as well as AI and blockchain integration. "We are going to build an AI Blockchain ecosystem to significantly lower the entry barriers and costs of AI applications by securely sharing computing power, AI models and data on the blockchain," said Dongyan Wang, DeepBrain Chain's newly appointed chief AI officer and executive vice president. "I hope my years of experience in the industry will help DeepBrain Chain to become the best enabling platform and ecosystem for practical, customer-centric AI applications that brings real value to for the world." Wang joins DeepBrain after serving as the head of global AI at Midea Group, a Fortune Global 500 company. Wang has nearly 20 years of experience in AI, Business Intelligence and data science, and had served as senior executive for companies that include Cisco, NetApp and Samsung.

At First4Lawyers, we are very proud of the fact that the business celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and it is tempting to spend much time reflecting on the last ten years, how the industry has changed or how in some cases it hasn't. However, with a few weeks of 2018 now under our belts and insurers already irking the industry, such as with the news that policies cost drivers on average an extra £70, or 9% on 2016, I prefer to look ahead and see where the industry is heading....

Our love affair with Alexa, Siri and all the other speaking devices has innovators in many industries dreaming up ways to deliver similar technology to their clients or create customer experiences that capitalize on this capability. Spoken interfaces seem to be what people crave and the BBC's Research & Development professionals have jumped in full throttle to deliver the capability for a two-way spoken conversation with their listeners. The BBC's initiative is known as Talking with Machines. This project puts resources to work to "explore the possibilities of these devices and platforms in terms of content, interaction design, and software development patterns." The BBC aims to be able to support the technology that already exists as well as set the foundation for what is to come.