Intel Education has launched'Future Bano Wonderful' campaign to highlight the importance of AI skills in India. The brand showcases the interactive stories of students who have developed innovative AI-based solutions to real-life problems using Intel-powered PCs. The laptops give you access to over 80 hours of AI training, certification as well as other PC OEM partner benefits.

The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center recently started building a joint operating system and integration layer that combatant commands and other military components could eventually use to rapidly make and field artificial intelligence algorithms. This work is one key piece of the center's new Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator, or AIDA, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Michael Groen confirmed this week during the NDIA 2022 Expeditionary Warfare Conference. "AIDA brings us, in small teams, out to the combatant commanders--now, for those of you who have been in combatant commands, or you're familiar with that environment--combat commanders have all of the challenges, all the problems and only some capability, right? And so what we're trying to do from an information advantage perspective is bring them the advantages of good data and good artificial intelligence-generating insights," he explained. Launched last year by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, AIDA marks a broad initiative to boost data-based decision-making across the military's 11 combatant commands.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is launching an initiative to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging tools used in hiring and other employment decisions comply with federal civil rights laws that the agency enforces, EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows announced today at a Genius Machines 2021 event. "Artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making tools have great potential to improve our lives, including in the area of employment," Burrows said. "At the same time, the EEOC is keenly aware that these tools may mask and perpetuate bias or create new discriminatory barriers to jobs. We must work to ensure that these new technologies do not become a high-tech pathway to discrimination." The initiative will examine more closely how technology is fundamentally changing the way employment decisions are made.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments have fast become an important area of interest. It was estimated that sustainable investments amounted to some $30 trillion in 2018, up by 34 per cent from 2016. Indeed, investors (and our societies in general) are increasingly keen to understand whether and by what means businesses are being environmentally and socially responsible and governed. Simultaneously, boards and managements have become cognisant that ESG is crucial to the long-term survival of their companies. Small wonder, then, that some 90 per cent of investors globally already have in place, or have plans to develop, specific ESG investment policies.

Building out its previous commitment, the White House is announcing a $1 billion investment into two of tech's most promising frontiers, AI and quantum computing. Last year, the Trump administration rolled out an executive order on AI declaring its intention to bolster U.S. dominance in the field, but the order didn't address much in the way of funding its plans. This February, the Trump administration called for more than two billion dollars to be invested in non-defense AI and quantum research by 2022. The White House's new initiative will fund a series of academic and private sector R&D hubs linked to federal agencies to work on foundational problems and "pursue transformational advances" across topics like quantum computing, machine learning, computer vision. In a statement, U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios called the institutes "world-class hubs for accelerating American innovation and building the 21st century American workforce."

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has announced a Google for India Digitisation Fund through which the company will invest Rs 75,000 crore, or approximately $10 billion, over the next five to seven years to drive digital transformation in the country. "We'll do this through a mix of equity investments, partnership investments, and operational, infrastructure and ecosystem investments. This is a reflection of our confidence in the future of India and its digital economy," Pichai said during the Google for India virtual conference. The fund will focus on four areas that are important to India's digitisation. These include enabling affordable access to the internet and to information for every Indian in their own language and building new products and services that are deeply relevant to India's unique needs including consumer tech, education, health and agriculture.

As he addresses the need for growth, Mr. Krishna must drive into the headwinds of a global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. "I think I'm a realist in terms of where we are headed," Mr. Krishna said Monday in an interview with reporters from the Journal. On April 20, he withdrew the company's annual earnings guidance, announced a decline in first-quarter sales, and took a restructuring charge, citing the coronavirus crisis. Nonetheless, Mr. Krishna remains positive overall. "I do fundamentally believe in the power of technology to change the way we live for the better."

As one of the richest people in the world, Bill Gates is known for contributing to global health through the Gates Foundation. As his biggest legacy, Microsoft is also moving in the same direction. The company is actively involved in helping the world's population overcome some of the most challenging health problems and concerns. Microsoft recently announced a new healthcare initiative known as "AI for Health," a program worth over 40 million dollars. AI for Health evolved out of the AI for Good Program, which offers general aid to the less fortunate around the world.

A group of scientists in Canada have announced a new initiative to use drones to plant new trees cheaply and quickly in part of an effort to fight against the negative effects of climate change and deforestation. Called Flash Forest, the team began testing its drone delivery systems in August, with a test flight that saw them successfully plant 100 trees with a drone. Those results were so encouraging they've expanded their goals to use their specially designed drone systems to plant a billion new trees by 2028. 'Every year the planet loses 13 billion trees and regains less than half of that,' the team's Bryce Jones said in a fundraising video announcing the project. 'We started Flash Forest with the goal of healing the planet's lungs and taking that job seriously.

Driven by the rise of transformative digital technologies and the proliferation of data, human storytelling is rapidly evolving in ways that challenge and expand our very understanding of narrative. Transmedia -- where stories and data operate across multiple platforms and social transformations -- and its wide range of theoretical, philosophical, and creative perspectives, needs shared critique around making and understanding. MIT's School of Architecture and Planning (SA P), working closely with faculty in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and others across the Institute, has launched the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative under the direction of Professor Caroline Jones, an art historian, critic, and curator in the History, Theory, Criticism section of SA P's Department of Architecture. The initiative will build on MIT's bold tradition of art education, research, production, and innovation in media-based storytelling, from film through augmented reality. Supported by a foundational gift from David and Nina Fialkow, this initiative will create an influential hub for pedagogy and research in time-based media.