We mined Apple's acquisitions, investments, and partnerships to discern the company's emerging strategic priorities. Apple is looking for the next big thing. As the world's most valuable company, with a $2T market cap and over $100B in annual profit, Apple has long been known for its cell phones, laptops, tablets, and watches. Today, the company is investing aggressively in high-tech areas like AR/VR, AI, and semiconductors to lay the groundwork for products and features that affect health & wellness, mobility, digital connections, and more. Download our full report to find out the top trends poised to reshape industries in 2022.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being increasingly used in the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry to optimize production, reduce operational costs and maximize efficiency. According to a Markets and Markets report, AI in the global oil and gas market is expected to grow from an estimated USD 1.57 billion in 2017 to USD 2.85 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 12.66%. The oil and gas enterprises are seeking novel approaches to address the issues that plague the industry at present. In view of the falling fuel prices, concerns over the environmental impact of energy production and personnel safety, companies are leveraging technological innovations such as AI to optimize processes and maximize the returns on investment. In this report, we present insights and trends related to the AI technologies used in the Oil and Gas industry, through a study of patents related to petroleum exploration and refining technology segments.

The ease with which you shop at Amazon and scroll though different products that are customised specific to your taste is the result of AI technology that analyses and predicts your shopping behavior. There are countless AI start-ups who are founded for the primary reason of using AI to make the world a better place. The challenges that the world faces today – primarily climate change – is a huge motivator for AI innovation. Every AI idea is bound to help us face such challenges. In 2018, venture funding for AI grew to about 9.3 billion dollars in U.S. alone.

Aicha Evans who is the CEO of the self-driving technology development company Zoox, talks about ... [ ] autonomous cars during a keynote session at the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 6, 2019. On June 26th, Amazon announced via their blog they are acquiring autonomous ride-hailing vehicle startup Zoox. Financial terms of the acquisition were disclosed. However, the Financial Times says Amazon paid $1.2B for Zoox. Launched in 2014, Zoox began with the vision of producing zero-emissions vehicles for autonomous ride-hailing services.

Companies looking for ways to cut costs as they brace for a coronavirus-induced economic slowdown should consider their patent portfolio. It's like a cupboard in desperate need of a spring clean. Businesses spend over $40bn on maintaining their patent portfolio each year, according to a new study from the UK intellectual property (IP) startup Aistemos and media platform IAM, but less than 20% of companies believe they have the right portfolio. Large companies hold tens of thousands of patents aimed at protecting the company's business from copying and legal issues. Around 4.5% of a company's revenues, on average, are vulnerable to patent litigation, according to the US consultancy Analysis Group.

The memristor (short for "memory resistor") is poised to revolutionize computing. A memristor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that can function as a circuit element relating charge and magnetic flux linkage. When the current is stopped, the device retains the last resistance that it had, and when the flow of charge starts again, the circuit resistance matches what it was when it was last active. In a nutshell, memristors are resistive devices with an inherent memory. It is this characteristic that makes the memristor an ideal electronic component for neuromorphic computer architectures such as physical neural networks (as opposed to strictly software based neural networks), synaptic devices and AI (Artificial Intelligence) chips.

After a decline in 2015, U.S. patenting activity rose to a record high in 2016. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted 304,126 patents last year, up from 298,407 in 2015. The increase was largely driven by West Coast technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Boeing, IBM, Intel, Google, and Microsoft. According to a 24/7 Wall St. analysis of data provided by Information for Industry (IFI) Claims Patent Services, Korean conglomerate Samsung Electronics was granted the most patents in 2016. Including its major subsidiaries, Samsung was awarded more than 8,500 patents, slightly higher than IBM's 8,088 awarded patents.