Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings you today's edition of The AI Eye - watching stock news, deal tracker and advancements in artificial intelligence. FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NOTE) has announced it "has been selected as one of 14 inaugural "trusted partners" - and the sole provider of legal, political, and regulatory data and information - to collaborate with AI research and deployment company OpenAI by enabling access to select FiscalNote market leading real-time data sets and content for users of OpenAI's ChatGPT platform." FiscalNote's Chairman, CEO, and Co-founder, Tim Hwang, said: "Since we founded FiscalNote a decade ago, the company has been an early adopter and pioneer of AI, uniquely applying it to the political and legal domain, and building a specialized expertise that has made us the unparalleled leader in this space. We're excited to collaborate with OpenAI and, as the market leader in legal and regulatory intelligence, we intend to continue to always be at the forefront as technological capabilities continue to advance. We believe this is the beginning of an innovative collaboration with a fellow AI pioneer, and we intend to continue to push the bounds of what is possible as we use this cutting-edge technology to deliver results for our global customers and advance their business objectives."

GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK:GTCH) has announced that it is developing an AI empowered technology for automatic compaction of integrated circuit (IC) layout blocks. According to the press release, this technology aims "to read existing and new microchip's layout data with the goal of producing the densest layout block possible." "We believe an efficient layout compaction technology can be a great functional and economical solution for existing and new IP blocks. We are now designing an AI based technology to read an existing IC layout block and compacting its size to the densest possible. The process is targeted to be done automatically and within a short time. We are seeking to design the program with the goal of maintaining the process design rules, DFM guidelines and electrical connectivity correctness. It is the goal for the entire silicon area to undergo significant reduction and therefore enable improved silicon yield and ultimately cheaper ICs. The technology is planned to support older and advanced nanometer processes, Analog, Digital, RF and MIXED styles, making it a flexible tool for all types of IC design firms. As Integrated Circuits technology advances, more functionalities, lower power consumption, higher performance and lower cost are in high demand, especially within advanced nanometer projects."

TaskUs, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TASK) has announced a strategic partnership with ASAPP, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) research-driven company, to "unlock the contact center of the future powered by digitally enabled customer service teammates and AI-Native technology to elevate frontline teammates' performance." This will be achieved through a combination of ASAPP's AI technology with TaskUs specialized services and experience "working with fast-growing technology companies to drive exemplary digital customer experience (DCX)."Jarrod "This partnership between ASAPP and TaskUs is designed to deliver exceptional results for our clients and their customers. ASAPP automates time-consuming service and sales processes to increase overall efficiency, enabling TaskUs teammates to focus on providing differentiated customer experiences and resolve customer issues. They will help TaskUs raise human performance, making our frontline teammates smarter and more effective through advancements in its AI applications and services. Our partnership with ASAPP represents the most timely, in-demand advantages of digital transformation-an area where TaskUs truly excels-to more large enterprises seeking its benefits."

AI software provider C3.ai is collaborating with Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) to enhance its "global customer experience and elevate sales performance using intelligent cloud technology." To achieve this, C3.ai is adopting and deploying Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Sales and Teams, so as to "better prioritize workloads, enhance sales experiences with mixed reality, and manage customer needs with conversation intelligence and sentiment analysis." "We're looking forward to working with C3.ai to further its business goals with our intelligent cloud services. With Dynamics 365 at the center of its business transformation, the C3.ai team can streamline customer engagement across sales and customer service to bring a unique, tailored experience to its employees and customers." NVIDIA Corporation (NasdaqGS:NVDA) has completed the acquisition of computer networking firm Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. for $7 billion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN), has announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), described as "a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions." "Today, we're excited to help our customers remove another obstacle to building machine learning applications with the launch of Amazon A2I, which makes it significantly easier and faster to incorporate human judgment into machine learning applications in order to ensure higher quality predictions over a sustained period of time." Accenture Federal Services, a subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE:ACN), has won a $96 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the latter to automate manual workflows and introduce applied intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities. Shawn Roman, a managing director at AFS who leads the company's work with VA, commented: "Accenture Federal Services is proud to help VA seamlessly transition its existing service management tools to both improve the user experience and increase the business value of solutions. Working with the Service Management Office, we will use human-centered design thinking methods to put the Veteran, clinician, and VA employees at the center of how services are designed and created."

NVIDIA Corporation (NasdaqGS:NVDA) today introduced the TensorRT 7, which is "the seventh generation of the company's inference software development kit" to deliver conversational AI applications. "We have entered a new chapter in AI, where machines are capable of understanding human language in real time. TensorRT 7 helps make this possible, providing developers everywhere with the tools to build and deploy faster, smarter conversational AI services that allow more natural human-to-AI interaction." The company also announced that it will provide the transportation industry with access to its NVIDIA DRIVE deep neural networks (DNNs) for autonomous vehicle development on the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) container registry. "The AI autonomous vehicle is a software-defined vehicle required to operate around the world on a wide variety of datasets. By providing AV developers access to our DNNs and the advanced learning tools to optimize them for multiple datasets, we're enabling shared learning across companies and countries, while maintaining data ownership and privacy. Ultimately, we are accelerating the reality of global autonomous vehicles."

Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) has been recognized as a leader by global research and advisory firm Forrester Research Inc. in the latter's recently-published report, The Forrester Wave: AI Consultancies, Q3 2019. "AI and Intelligent Automation is changing the very fabric of society, business, and governance. It is disrupting processes, creating new business models and delivering exceptional customer experiences. One of the major hurdles in harnessing the power of AI by businesses is the challenge posed by change adoption and scaling AI culture to enterprise level. Using AI led Automation Advisory and Wipro HOLMES platform, we help enterprises overcome these challenges by creating outcome-based roadmaps, agile delivery, innovative service models and seamless customer experience. Our customers have spoken on our behalf in this report and we believe that being recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave is a testament to our AI and Automation transformation and consulting services capabilities."

Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) and Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) have announced the launch of two new apps, including the AI-powered redesigned Salesforce Mobile App with features exclusive to iOS and iPadOS. "With Salesforce Mobile, Salesforce and Apple are empowering sales, service and marketing professionals on the go to deliver game-changing customer experiences, powered by AI. And with Trailhead GO, millions more can now skill up for free, anytime and anywhere, to learn in-demand skills and fill the jobs of today and tomorrow." Intel Corporation (NasdaqGS:INTC) has unveiled oneAPI, "a unified and scalable programming model to harness the power of diverse computing architectures in the era of HPC/AI convergence", and "a general-purpose GPU optimized for HPC/AI acceleration based on the Xe architecture". "HPC and AI workloads demand diverse architectures, ranging from CPUs, general-purpose GPUs and FPGAs, to more specialized deep-learning NNPs, which Intel demonstrated earlier this month. Simplifying our customers' ability to harness the power of diverse computing environments is paramount, and Intel is committed to taking a software-first approach that delivers a unified and scalable abstraction for heterogeneous architectures."

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN), has announced the opening of an infrastructure region in Spain featuring three Availability Zones at launch. It will give Spanish startups, enterprises, and the public sector the ability to "leverage advanced technologies including analytics, artificial Intelligence, database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, mobile services, serverless, and more to drive innovation". "Cloud computing is already powering innovation within businesses, educational institutions, public administrations, and government agencies across Spain, and with this AWS infrastructure region, we look forward to helping accelerate this transformation. Opening an AWS Region in Spain will drive more technology jobs and businesses, boosting the local economy, while enabling organizations across all industries to lower costs, increase security, and improve agility. We're excited to have AWS contribute to the future growth of Spain."

Taiwanese electronics giant Delta Electronics, Inc. (TPE:2308) has announced a partnership with Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) for the former's digital transformation, according to local outlet the Taipei Times. In addition to the digital transformation, Delta Electronics chairman Yancey Hai said the company is "also planning future collaborations with Microsoft in areas such as machine deep learning at its robotics arm with the aim of improving the industrial automation business". "We have set up two AI [artificial intelligence] projects with Microsoft's headquarters in the US... One is aimed at improving the efficiency and noise cancelation of our ultra-thin fans, the other is focused on developing a product quality management system." Virtusa Corporation (NasdaqGS:VRTU) has joined the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) as an Affiliate Member.