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New AI-Driven Handwriting Digitization API Launches

Vidado READ API is an API that offers digitization of "low resolution" hand-written documents to "improve straight-through processing by 30 percent or more."

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Biomedical Machine Learning Framework Adds Ease of Use, Optimization Tools

BioSymetrics last week released a new component for its Augusta AI biomedical machine learning framework that adds several new features for end users.

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SQL Server 2019 Touts New Machine Learning, AI Features

SQL Server 2019 now offers Linux support for R and Python as well as loopback connection and Java support, among other features.

SAS Updates AI Analytics Platform with New ML Functionality on IBM Chip

November updates to SAS data analytics and visualization platform will provide AI and ML technology that can be used by data scientists, executives and business users, the Cary, N.C.-based SAS Institute Inc., announced this week.

IBM Watson Anywhere Updated to Overcome AI Roadblocks

IBM has announced new features for its Watson Anywhere approach designed to speed AI adoption and scale across any cloud and include multiple data sources.

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Study: Deep Learning Shifting from TensorFlow to PyTorch (Well, Kind Of)

According to The Gradient's 2019 study of machine learning framework trends in deep learning projects, TensorFlow is losing ground to PyTorch -- at least with academics.

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AI Speeds UI Testing in New Parasoft Solution

Development teams get an AI assist with Parasoft Selenic, a user interface UI testing solution based on the open source Selenium automated testing framework. 

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Automated Workload Management Comes to AWS Redshift via Machine Learning

Machine learning is being used to power the automatic management of workloads for the Amazon Redshift data warehouse.

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Google Open Sources Dialog Datasets for AI Assistant

Google has released its Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1 English dialog datasets to open source. The two collections of pairs of people engaged in spoken conversations are now available to developers of AI assistants as training material for modeling natural language.

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Kryon AI Booster Brings Machine Learning to Robotic Process Automation

Kryon, a leading provider of robotic process automation solutions, announced this month the launch of AI Booster, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) services based on Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service to be integrated into the Kryon Automation Suite later this fall.

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IDC: Annual Worldwide Spending on AI Systems to Reach $98 Billion by 2023

An International Data Corporation (IDC) report predicts that worldwide AI spending will grow two-and-a-half times from $37.5 billion to $97.9 billion between 2018 and 2023, a compound annual growth rate of 28.4 percent over the five-year period.

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Huawei Launches Ascend 910 AI Processor and MindSpore Dev Framework

Huawei Technologies has announced the commercial availability of the Ascend 910 chip, the long-awaited AI processor aimed at datacenters and designed to compete with top U.S. chip makers. The company also launched a new AI computing framework, called MindSpore.

2019 C-Suite Survey Illuminates AI Outlook

A recent survey of about 450 global executives and board members reveals that top executives are both excited and concerned about the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on business operations.

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