TL;DRKlaus Schwab introduced the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept, a fusion of physical, digital, and biological technologies.A 2017 McKinsey Global Institute study estimated 60 percent of occupations have at least 30...
TL;DRGlobal spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed on-premises data centers for the first time in 2020, per IDC.Connected IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023, per IoT Analytics, driving data processing...
Together AI closed a $106 million funding round led by Salesforce Ventures. The round values the two-year-old startup at $1.25 billion and pushes total disclosed backing past $228 million. The...
Hyper-personalisation is not better segmentation. Traditional personalisation puts a buyer into a bucket (women aged 25-34 who bought a coat) and shows every person in that bucket the same homepage....
Kinect Hub was a proposed digital health platform designed to marry Microsoft's Kinect motion-tracking device with blockchain technology. The concept hinged on the Kinect's ability to capture body movements in...
In 2019, Leatherhead FC, a club at level seven of the English football pyramid in the Isthmian League, announced a partnership with IBM. The idea was to bring artificial intelligence...
Amazon has not abandoned Alexa. It has radically restructured the organization behind it, cutting thousands of jobs, replacing longtime hardware chief Dave Limp with Panos Panay, and pivoting the product's...
Google Cloud launched its Contact Center AI Platform in July 2021. The product injects AI services into a live contact center rather than replacing the underlying stack. As of early...
In April 2022, British autonomous-driving startup FiveAI ceased operations. Bosch acquired the business for an undisclosed sum, framing the transaction as an acqui-hire for talent rather than a continuation of...
Late in 2021 the European Commission opened a feedback round on Microsoft’s planned $19.7 billion purchase of Nuance Communications, a speech-recognition and AI firm whose biggest footprint is in medicine....
DHL Express has installed an AI-powered robot from Dorabot at its Singapore South Hub to automate parcel sortation. The machine uses computer vision and a suction-based gripping system to sort...
In April 2019, the non-profit Malaria Must Die released a video showing David Beckham speaking nine tongues. Beckham did not record those lines. The footage was a deepfake, created by...
