Unbabel's Widn.AI Ends Human Translation Role
In late 2023 or early 2024, Unbabel announced a product that removes the human translators from its own translation pipeline. The Lisbon and San Francisco based company, which reached a...
Artificial Intelligence
Reports on swarm AI, deepfakes, evolutionary algorithms, automated journalism, and funding deals in the AI industry.
Chinese AI Start-Ups Raise $5 Billion Despite US Chip Curbs
Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups raised roughly $5 billion in a funding round that closed in the first quarter of 2025. The capital landed as US export controls choked off access...
What AI Actually Did During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic became the highest-stakes test ever for artificial intelligence in medicine. The WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic...
Apple Acquires AI Video Compression Startup WaveOne
Apple acquired WaveOne, a startup that used machine learning to compress video more efficiently than standard codecs, in a deal that closed in March 2023. WaveOne's website was taken down...
Alan Turing's 1950 Paper Still Defines How AI Is Built
In October 1950, the philosopher and mathematician Alan Turing published a paper in the journal Mind that opened with a blunt question: 'Can machines think?' The paper, 'Computing Machinery and...
Microsoft, Epic embed GPT-4 into healthcare EHR
Microsoft and Epic Systems are embedding generative AI from Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, including GPT-4, straight into Epic's electronic health record software. The initiative targets two tasks: drafting replies to...
Exscientia AI drug DSP-1181 fails in Phase I
In January 2020, Exscientia announced that DSP-1181, a molecule designed entirely by its artificial intelligence platform, had entered Phase I human trials in Japan. It was the first time an...
ChatGPT marketing: use cases, results, limits
ChatGPT arrived on November 30, 2022. By January 2023 it had crossed 100 million monthly active users, the fastest consumer-application adoption on record. Marketers were early and heavy adopters. The...
The Rise and Fate of the UK's AI Unicorns
The United Kingdom produced five notable artificial intelligence unicorns in the decade after 2010. Every one of them has since been acquired by a foreign company, seen its public valuation...
How AI and Automation Will Create New Professions
Automation and artificial intelligence will eliminate some jobs, change many more, and generate entirely new professions that lack formal training programs. The net effect is not a simple subtraction. The...
Ginni Rometty on Trust as a Business Imperative at IBM
In 2018, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty took the stage at a major industry event to argue that trust had become the most important currency in the digital era....
How Co-Op Uses Microsoft Tech to Modernise Retail Operations
Co-op, the British grocer owned by millions of members rather than shareholders, is rolling out Microsoft Azure, Power BI and artificial intelligence tools across its 2,500 UK locations. The partnership...
