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These 10 machine learning and data science startups make up the newest Microsoft Accelerator class

Microsoft has chosen the 10 machine learning and data science companies that will make up the fourth class of its Seattle Accelerator. The startups hail… Read More

Amazon poaches eBay A.I. chief, continues ramping up machine learning operations

Amazon is getting serious about machine learning. The Seattle tech titan hired eBay’s head of artificial intelligence, Hassan Sawaf, to… Read More

Amazon beefs up machine learning presence in UK with new team of researchers

Amazon is taking on a new machine learning team, to operate out of Cambridge, UK, according to a Facebook post spotted… Read More

DefinedCrowd lands $1.1M from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and others to build out machine learning platform for AI and speech apps

DefinedCrowd, a platform that provides big data for speech and natural language processing technology, closed a $1.1 million seed funding round… Read More

After Turi acquisition, Apple hints at ambitions for new Seattle-based machine learning division

Apple’s new Seattle-based machine learning division, created through its $200 million acquisition of startup Turi earlier this month, will “build tools… Read More

Could Amazon reviews keep you from getting sick? Researchers analyze text to predict food recalls

For the past year, Amazon has been cracking down on sellers and third parties offering money for positive reviews. But for… Read More

$1.2M crowdsourced contest aims to improve breast-cancer detection through deep machine learning

Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even… Read More

Apple execs explain why the tech giant acquired machine learning startup Turi

Turi and Apple were the perfect match. That’s one tidbit from a new piece published by Backchannel editor Steven Levy… Read More

Algorithmia aims to democratize deep learning with expansion of its marketplace for algorithms

Deep learning — attempts to make software mimic the functions of the human brain — is one of the most… Read More

Turi releases new features to make machine learning easier, faster for apps

Turi, formerly Dato, today released the newest version of its GraphLab Create platform and several other features designed to make it… Read More

Machine learning startup Dato changes name to Turi after trademark battle

From GraphLab to Dato to Turi. Seattle-based machine learning startup Dato, which originally launched as GraphLab, announced today that it… Read More

Google acquires French machine learning startup Moodstocks in image-recognition push

Google announced today it has acquired Paris-based machine learning startup Moodstocks to work on smartphone image and item recognition. Moodstocks says… Read More

With $14M investment from top VCs, Ozlo opens Seattle office to help develop ‘personal’ AI chatbot

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech giants are all building their own “bots” that utilize artificial intelligence and… Read More

Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day: Cloud and AI innovations from 9 emerging startups

Updated below with video from event. The Summer 2016 cohort of startups at Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day in Seattle… Read More

Amazon Box

Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech, competing with Google’s TensorFlow

Amazon is making a bigger leap into open-source technology with the unveiling of its machine-learning software DSSTNE. The newly released program is competing… Read More

The future of machine learning: 5 trends to watch around algorithms, cloud, IoT, and big data

Algorithms. Cloud. Internet of Things. Data. No one can predict the future of technology with 100 percent accuracy. But these… Read More

AI2 CEO calls for ‘full disclosure’ in artificial intelligence after students learn their TA is really a bot

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been… Read More

Textio at work

New Textio tool uses machine learning to find the most effective words

Picking the right words is a key component of many jobs, and most of the time, we rely on our… Read More

Why is AI female? How our ideas about sex and service influence the personalities we give machines

Consider the artificially intelligent voices you hear on a regular basis. Are any of them men? Whether it’s Apple’s Siri,… Read More

Amazon hosts secret conference for robotics, AI and space experts

Amazon sure seems interested in being involved in the continued development of robots and artificial intelligence. The retailer held an… Read More

Most Americans expect robots to take over human work, but few think their jobs are in jeopardy

Humanity is sitting on the cusp of an artificial intelligence boom, as the technology transitions from rare and experimental to… Read More

Google’s robot brain can tell where pictures were taken just by looking at them — no metadata required

Guessing where a photo was taken can be a fun game. In fact, it is a game. But computers have… Read More

Human vs. machine learning

Bayesian boost for A.I.: Researchers find a quicker way to teach a computer

Researchers say they’ve developed an algorithm that can teach a new concept to a computer using just one example, rather… Read More

Microsoft open-sources machine learning toolkit less than a week after Google

MIcrosoft is joining a growing movement to make machine learning an open source option for developers. The software giant announced today that… Read More

Google open-sources ‘TensorFlow’ machine learning system, offering its neural network to outside developers

You’ve likely used products shaped by Google’s machine learning system. The neural network has helped Google understand the subject in each Google… Read More

Smart Reply: Google enlists machine learning to help you robo-reply to email

Weary of spambots, robo-calls and Twitter bots? Google is coming out with an artificial-intelligence tool that’s on your side for… Read More

Calling all analytics startups: Microsoft unveils next accelerator program focused on data science

Microsoft announced the third installment of its Microsoft Ventures Seattle Accelerator on Wednesday, this time focusing on data science and machine… Read More

Microsoft boosts Azure’s big data chops with general availability of Machine Learning service

Microsoft Azure is getting new capabilities to handle big data workloads. The company announced a host of new features in… Read More

Geek of the Week: GraphLab CEO Carlos Guestrin is unlocking the potential of machine learning

Carlos Guestrin wants to bring big data and machine learning to the masses. Guestrin, the CEO and co-founder of GraphLab, is the Amazon Professor… Read More

Vinod Khosla thinks machine learning is coming to take our jobs

SAN FRANCISCO – The growth of mobile devices has massively impacted the way we live, work and play, but Sun Microsystems… Read More

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