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New chips and data center growth drive Nvidia to record earnings
Gaming and deep learning continue to drive graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp., which today released its best quarterly earnings ever, beating fourth-quarter expectations and hitting a record $2.17 billion in revenues. The maker of graphics processing unit chips, or GPUs, saw revenues jump 55 percent from a year ago. Nvidia also posted an impressive gross margin ...
DeepMind’s AIs can fight or cooperate – just like people
As artificial intelligence becomes more commonly used for everything from catching cancer early to describing images to the blind, what happens when two or more agents have overlapping goals? Will they battle for dominance or help one another out? According to the Alphabet Inc.-owned DeepMind Technologies Ltd., the answer is both. DeepMind pitted two self-interested AI agents against one another ...
Pinterest’s Lens app uses computer vision to find inspiration anywhere
Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest announced today that it is testing out a new app called Lens, an artificial-intelligence-powered camera app that lets users find pins based on the pictures they take. While there are already a few apps that can help users identify objects, such as Google Goggles, Lens takes things a step further by recommending ...
Twilio beats earnings forecast, but weak outlook worries investors
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. beat expectations with some impressive fourth-quarter earnings, but investors are wary of the company’s weak first-quarter outlook. Twilio today reported it brought in a total revenue of $82 million in the quarter, up by 60 percent year-over-year and an increase of 15 percent over the previous quarter. For the full ...
Looking at you, Facebook: YouTube expands mobile livestreaming
YouTube is set to take on Facebook Live by expanding its mobile livestreaming platform, but the Internet video giant is not quite ready to let just anyone stream on its service. Today, the Google Inc. video unit announced that it’s opening up mobile livestreaming to all content creators, with one catch: They must have more than ...
Walking a tightrope, Twitter again tries to tackle online abuse
Twitter Inc. has been struggling for years to better protect its users from online abuse, and today the company announced a suite of new tools aimed at doing just that. Ed Ho, vice president of engineering at Twitter, explained in a blog post that the company believes that abuse can prevent users from speaking their minds, ...
Spotad raises $3.5M for its AI-powered mobile ad platform
Spotad, a New York City-based mobile advertising startup with an artificial-intelligence twist, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in a Series A funding led by VLTCM in Hong Kong. Plenty of advertising platforms track ad performance with metrics like reach and engagement, but Spotad claims that its AI, nicknamed Sarah, takes things a step further by ...
Oculus CTO John Carmack slams ZeniMax’s ‘ridiculous’ expert testimony
The long legal battle between game publisher ZeniMax Media Inc. and Facebook Inc.’s Oculus VR Inc. ended this week in a $500 million judgment in ZeniMax’s favor, and Oculus Chief Technology Officer John Carmack was not happy. On Thursday, he took to Facebook to rant about the trial and criticize ZeniMax’s expert witness. Carmack (pictured) particularly took ...
Facebook’s AI lets you search pictures by what’s in them, no tags needed
If like most people you don’t take the time to tag and name all of your photos, then you know that searching for a specific picture can be a nightmare. Thanks to Facebook Inc. and artificial intelligence, that problem may soon be a thing of the past. Facebook has been investing heavily in artificial intelligence research over ...
Facebook’s Oculus VR must pay $500M in ZeniMax lawsuit
A Texas jury has found Oculus VR Inc. and some of its top executives liable for up to $500 million in damages in one of the biggest lawsuits ever to hit the growing virtual reality industry. The jury did not find the Facebook-owned Oculus guilty of stealing its VR technology from ZeniMax Media Inc., but it did find Oculus founder ...
