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Amazon grounds Prime Air drone deliveries in California, shifts focus to new markets
Amazon.com Inc. has revealed that it’s winding down its drone delivery services in Lockeford, California, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on the idea just yet, as it will soon launch a new Prime Air location in Tolleson, Arizona, and continue to operate deliveries in other locations. Amazon Prime Air is an experimental service ...
Shares of SAP rise as AI fuels cloud transition plans
Shares of the enterprise software giant SAP SE were moving higher in extended trading today after the company posted mixed first-quarter earnings results. The Germany-based firm reported total sales for the March quarter of €8.04 billion ($8.57 billion), up 8% from a year earlier and just above Wall Street’s consensus estimate of €8.02 billion. Earnings ...
Fullstory’s new platform enables harnessing customer behavioral data as a standalone source
Data analytics startup Fullstory Inc. says it wants to enhance the capabilities of artificial intelligence applications by providing them with the behavioral data they need to understand customer’s sentiments properly. To do this, it has announced a new platform called Data Direct, which automates the collection, synchronization and cleaning of structured, AI-ready behavioral data that ...
Microsoft’s new VASA-1 AI framework generates super-realistic talking heads that can even sing songs
Microsoft Corp. has published a research paper that introduces a new kind of artificial intelligence framework that makes it possible to upload a still photo, add a voice sample and create a super-realistic talking head that looks and sounds like the real person. The new framework is called VASA-1, and it takes a single, portrait ...
Google announces huge company shakeup to ensure it remains at forefront of AI development
Google LLC is reorganizing some key parts of its company, and it’s no surprise to learn that the changes are being driven by its ambitions to become a major player in artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and parent Alphabet Inc., today announced through a blog post that he’s consolidating the teams that ...
Intel completes assembly of world’s most advanced EUV lithography system
Intel Corp.’s newly formed chip foundry business said today it has achieved a crucial milestone for the chipmaking industry by completing the assembly of the world’s first commercial High Numerical Aperture Extreme Ultraviolet lithography scanner. It’s a tongue-twisting name for what is said to be the most advanced piece of semiconductor manufacturing equipment ever made, ...
Slack’s new generative AI features now available for all paid customers
Salesforce Inc. said today that its popular collaboration tool Slack is getting some new generative artificial intelligence capabilities. The previously announced Slack AI features are being made available today to all paid customers, and it’s also expanding its language support from English to Spanish and Japanese, with more languages coming soon. Slack AI provides what ...
Boston Dynamics revamps its humanoid robot Atlas with electric motors
Boston Dynamics Inc., the robotics startup famed for its advanced humanoid and dog-like robots that went viral in years gone by for their acrobatic movements and dances, today announced it’s retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot and replacing it with a fully electric version instead. The company said the new, electric version of Atlas represents a significant ...
Google announces its second major round of layoffs this year
Google LLC said today it’s letting go a significant number of workers in what will be its second round of layoffs this year. The layoffs will mostly affect the company’s financial and real estate departments, a report in Business Insider said. According to a Google spokesperson who later confirmed the report, the cuts are part ...
SAS Institute debuts its first generative AI assistants, plus tools to help companies build their own
Data analytics company SAS Institute Inc. said today it’s enhancing its SAS Viya artificial intelligence platform with the introduction of new industry-specific generative AI assistants, a new synthetic data generator called SAS Data Maker, and a new developer platform called SAS Viya Workbench. The company debuted SAS Viya last year, explaining that it’s a kind ...