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Qualcomm announces unified ‘full stack’ approach to AI software
Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled its new AI Stack portfolio, which it says brings a unified software approach to creating artificial intelligence applications across its products. According to the company, the Qualcomm AI Stack combines and improves upon its existing AI offerings by providing a more comprehensive AI solution for original equipment manufacturers and developers. It supports ...
Amazon reveals how it’s using AI to transform the retail experience
Amazon.com today showcased the multiple ways in which artificial intelligence-based machine learning and computer vision algorithms are being combined with synthetic data to improve key retail automation technologies such as Just Walk Out, Amazon One and Amazon Dash Cart. In a keynote at Amazon’s re:MARS event today in Las Vegas, Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president ...
At re:MARS, Amazon Alexa evolves from ambient to generalizable intelligence
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s chief Alexa developer Rohit Prasad today spoke about the increasingly prominent role his company’s digital assistant plays in people’s lives, citing this as evidence of the rise of “ambient intelligence.” Prasad defines ambient intelligence as artificial intelligence that has become so pervasive that it appears all around you, responding to requests ...
Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub to make multicloud application services easier to deploy and access
Cloud-native networking company Traefik Labs SAS today announced a new platform that’s designed to eliminate management and automation headaches around Kubernetes and Docker networking. Traefik Labs is the creator of the Traefik Stack, which provides various tools to automate cloud-natve application networking and infrastructure. Its flagship product is Traefik Proxy, which gives developers an easy ...
HashiCorp debuts new tool to detect infrastructure configuration drift
HashiCorp Inc. announced multiple updates on the product front at its HashiConf 2022 event in Amsterdam today, including a new feature that aims to prevent “infrastructure drift.” HashiCorp is in the business of information technology infrastructure automation. Its flagship platform Terraform enables system administrators to write scripts that define how their cloud and on-premises IT ...
Microsoft restricts access to controversial AI facial recognition technology
Microsoft Corp. says it will phase out access to a number of its artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition tools, including a service that’s designed to identify the emotions people exhibit based on videos and images. The company announced the decision today as it published a 27-page “Responsible AI Standard” that explains its goals with regard to ...
GitHub’s AI-powered developer assistant Copilot is now available to all programmers
GitHub Inc. said today its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot tool, which is designed to make life easier for developers, is now generally available to individual developers for $10 a month or $100 a year, with a free 60-day trial on offer. The company launched Copilot in beta in June 2021 and describes the tool as an “AI ...
Zoom launches SDK for developers to build native app integrations
Videoconferencing software heavyweight Zoom Video Communications Inc. today announced the widespread availability of the Zoom Apps software development kit, making it easier for developers to create third-party applications that work within the Zoom client. Developers can now use the Zoom Apps SDK to bring their apps inside Zoom, where they can potentially reach more users, ...
Nvidia makes big advances in inverse rendering to transform still photos into 3D objects
Nvidia Corp. today showcased the impressive advances it has made in the area of “inverse rendering,” which is a technique that uses artificial intelligence to reconstruct a series of still photos into a 3D model of an object or scene. Nvidia’s newest method of performing inverse rendering, known as Nvidia 3D MoMa, has potential applications ...
Weaker demand from PC and server makers causes memory chip prices to fall
Prices of flash memory chips used in PCs, servers, smartphones, graphics processors and other devices are expected to decline for the remainder of this year, thanks to what TrendForce Corp. said is the impact of high inflation. The Taiwanese research firm said today that dynamic random-access memory chip prices for commercial buyers are likely to fall ...