This week Amazon re:invent, AI-powered bots and cryptocurrencies rule the news. Here is a quick rundown of news that happened this week that’s worth your time!
News Highlights
- Data science announcements at Amazon re:invent 2017
- IOTA, the cryptocurrency that uses Tangle instead of blockchain, announces Data Marketplace for Internet of Things
- Cloudera Altus Analytic DB: Modernizing the cloud-based data warehouses
- What if robots get you a job! Enter Helena, the first artificial intelligence recruiter
- ABBYY’s AI-powered Real-Time recognition SDK helps developers add ‘instant’ text capture functionality to mobile apps
- Meet SAM: World’s first artificial intelligence politician!
In other News
1st Dec.’ 17 – Headlines
- Amazon is putting “Alexa for business”
- Introducing the AIY Vision Kit: Add computer vision to your maker projects
- Health Wizz unveils blockchain platform to give patients control of health data
- H2O.ai secures $40 million to democratize artificial intelligence for the enterprise
- Impetus Technologies to host meetup on anomaly detection techniques using Apache Spark
- Uptake raises $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics
- CrowdRiff releases ‘smart’ visual content marketing platform
30th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- AWS IoT Analytics: Amazon announces dedicated analytics service for IoT data
- SageMaker: AWS makes it easier to build and deploy machine learning models
- AWS DeepLens: Amazon unveils deep learning powered wireless video camera for developers
- Amazon Translate: A neural machine translation service more accurate and scalable
- Aurora Serverless: AWS announces a serverless database service where users only pay for the processing when the database is actually doing work
- Mozilla releases open source Speech Recognition Model and voice dataset
29th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Bitcoin cryptocurrency smashes through $10,000 record, as experts warn of bubbles
- Bokeh 0.12.11 released
- Cloudera announces beta version of Cloudera Altus Analytic DB
- China’s Baidu, Xiaomi enter pact to create smart connected devices under AI and IoT ecosystem
- Apache Impala upgraded to Top-Level Project
- Adobe demonstrates future Photoshop tool that uses machine learning to select image subjects
- DataScience.com now available on AWS Marketplace as a single-click offering
28th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Researchers aim for unbreakable encryption in quantum computers as new breakthrough drastically increases the speed of current QKD transmission
- Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging: Nuance leverages Nvidia’s deep learning for radiology
- Change Healthcare, Dicom Systems ink strategic partnerships with Google Cloud to apply AI into medical imaging analytics
- Announcing AWS Machine Learning Research Awards to fund machine learning research
- Intuit to use AWS as its standard artificial intelligence platform
27th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Nvidia’s AI processor to be used in GE Healthcare’s medical devices globally
- EnvoyAI launches with 35 algorithms contributed by 14 newly-contracted artificial intelligence development partners
- Google may add native dictation support to Chromebooks
- Lunit Unveils “Lunit INSIGHT,” A New Real-time Imaging AI Platform on the Web at RSNA 2017
- Kia Motors America launches AI-powered virtual assistant “Kian” to help customers “Know It All Now” about any Kia Vehicle
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