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The latest iteration of the Common Voice Dataset was released today bringing with it over 13,000 hours' worth of crowd-sourced speech data, over 182,000 unique voices, and a total of 76 languages.

Facebook has announced that youngsters registering for Instagram will have their accounts set to private by default, and that it will be using AI to prevent unsolicited interactions from adults.

Providing over twice the precision and inference speed compared to the last generation, Nvidia's new TensorRT 8 deep learning SDK clocked in a time of 1.2 ms in BERT-Large's inference.

OnePlus teased today its upcoming mid-range smartphone, the Nord 2. It will be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 AI processor featuring AI-assisted features for imaging ang gaming, among others.

Microsoft's GitHub has collaborated with OpenAI to develop an extension for Visual Studio Code that will write code for developers as long as they use meaningful comments and function names.

Google Messages is adding two new capabilities for Indian users that will let them categorize SMS into different tabs and automatically delete OTPs 24 hours after they're received.

Facebook unveiled new updates today including the upcoming launch of its Shops platform on WhatsApp in select countries and on Marketplace in the U.S. Instagram is also getting visual search and more.

Facebook today has announced its TextStyleBrush AI research project. The new TextStyleBrush AI can copy text styles from images and effectively reproduce new images with the same replicated style.

Google says its AI can design microprocessor floorplans much faster and better than any human can. The neural network is learning this trade through a method called reinforcement learning.

Google has revealed how AI techniques such as deep learning can be used to detect dermatological issues as well as tuberculosis. It will be expanding its work in these domains later this year.

Microsoft and Darktrace have formed a new partnership to use 'self-learning' artificial intelligence to help organizations in the UK quickly respond to various types of cyber threats.

Counterfit is a tool from Microsoft which can be used to automate the security testing of AI models at scale. It is environment-, model-, and data-agnostic so can be used in a variety of situations.

Apple has reportedly hired former Googler Samy Bengio to head a new AI research unit with John Giannandrea, Apple's senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy. Apple has not commented.

Microsoft is reportedly set to announce a deal to acquire Nuance this week. Nuance specializes in artificial intelligence and speech recognition, and its technology was used for Siri.

Cambridge Quantum Computing has demonstrated Variational Inference on quantum computers for the first time. Results are encouraging, indicating a promising new approach in quantum machine learning.

XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite now support efficient inference of sparse networks. Researchers demonstrated substantial speedups in inference times on realtime gesture detection and background blur apps.

Not only is a new Dynamics 365 application coming in preview, but Microsoft's customer relationship management platform is receiving new integrations with Teams as well, alongside other new features.

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The team-up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be centered around delivering Azure capabilities to space through HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2, which is set to be launched this month.

Gartner has predicted that workers will try to evade AI tracking tools deployed by their employer. By 2023, it said as many as 10% of employees will try to find holes in the tracking systems.

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Microsoft has launched the Open AI Energy Initiative in collaboration with Shell, C3 AI, and Baker Hughes. It aims to offer AI-based scalable and interoperable solutions for the energy sector.

Microsoft To Do's web application has introduced intelligent task suggestions in its My Day list. It suggests tasks that have urgent deadlines or are marked with a star to help you get things done.

DALL·E, a distilled version of GPT-3 with 12 billion parameters, is a transformer model that produces images from a given caption. The results are impressive with the model capturing minute details.

Amazon's quantum computing service has been integrated with PennyLane to speed up the development of quantum-hybrid algorithms. It also has a new tensor network simulator that supports 50 qubits.

Microsoft and Code.org have formed an alliance with the goal of providing AI-related educational resources to elementary and high school students, courtesy of Microsoft's $7.5 million donation.

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Intel's latest offering in its lineup of eASICs, the N5X boasts 50% lower core power and lower cost compared to FPGAs. It will be geared towards accelerating 5G, AI, cloud, and edge workloads.

Mispology's FPGA-based Zebra AI inference accelerator outperformed Nvidia A100, V100, Tesla T4, AWS Inferencia, Google TPUv3, and others, on the ResNet 50 architecture in ML inference efficiency.

Amazon has beefed up machine learning in its voice assistant, making it able to predict "latent goals" that aren't explicitly asked. The feature is presently available in English to U.S. users.

The two giants have agreed to collaborate on Confidential Computing whereby they will be enhancing and extending the security of AI and HPC workloads on their hybrid cloud offerings.

Microsoft and Qualcomm are partnering to improve the development and deployment experience for developers using the respective technologies offered by the two firms to build AI and ML solutions.

Japanese software development firm OKI IDS will be combining its expertise with Mipsology's field-programmable gate arrays to bring high-quality machine learning applications to Japan.

Sony has launched Airpeak, a project with which the Japanese giant will be bringing its imaging and sensing technology to the drone space to help photographers, videographers, and content creators.