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Google Translate has received 24 new languages, which are spoken by 300 million people around the world. Some of these were developed using the Zero-Shot Machine Translation technique.

Meta is working with NeuroSpin and Inria to look at human minds in an effort to improve the efficiency of AI language models. The partners already have two research papers under their belts.

Microsoft is collaborating with Nvidia to build confidential GPUs on the Azure cloud where data can be securely offloaded and processed in a trusted execution environment (TEE), ensuring privacy.

ZALA Aero's deadly drone, which can autonomously identify and destroy its target, was spotted in Ukraine. It is possible that the target of the KUB-BLA was Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Intel is working with partners to give $400,000 to some community colleges that will help them build artificial intelligence labs to help train upcoming AI engineers needed by the likes of Intel.

Meta has unveiled the AI Research SuperCluster. The new supercomputer will help the company to unlock the next generation in artificial intelligence which it hopes to use in AI apps for the metaverse.

Microsoft has detailed a new open-source framework called EzPC, which enables AI model validation without requiring involved parties to share data with each other. It is built on top of MPC.

Samsung has made a breakthrough in increasing the resistivity of MRAM. This makes it a more viable option for in-memory processing and could be used in next-generation artificial intelligence chips.

The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, has given the go-ahead for Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance. Nuance develops transcription software and will boost Microsoft's AI prowess.

Meta has deployed a new AI technology called Few-Shot Learner. It allows the company to train AI models much more quickly allowing it to take action against harmful content faster.

Microsoft has partnered with Boston Consulting Group on a whitepaper outlining the process for developing AI products responsible. It has also released a governance dashboard on the same topic.

The member states of UNESCO have signed off on a document that outlines the proper ways in which artificial intelligence should be used so that it does not act as an impediment to people.

Gartner has predicted that the AI software market will reach $62 billion next year, that's up 21.3% compared to this year. As businesses work out how to implement AI, revenue is only expected to grow.

IBM has announced that it is open-sourcing ModelMesh, its model-serving management layer powering Watson products. ModelMesh will enable the deployment of AI models at "extreme scale" on Kubernetes.

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A new report claims that Apple is working on new next-gen tech that will help its iPhones detect and diagnose several mental health issues like stress, anxiety, depression, and more, using user data.

Google is expanding its premium printing service for Photos, including increased flexibility in getting prints delivered to your home. You can now order and receive as many prints as you want.

The Department of Homeland Security has revealed that it is considering collaborating with external companies to detect and proactively responding to signs of violence and terrorism on social media.

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.