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Telstra Leads Multi-Million Dollar AI Investment

Elliot Nash September 16, 2019 No Comments

Telstra’s independent venture capital arm has shown its intention to expand into the artificial intelligence data market following a $US100m (145m AUD) capital raising for San Francisco company Trifacta. Trifacta…

Google Images Adds Lens In Oz

Jack Gramenz July 25, 2019 No Comments

Google has added support for its Lens AI to Google Images in Australia to give users more information on the things they see. The feature was rolled out in the…

Standards Australia Probes AI

Computer Daily News June 25, 2019 No Comments

Standards Australia has launched a four-year federally-funded AI project with publication of a discussion paper, dubbed Developing Standards for Artificial Intelligence: Hearing Australia’s Voice. It will be followed by national…

As NAB Dump Executives, Robots Are Being Used To Talk To Customers

Computer Daily News February 12, 2019 No Comments

Customers of the small UBank outfit – part of the National Australia Bank (NAB) empire – who are seeking home loan information are set to get advice faster thanks to…

Microsoft Buys Texas Start-Up To Boost AI Capabilites

Orlaith Costello November 15, 2018 No Comments

Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire Austin-based software developer Xoxco, who is credited for creating Slack’s chatbot Howdy. It is the fourth AI-related company Microsoft has purchased this year…

AI chip almost ready, says Musk

Computer Daily News August 3, 2018 No Comments

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company’s custom-built chip designed for use in autonomous driving technology is nearly ready. Tesla is one of a number of carmakers developing self-driving…

Google Assures Duplex AI Will Make Itself Known

Athina Mallis May 14, 2018 No Comments

With the recent unveiling of Google Duplex, a number of commentators expressed concern over the AI not addressing itself when on the phone, Google has come out saying that it…

Google Opening AI Research Centre in China

Athina Mallis December 14, 2017 No Comments

Google has revealed it will be opening the first ever artificial intelligence research centre in Asia located in Beijing. The announcement was made at its Google Developer Days in Shanghai,…

Vodafone Applies AI To Boost Mobile Network Performance

Computer Daily News September 28, 2017 No Comments

Vodafone is using artificial intelligence to optimise the operation of its networks, accomplishing in hours tasks that previously took engineers months to accomplish. The achievement was announced in a blog…

AI-Powered Drones To Monitor Oz Beaches For Sharks

Jon Bragg August 28, 2017 No Comments

Drones that are able to detect sharks using artificial intelligence will begin monitoring Australian beaches starting from next month. The Little Ripper drones have previously patrolled Australian beaches for sharks using…