London-based AI firm Edgify has secured a $6.5 million seed funding round, as it seeks to expand work processing data generated at so-called “edge” devices. The round was led by Octopus Ventures,…
Musician Andrew Paley Creates AI Videos: “Collaborating with a Machine Fit the Moment”
Andrew Paley first appeared on music radars in 2002 with his Burlington, Vermont-based post-punk band The Static Age. But the musician has another life in tech – and this year he’s combined…
AI in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Reckoning or PR Stunt?
George Floyd’s death, and weeks of global protest against racial inequality that followed, have persuaded two of Silicon Valley’s biggest brands to rethink facial recognition technology. On Tuesday IBM announced it would…
Romanian Startup TypingDNA Wins $7m Funding from Google’s AI VC
Romanian typing biometrics startup TypingDNA has secured a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Google’s AI-focused VC firm Gradient Ventures. The 2016-founded company, based in Romania and New York City,…
Bias and Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts in the Machine
With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups’ algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time…
“AI Goes Beyond Algorithmic Brilliance” – OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved
Jon Medved, CEO of equity crowdfund OurCrowd, is one of Israel’s leading AI investors. But, the enigmatic, Hawaiian shirt-loving VC says, deep tech brings its own deep and unique issues for entrepreneurs.…
Mapillary CEO and founder Solem: “It never really felt daunting…it just made sense”
Jan Erik Solem is CEO and founder of Mapillary, a Malmö-based street-level imagery platform that that uses computer vision to fix maps. Thus far the company has won almost $25 million in…
London is Europe’s AI King – Will it Protect the Throne Past Brexit?
London is the perfect place to grow a deep-tech startup. But with Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union fast approaching, is there a danger its sprawling, frenetic capital may lose its belt…
Cerebri AI Targeted Fortune 500 Early – And Succeeded
When it comes to a company’s customers, what does success look like? That is the question that has driven Cerebri AI to become one of the machine learning field’s most striking –…
Tech Leaders Call for Ban on Killer Robots
Thousands of the world’s leading tech experts have called for a ban on autonomous weapons, arguing that the right to take human life “should never be delegated to a machine.” The statement,…