Industria 4.0

Industria 4.0

Regulate AI? How US, EU and China are going about It
28/04/2024 - GOVERNMENTS do not have a great track record of keeping up with emerging technology. But the complex, rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) raises legal, national security and civil...
Google plans to invest $2 billion to build data center in northeast Indiana, officials say
28/04/2024 - Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said...
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace accepts $5 bn takeover
28/04/2024 - Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's "capability in artificial...
Microsoft expands its AI empire abroad
28/04/2024 - Microsoft, the tech titan most closely associated with AI, has announced nearly $10 billion in investments in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, the price it is willing to pay to remain...
Microsoft quarterly profit rises 20% as tech giant pushes to get customers using AI products
28/04/2024 - Microsoft on Thursday said its profit rose 20% for the January-March quarter as it tries to position itself as a leader in applying artificial intelligence technology to make workplaces more...
Meta profits soar but costs of AI cause worry
25/04/2024 - Facebook-owner Meta on Wednesday said its quarterly profits soared last quarter, but worries about the cost of artificial intelligence saw its share price take a hit on Wall Street.
On the trail of deepfakes, researchers identify 'fingerprints' of AI-generated video
25/04/2024 - In February, OpenAI released videos created by its generative artificial intelligence program Sora. The strikingly realistic content, produced via simple text prompts, is the latest breakthrough for...
Balancing AI and physics: Toward a learnable climate model
25/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing notable changes to atmospheric science, particularly with the introduction of large AI weather models like Pangu-Weather and GraphCast. However, alongside...
Study explores why human-inspired machines can be perceived as eerie
25/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and robots are becoming increasingly advanced, exhibiting capabilities that vaguely resemble those of humans. The growing similarities between AIs and humans...
Coordinate-wise monotonic transformations enable privacy-preserving age estimation with 3D face point cloud
24/04/2024 - In a recent publication in Science China Life Sciences, a research team led by Professor Jing-Dong Jackie Han and Ph.D. student Xinyu Yang from Peking University established a deep learning model for...
Cisco Systems joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican pledge to ensure ethical use and development of AI
24/04/2024 - Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit the common...
Emulating neurodegeneration and aging in artificial intelligence systems
24/04/2024 - In recent years, developers have introduced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can simulate or reproduce various human abilities, such as recognizing objects in images, answering questions,...
Researchers develop deep learning alternative to monitoring laser powder bed fusion
24/04/2024 - Many things can go wrong when additively manufacturing (AM) metal and without in-situ process monitoring, defects can only be detected and characterized after a product is built. Most commonly,...
AI weather forecasts can capture destructive path of major storms, new study shows
23/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) can quickly and accurately predict the path and intensity of major storms, a new study demonstrates.
DeFake tool protects voice recordings from cybercriminals
23/04/2024 - In what has become a familiar refrain when discussing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies, voice cloning makes possible beneficial advances in accessibility and creativity while also...
The use of AI in war games could change military strategy
23/04/2024 - The rise of commercially viable generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform a vast range of sectors. This transformation will be particularly profound in contemporary...
AI for Earth: How NASA's artificial intelligence and open science efforts combat climate change
21/04/2024 - As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only...
Using deep learning to image the Earth's planetary boundary layer
21/04/2024 - Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, the planetary boundary layer (PBL)—the lowest layer of the troposphere—is actually the...
InstaDeep CEO takes AI from Tunis to London
21/04/2024 - Karim Beguir launched the artificial intelligence start-up InstaDeep in Tunisia in 2014 with just two computers and $2,000.
A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising
21/04/2024 - An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it's hoped that technology can ease the workload...
AI a 'fundamental change in the news ecosystem': Expert
21/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause "a fundamental change in the news ecosystem", media expert David Caswell told AFP.