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AI beefs up veggie burgers as market booms

Nathalie Olof-Ors, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 14 08:13 PM

Have a beef with beef? A burgeoning veggie burger industry is using artificial intelligence to propose alternatives.   Read more »

Japan's SoftBank suspends production of chatty robot Pepper

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 29 06:27 PM

Japan's SoftBank has suspended production of its humanoid robot Pepper, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday, seven years after the conglomerate unveiled the signature chatty white android to much fanfare. Read more »

Facebook AI software able to dig up origins of deepfake images

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 17 08:40 AM

Facebook scientists on Wednesday said they developed artificial intelligence software to not only identify "deepfake" images but to figure out where they came from. Read more »

More businesses seen using chatbots and AI

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 19 02:20 PM

More and more businesses will be employing chatbots to keep their customers engaged as the enterprises speed up their digitalization. Artificial intelligence is also making chatbots even more powerful.  Read more »

Philippines lays out AI industry road map

Bruce Rodriguez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 07:37 PM

The Department of Trade and Industry on Wednesday launched the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap which aims to make the country a regional hub for AI-based solutions and data analytics. Read more »

AI, captain! First autonomous ship prepares for maiden voyage

Anna Cuenca, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 30 03:50 PM

The "Mayflower 400" -- the world's first intelligent ship -- bobs gently in a light swell as it stops its engines in Plymouth Sound, off England's southwest coast, before self-activating a hydrophone designed to listen to whales. Read more »

Huawei starts selling smart cars in flagship stores across China to offset smartphone losses

Celia Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 22 01:19 PM

The SF5 model, jointly launched by the Shenzhen-based tech giant and carmaker SERES, is the first vehicle to officially enter Huawei’s stores. The electric-petrol hybrid is equipped with Huawei’s HarmonyOS-based HiCar system and has a driving range of 180 kilometres in pure electric mode and over 1,000 kilometres in extended-range mode. Read more »

China starts large-scale testing of its internet of the future

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 21 01:20 PM

Headquartered at Tsinghua University, the “future internet technology infrastructure” connects 40 of China's leading research universities with huge bandwidth and far lower latency than the existing internet, according to state news agency Xinhua.   Read more »

Can China’s Huawei transform from hardware giant into a leading services provider?

Celia Chen and Iris Deng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 15 02:58 PM

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co is taking time to set strategy for its cloud business as the Shenzhen-based company pushes ahead with a broader effort to turn itself from a hardware maker into a services provider in the face of harsh US sanctions.   Read more »

Chinese researchers say they’ve developed an AI text censor that's 91 pct accurate

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 14 12:14 PM

The Chinese researchers claim it could be useful to "identify and filter sensitive information from online news media." China’s internet is tightly controlled and the government relies on a huge army of censors to vet content. Read more »

Microsoft bets big on health with $19.7 billion purchase of Nuance

John Biers, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 13 09:23 AM

Microsoft is to acquire artificial intelligence and cloud computing company Nuance for $19.7 billion, bolstering its healthcare presence with a leader in voice recognition technology.   Read more »

Microsoft in discussions to buy Nuance Communications: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 12 09:30 AM

Technology giant Microsoft is in advanced discussions to buy the US group Nuance Communications, which specializes in artificial intelligence, for $16 billion, according to media reports Sunday. Read more »

Softbank to buy $2.8-billion stake in Norway robotics firm

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 06 12:17 PM

 Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group will buy a 40 percent stake in Norwegian robotics company AutoStore in a deal worth $2.8 billion, the two firms said. Read more »

Regulate AI or risk 'dehumanization' at work, British unions say

Umberto Bacchi, Reuters
Posted at Mar 25 10:05 AM

Britain must urgently regulate how companies use artificial intelligence (AI) at work, unions said on Thursday, warning of widespread discrimination if the technology is left unchecked. Read more »

China regulators held talks with Alibaba, Tencent, 9 others on 'deepfake' tech

Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 01:44 PM

Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create hyper-realistic but fake videos or audios where a person appears to say or do something they did not. Read more »

China’s tech push includes plans to lure more skilled migrants

Rachel Zhang in Shanghai and Teddy Ng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 11 01:25 PM

The five-year plan calls for talent to be brought in to help drive areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, life sciences, space and aviation. It says policy for highly skilled foreigners to work in China and the permanent residency system will be improved. Read more »

Fourteen-year-old girl takes the lead in organizing Hong Kong’s first global hackathon

Laura Westbrook, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 08 02:48 PM

Nicole Lee, a Year 10 student at West Island School, is the youngest organizer chosen by London-based Teens In AI, the group that oversees the event. ‘It is a young girl telling other young girls they can do it. That is a strong statement,’ says Justina Ho, chairwoman of IET Hong Kong. Read more »

US-China tech war: Beijing’s main policy lender pledges US$62 billion to fund tech innovation

Celia Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 05 01:12 PM

China Development Bank has earmarked financing to support strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing. The funding support for hi-tech innovation forms part of a state-orchestrated strategy to reduce China’s reliance on imported technologies. Read more »

Huawei turns to AI pig farming as Chinese tech giant explores growth areas outside smartphones

Jane Zhang, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 19 02:04 PM

Huawei said it is launching an artificial intelligence pig farming project amid ongoing US sanctions that have hammered its smartphone business. Other tech giants, including JD.com, NetEase, and Alibaba, have all sought to bring new tech to pig farming in China, home to half the world’s live hogs Read more »

PH tech startup that uses AI to cut shipping paperwork eyeing expansion

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 03:59 PM

A tech startup based in the Philippines is wielding AI to speed up the processing of shipping documents and promises to provide up to 80 percent savings for freight forwarders over manual processing of logistics paperwork. Read more »