BGL Group has spent 27 years becoming European insurance royalty. Now the Peterborough, UK-based fintech unicorn, with offices spread across the continent, the company’s CIO explains that BGL is perfectly positioned to…
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…
TwentyBN: A Robot That Can Push Your Buttons
In-store retailers are losing cash to e-commerce. Enter Millie, a life-size digital sales assistant whose computer vision pedigree is beyond compare. “You look like a rock star,” the sales assistant says, as…
AI Translator Unbabel Wins $60m Series C Funding Round
Unbabel, a Lisbon-headquartered “translation-as-a-service” platform that uses artificial intelligence and human translations, has won a $60 million Series C funding round that brings its total backing above $90m. The Portuguese firm, founded…
Honda Innovation’s Dennis Clark: “The Multinational-Startup Relationship is No Longer in Question”
As managing director of strategic partnerships at Honda Innovations, the venture capital wing of the world’s seventh-largest automaker, Dennis Clark is a keystone in the bridge between the corporation and its growing…
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,…
Proscia is Fighting Cancer with Artificial Intelligence
It is a centuries-old image of good science: the lab-coated expert, hunched over a microscope analyzing a glass slide. Proscia wants to resign it to history – at least, when it comes…
Alibaba-backed AI Startup SenseTime Bags Record $600m Funding Round
A Chinese artificial intelligence startup has just closed a funding round worth $600 million, which is the single largest venture investment in the burgeoning AI industry. SenseTime, a Beijing-based face and image…
Criticism of the UK’s Anti-Terror Tool is Shortsighted
Yesterday the UK government announced the development of a machine learning tool, with which it will seek out material from terror group ISIS before it is uploaded to the Web. The tool,…