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…
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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 –…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…