Latest funding round gives Shield AI, co-founded by a former Navy Seal who served in Afghanistan, a valuation of over $1 billion. (more…)

2019 is almost over and that means it’s time to check in on Tesla’s progress towards fielding a million robo-taxis. You see, Elon Musk told the world he’d have a million fully autonomous robotaxis by the end of 2020, and we wanted to see how many he’s man... (more…)

Researchers at Electronic Arts are coming up with ways to make those hyper-realistic games even more squint-and-you-miss-it real looking. (more…)

Japanese AI Startup Preferred Networks has been working on a custom training chip with a peak performance of half-petaFLOPS as well as a supercomputer with a peak performance of 2 exaFLOPS (HP). (more…)

WHAT DO WE WANT? Natural language processing! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Sorry, when do we want what? — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 22, 2017 Voice is a Big Deal in tech this year. Amazon has probably sold 10m Echos, you... (more…)