WuXi NextCode, which collects genomic data to sequence and analyze DNA, announced today that it has closed a $240 million round led by Sequoia Capital China. Temasek, 3W Partners, and Jack Ma’s private equity firm, Yunfeng Capital, also participated. ... (more…)

Microsoft is readying more AI tools for developers and data scientists, including a Visual Studio Code extension and a data-wrangling tool. (more…)

Why is artificial intelligence just now taking off? These three forces are fueling AI techniques to build real-life applications. (more…)

As if giving the world its AI framework wasn't enough, Google is now letting others work with a once-internal development tool, Colaboratory. The software works a lot like Google Docs, its document collaboration tool, but with the ability to run code and ... (more…)

With the increasing commoditization of computer vision, speech recognition and machine translation systems and the widespread deployment of learning-based back-end technologies such as digital advertising and intelligent infrastructures, AI (Artificial In... (more…)