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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

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The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning engineers. So does Pensa Systems, Vimaan, Intelligent Flying Machines , Vtrus and Verity.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round

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Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. The company leverages machine learning and a large body of knowledge about chemical reactions to create these processes, though as CSO Stanis? . odarczyk-Pruszy?ski

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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

TechCrunch

The simple fact is that animals like cows are grown in huge environments that are mostly empty or filled with hay; every gram of cultivated meat comes through an expensive, complex machine that probably wasn’t designed to do this stuff in the first place. It’s just raised $3.2

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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That’s not to say they’re looking to ditch their roles or smash machines, as the real Luddites had. The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently conducted its annual trends study and found that nearly a quarter of the IT leaders polled listed AI and machine learning as an area of concern, says SIM CEO Mark Taylor.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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Deep Learning Myths, Lies, and Videotape - Part 2: Balderdash!

Infinidat

Deep Learning Myths, Lies, and Videotape - Part 2: Balderdash! In Part 1 of this blog post , we discussed the history and definitions of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), as well as Infinidat’s use of true Deep Learning in our Neural Cache software. Adriana Andronescu.