A snapshot of artificial intelligence headlines, articles and reports from August 2021
AI news items in August 2021 spanned applications and developments including: artificial intelligence in financial fraud detection; AI in legal-tech document analysis; NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence startup program; the value of AI to India’s economy; artificial intelligence-driven medical diagnosis; and more.
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- Available to download: Australia’s AI Action Plan, a key feature of the Australian Government’s Digital Economy Strategy
- China: A brief overview of the state of play in the country’s microprocessor space, as China’s startups race to gain an advantage in the artificial intelligence chip market
- AI’s potential in financial crime detection: “In recent years, financial crime scandals involving front and shell companies have led to fines of hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars.”
- India: AgNext Technologies takes AI Gamechanger Program agriculture category win artificial intelligence in the post-harvest quality assessment process
- Download: Artificial Intelligence & Its Role In Delivering Economic Value To Indian Enterprises, from RBSA Advisors (pdf)
- India: Ministry of Science and Technology announces special incentives scheme to support 75 startups in telemedicine, digital health and artificial intelligence
- Philippines: Medhyve gains gov’t funding under Startup Research Grant with AI-driven medical supplies procurement and B2B platform
- Taiwan: Neurobit secures $1.1M with artificial intelligence-backed diagnosis of neurological disorders
- Taiwan: An intro to the 10 Taiwan Tech Arena startups set to showcase in the program’s first Global Innovation Pitch Showcase, in partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck
- Tech news: Recent technology headlines across artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and the broad fintech space
- AI and phishing emails: “They were surprised to find that more people clicked the links in the AI-generated messages than the human-written ones – by a significant margin.”
- “You might think human lawyers would fear AI…but some are pleased, as the software can be used to quickly trawl through and sort vast quantities of case documents.”
- “An artificial-intelligence ‘artist’ got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it?”
- An overview of Nvidia’s Inception AI startup program, currently tracking the progress of more than 8,500 artificial intelligence startups across the globe
- South Korea: A brief intro to the 10 startups taking part in TIPS Global Pre-accelerator 2021 program, working in AI, healthtech, fitness and more
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