Artificial intelligence news: July 2021 headlines
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Artificial intelligence items from July of 2021: AI in cancer diagnosis in China; AI-backed, app-based mobile learning in South Korea; artificial intelligence in credit underwriting, and in financial fraud detection; Stanfords’ 2021 AI Index Report; Shanghai’s municipal AI plan; and many others.
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- ICYMI: “Advances in AI are helping some startups develop another way to pollinate plants, which could increase yield compared with insects and human workers”
- Global Veritas Challenge 2021 proposal submissions close July 30th, seeking solutions around responsible use of artificial intelligence across 4 focus areas
- Download: Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2021, from Stanford University (pdf)
- AI and fraud detection: ” in the overall financial fraud stakes, internal fraud accounted for close to 70% of all cases annually…”
- AI x Gov 2021 online event set for July 27th, hosting sessions around the theme of ‘public sector innovation through artificial intelligence’
- “Using AI in journalism poses the greater ethical dilemma, Broussard said. ‘People are more forgiving when we use this kind of technology in fiction…'”
- ICYMI: A brief look at how Austrian publisher Kronen Zeitung uses machine learning to moderate user comments and boost reader engagement
- Australia: 2 AI projects to share Au$250K funding under NSW Gov’t Access to Justice Innovation Fund
- Australia: Skyfii acquires Los Angeles’ CrowdVision, building out location-based analytics with AI, computer vision and Lidar to study passenger flows at airports
- Big tech: “That YouTube’s AI is still – per Mozilla’s study – behaving so badly also suggests Google has been pretty successful at fuzzing criticism with superficial claims of reform.”
- China: An overview of Wisdon, using cloud-based AI and Internet of Things tech to make city infrastructure ‘smarter’, automating water, electricity and gas meter processes
- China: AutoX self-driving vehicles startup unveils Gen5 self-drive system designed for robotaxis, built on NVIDIA DRIVE auto grade GPUs
- China: Shanghai announces municipal Artificial Intelligence plan to look at rule changes around digital tech, technical standards risk monitoring
- India: Fountain9 raises $1.9M seed funding with AI-driven predictive inventory planning, in part looking at impacting a global food waste problem of $260BN
- New Zealand: Kāhu secures $3M with artificial intelligence tech for detecting skin cancers, aiding doctors in melanoma diagnosis
- Singapore: Monetary Authority launches Global Veritas Challenge to promote adoption of artificial intelligence solutions in the financial sector
- Singapore: CrediLinqAI gains $1M angel funding with AI-driven approach intended to change how credit is underwritten
- AI Singapore opens 5-month Trusted Media Challenge, seeking AI models and solutions to easily detect audiovisual fake media across both sound and vision
- An intro to Singapore’s Easy Eat AI, tech startup aiming to ‘transform restaurants into tech companies’, suggesting menu changes, inventory, and dishes for customers
- e-news, latest issue: Autonomous trucking in China, AI in media, legal-tech in Australia, Google’s India investments…
- Sri Lanka: A look at SpectrifyAI, producing spectral scanners for the agriculture supply chain able to analyse chemical composition of soil and crops in real-time
- Vietnam: MoMo payments startup acquires Pique AI startup in bid to further capitalize on user data using Pique’s recommendation engine
- South Korea: Mathpresso fast-growing edtech startup raises $50M Series C with app-based mobile learning incorporating AI
- India: Hyreo HR-tech startup raises pre-series A funding, using AI to improve the hiring process from the candidate’s point of view via ‘candidate experience management’ via
- e-news, latest issue: Singapore restaurant AI, B2B in Indonesia, Korean incubator, Australian on-demand parking…
- China: InferVision gains $139M with platform AI to screen, diagnose and treat cancers, and cardiovascular and infectious diseases
- Startup News Asia e-newsletter issue 009 online now – AI in Shanghai, IoT in India, Malaysia’s startups, BNPL in Vietnam and more
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