Couldn’t happen to a nicer breed of people

While most people are worried about blue collar jobs being replaced by robots, it looks like the white collar money men have more to fear.

Gartner dusts off its Crystal balls 

The divination unit of Gartner group has been dusting off its crystal balls for its solstice predictions and decided that by 2019, a fifth of all user interactions with the smartphone will take place via virtual personal assistants (VPAs).

Zo has protection from racists

After its early incarnation of an AI chatbot Tay turned into a racist, Microsoft has had another go with a social bot called Zo.

130 petaflops 

Japan's government  plans to build the world’s fastest-known supercomputer for developing and improving AI, driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics.

Eeeeeeeek

An artificial brain called EMMA was officially launched today by the appropriately named Brain Corp.

Cloud based AI for cars

Software king of the world Microsoft has won a contract with Tesla OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research firm backed by Tesla Motors.

Deep learning, AI

World Wide Technology (WWT) said it has teamed with Nvidia to provide its customers with tech based on GPUs.

Skynet gets Smut algorithm

Troubled search engine outfit Yahoo has been spending its money developing an algorithm which can spot porn at 20 paces.

We know what you do in meetings

Microsoft has announced several new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for Office 365 and Dynamics 365 for Sales.

Welcome your new Nvidia overlords tiny humans

Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told the assorted throngs at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2016 about his artificial intelligence plans.