Artificial intelligence headlines
June 2021 artificial intelligence reports, articles and downloads
June’s AI news headlines covered items spanning the next generation of artificial intelligence chips, the use of AI in financial systems, AI use in facial recognition and lip reading, the ethics underpinning the use of artificial intelligence and many more.
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- Artificial Intelligence: The emotion business and how companies are learning to read your mind – an interactive piece from The Financial Times
- South Korea: “The race to develop AI bankers is heating up in Korea, especially after the pandemic brought about the closure of hundreds of offline stores nationwide.”
- ICYMI: Google now using AI to design next generation of AI chips in 6 hours, compared with months for human designers
- Artificial intelligence in healthcare: A brief intro to 16 firms across APAC
- ICYMI: Stripe payments giant launches Stripe Identity, artificial intelligence and ML tech ID tool intended to securely verify identities of users from more than 30 countries
- AI x Gov online event set for July 27th, focusing on the theme of ‘Public Sector Innovation Through Artificial Intelligence’ with 2 streams, government and health
- “First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more.”
- Asia Pacific Accelerator unveils 20 med-tech and health-tech startups competing for a place to present in October’s APACMed MedTech Forum 2021 in Singapore
- Download: Artificial Intelligence governance as a new European Union external policy tool
- “What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?” An imagined scenario from The Economist
- Download: ‘Trust In Artificial Intelligence’, a 5-country study from KPMG and Australia’s University of Queensland (pdf)
- Mapping China’s Tech Giants: Mapping overseas expansion of 27 key tech firms, featuring 3800+ entries, spanning up to 15 categories and providing 38000+ data points
- China: Beijing Sinoits Tech raises $3-$5M pre-Series A with vehicle recognition tech, AI-driven traffic analysis and more
- Lofty principles, conflicting incentives: AI ethics and governance in China
- Indonesia: Prixa raises $3M to scale AI-driven platform user base, while supporting B2B customers and improving healthcare access and digital health transformation
- Singapore: Osome raises $16M Series A to digitize accounting and compliance services for SMEs using artificial intelligence
- Sri Lanka: National Development Bank selects Axion to deploy OneConnect artificial intelligence-driven video know-your-customer tech
- ICYMI: Future Today Institute’s 2021 Tech Trends Report, covering AI, healthtech, blockchain, 5G, government, policy and more
- Vietnam: Hanet gains series A funding with artificial intelligence-powered cameras for home security, business timekeeping, traffic surveillance and other users
- India: A look at AdmitKard, providing an AI-backed ‘course-to-career’ solution to simplify overseas university admissions for Indian students
- Japan’s KDDI telco backs Indonesia’s Qlue smart city platform and solutions provider, aiming to expand AI, IoT and other tech solutions to wider SEA
- China: Facetech Holdings gains funding to further develop tech using AI and neural networks to identify faces obscured by protective equipment or other coverings
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