CRITICAL Software

The Verge | January 20, 2020

Hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the US have started using a new facial recognition system from Clearview AI, a new investigation by The New York Times has revealed. The database is made up of billions of images scraped from millions of sites including Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. The Times says that Clearview AI’s work could “end privacy as we know it,” and the piece is well worth a read in its entirety. The use of facial recognition systems by police is already a ...

DEEP LEARNING

ICS | January 11, 2021

ICS, a portfolio company of ClearLight Partners and leading provider of Information Technology (IT) Managed Services in the Northeast, announced it has acquired AKUITY Technologies (“AKUITY”), a provider of IT Managed Services in the greater New England area. Headquartered in Auburn, MA, AKUITY was founded in 1988 and has grown by helping small-to-medium sized businesses throughout New England achieve success through greater returns on their technology investment. Alon...

AI TECH

Kore.ai | September 28, 2021

Kore.ai, a top conversational AI software company, today announced the launch of SmartAssist, the world’s first AI-native end-to-end Contact Center as-a-Service [CCaaS] solution. The solution comes integrated with the Agent Assist virtual assistant to help live agents understand past history/context, as well as an intuitive desktop console that enables agents to easily manage conversations. Long hold and wait times can anger already frustrated customers, creating a poor user...

NVIDIA | July 08, 2020

Google Cloud users can now harness the power of NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs for their AI workloads. The specific GPU added to Google Cloud is the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core which was announced just last month. NVIDIA says the A100 “has come to the cloud faster than any NVIDIA GPU in history.” NVIDIA claims the A100 boosts training and inference performance by up to 20x over its predecessors. Large AI models like BERT can be trained in just 37 minutes on a cluster of 1,024 A100s....