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VentureBeat | March 12, 2020

For the second year running, lawmakers in the state of Washington again failed to pass sweeping data privacy legislation. The Washington Privacy Act or SB 6281 akin to GPDR in the European Union or CCPA in California would have allowed individuals to request companies delete their data. Washington state House and Senate lawmakers did succeed in passing SB 6280 today for public and private facial recognition use. The bill requires testing facial recognition for bias, training, mandates local and ...

venturebeat | April 14, 2020

OpenAI today launched Microscope, a library of neuron visualizations starting with nine popular or heavily neural networks. In all, the collection encompasses millions of images. Like a microscope can do in a laboratory, Microscope is made to help AI researchers better understand the architecture and behavior of neural networks with tens of thousands of neurons. Initial models in Microscope include historically important and commonly studied computer vision models like AlexNet, 2012 winner of th...

VentureBeat | March 08, 2020

Venture capitalists investing in AI and robotics startups suggest they reassess their business plan amid economic uncertainty spreading alongside COVID-19. Jocelyn Goldfein, managing director of Zetta Venture Partners, said the current climate might mean startups have to achieve higher proof points to raise their next round. Her company is helping startups think about whether to raise money now, make the money they have last longer, cut costs, or sprint to profitability. “I think our advic...

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CallMiner | June 28, 2022

CallMiner, the leading provider of conversation intelligence to drive business improvement, announced today that it has been named the Best Overall AI-based Analytics Company in the 5th annual AI Breakthrough Awards. CallMiner was recognized for its ability to help organizations analyze customer interactions as scale, such as the voice or text-based conversations that happen in an organization’s customer service center, to uncover insights and take action. These insights hel...