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IBM and Salesforce will start sharing their AI technology

by April Glaser

Watson, meet Einstein.

This AI startup wants to help robot assistants ask people the questions

by Tess Townsend

Would that be considered a role reversal?

This bizarre image-translation tool turns drawings into photographs

by Tess Townsend

Or at least it tries to.

These University of Washington professors are teaching a course on bullshit

by Tess Townsend

Watch out, Big Data.

This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter

by Tess Townsend and Kurt Wagner

New York-based Clarifai has picked up a former Google Brain engineer and four members of Twitter’s Cortex machine learning team.

Sundar Pichai makes the case for Google versus Alexa

by Tess Townsend

Google’s CEO says voice search is just part of the bigger search puzzle — and that Google has some real advantages.

Silicon Valley billionaires are ‘prepping’ to survive in underground bunkers

by April Glaser

Some in the prepper movement are afraid that AI will lead to a revolt against the wealthy.

The movie ‘Hidden Figures’ can teach us how to keep jobs in an AI future

by Carolina Milanesi

We would be fools to think we have plenty of time to create the skills our “augmented” world will require.

Most engineers are white — and so are the faces they use to train software

by Tess Townsend

A black researcher had to wear a white mask to test her own project.

Full Transcript: Vic Gundotra of AliveCor on Recode Decode with Kara Swisher

by Recode Staff

A longtime tech exec shows what happens when big minds take on big problems.

LinkedIn’s and eBay’s founders are donating $20 million to protect us from artificial intelligence

by April Glaser

It’s part of a $27 million fund being managed by MIT and Harvard.

The White House says the U.S. will need a stronger social safety net to help workers displaced by robots

by April Glaser

Advances in automation and robotics may one day leave millions of Americans out of work.

Mark Zuckerberg has finished building his robot butler, Jarvis

by Kurt Wagner

Is Zuckerberg’s home a testing ground for a new Facebook product?

‘I am utterly disgusted’: Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki takes AI down a peg

by Eric Johnson

Or several pegs.

Elon Musk’s nonprofit can help AI systems get smarter — even if their developers have bad intentions

by April Glaser

Universe is a new AI training center that is supposed to teach computers to think more like humans.

In five years, machine learning will be a part of every doctor’s job, Vic Gundotra says

by Eric Johnson

Gundotra, a longtime Microsoft and Google executive, is now the CEO of AliveCor, a mobile health-tech startup.

Amazon is bringing Alexa’s brainpower to its cloud business

by April Glaser

Amazon unveiled voice-enabled AI, image recognition and text-to-speech services for developers.

Slack is watching how you work

by Kurt Wagner

The company wants to use AI to simplify your work conversations.

AI might take jobs, but we can take steps to limit that, says U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker

by Eric Johnson

"I'm a believer in the human being,” Pritzker said on the latest Recode Decode.

Apple has hired a big brain in AI to make Siri less dumb

by Ina Fried

Carnegie Mellon researcher Russ Salakhutdinov will remain a professor in addition to his work at Apple.

These industrial robots teach each other new skills while we sleep

by April Glaser

It takes days to reprogram an industrial robot. With artificial intelligence, it could take only a few hours.

A White House report says AI will take jobs but also help solve global problems

by April Glaser

The U.S. needs to figure out how to grapple with artificial intelligence while humans are still behind the wheel.

Samsung is buying the Siri team's new startup to have a future in AI

by Ina Fried

The Korean phone maker wants to compete against Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant.

Mossberg: How Google’s bold moves shake up the tech industry

by Walt Mossberg

Intelligent, integrated hardware and software are powerful weapons.

Google’s hardware event was really all about its AI software

by Ina Fried and April Glaser

The search giant wants to beat Apple and Amazon to a fully voice-enabled interface.

Microsoft is using the brainpower of its legendary research unit in an artificial intelligence push

by Ina Fried

The company says AI will be a part of everything it does.

Google, Facebook, Amazon and others have teamed up to make AI seem less creepy

by April Glaser

They’ve started a new nonprofit to sell you on the benefits of their algorithms.

DJI’s new portable drone is so smart it will follow you around like a dog

by April Glaser

At $999, the Mavic Pro employs gesture recognition so you don’t have to hold the controller to take a selfie.

Mark Zuckerberg is about to unveil his robot butler

by Kurt Wagner

How’s your New Year’s resolution coming?

Microsoft is buying another AI startup. This one automatically schedules meetings.

by Ina Fried

The company is buying Genee and shutting down the service.

Watson claims to predict cancer, but who trained it to ‘think?’

by Kuang Chen

Watson cannot read handwriting. Machine learning’s true potential is tied to human inputs.

The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI apocalypse

by Johana Bhuiyan

Lack of diversity is more than a public relations issue, people.

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