Artificial intelligence

An artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the U.S. to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weapons – something that Google itself has shied away from on ethical grounds.

International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a potential sale of its IBM Watson Health business, according to people familiar with the matter.

Alphabet Inc’s Google is investigating a member of its ethical AI team and has locked the corporate account linked to that person after finding that thousands of files were retrieved from its server and shared with external accounts, the company said on Wednesday.

"Like any pilot, Artuμ (even the real R2-D2) has strengths and weaknesses," Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper tweeted Wednesday. "Understanding them to prep both humans and AI for a new era of algorithmic warfare is our next imperative step. We either become sci-fi or become history."

Starbucks is brewing up big plans for the coming years.

Autonomous driving technology company Luminar's stock has soared since making its NYSE debut, and founder and CEO Austin Russell credits the foundation of his success to dropping out from Stanford University.

The tech company is relying on both artificial intelligence tools and tens of thousands of employees to vet content related to the Nov. 3 election.

Social media companies are on "high alert" both before and following November's presidential election. 

As California copes with one of its worst wildfire seasons on record, PG&E Corp. and other major utility companies are investigating how artificial intelligence might reduce the risk of future conflagrations.

A Southern California seventh grader and his mother have tricked an online learning platform into giving him 100% grades. 

The White House on Wednesday announced more than $1 billion in new funding for AI and quantum research.

The robots aren't replacing any humans, but they do help ease hotel guests' concerns in the middle of coronavirus.

AAA is recommending companies limit use of self-driving systems after conducting two tests that found such automation isn't always reliable.

Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co. -- also known as Xiao-i -- announced it is suing Apple for 10 billion yuan ($1.43 billion) in damages in Shanghai court after the Chinese company recently acquired a patent for a voice assistant whose technical architecture is said to be similar to Siri's.

AI technology essentially does three things for the clinical trial process: Makes it faster, more reliable and more secure.

Prosecutors are seeking 27 months imprisonment for the former head of Uber's self-driving unit for taking sensitive documents from Google.

Keen is a Google-owned app that operates similarly to image-sharing website Pinterest.

Facebook has agreed to pay an extra $100 million to settle an Illinois lawsuit against its use of facial recognition technology.

DefinedCrowd's Chief Executive Daniela Braga is one of more than two dozen entrepreneurs, investors and deal advisers who said Amazon appeared to use the investment and deal-making process to help develop competing products.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading an initiative to launch a federally funded tech college to train future civil servants.