Search Results for: Artificial intelligence
IBM gives Watson a new challenge: Your tax return
February 2nd, 2017
In its first steps toward commercialization, IBM’s Watson took on grand, science-laden challenges like helping doctors diagnose cancer. But that is changing as IBM strives to build its artificial intelligence technology into a multibillion-dollar business. Today, companies including Geico, ...
EY launches Future Work Now
February 2nd, 2017
EY announced today a new service offering and holistic program that helps companies develop workforces optimized for the new, highly digital work environment. Future Work Now offers business leaders configurable tools and processes to assist organizations in diagnosing, assessing ...
Starbucks is launching order and pay for items before arriving at their store
January 31st, 2017
Starbucks is taking the next step toward evolving the digital customer experience by launching voice ordering capabilities within the Starbucks mobile iOS app and the popular Amazon Alexa platform. These features are an extension of Starbucks Mobile Order & Pay, ...
Apple joins Google, Facebook and Microsoft in AI research group
January 30th, 2017
Apple is joining fellow tech giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and IBM as the sixth founding member of the recently-formed artificial intelligence research group – the Partnership on AI. The non-profit said Apple has been “involved and collaborating with ...
Saxo Bank to cut jobs in the digital age
January 26th, 2017
Announcement comes just days after Davos business leaders warned of the threat to white-collar jobs Saxo Bank, a Danish bank that specialises in online trading, is cutting jobs in a drive to “digitise” and “streamline” its business – just ...
AMF France introduced a new market surveillance
January 26th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), ever determined to remain at the forefront of detecting market abuse and other violations, is launching an effort to modernise its monitoring system, enhancing its ability to detect, analyse and investigate suspicious activity. ...
Society report: solicitors ready for ‘automation revolution’
January 25th, 2017
Solicitors agree that legal business is brimming with innovators – but most are content for others to go first before deploying new technology. Yet as the ‘pyramid law firm of the past’ recedes into history, practitioners who fail to ...
KCG adds four new independent directors to Board
January 20th, 2017
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Peter Fisher, Colin Smith, Heather Tookes and Adrian Weller as Directors, effective immediately. KCG also announced that Rene M. Kern and John C. (Hans) Morris ...
Sayōnara, Humans: Japanese Company Replaces Its Workers with AI
January 9th, 2017
34 workers at a Japanese insurance company are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence (AI) system. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, seeking greater efficiency in calculating their payouts to policyholders, will soon replace many of its office ...
China going cashless thanks to fintech boom
December 30th, 2016
Standing in line at a Starbucks in downtown Shenzhen, I suddenly realize that no one in front of me is paying with cash. They aren’t paying by credit card either. In fact, I can’t see a single customer holding a wallet or a ...
