Google is using AI to create never-before-heard musical instruments

Maybe we'll all be using synth sounds built by robots soon?

Source: Factmag

The Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce and others as it formalizes Grand Challenges and work groups

Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI, a collection of companies and non-profits that have committed to sharing best practices and communicating openly about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence research. The new members will be working alongside existing partners that include Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Apple.

Source: TC

An AI Ally to Combat Bullying in Virtual Worlds

Startup Spirit AI says it has a solution to the growing problem of harassment in online games: a sensitive bot.

Source: MIT Technology Review

Facebook is developing AI that plans to one day be your personal social media assistant

The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group is releasing AI software known as ParlAI that will be used to develop smart chat bots.

Source: CNBC

Facebook wants to build 'your own virtual friend,' and it just took an important step

Facebook is releasing new software called ParlAI that artificial intelligence (AI) researchers can use to test their systems for having text conversations with people.

Source: CNBC

Clean-tech startup ION Energy raises funds from Haptik founders

Mumbai-based clean tech startup ION Energy has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding from Haptik founders Aakrit Vaish and Swapan Rajdev, and the chairman of OMC Power and founder of Nippo Batteries Sushill Jiwarajka, said a company statement.

Source: VCC

H2 Ventures is looking for artificial intelligence startups

Australian venture capitalist H2 Venture is expanding its investment and accelerator program for fintechs to data and artificial intelligence (AI) startups.

Source: Business Insider

UBank launches Australia's first artificial intelligence chatbot for Home Loans

RoboChat is a virtual chatbot, trained to answer thousands of questions across 40 home loan topics in real time.

Source: Finder

Multilingual AI Platform for Businesses, Vernacular.ai Raises Undisclosed Amount of Funding from Kstart.

Vernacular.ai launched a B2C product earlier this year called Aisha - India's first personal assistant in Hindi Language for people living in Tier-2 & Tier-3 areas.

Source: Business World

Discom to deliver bills through WhatsApp

In another move to ensure consumers get their electricity bills on time, Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Ltd. (MPPKVVCL) has planned to deliver bills to its consumers directly onto their mobile phones through messaging application WhatsApp.

Source: TOI

Verizon Debuts Fios Chatbot For Facebook's Messenger

Verizon Wireless launched its new Fios chatbot for Facebook's Messenger app, the largest mobile service provider in the United States announced on Thursday.

Source: AH

Cisco picks up pioneering chatbot startup MindMeld for $125M

After dabbling with the technology here and there over the past few quarters, Cisco Systems Inc. is shifting its chatbot push into high gear.

Source: siliconANGLE

The Funded: Internet TV, AI-powered recruiting chatbot among latest rounds

An Internet TV network, a recruiting chatbot powered by artificial intelligence and a startup that helps pinpoint crop stress for farmers are among the latest Bay Area funding deals.

Source: Business Journals

6 AI startups win $1.5 million in prizes at Nvidia Inception event

Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference is all about highlighting companies using graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate artificial intelligence.

Source: VB

AI pioneer will advise chatbot startup that provides free legal advice to immigrants

Dr. Yoshua Bengio, one of the key researchers credited with establishing the field of deep learning, announced today that he will serve as a strategy adviser for legal tech company Botler AI.

Source: The Verge

Google's Fuzz bot exposes over 1,000 open-source bugs

The OSS-Fuzz robot has uncovered vulnerabilities in a number of key open-source projects.

Source: ZDnet

Microsoft May Dial Down The Bot Hype At Build 2017

Microsoft talked a big game on bots last year, and released some impressive tools for building them. But the narrative will likely shift to Cortana "skills" this year.

Source: Fast Company

AI is in a 'golden age' and solving problems once thought to be in the realm of science fiction, says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

With a warehouse equipped with over 45,000 robots, and a new drone delivery system, Amazon is pinning its future on artificial intelligence.

Source: Dailymail