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Nest returns to the Google nest in AI push.

  • Google is bringing device maker Nest back under its control as it fights Amazon and Apple for a foothold in the AI-enabled smart home market.

Your smart watch could one day detect diabetes.

  • A recent clinical study demonstrated that the Apple Watch, using its heart rate sensor paired with a machine learning algorithm, could detect diabetes with 85 percent accuracy.

Photonic AI chip battle brewing.

  • Last week I noted the $10 million fundraising by startup Lightelligence. Not to be outdone, Lightmatter, another startup with MIT roots going after the same light-powered AI chip market, announced its $11 million funding round.

Facebook DensePose tools to re-skin videos in real time.

  • The new Facebook AI Research system consists of DensePose-COCO, a human-annotated dataset which maps 2D images to 3D surfaces on the human body, and DensePose-RCNN, a new network architecture for classifying and localizing body surface parts from video frames.

Version 0.2 of AWS Model Server for MXNet adds ONNX support.

  • AWS updated its open source Model Server for Apache MXNet (MMS) library, which packages and serves deep learning models. New features include support for Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) models and the ability to publish operational metrics directly to Amazon CloudWatch.

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