Will the real Elon Musk please stand up? Autonomous bots and synthesized speech in the public domain

The ability to create virtual clones that appear to think and talk like the real thing is very much real, as it has been done for Elon Musk and Barack Obama. We discuss techniques and potential with the people behind them.
Read More →CatBoost Machine Learning framework from Yandex boosts the range of AI

This is the year artificial intelligence (AI) was made great again. AI is all about machine learning, and machine learning is all about deep learning (DL), according to the hype. For connaisseurs like Yandex, there's more to AI than deep learning. CatBoost, the open source framework Yandex just released, aims to expand the range of what is possible in AI and what Yandex can do.
Read More →How machine learning is taking on online retail fraud

Fraud is one of the biggest causes of lost revenue for online retailers. Fraugster and Riskified, two startups that operate in this space, share their insights and methods for safeguarding online retail.
Read More →Shipping to data: The case of Amazon Prime Day

Did you ever wonder how retail hallmarks like Amazon Prime Day and global shipping are connected? Freightos has the data to answer such questions, as it happens to be on a mission to disrupt the freight industry.
Read More →Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine learning, and cloud

What does it take to compete in a global arena in which retail and cloud are increasingly intertwined? Domain-specific data science and machine learning for the masses, according to Alibaba.
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