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The West Wing of the White House on July 5, 2023. Tech executives are meeting with top Biden administration officials on Tuesday to agree to voluntary measures to reduce risks posed by AI.

Politics & Government

These tech giants are at the White House today to talk about the risks of AI

11:03am September 12, 2023

by Franco Ordoñez

The White House is working with big tech companies to agree to testing and reporting measures to reduce AI risks. These voluntary measures are a precursor to regulation.

Education

IBM Will Invest $100M In HBCUs, Including Four In North Carolina

10:10am October 02, 2020

by Neal Charnoff

Computer titan IBM is planning on investing $1 million in historically Black colleges across the country.

IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial recognition technology to customers including police departments. The move prompted calls for other tech firms, like Amazon and Microsoft, to do the same.

National

IBM Abandons Facial Recognition Products, Condemns Racially Biased Surveillance

8:04pm June 09, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

IBM is the first major technology company to walk away from facial recognition technology amid nationwide protests for racial justice and police reform. Amazon and Microsoft have not followed.

George Laurer in 2011 at the University of Maryland's Innovation Hall of Fame. His many inventions, including the Universal Product Code, led to his induction into the hall in 1991.

National

IBM Engineer Who Designed The Universal Product Code Dies At 94

8:06pm December 12, 2019

by Sam Gringlas

The bar code is now a packaging mainstay, but it probably wouldn't have worked without George Laurer.

Google's processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation in 200 seconds. The achievement marks a major breakthrough in the decadeslong quest to use quantum mechanics to solve computational problems. Above, a Google sign at the company's ca

Science

Google Claims To Achieve Quantum Supremacy — IBM Pushes Back

5:10pm October 23, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

Google employees say they have built a computer capable of solving problems that current technology practically cannot.

IBM Senior Vice President Bob Picciano and The Weather Co.'s chairman & CEO, David Kenny, speak at the IBM Insight Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

National

Do I Need More Snow Shovels? IBM, The Weather Co. Aim To Help Businesses Decide

6:30pm October 28, 2015

by Alina Selyukh

IBM is buying The Weather Co.'s digital assets, including Weather.com and Weather Underground. The deal is a bet on big data and cloud computing in forecasting and analyzing weather.

Science

Q&A: What Machines Can Learn From People And We Can Learn From Them

6:25pm October 18, 2015

by Alina Selyukh

Should artificial intelligence mimic human behavior? The executive in charge of developing future generations of IBM's Watson tackles that and other questions about the limits and powers of AI.

An alliance led by IBM Research has produced the semiconductor industry's first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functional transistors.

IBM Announces Breakthrough In Chip Technology

2:10pm July 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The computer giant says it has produced a prototype of transistors that are just 7 nanometers wide, half the width of the smallest ones currently used.

Chef Watson generates recipes for the user based on the ingredients the person has on hand, what type of food he would like to cook and a person's dietary restrictions.

I've Got The Ingredients. What Should I Cook? Ask IBM's Watson

1:31pm October 28, 2014

by Laura Sydell

IBM's supercomputer has crushed Jeopardy! Now chefs are using Watson to come up with new kinds of recipes that work around dietary restrictions and other limitations.

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