Regology snares $8M Series A to help navigate maze of global regulations

Every country has its own bundle of laws, rules and regulations, and they change on a regular basis making it an enormous challenge to keep up with it all. That usually requires large staffs filling in spreadsheets and unwieldy processes, but Regology, an early stage startup wants to change that by putting some automation to […]

UIPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk RPA and automation

UIPath came seemingly out of nowhere in the last several years, going public last year in a successful IPO during which it raised over $527 million. It raised $2 billion in private money prior to that with its final private valuation coming in at an amazing $35 billion. UIPath CEO Daniel Dines will be joining […]

AIの“過ち”をデータベースに蓄積せよ：米国の非営利団体による取り組みの理由

自律走行車による交通事故から顔認識技術のミスによる誤認逮捕まで、人工知能（AI）のミスが原因となった事件や事故が増えている。こうしたAIの“過ち”を集めて登録したデータベース「AIインシデント・データベース」の構築に、米国の非営利団体が取り組んでいる。その目的とは、AIの開発においてテック企業に「アメとムチ」を与えることで、AIの進歩を「正しい方向」へと誘導することにある。
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Reserve your demo table at TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 today

One of the most important goals for any early-stage startup venture is gaining exposure for your company and product. As much as we love the mantra, “if you build it, they will come,” it’s gonna take more than that to make your Field of Dreams come true. Are you a founder of an early-stage SaaS […]

xentral, an ERP platform for SMBs, raises $75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech

Enterprise Resource Planning systems have traditionally been the preserve of larger companies, but in recent years the amount of data small medium sized businesses can generate has increased to the point where even SMEs/SMBs can get into the world of ERP. And that’s especially true for online-only businesses. At the beginning of the year we […]

AIとの対話でコードが自動生成される時代、プログラマーの役割はどう変わるのか

自然言語による“対話”に基づいて人工知能（AI）がプログラムコードを自動生成するシステム「OpenAI Codex」を、このほどOpenAIが公表した。コーディングの多くを機械任せにして生産性を高め、人間のプログラマーはシステムの設計や構造を描くような高度な業務に移行するというが、本当にそれだけで済む話なのだろうか──。『WIRED』US版エディター・アット・​ラージ（編集主幹）のスティーヴン・レヴィによる考察。
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How Google’s self-driving car project accidentally spawned its robotic delivery rival

Nuro doesn’t have a typical Silicon Valley origin story. It didn’t emerge after a long, slow slog from a suburban garage or through a flash of insight in a university laboratory.

Here’s what the inevitable friendly neighborhood robot invasion looks like

The first sign that your town is about to welcome a horde of Nuro robots will be the appearance of a fleet of human-driven Toyota Priuses modified with cameras, lidars and radars.