Samathur Li Kin-kan, a Hong Kong tycoon, was so impressed with a hedge fund that he decided to invest $2.5 billion in hopes of doubling it over the time. What intrigued him was that the fund is run not by a human, but automatically by an AI-powered robot supercomputer named K1, which is a service offered by Tyndaris Investments, a London-based company.

More than 60 researchers from 30 institutions will get access to Facebook user data to study its impact on elections and democracy, and how it’s used by advertisers and publishers.

Industry has mobilized to shape the science, morality and laws of artificial intelligence. On 10 May, letters of intent are due to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new funding programme for projects on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with Amazon. In April, after the European Commission released the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, an academic member of the expert group that produced them described their creation as industry-dominated “ethics washing”.

Recently, on a dazzling morning in Palm Springs, California, Vivienne Szetook to a small stage to deliver perhaps the most nerve-racking presentation of her career.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without conditions to end long-running mistrust between their countries, the Sankei newspaper reported on Friday.

NATIONAL REPORT—Food waste is enormously costly for hotel owners and managers across the US. Financially, the average kitchen spends 5-15% of food costs on food that is never eaten. From an operational point of view, kitchen staff lose countless hours preparing uneaten food. It also has a huge environmental toll. If food waste were a country it would have more impact on global warming than every country in the world, except China and the U.S.