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DeepMind Healthcare Unit To Merge with Google To Advance AI Healthcare Research
November 29, 2018
As recently announced, Google is bringing the DeepMind Healthcare Unit into its fold to bolster its efforts in the competitive field of AI healthcare research. DeepMind’s health subsidiary will now be part of Google Health spearheaded by David Feinberg, the
Google’s Latest Developments in Machine Learning, AI and Quantum Algorithms
August 10, 2018
Last month, we wrote a summary of the latest Google Cloud Next conference held in San Francisco. Not only did Google highlight its latest major investments in infrastructure, but the search giant went into detail about how it is pushing
CDN PoP Architecture 3.0 and The End of CDN Commoditization; Part 1
Ernie
March 7, 2017
CDN commoditization is coming to an end. There will be no more fighting for deals on price per GB, number of PoPs, reactive feature sets, and so on. The vendor value prop is going to shift from a price/performance conversation
Prediction: Akamai will Acquire a Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Security Startup in 60 Days
Ernie
January 11, 2017
Today, four very important things are happening/happened in our industry: 1) Akamai’s market cap is $12B 2) Akamai has $1.7B in cash as of Q3-2016 3) Information security spending reached $81.6B in 2016 and 4) Startups like Deep Instinct are
Happy New Year
Ernie
January 1, 2017
Happy New Year to all my friends around the world. And special thanks to my paying subscribers. It is because of you that I can do this full time and enjoy it immensely. For a long time I always wondered
Cool Startup: Deep Instinct
Ernie
December 31, 2016
When it comes to innovation in the field of artificial intelligence, DeepMind is the de facto industry leader. It is they who developed an AI system that defeated Lee Sedol in the game of Go back in March 2016. In
Microsoft Claims Human Parity Reached in Speech Recognition
October 19, 2016
Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research researchers yesterday announced that they have achieved a significant breakthrough by developing a speech recognition system that has transcribing capabilities on par with humans.
Cool Startup: PatternEx
October 17, 2016
Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity startup PatternEx started back in 2013, but launched their Threat Prediction Platform in Februrary which is designed to detect anomalies and malicious data using supervised machine learning while also continuously incorporating input from human analysts. Cool Startup: PatternEx
Google Cloud Platform Allows Easier Access to Machine Learning Tools
September 20, 2016
Google is now implementing “Try the API boxes” for users to test out their Cloud Learning API product line: Cloud Vision API, Speech API and Natural Language API. This effort is directed towards developers interested in machine learning and creating
MIT Develops a New Technique to Load Webpages Faster and Other News
March 14, 2016
MIT Develops a New Technique to Load Webpages Faster Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have taken a different approach to solve the tedious problem of webpage bloat by developing a new tool called Polaris, which
Akamai Applies for Mobile Security and Sensitive Data Handling Patents
Amber F
February 12, 2016
Akamai Applies for Mobile Security and Sensitive Data Handling Patents In July 2015, the CEO of Akamai, Tom Leighton, applied for a patent titled “Method and system for handling sensitive data in a content delivery network.” This publication outlines a
Deep Learning Neural Nets Are Effective Against AI Malware
February 5, 2016
Baidu, Google, and Facebook are deeply invested in deep learning via neural networks, or networks of hardware and software that approximate the web of neurons in the human brain. The neural networks are essentially large swaths of simulated neurons and
Trends Impacting CDN Business Models
Ernie
June 14, 2015
Being a next-gen CDN is a difficult job, and is akin to being a mini-Google, where dozens of non-related systems must be hacked together, in order for them to work in unison. From an operational perspective, the job of continuous
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on CDN Security, Caching and Protocol Optimization
Ernie
June 14, 2015
The CDN business is about leveraging the latest innovations, and crafting solutions that correspond to shifting trends in all things content. However, there is a technology so innovative that it has the potential to wreak havoc on the current CDN