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Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships

Google's Operations Research team is proud to announce the Shipping Network Design API…enabling solutions to world-scale supply chain problems, while being faster than any known previous attempts. It is able to double the profit of a container shipper, deliver 13% more containers, and do so with 15% fewer vessels.

June 6, 2024
Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships
Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs

6 Jun 2024 - Google has developed a new AI tool to …understand coral reef ecosystems … was trained on thousands of hours of audio reef recordings that allow scientists studying the reef to be able to “hear reef health from the inside,” track reef activity at night

June 6, 2024
Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs
Humanoid tourist: Watch AI-powered robot climb the Great Wall of China

The humanoid robot incorporates advanced force control algorithms, aiding it in walking steadily across various surfaces.

June 6, 2024
Humanoid tourist: Watch AI-powered robot climb the Great Wall of China
The robots preparing to get their hands on your lunch

Technological strides have made automata soft and sensitive enough to pack bento boxes.

June 6, 2024
The robots preparing to get their hands on your lunch
For Autistic People, AI Companions Offer Promise and Risks

AI apps can help autistic people practice social skills. But algorithms are no substitute for human relationships, experts say

June 5, 2024
For Autistic People, AI Companions Offer Promise and Risks
Wix’s new tool taps AI to generate smartphone apps

…new AI-powered app builder… generates app code that’s “fully native” to iOS and Android. Users have control over their app’s branding, layout and features, including icons and themes, and can preview the app before submitting it to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

June 5, 2024
Wix’s new tool taps AI to generate smartphone apps
Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning

Machine learning predicts nearly 1 million new antibiotics in the global microbiome… Out of 100 tested peptides, 79 were active in vitro; 63 of these targeted pathogens

June 5, 2024
Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning
Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages

…scaling quality NMT requires large volumes of parallel bilingual data, which are not equally available for the 7,000+ languages in the world…we introduce No Language Left Behind—a single massively multilingual model that leverages transfer learning across languages…Compared with the previous state-of-the-art models, our model achieves an average of 44% improvement in translation quality as measured by BLEU. 

June 5, 2024
Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages
Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world ...Aurora’s ability to quickly predict air pollution globally is pioneering, say researchers.

June 4, 2024
Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world
LORIS robustly predicts patient outcomes with immune checkpoint blockade therapy

… a clinical score called LORIS (logistic regression-based immunotherapy-response score) … outperforms previous signatures in predicting ICB response and identifying responsive patients …LORIS consistently predicts patient objective response and short-term and long-term survival across most cancer types. 

June 3, 2024
LORIS robustly predicts patient outcomes with immune checkpoint blockade therapy