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Northwestern University's MacArthur Justice Center has sued the city of Chicago and police over their use of an AI gunfire detection system. The lawsuit claims the ShotSpotter system has resulted in "grave and systematic" rights violations, including the false arrests...

Project AirSim Microsoft announced Project AirSim, a simulator for virtual training of AI systems for drones, flying taxis and autonomous aircraft. The cloud-based platform allows users to create, train and test drones using simulated 3D environments in real-world...

Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton launched a $100 million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage companies focusing on artificial intelligence, defense, cybersecurity, and high technology. Booz Allen Ventures will provide capital as well as access to its...

Reddit acquires natural language processing company MeaningCloud The MeaningCloud team has joined Reddit and will support machine learning projects across its product, safety and ads teams. Reddit says the company`s technology will strengthen its machine learning...

McDonald's began testing the voice assistant in 10 Drive-thrus In 2019, McDonald's began testing the voice assistant in 10 Drive-thrus after acquiring Apprente (dealing with conversational technology). BTIG reports that McDonald's recently expanded AI voice ordering...

According to Burtch Works, employment in artificial intelligence and data science in 2022 "is solid." A survey by Burtch Works found that AI management specialists' salaries increased from 11% to 13% in the annual period through April 2022. An executive recruiter...