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What 2018 has in store for fintech
Paolo Sironi, IBM Industry Academy member and author of bestseller "FinTech Innovation" offers insight into this rapidly moving market and where it is set to go in the new year.
AI takes the road less travelled
Ash Munshi, CEO, Pepperdata, considers new discoveries in AI's worth and its staying power.
Quantopian: Searching for the Vitalik Buterin of quant finance
CEO and founder John Fawcett says software and automation can open up the industry's tiny talent pool and a selection process that introduces all sorts of biases.
What is NEMESIS? Former NSA hacker is building an AI to spot hate symbols online
Emily Crose's AI can pick up hate symbols often used by white supremacists from Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
Rapid rise in UK living wage could result in more robots in the workplace
New report warns automation might be deployed to mitigate effects of a higher wage bill.
PSD2: The new regulatory framework for payments that's set to change global banking
Its not just another banking regulation, but rather a strategy, which demands operational and infrastructure change.
China's AI-powered ammunitions robot force to help triple production of next-gen bombs and weapons
Robots could also reportedly soon be used to develop sensitive spy devices for the Chinese military.
Can you tell the difference between a human's voice and AI?
Google has released the details of a new system which claims to create near-human accuracy in computer speech.
CFOs are going all in on AI – but will it succeed without grassroots support?
Some 42% of CFOs stated they saw AI as the most significant technology for finance over the next five years.
Would you fall in love with a robot? A quarter of millennials say they would be open to dating one
"This likely will not be terribly far into the future," the report by Paris-based multinational advertising and public relations company, Havas reads.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency to watch out for in 2018
AI and data sharing, green crypto mining, magical blockchains and a new 'World Computer'.
Frightening new AI tool used to make fake celebrity porn videos with 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot
"You could say that my motivation is obsession, with porn or imaginary internet points or problem solving," Reddit user Deepfakes said.
Will we work for robots or will robots work for us?
In the context of automation, the future is always uncertain but it is also ripe with opportunity.
How artificial intelligence will impact real lives in healthcare in 2018
Elad Walach, CEO, Aidoc, looks at five ways AI will impact healthcare in the coming year.
Financial big data: The traces of trillions in economic activity
Day one of Newsweek's AI and data science in capital markets event examined a range of new data sources.
This robot can imagine and predict its own future without any human supervision
A robot has learned to predict its movements a few seconds into the future, giving it enough time to constantly adjust itself as it carries out tasks.
Why 'digital magic' doesn't always come with a big tech reveal
In their quest for a killer moment, business leaders often overlook simple opportunities to leverage digital technologies.
How AI, skills gaps and the gig economy are shaping the world of work
It's worth mapping key trends that are challenging traditional methods of recruitment.
Military grade, untraceable killer drones that fire small guided missiles now available
Makers of the drone say that only governments and militaries that are authorised by the UK can purchase them.
Data analytics and AI will be key with PSD2 and the new fraud landscape
Nigel Edwards, head of UK at EXL Service, says the spectre of fraud could be emboldened by the open banking rules.
Loss of productivity due to IT issues costing UK businesses £62.4bn a year
Alarming report finds firms also losing an average of more than seven days a year on account of IT woes.
Deep learning and data science demand prompts portfolio managers to take night classes
NVIDIA will be offering a day-long training session on 5 December, as part of Newsweek's data science and capital markets event in New York next week.
Forget robots, what's the reality behind the AI hype?
Rather than robots, the most common applications for business will use machine or deep learning to automatically analyse big data - and will be available to all.
Capital markets transformation: evolution not revolution
Joséphine de Chazournes, Senior Analyst at Celent and Arno Castanet, Solution Marketing Manager at Finastra explore how capital markets must evolve
Man versus Machine: Are robots taking over more jobs by the day?
Blue collar and white collar professionals are being increasingly replaced by robots as technology becomes more and more sophisticated.
AI meets PSD2: Tracking the digital transformation journey of UK retail banks
Christian Ball, Head of Retail Financial Services, GFT, looks AI, PSD2 and Banking as a Platform (BaaP).
Credit Suisse charts the evolution of artificial intelligence and investing
The distribution of AI-enabled research is seen across three classes of adopters: advanced trading, competitive data scientists and master data scientists.
Eight human jobs that will be done by AI and robots in the future
By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Maria Romero, and April Koury, from Fast Future Publishing
Beware 'fake news' but 'fake data' is as big a threat to economic stability, warns ECB
Benoit Coeure, a senior central banking official, says "economic agents could become less anchored to actual activity and more prone to manias and panics."
Deep learning and big data: Wall Street and the new data paradigm
Professor Anasse Bari of New York University, formerly with the World Bank Group, is a prominent figure in the realm of predictive analytics.