Newsflash on November 15, 2018

Time: 2018-11-15 09:07:51Source: FORBES



Robot Ride Services Could Shake Up The Commercial Office Market By 2030. It’s early days for the robo-taxi business, with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo just starting to offer an on-demand driverless service in Phoenix, but the impact for commercial office space could be profound in just over a decade if autonomous technology delivers on the promise of low-cost, low-stress commuting, according to a new study by CBRE Group.



AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Says Universities Deserve More Credit. Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called "godfathers of AI," said universities aren't getting the recognition they deserve when it comes to AI research.
 
Bengio, renowned for his early work in the 80s and 90s on a branch of AI known as deep learning, which has become wildly popular again now, believes Silicon Valley tech giants get a lot of praise for AI research compared to academic institutions.
 
Seven Enterprise Startup Standouts At Massive WebSummit Conference. With a sold-out crowd of over 70,000 attendees, the WebSummit conference in Lisbon lives up to its billing as the largest tech conference in the world.
 
After the single day’s turnover reached a new high, the US media questioned: This is going to be difficult or not. The New York Times published an article saying that the total transaction volume of Tmall on single's day reached 213.5 billion yuan, but the ambitious Alibaba Group still faces considerable uncertainty. The shopping parade of the single's day is difficult for the future.Some young consumers are not as enthusiastic about participating in the promotion in previous years. Alibaba is also facing fierce competition in some areas. In recent years, many big moves need to produce results.
 
Traditional industries also have Internet business models. At the 5th World Internet Conference , Shen Nanpeng, the global executive partner of Sequoia Capital, attended the round-table dialogue on the "Wuzhen Theory - Review and Outlook" plenary session: "Overview of China's Internet, especially the mobile Internet." The development of the first half was "Internet +", and various Internet products penetrated into every part of life; but the second half was "+Internet", and the Internet penetrated into the traditional industry and became the latter's tools and solutions.


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