Global News

1 UK

AI supply chain

UK-based Ripjar is partnering with Royal Dutch Shell to offer a platform which utilises AI to detect criminal threats including money laundering, terrorism and crime networks. Possible benefits to the global supply chain include an 80% reduction in data reporting errors versus existing legacy systems.

2 NETHERLANDS

Heineken to use AI to control volatile demand

Heineken is to use Blue Yonder’s machine learning to control volatility in its supply chain. The brewer has announced that it will use the demand planning solution to help improve forecasting in order to stabilise a supply chain that has been hit by restrictions on the hospitality industry during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CHINA

Autonomous vehicles

Chinese tech firm Baidu has demonstrated a vehicle which it said was ranked at level 4 on the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) scale ( level 5 is complete autonomy at all times), and which made use of 5G to enable remote driving – replacing the safety driver typically ready to assume control of autonomous vehicles in cases of emergency.

5

EMEA

Data centre boom

AI is set to deliver a boom in data centre investment, according to analysts at Frost & Sullivan. Investment in data centres is forecast to grow by 9.9 per cent CAGR as big data and IoT drive demand for capacity in all markets, led by APAC, followed by North America and EMEA.

4 FRANCE

Open source AI

Hugging Face and AWS have partnered to bring over 7,000 NLP models to Amazon SageMaker. Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a global leader in open-source machine learning, with headquarters in New York and Paris. Its Transformers library includes access a range of popular natural language neural networks.