Amazon is developing a voice-activated wearable that can recognise human emotions.

A UN report released by UNESCO this week raised concerns that activated digital assistants including Siri and Alexa reinforce sexist stereotypes. According to the culture and science organisation, female-voiced assistants operated by Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been found to perpetuate...

Amazon shareholders will vote in two different polls today to asses if the online retail giant can sell its facial recognition technology to US police forces.

L’Oréal is set to launch a new AI-powered app able to diagnose acne and give users product recommendations on Alibaba’s platform. The beauty giant is set to launch The Effaclar Spotscan feature on Alibaba’s Tmall and Taoboa apps in June. Alibaba’s teams used AI and deep learning to scan 6000 scienti...

Retail chatbot interactions are expected to increase more than tenfold over the next five years, with retail sales resulting from chatbot interactions to set to top $100 billion. According to new data from Juniper Research, the number of retail chatbot interactions will skyrocket from just 2.6 billi...

Footasylum has hailed the success of “being an artificial intelligence-driven retailer”, boasting an 8400 per cent return on advertising spend (ROAS). The footwear retailer has today revealed that since integrating Peak, an AI-driven data analytics company, into its operations it has seen its ROAS g...

Alibaba is pioneering “video fingerprint” technology in an effort to tackle piracy on its ecommerce platforms Taoboa and Tmall. Sellers across both Taoboa, Alibaba’s consumer-to-consumer platform, and Tmall, Alibaba’s business-to-consumer platform, are increasingly using short videos to advertise th...

Amazon has been called on by more than 20 AI experts to stop selling its facial recognition software to law enforcement. Last week a petition was signed by two dozen industry experts which claimed that the two of the retailer’s top executives responsible for its AI software had misrepresented aspect...

Google has been quietly rebuilding its robotics programme, moving away from its ambitious sci-fi humanoid robots towards offerings aiming to take on Amazon and Ocado. In 2013 the tech giant went on a robotics buying spree, acquiring six companies across the US and Japan specialising in creating mach...

Amazon has pledged $10 million (£7.5 million) to research grants aiming to make artificial intelligence (AI) more transparent and accountable. In partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the retailer said it would donate the cash over the next three years to help develop systems which...