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ICICI Bank's NRI customers can now remit money to India by commanding it to Apple's voice assistant Siri

The customer needs to simply speak out the ‘nickname’ of the registered payee in the Money2India (M2I) app to whom he/she wants to send the money to and the amount to be sent.

Inside Haptik.ai, a made in India and for India personal assistant and end to end chatbot platform

Haptik has developed all the technologies that they use in house, which is their primary strength.

Apple's head of Siri natural language understanding moves to Facebook's applied machine learning team

Rushin Shah will be working natural language and dialogue understanding, and finding ways to integrate machine learning into Facebook products.

Infosys Nia launched, an integrated artificial intelligence platform for businesses

Nia is a customisable, unified and modular platform, that allows clients to build their own experiences around it to suit their needs.

Google Home now supports multiple users, with AI to recognise individual voices

Google Home now has the ability for up to six people to connect their account to one smart speaker.

MIT develops specialised low power speech recognition chip for electronics

In anticipation of the advent of ubiquitous speech control for electronics, MIT researchers have created a low power chip for recognising speech input.

Microsoft's Cortana can now schedule meetings for you automatically

Microsoft added capabilities to Cortana to allow the AI to automatically handle the back and forth communication it takes to schedule a meeting.

Local language, NLP, bots and more: Emerging trends in search

Search has evolved from the time when PCs of the bygone era literally groaned while churning out the results, to data centers of machines with multi core processors, GPUs and FPGAs running sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithms like Deep Neural Networks.

Software giant Infosys launches modular and mobile first e-commerce platform

Software major Infosys Ltd on Wednesday unveiled a mobile first and modular platform to drive e-commerce programmes across retail channels.

Facebook introduces DeepText, an AI engine that understands text and context

Facebook introduced DeepText, an advanced system built to understand the text posted or expressed by a user and accordingly tailor the experience delivered by Facebook in terms of the products and services being offered.