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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. On the role of the Chief Data Officer: Due to the nature of our business, Travelers has always used data analytics to assess and price risk. s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s

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FarmSense uses sensors and machine learning to bug-proof crops

TechCrunch

The company creates optical sensors and novel classification systems based on machine learning algorithms to identify and track insects in real time. That data is turned into audio and analyzed by machine learning algorithms in the cloud. The key here: real-time information.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. “Price freeze is a good example. .

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Ramp expands into travel as the corporate spend category goes horizontal

TechCrunch

Now one of those players, Ramp, is announcing that it is expanding into the travel space, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The latter, though, started its life focused on travel and pivoted to also offer general expense management when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Ramp raises $300M at a $3.9B

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Airbnb’s huge summer update preps for a new era of travel

TechCrunch

The biggest changes include a new search based on category, the ability to book two listings in one flow for stays over a week, and AirCover for guests, which is basically Airbnb-provided travel insurance. The first is to inspire the world to get back to travel. They work towards two big goals for the company.

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Itilite secures $29M to automate corporate expensing workflows

TechCrunch

For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind. This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. Itilite’s expensing tools.

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Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

Altexsoft

Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals. At the same time, keep in mind that neither of those and other audio files can be fed directly to machine learning models.