Bloomberg Honda Motor Co. will spearhead its artificial intelligence efforts out of a new lab in Tokyo so that researchers can work closely with its engineers to commercialize the technology. Honda, based in Tokyo, will start the R&D center next year and combine existing AI teams in Silicon Valley, Europe and Japan at the downtown location, according to Yoshiyuki …

  Relaxnews Microsoft made several announcements concerning its intention to bring 3D technologies to everyone at its latest Windows 10 event. The firm aims to bring affordable tools to the public at large, with a range of headsets and upcoming developments for Windows. The first step in Microsoft’s vision to bring 3D to everyone is to provide easy-to-use tools for …

  Bloomberg IBM is teaming up with Slack Technologies Inc. to make it easier for companies to build custom chatbots into the startup’s workplace-messaging systems, the latest move by Big Blue to add more diverse business cases for its Watson artificial-intelligence technology. The two companies will release a developer toolkit that includes Watson technologies and can integrate easily into Slack, …