ROBO Global has launched its third technology fund and index, THNQ, which closely follows companies developing and using artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Mindy Support is among the companies providing data annotation services to robotics and AI developers, but each has pros and cons.

Figure Eight, an Appen company, released Workflows, which it said can make training machine learning models easier by automating the connection of data processes to human review.

Australia’s Appen has added features to its AI training data product intended to make text annotation and utterance, as well as enterprise analytics, easier to do.

Investments in robots, autonomous vehicles, and related systems totaled at least $1.3 billion in March 2019, down from $4.3 billion in February. On the other hand, automation companies reported $7.8 billion in mergers and acquisitions last month. While that may represent a slowdown, note that many businesses did not specify the amounts involved in their…